Date:
Friday, September 28, 2018, 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location:
William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550
"Reflections on Historical Processes, or History as an Accordion"
Speaker:
Peter Bearman, Cole Professor of Social Science, Department of Sociology, Columbia University.
Contact:
Zach Wehrwein
wehrwein@g.harvard.edu
Chairs:
Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
Ya-Wen Lei, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
Description:
The talk will discuss history as interlinked event sequences, how sociology can make sense of historical continuity, and how new methods can help understand those puzzles.
