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RSS News from the John W. Kluge Center – Recent Updates

  • Thanks for Your Support! December 31, 2017
    Thank You for Supporting the Library! Thank you for a making a gift to inspire curiosity, ignite conversations and illuminate minds. The Library’s first year-end giving campaign is a success because of you. Your gift to the Library supports literacy and reading initiatives, exhibitions and countless public programs that are absolutely free for everyone to […]
  • Make a Year-End Gift to the Nation's Library December 29, 2017
    News from the Library of Congress December 27, 2017 Make Your Gift Before the End of 2017 The Library’s resolution for 2018 is to offer more opportunities to engage lifelong learners like you with our unique treasures and programs. Make your gift before we close the books on 2017! Your gift can: Inspire curiosity in […]
  • Make a Year-End Gift to the Nation's Library December 27, 2017
    News from the Library of Congress December 27, 2017 Make Your Gift Before the End of 2017 The Library’s resolution for 2018 is to offer more opportunities to engage lifelong learners like you with our unique treasures and programs. Make your gift before we close the books on 2017! Your gift can: Inspire curiosity in […]
  • Thank You for Supporting the Library December 1, 2017
    Thank You for Supporting the Library! Thank you for a making a gift to inspire curiosity, ignite conversations and illuminate minds. The Library’s first celebration of #GivingTuesday is a success because of you. Your gift to the Library supports literacy and reading initiatives, exhibitions and countless public programs that are absolutely free for everyone to […]
  • Make Your Gift to the Nation’s Library! November 28, 2017
    Make Your Gift to the Nation's Library The day has arrived—#GivingTuesday—a day when your gift makes a difference and a statement. The Library of Congress is strengthened by donations from people like you. Gifts bring the Library to life with music, dance, film, sound, culture, scholarship, research, discussions and ideas. Your gift, no matter the […]
  • Spark a Lifelong Adventure of Learning November 21, 2017
    News from the Library of Congress November 21, 2017 Spark a Lifelong Adventure of Learning This year, for the first time, the Library of Congress is participating in #GivingTuesday—a global giving movement. On Tuesday, November 28, we are asking you to make a gift to spark a lifelong adventure of learning. Here's more information. The […]
  • Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North Peng Guoxiang to Deliver Lecture, January 26—Dispatch January 13, 2017 January 14, 2017
    Peng Guoxiang will discuss Confucianism as a religious and spiritual tradition, its dialogical nature, and the contributions it can make to the conversation among the world’s religious traditions. Peng, who held the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North at the Library’s John W. Kluge Center in 2016, will present "Understanding Confucianism as a […]
  • Call for Applications: Jon B. Lovelace Fellowship for the Study of the Alan Lomax Collection—Dispatch December 2, 2016 December 2, 2016
    The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is now accepting applications for Jon B. Lovelace Fellowship for the Study of the Alan Lomax Collection. The application deadline is February 1, 2017. The Lovelace Fellowship, established in 2015 for the study of the Alan Lomax Collection, pays tribute to the 60-year friendship between […]
  • Scholars to Discuss African Immigrants in the U.S., Dec. 15—Dispatch December 1, 2016 December 1, 2016
    Contemporary African immigration and African communities in the U.S. will be the focus of a half-day symposium at the Library of Congress on Dec. 15. “Contemporary African Immigrants in the United States” will be hosted by noted historian Toyin Falola, the current Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at the Library of […]
  • Jameson Fellow Wendy Wong to Lecture on Slavery in the Early Republic, Nov. 17—Dispatch November 10, 2016 November 10, 2016
    On Thursday November 17 at 4 p.m., Jameson Fellow Wendy Wong will lecture on slavery in the early American Republic. As Americans publicly debated their foreign relations in the 1790s, they enacted on their own soil the very foreign conflicts that they claimed not to want. In her talk, Jameson Fellow Wendy Wong examines the […]
  • Kluge Fellow Sheryl Kaskowitz to Discuss "Government Song Woman" Sidney Robertson, Nov. 3--Dispatch, October 27, 2016 October 27, 2016
    On Thursday, November 3rd at 4 p.m., Kluge Fellow Sheryl Kaskowitz will lecture on the “government song woman” and folk-music collector Sidney Robertson. In her travels as a “government song woman” during the 1930s, folk-music collector Sidney Robertson recorded a wide range of musical expression that would help to shape the folk music revival in […]
  • Sociologist Bruce Carruthers to Deliver Maguire Lecture, Oct. 28—Dispatch October 14, 2016 October 14, 2016
    Sociologist Bruce Carruthers will discuss how credit and credit decision-making in the United States has developed over the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, in the annual Maguire Lecture at the Library of Congress on Oct. 28. Carruthers, who held the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library’s John W. […]
  • Kluge Fellow Sarah Cameron to Lecture on Kazakh Famine of the 1930s, Oct. 20—Dispatch October 13, 2016 October 13, 2016
    On Thursday, October 20th at 4 p.m., Kluge Fellow Sarah Cameron will lecture on the Kazakh Famine of the 1930s. In her talk, Cameron will analyze a little-known episode of Stalinist social engineering, the Kazakh famine of 1930-33, which led to the death of more than 1.5 million people, a quarter of Soviet Kazakhstan’s population. […]
  • Luis Campos Arrives as Astrobiology Chair at The John W. Kluge Center—Dispatch October 5, 2016 October 5, 2016
    Luis Campos has arrived as the fourth Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology at The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His tenure began on Oct. 3, 2016. He will be in residence for 12 months. A historian of science, Campos is currently Associate Professor of History at The […]
  • Edward Widmer Appointed Director of The John W. Kluge Center—Dispatch September 29, 2016 September 29, 2016
    Historian, author, librarian and former presidential speechwriter Edward L. (Ted) Widmer, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York and a senior fellow and adjunct professor of history at Brown University, has been appointed director of The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, effective Oct. […]
  • Kislak Fellowship Deadline Extended until October 31—Dispatch September 20, 2016 September 20, 2016
    The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress continues to accept applications for the Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas. The application deadline has been extended until October 31, 2016. Kislak Fellowships are short-term fellowships for independent scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and college and […]
  • Call for Applications: Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies—Dispatch September 16, 2016 September 16, 2016
    The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is now accepting applications for Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies. The digital studies fellowships are for research related to the impact of the digital revolution on society, culture, and international relations. The application deadline is December 6, 2016. Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies are open to […]
  • “Emergence of Life” Symposium Occurs September 15—Dispatch September 8, 2016 September 8, 2016
    How life emerges on Earth, in the lab, and elsewhere will be the subject of a day-long astrobiology symposium on September 15. Titled “The Emergence of Life: On the Earth, in the Lab, and Elsewhere,” the event will be hosted by Nathaniel Comfort, the current NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology at the Library’s John […]
  • Scholars Toyin Falola, Barry Posen Arrive at the Kluge Center—Dispatch September 7, 2016 September 7, 2016
    Historian Toyin Falola and political scientist Barry Posen arrived this month at The John W. Kluge Center for periods as senior scholars in residence. Falola will hold the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South; Posen will hold the Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations. Toyin Falola is distinguished scholar of African […]
  • Wayne Wiegand Appointed Distinguished Visiting Scholar—Dispatch August 19, 2016 August 19, 2016
    Wayne A. Wiegand, a leading scholar of American public libraries and American book history, has been appointed a distinguished visiting scholar at The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His appointment begins in January 2017 and will conclude in early May. Wiegand is the F. William Summers Professor Emeritus of Library and […]
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