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Archive: April 2015 (7 Posts)

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Depression: What It Is and How it Can Be Treated – A Conversation with Philip W. Gold

Posted by: Dan Turello

Members of the Scholars Council are appointed by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to scholarship at the Library, with special attention to the Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize. The Council includes distinguished scholars, writers, researchers, and scientists. “Insights” is featuring some of the work of this highly-accomplished group of thinkers; …

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Peter Brown: A Recollection

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

The following is a guest post by Dr. Jane McAuliffe, Director of The John W. Kluge Center. More years ago than I like to admit, I began graduate work at the University of Toronto in the newly formed Centre for Religious Studies. The director of that fledgling operation was an American scholar of Zoroastrianism, Willard …

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Familiar Faces Return for the International Decolonization Seminar

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

For the tenth year in a row, The John W. Kluge Center will welcome the International Seminar on Decolonization to the Library of Congress for the month of July. This year we’re particularly delighted that two Kluge Center alumni will be among the cohort. Historian Emily Baughan was an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow …

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How We Experience Time: Paul Ricoeur on Past, Present, and Future

Posted by: Dan Turello

That Paul Ricoeur was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century needs little emphasis. Ricoeur wrote on many of the major themes relating to human experience, and did so extensively and methodically. A fruitful way to get a sense of his work would be to pick one of his areas of study …

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Researching the Cold War at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

How does a scholar research a topic as formidable as the Cold War using the Library of Congress collections? Historian Kevin Kim recently answered this question in a blog post for the American Historical Association (AHA). Dr. Kim was the Kluge Center’s most recent J. Franklin Jameson Fellow in American History, a Fellowship offered annually …

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Celebrating 15 Years of Scholarship with #ScholarFest, June 10-11

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

Seventy top scholars in foreign policy, history, ethics, religion and other fields within the humanities and social sciences will convene on Capitol Hill over a two-day period to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress with the premiere #ScholarFest, a unique mixture of rapid-fire dialogues, panels and …