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Past 2012 News & Events

January 19, 2012
Lecture: Fatim Boutros, Bavarian Fellow. “Presenting Jazz – Representations of Presence in the Jazz Photography of the First Half of the 20th Century.”
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ 120 <view map>
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January 26, 2012
Lecture: Anastasia Kalyuta, Kislak Fellow in American Studies. “Who really owned the estate in the 'Place of Dog Tail?': Land Tenure Patterns among the Prehispanic Aztec Nobility in the late 15th-early 16th centuries.”
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ 119 <view map>

February 9, 2012
Lecture: Hector Leyva Carlas - “Marvelous Country, Precious and Horrible: Honduras through Travel Writing from the Nineteenth Century”
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ 119 <view map>

February 15, 2012
Event: John Hessler - “Written in Stone: Roman Law, Legal Epigraphy, and the Geography of Roman Agriculture.” Kluge Center and the Law Library
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., Whittall Pavillion <view map>
View event description and flyer [PDF]

February 16, Thursday
Lecture: Dmitry Galtsin - "A Train of Disasters: Puritan Reaction to New England Crisis of 1680-90s." 
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ119 <view map>
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February 29, 2012
Book Talk and Signing: William May, Former Cary and Ann Maguire Chair “Testing the National Covenant”
3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m., LJ119 <view map>
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March 1, 2012
Lecture: Adriana Brodsky: "Becoming Jewish-Argentines: Sephardim, marriage choice, and the construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960)"
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ 119 <view map>
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March 15, 2012
Lecture: Chet Adam Van Duzer "The Legends on Martin Waldseemüller's Carta marina of 1516."
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ 119 <view map>
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March 22, 2012
Lecture: Evegeny Pivovarov: Library of Congress “Slavica” and “Rossica”
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ 119 <view map>
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March 26-27, 2012
Conference:The Profound Impact of Stress: Human Biology and Social Implications for the Individual and Society,” with Dr. George Chrousos. Recent scientific breakthroughs in the biomedical field have made it possible to concretely measure the physical effects of stress. Stress, according to Chrousos, plays a sizable role in the health of the individual, as well as of society as a whole, and can be implicated in numerous psychosocial factors, such as addiction, obesity and poverty. The conference is free and open to the public. Reservations are not needed, but appreciated. Call or e-mail Elizabeth Gettins at (202) 707-7678 or eget@loc.gov.
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m (each day), LJ 119 <view map>
News releases: March 6, 2012 (rev. March 22, 2012) | March 21, 2012

Manuel CastellKluge Scholars Council member, Manuel Castells, is awarded the 2012 Holberg International Memorial Prize.

April 4, 2012
Symposium: Victoria Arana: “Other Cultures Within: Beyond the Naming of Things”
8:45 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Whittall Pavilion <view map>
Symposium Program [PDF] | Speaker Biographies[PDF]
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April 6, 2012 - CANCELED
Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies
3:00 - 5:30 p.m., LJ-113

April 12, 2012
Lecture: Thierry Rigogne: “Creating the Parisian Café, 1660-1800”
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ 119 <view map>
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April 13, 2012 - CANCELED
Aziz Al-Azmeh: “The Middle East: Liberal values and Muslim Populist Identity.”
4 P.M., L-J 119.

April 17, 2012
Larson Fellowship application deadline

April 19, 2012
Lecture: Mark Geiger: “When Insider Trading was Legal.”
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ119 <view map>
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April 23, 2012
Kissinger Lecture: President of Mexico Felipe Calderón
Coolidge Auditorium
View the webcast

April 24, 2012
Lecture: Isabella Streffen: “Magnificent Distance: Hawk & Dove, Artist’s Talk and Screening”
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., Whittall Pavilion <view map>
Read Library of Congress blog posting about the event
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May 3, 2012
Lecture: "Cooperation in Black and White: Innovative Alliances in the Retail Grocery Trade," with Susan Spellman, J. Franklin Jameson Fellow in American History.
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ119 <view map>
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May 10, 2012
Lecture: Kevin Bartig: “American Musicians, Soviet Music, and Cultural Ties in the 1940s”
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ119 <view map>
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May 17, 2012
Lecture: Vanni Pettina: “A Preponderance of Politics: The Impact of the Cold War on US-Cuban Economic Relations, 1946-1952”
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ119 <view map>
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May 24, 2012
Lecture: Emer O’Dwyer: “Pivot of Empire: Settler Politics in Japanese Manchuria, 1913-1916”
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ119 <view map>
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Lecture: Morton Kondracke (Kemp Scholar in Political Economy): “Jack Kemp, the American Idealist”
4:00 - 6:00 p.m., LJ119 <view map>
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Read Library of Congress news release

June 5-6, 2012
Conference: “His Contributions to Modern Arab Thought and Literature,” with Jurji Zaidan.
June 5, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm, LJ-119 & LJ-113 <view map>
June 6, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm, African and Middle Eastern Division, LJ-220 <view map>

June 13, 2012
Book Talk: “The Creative Society -- and the price Americans paid for it,” with Lou Galambos, Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. , LJ-119 <view map>
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June 21, 2012
Lecture: “The Creative Legacy of Russian Émigré Sculptors and Their Porcelain Chefs-d'œuvre,” with Ekaterina Khmelnitskaya.
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ119 <view map>
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June 28, 2012
Lecture: “Of All the Physicians is There a Physician? Irony in the Practice of Medicine,” with Farr Curlin, David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality Fellow.
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ-119 <view map>
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July 5, 2012
Lecture:“Making Sense of Ancient Graffiti,” with Rebecca Benefiel, Kluge Fellow
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ-119 <view map>
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July 15, 2012 - Kluge Fellowship application deadline

July 17, 2012
Lecture: “Imperialism, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Human Rights,” with Samuel Moyn
4:00 - 6:00 p.m., LJ-119 <view map>

July 19, 2012
Lecture: “The Continuing Problem of Custom: From the Medieval Jurists to the Supreme Court,” with Emily Kadens.
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., Mary Pickford Theater, James Madison Building <view map>

Castells flyer for August 23, 2012July 24, 2012
Lecture: “Embracing Defeat in the Colonies: The Allies and the Dismantling of the Japanese Empire after World War II,” with Lori Watt.
4:00 - 6:00, LJ-119 <view map>

July 26, 2012
Lecture: "When the U.S. Went to War with Canada: Competing Narratives of the 1812 War," with Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, Kluge Fellow.
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ-119 <view map>

August 2, 2012
Lecture:“From the Glory of Conquest to Paradise Lost: Al-Andalus as an Arab Realm of Memory,” with Peter Wien, Kluge Fellow.
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ119 <view map>

August 23, 2012
Lecture: “Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age,” with Manuel Castells, Distinguished Chair in Technology and Society
4:00 p.m., LJ 119 <view map>

September 20, 2012
Lecture: "The Yank with the Box: Sidney Robertson Cowell Collects Music in 1950s Ireland." Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, Alan Lomax Fellow in American Folklife.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

September 27, 2012
Lecture: “Chasing Krüger’s Dream: Studying the Transmission of Classical and Medieval Manuscripts Using Lattice Theory and Information Entropy.” John W. Hessler, Kluge Staff Fellow.
4:00 - 5:00 p.m., LJ-119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. Reception to follow. <view map>

October 25, 2012
Lecture: “The Indian Ocean as a 'Zone of Peace': Decolonization and the Politics of the Cold War Between Africa and Asia,” Christopher J. Lee, Kluge Fellow.
12:00 - 1:00 p.m., LJ-119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

November 1, 2012
Lecture: "Sharia in the West?  What Place for Faith-Based Family Laws in Liberal Democracies?" John Witte, Jr., Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History.
4:00 - 5:00 p.m., LJ-119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. Reception to follow. <view map>

November 9, 2012
Washington Area Group For Print Culture Studies meeting: Eleanor F. Shevlin, “Eighteenth-Century Newspapers and the Making of the English Novel.”
3:30 -  5:00 pm, Woodrow Wilson Room (LJ-113), Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

December 13, 2012
Lecture: Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, Distinguished Visiting Scholar.
“The Pilgrimage of World Christianity: A Post-Christian West and the Non-Western Church.”
4:00 - 5:00 p.m., LJ-119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress.
Reception to follow. <view map>
Read news release about this lecture

 

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