2005 Events & News
December 1, 2005
Book Talk: Architectural
historian and photographer William Craft Brumfield on his book, A History of Russian Architecture. [Press Release | Webcast]
November 10, 2005
Lecture: Melvyn
P. Leffler, Henry Alfred Kissinger Fellow in Foreign Policy and International
Affairs, "Retreat from Armageddon? Khrushchev, Kennedy, Johnson, and the Elusive Quest
for Peace." [Press Release]
November 9, 2005
Book Talk: Mark
Katz, Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music.
[Press
Release]
November 3, 2005
Lecture: Christopher
Capozzola, Jameson Fellow, "Mary Pickford Saves (for) America: Political Obligation and Liberty Loan in World
War I."
November 2, 2005
Lecture: Francis
Deng, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, "Sudan: A nation in turbulent search for itself." [Press Release]
November 1, 2005
Book Talk: John
Hope Franklin, Mirror to America. [Press Release]
October 26, 2005
Lecture: Rockefeller
Fellow Nelly Lahoud on "Political activism beyond the state in the Islamic tradition."
October 20, 2005
Book Talk: Robert
Kehew, Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours.
[Press
Release]
September 22, 2005
Lecture: LC Staff
Fellow Marcia Ristaino, "History's Forgotten Hero: Father Jacquinot de Besange, S.J."
September 20, 2005
Kislak Lecture: Jared
Diamond in "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed."
[Press
Release]
September 19, 2005
Book Talk: Gloria
Kaiser on Saudade: The life and death of Queen Maria Glória of Lusitania.
September 10, 2005
Symposium on Writing and Iconography in Pre-Columbian World. [Press
Release]
July 20, 2005
Lecture: Kluge
Fellow, Roy Tsao, "Hannah Arendt's Second Thoughts: Writing, Rewriting, and Rethinking The Origins
of Totalitarianism."
June 30, 2005
Book Talk: Carol
Benedict, The Gendered Cigarette: Women, Men, and Smoking in Republican-Era China, 1911-1949.
June 29, 2005
Book Talk: Kluge
Fellow Gian-Mario Cao on Betrayal or Message in a Bottle? Renaissance Translations and Their Legacy.
June 23, 2005
Lecture: Kluge
Fellow Temur Temule on "The Mongols in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Western Discourse."
June 22, 2005
Lecture: International
Studies Fellow Galina Yermolenko discusses her research project, "Roxolana: From Slave to Legend."
May 25, 2005
Book Talk: Judge
Robert L. Carter, an intellectual architect for the civil rights movement
and the man who argued the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case before
the Supreme Court, discusses his recently published memoir, which is
titled: A Matter of Law: A Memoir of Struggle in the Cause of Equal Rights. [Press Release | Webcast]
May 24, 2005
Lecture: Václav
Havel, playwright, former elected president of the republic of Czechoslovakia,
and one of Europe's leading political, moral and intellectual figures,
gives a lecture on human rights titled "The Emperor Has No Clothes." [Press Release | Transcript of Speech | Webcast]
May 19, 2005
Lecture: Kluge
Fellow Ruth Clements presents a talk on "Binding or Sacrifice? Readings of the Biblical Isaac among Early Jewish and Christian
Martyrs."
May 18, 2005
Lecture: Kluge
Fellow Robert Mason discusses his research, "The Organization of an Electoral Majority: The Republican Party and Political
Mobilization."
April 21, 2005
Lecture: Mark
Noll, Maguire Chair in American History and Ethics, discusses "How the Bible Caused the Civil War." [Press Release]
April 7, 2005
Lecture: Lamin
Sanneh, holder of the Kluge Chair of Countries and Cultures of the
South, speaks on "Sacred Truth and Secular Agency: Shari'ah Norms and Political Enforcement."
[Press
Release | Webcast]
March 31, 2005
Lecture: Derrick
DeKerckhove discusses the role of electricity in contemporary life
in a talk titled, "I Sing the Body Electric." [Press Release]
March 31, 2005
Lecture: Kluge
Fellow Margaret Dikovitsky presents a talk about her research project, "Russian Imperial Colonial Attitudes: An Analysis of Photographs from the Prokudin-Gorskii
Collection."
March 28, 2005
Lecture: "Managing
Knowledge in a Digital Context": Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, presents "From the Library of Information to the Library of Things." This program was aired live on C-SPAN. [Press Release]
March 28, 2005
Alistair Horne Named Senior Distinguished Scholar at the John W. Kluge
Center [Press
Release]
March 23, 2005
Lecture: Anthony
Snodgrass discusses the Parthenon ("Elgin") Marbles in a lecture entitled, "The Parthenon Divided." [Press Release]
March 21, 2005
Lamin Sanneh, Kluge Chair of Countries and Cultures of the South, Kluge
Fellow Athenase Hagengimana and special guests presented an all-day
symposium on "Reconciliation:
Lessons Learned from Africa," focusing on resolution between former participants of genocide and their victims'
families. This event was cosponsored by the Office of Scholarly Programs
and the African and Middle Eastern Division. [Press Release]
March 17, 2005
Lecture: Kluge
Fellow Kate Masur, assistant editor of the Freedmen and Southern Society
Project at the University of Maryland history department, discusses
her research project in a talk titled "Unworthy of the Nation: Black Rights and the Failure of Democracy in Civil War-era
America."
March 15, 2005
Ying-Shih Yu Named Senior Distinguished Scholar at John W. Kluge Center
[Press
Release]
March 14, 2005
Lecture: "Managing
Knowledge and Creativity in a Digital Context": Edward L. Ayers, dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
at the University of Virginia, discusses the implications of creating
and distributing knowledge in today's digital environment.
March 10, 2005
Lecture: Lamin
Sanneh discusses "The Changing Face of Christianity" [Press Release]
March 8, 2005
Lecture: Gen.
Wesley Clark and Sadako Ogata discusses "The Refugee Crises of the 1990s."
[Press
Release | Webcast]
March 3, 2005
Lecture: "Managing
Knowledge and Creativity in a Digital Context": Lawrence Lessig discusses copyright in cyberspace in a lecture titled, "Taming the Regulation Culture. " [Press Release]
February 22, 2005
Fernando Henrique Cardoso Gives Fourth Annual Kissinger Lecture [Press
Release | Webcast]
February 14, 2005
Lecture: "Managing
Knowledge and Creativity in a Digital Context": David M. Levy discusses "Reading: From the Fixed Page to Movable Electrons" [Press Release]
January 31, 2005
Lecture: "Managing
Knowledge and Creativity in a Digital Context": Brian Cantwell Smith discusses "And Is All This Stuff Really Digital After All?" [Press Release]
January 24, 2005
Lecture: "Managing
Knowledge and Creativity in a Digital Context": Juan Pablo Paz discusses "How Quantum Computing Will Change the Way We Collect, Store and Distribute Information"
January 13, 2005
Book Talk: Robert
Mason discusses His Book on Richard Nixon [Press Release]
