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Posted by: Andrew Breiner
On March 7, the Library of Congress marked the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Award-winning journalist Elaine Weiss joined Colleen Shogan, Assistant Deputy Librarian and the Library of Congress’s designee on the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, at the Kluge Center for a conversation on Weiss’s book, The …
Posted in: Culture & Society, History
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
This is the first post of a new series titled Highlighting Kluge Scholars. For these I interview Kluge scholars on their work and time spent at the Library. R.M. Bates is a 2018 Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow at the Kluge Center from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is working on a …
Posted in: Government, History, Politics
Posted by: Dan Turello
Like almost everyone else these days, we at the Kluge Center have been talking about “Game of Thrones.” An exchange with historian Lev Weitz inspired this blog conversation. Lev is a Kluge Fellow and is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Islamic World Studies at the Catholic University of America. The text of our conversation …
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Posted by: Andrew Breiner
For the first time in decades, Europeans are looking fondly to the past, rather than to the future. That was a key point made by Ivan Krastev at a May 9 public event at the Library of Congress focusing on European politics and culture, and upcoming elections to the European Parliament. Krastev, the Kissinger Chair …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Foreign Policy, Government
Posted by: Michael Stratmoen
May 2019 is here, and along with the warmer weather, the Kluge Center has welcomed five new fellows into residence. Here are a few of the projects that they will be working on: Cydonie Banting, an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellow, arrived from King’s College London. During her residency, Cydonie will conduct research …
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