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The John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress hosts lectures, book talks, symposia, workshops and round-table discussions. Links to more information and/or webcasts are provided as available.

Unless otherwise noted, events listed on this page are free and open to the public. Reservations are not required. Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

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Upcoming Events & News

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, Visiting Fellow
“Jonathan Going South: The Yankee and the Making of American National Character.”
Stefanie Schafer 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. Cco-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>

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.”
Risa Goluboff examines how 1960s vagrancy laws served to keep marginal 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 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.
4:00 – 5:00 p.m., LJ-119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

Wednesday, May 22
Book talk: Tobie Meyer-Fong, Kluge Fellow 2006.
“What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China.”
Tobie Meyer-Fong discusses what preoccupied Chinese and Western survivors of one of the most brutal civil wars in human history. Co-sponsored by the Asian Division.
12:00 – 1:00 p.m., LJ-113, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. <view map>

Upcoming Deadlines

February 15, 2013
Application deadline for the Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon.

March 1, 2013
Application deadline for the Kislak Short-term Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas.

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

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