Lectures on Tap - The Boston Monuments Now Banished and Vanished from View

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Join us for an engaging evening where professors, experts, and storytellers bring their thought-provoking lectures to your favorite bar in Somerville!

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📚 Lecture: “The Boston Monuments Now Banished and Vanished from View”

🎤 Speaker: Professor Dan Breen

Join us for a captivating journey through Boston's public monuments as Professor Dan Breen unveils the stories behind the city’s most notorious fallen statues. Not every public monument can be a masterpiece, and some have faced such overwhelming criticism that they've been removed from our civic landscape forever.

In this engaging presentation, Professor Breen will delve into the lost tales of these derided monuments, exploring their origins and the often contentious paths that led to their removal.

Dan Breen is the Professor of the Practice of Legal Studies at Brandeis University, where he teaches classes on Constitutional Law, the intersections of Law and Science, and the role of legal doctrines in classical texts by Shakespeare and Dante. With a doctorate in American History from Boston College, he is also completing a book on the public monuments of Boston.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the intriguing history of Boston's vanished public monuments with the insightful Professor Dan Breen!

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Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.