Past 2013 News & Events

January 24, 2013
Lecture: Lindsay Tuggle, Kluge Fellow.
“The Afterlives of Specimens: Science and Mourning in Whitman’s America”
Lindsay Tuggle examines the Civil War narratives of Walt Whitman and Union surgeon John H. Brinton as alternative histories of war casualties: military and poetic, phantom and physical. Co-sponsored by the Poetry and Literature Center.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m., LJ-113, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

February 1, 2013
Lecture: Leah Chang, author and Associate Professor of French at The George Washington University.
Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies.
"The Desire for Sappho: Or, the Typographical Invention of Louise Labé."
Leah Chang explores the invention of Louise Labe, one of the most important female authors of sixteenth-century France.
3:30 to 5:00 p.m., LJ-113, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

February 7, 2013

Lecture: Stefanie Schaefer, German Fellow
“Jonathan Going South: The Yankee and the Making of American National Character.”
Stefanie Schaefer examines the origins and functions of the Yankee in 19th century literary and popular culture.
12:00 – 1:00 p.m., LJ-113, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

February 14, 2013
Lecture: Joel Frykholm, Kluge Fellow
“The Lost Tycoon: Rediscovering George Kleine, Reframing Early American Cinema.”
Joel Frykholm examines early Hollywood through the life of one of its first captains, George Kleine--why he drifted into historiographical oblivion and why his case is ripe for discovery. Co-sponsored by the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
12:00 – 1:00 p.m., LJ-113, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

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February 28, 2013
Panel: “The Evolving Moral Landscape: Perspectives on the Environment – Literary, Historical and Interplanetary.”
Three scholars from three different disciplines discuss human perspectives on the environment and the moral implications of those views.

Featuring:
David H. Grinspoon, the first Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.
Jean-Francois Mouhot, a scholar in the environmental history of Haiti and current Marie Curie Fellow at the Kluge Center.
Matthias Klestil, Bavarian Fellow at the Kluge Center who studies the environmental consciousness in African-American literature.
12:00 – 1:00 p.m., Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>
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March 1, 2013
Lecture: Kristin Bluemel, Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Monmouth University.
Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies.
"A Happy Heritage’: Children’s Books, Women’s Work, and the 1930s Wood Engraving Revival."
Kristin Bluemel examines gendered and nationalist discourses 1930s wood engravings.
3:30 – 5:00 p.m., LJ-113, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

March 8, 2013
Lecture: Ismail Serageldin, The New Library of Alexandria, the New Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
“The Loss and Rebirth of the Library of Alexandria.”
Renowned Egyptian thinker, Ismail Serageldin, speaks on the restoration of Library of Alexandria.
12:00 p.m., LJ-119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>
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March 8, 2013
Lecture: Ismail Serageldin, The New Library of Alexandria, the New Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
“The Knowledge Revolution and the Futrue of Libraries.”
Renowned Egyptian thinker, Ismail Serageldin, speaks on the future of libraries.
7:00 p.m., Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>
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April 11, 2013
Lecture: Risa Goluboff, American Council of Learned Societies Burkhardt Fellow.
“People Out of Place: The Sixties, The Supreme Court, and Vagrancy Law.”
Goluboff examines how 1960s vagrancy laws served to keep marginalized populations in place, and how the laws' undoing contributed to the era's social revolutions.
12:00 – 1:00 p.m., LJ-113, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

April 15, 2013
Lecture and Book Signing: Daniel Brook
"A History of Future Cities"
Daniel Brook, a past Kluge Center Black Mountain Fellow, will talk about his recently published book, which reports on the history and growth of four "instant cities" - Dubai, St. Petersburg, Shanghai and Mumbai.
4:00 p.m. Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

April 25, 2013
Lecture: Jennifer Davis, Kluge Fellow.
“Charlemagne's Europe.”
Jennifer Davis discusses how Charlemagne united most of Western Europe, and then developed a unique style of rule to suit his new empire.
12:00 – 1:00 p.m., LJ-113, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

April 30, 2013
Lecture: John Witte, Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History.
“Why Two in One Flesh: The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy.”
Legal specialist John Witte, Jr., examines the history of the West's predilection for monogamy over polygamy. Reception to follow.
3:00 – 4:00 p.m., LJ-119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

May 2, 2013
Lecture: Will Hitchcock, Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations.
“The Ike Age: Eisenhower, America and the World of the 1950s.”
Historian Will Hitchcock explores America’s place in the world and President Eisenhower’s leadership during the tumultuous 1950s.
Reception to follow.
4:00 – 5:00 p.m., LJ-119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

May 8, 2013
Lecture: Victor Goldgel-Carballo, Kluge Fellow.
"The Quest for 'the New' in Latin American Culture: Fashion and Newspapers in the 19th Century"
Goldgel-Carballo will analyze the impact that periodicals (new media) and fashion (defined as a pattern of cyclical renovation) had upon Argentine, Chilean, and Cuban culture during the first decades of that century, in order to trace the concept of the new.
12:00 – 1:00 p.m., Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

Past Deadlines

March 31, 2013
Application deadline for the Alan Lomax Fellowship in Folklife Studies.

April 17, 2013
Application deadline for the David B. Larson Fellowship in Health & Spirituality.

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