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Michael Zakim | The Liberal Invention of Photography | Thurs., Nov. 9th, 12:30–1:50 | Lunch provided at 12 | Harris 108

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This event is co-sponsored by CCHS and the History Department. 

Historian Michael Zakim, of Tel Aviv University, will be giving a talk at lunchtime on Nov. 9. Zakim is an impressively creative historian, who asks big questions about the character of modernity. His first book, Ready-Made Democracy, was a history of male dress in America in the century up to the Civil War. More recently, his Accounting for Capitalism, made a major contribution to the history of capitalism by exploring the world of clerks, paperwork, and desk labor in the nineteenth-century (plus an excellent accompanying article about the history of handwriting!). Zakim will be giving a talk from his in-progress research, on photography.