Free ArtsThursdays: The Power and Bias of Measurements

Thu Feb 27 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC-05:00

Harvard University Science Center Bldg, Hall A | Cambridge

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Publisher/HostHarvard Museums of Science & Culture
Free ArtsThursdays: The Power and Bias of Measurements
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Attend a free lecture and conversation inspired by the new exhibition Measuring Difference. Visit the exhibition before or after the talk. https://tinyurl.com/ATMeasuringDifference
In this interdisciplinary conversation blending history, science, and art, Professor Pablo Gómez, Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga, and artist Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez will examine Euroamerican measuring systems, and their role in constructing racial and power-based hierarchies that persist in Latin America and the U.S.
Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Please note that the Harvard Museum of Natural History & the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology will not be open during this event.
Presented in collaboration with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
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Harvard University Science Center Bldg, Hall A, 1 Oxford St,Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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