September 30, 2013
All Day
Cartoon Room, Ohio Union
Event Host: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences and the Curator of European Ethnology in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University will give a lecture titled “Inventing the Language of the Human Sciences: Ancient Sources and Modern Solutions in Greece and Thailand”. It examines the emergence of technical social science vocabularies in Greece and Thailand, and explores the cultural, political, and linguistic reasons for the difference between two countries located within the penumbra of colonial influence.
For more info, visit sawyer.osu.edu.
