Roundtable: On the Usefulness of the Concept of the Modern

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Roundtable: On the Usefulness of the Concept of the Modern

Presented by Steven Collins (UChicago), Wendy Doniger (UChicago), Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA). Listen to the full recording here.

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