Richmond Pollock and Hamilton to present at MIT History Workshop on Music and Global Modernity

Associate Professor Emily Richmond Pollock and Lecturer Elina Hamilton will speak at "Music and Global Modernity: An Interdisciplinary Workshop", a workshop through the MIT History Department.

Richmond Pollock will speak on "The Problem of Tradition and the Possibility of Renewal”

Hamilton will speak on "Will the West Embrace Japan?: Unexpected Resonances from Boston's International Peace Jubilee (1872)"

The workshop is February 23rd from 1-6pm in E51- Room 275.

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