Events at the Library of Congress, Lectures and Symposia

Friday, June 21, 2019

Event | lectures and symposia
Gallery Talk: A Suffragist's Bookshelf
Event has been cancelled Friday
June 21, 2019
11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT Before the Seneca Falls convention that is considered the start o the suffrage movement, women writers including Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly were publishing works that called for women's equality. Int this talk, Mark Dimunation, chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, will discuss the ideological underpinnings of the suffrage movement as represented by rare books on display in Shall Not... Southwest Gallery
Event | lectures and symposia
Stonewall 50 Friday
June 21, 2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT A panel discussion with Franklin Robinson Jr. (National Museum of American History), Lisa Warwick (DCPL), Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz (Lesbian Herstory Archives), and Jake Newsome (U.S. Holocaust Museum). West Dining Room (LM-621)

Event | lectures and symposia
Celebrating Hispanic Literature in the Americas Saturday
June 22, 2019
8:30 am - 4:30 pm EDT Symposia participants come from all over the Americas and their work celebrates major Spanish and English-language Modernist writers. Contact: [email protected] Hispanic Reading Room

Event | lectures and symposia
Book Talk featuring Richard A. Serrano Tuesday
June 25, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Los Angeles Times correspondent, Richard A. Serrano, will discuss and sign copies of his latest book, "Summoned at Midnight: A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth." Contact: 202-707-5690 Whittall Pavilion (LJ-G45E)

Event | lectures and symposia
Take Me Out to the Ballgame: The Story of Katie Casey, Suffrage, and Our National Pastime Saturday
June 29, 2019
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm EDT The most famous of baseball songs, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, provides little known, fascinating connections among baseball, music, suffrage, social activism and vaudeville. LJ-119

Event | lectures and symposia
Cardboard Culture: The Origins of the Great American Baseball Card Friday
July 5, 2019
11:00 am - 11:30 am EDT James L. Gates, Jr., Library Director of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will discuss the origins of trading cards including baseball cards and the growth of their popularity. Tickets are available via Eventbrite but are not required. Whittall Pavilion (LJ-G45E)

Event | lectures and symposia
Walter Isaacson on Changemakers Throughout History Thursday
July 11, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Walter Isaacson, acclaimed author, longtime President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, and Tulane University history professor, will be interviewed by Assistant Deputy Librarian Colleen Shogan. They will explore the lives of innovators, from Leonardo da Vinci to Steve Jobs, and how they changed the world. Isaacson will discuss the importance of innovation and curiousity, as well as the costs that sometimes come with... LJ-119

Event | lectures and symposia
Leadership in an Age of Political Conflict Tuesday
July 16, 2019
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EDT Acclaimed journalist Ann Compton will interview political strategists Karl Rove and David Axelrod. Coolidge Auditorium (LJ-G45A)

Event | lectures and symposia
Gallery Talk: Suffragists and Suffragettes - The Transnational Women's Rights Movement Wednesday
July 17, 2019
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT Shall Not Be Denied exhibition curator Janice Ruth will trace the transnational nature of the movement for woman suffrage, examining the influences and continuities between the fight for women's rights in the United States and in Great Britain. Southwest Gallery

Event | lectures and symposia
Cosmic Explosions and Cosmic Accelerators: Gamma-rays and Multi-messenger Astronomy Thursday
August 8, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Dr. Regina Caputo will discuss these jointly observed messengers and the contribution of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope at the forefront of this new era of astronomy. Pickford Theater (LM-302)

Event | lectures and symposia
A Mud Matter: The Recent Discovery of Organic Matter Preserved in 3-billion-year-old Mudstones on Mars Thursday
September 12, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Dr. Jennifer Eigenbrode will discuss the discovery, how it might have been preserved, and what the source might be. Pickford Theater (LM-302)

Event | lectures and symposia
The Ionosphere: Exploring our Electric Atmosphere Thursday
October 17, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT Dr. Douglas Rowland will talk about this exciting part of our atmosphere, our interface to space, and NASA’s current missions, ICON and GOLD, which are providing a unique view of this fascinating part of our planet. Pickford Theater (LM-302)

Event | lectures and symposia
From Sun to Solar Wind: The Perplexing Solar Corona and the Space Environment it Creates Thursday
November 7, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST Dr. Nicholeen Viall will discuss recent observations from STEREO and the Parker Solar Probe which show the constantly roiling complex dynamic at work, even when the Sun is relatively quiet. Pickford Theater (LM-302)

Event | lectures and symposia
Space Lasers and Satellite Measurements: Ushering in a New Era of Spaceborne Laser Altimetry Dependent on Satellite Geodesy Thursday
December 5, 2019
11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST Scott B. Luthcke will discuss the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter (ATLAS) aboard ICESat-2 and the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) instrument on the International Space Station, their performance thus far, and their dependence on satellite geodesy. Pickford Theater (LM-302)