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2015 Feb 19

Day 1: Ignorance, Nescience, Nonknowledge: Late Medieval and Early Modern Coping with Unknowns

9:00am to 4:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall, Basement Conference Room, 35 Quincy Street.

Sponsored by the Harvard History Department, the Harvard German Department, the German Science Foundation (DFG) and the Henkel Foundation (Düsseldorf), an interdisciplinary two-place conference on Historicizing Ignorance in Late Medieval and Early Modern History will take place at Harvard University, Robinson Hall and the German Historical Institute, Paris.

The conference seeks to address how ignorance about phenomena in different epistemic fields of the late medieval and early modern world was recognized (or not), used and coped with, differently from modern times. The Harvard part...

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2014 Sep 05

Welcome Back BBQ

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Robinson Hall Lawn, 35 Quincy Street

Welcome Back BBQ for Students, Faculty, and Staff of the History Department!

RSVP to the Paperless Post email you received or
email Kimberly O'Hagan (kohagan [at] fas.harvard.edu).

The event will take place on the Robinson Hall Lawn

*In the event of inclement weather, it will be held in the Robinson Hall Great Space.

2015 Mar 12

CON-IH 15: Transitions: States & Empires in the Longue Durée

(All day)

Location: 

Lower Level Conference Room, Busch Hall
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Since its inception in 2001, the Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History (Con-IH) has developed into an annual event, organized by graduate students in International History at Harvard University. To contact the organizing committee, please email ...

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