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Posted by: Anchi Hoh
Monday, May 1, 2017 – 6:00 – 8:00 PM Film Screening: “La Batalla Futura” A Film about Roberto Bolaño The film by Ricardo House offers a close look at the writer Roberto Bolaño and his turbulent relationship with his native country, Chile. The film intends to show the unknown aspects of the young Bolaño, a …
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(The following is a post by Talía Guzmán-González, Reference Librarian in the Hispanic Division.) “Escribir no significa convertir lo real en palabras sino hacer que la palabra sea real” Augusto Roa Bastos, Yo el supremo (51) “To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real” …
Posted in: Hispanic Reading Room
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(The following is a post by Susan Meinheit, Mongolian and Tibetan Reference Specialist, Asian Division) The Asian Division recently welcomed over 80 Mongolian scholars for the keynote session of the 11th Annual International Mongolian Studies Conference. The conference is a yearly two-day event hosted by the Mongolian Cultural Association located in Falls Church, VA, and …
Posted in: Asian Division
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017, noon – 1 p.m. (ET) Lecture: “”Is a History of North Korea without Kim Il-sung Possible?” The Asian Division of the Library of Congress invites you to join us for a lecture by Dr. Prof. Andre Schmid, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto. He will argue that the type …
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(The following is a post by Taru Spiegel, Reference Specialist, European Division.) “Aesop’s Fables” have been known for well over two millennia, and have been published in numerous languages and various configurations. Expressions such as “sour grapes,” “birds of a feather flock together,” “familiarity breeds contempt,” and “slow and steady wins the race,” have their …
Posted in: European Reading Room
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Thursday, April 20, 2017, noon – 1 p.m. (ET) Lecture: Marriage and Politics in 19th and 20th Century Ethiopia by Heran Sereke-Brhan, Ph.D., Deputy Director, DC Mayor’s Office on African Affairs The Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division, the Library of Congress presents “Marriage and Politics in 19th and 20th Century Ethiopia,” by Heran Sereke-Brhan, Ph.D., Deputy …
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(The following is a cross-post by Sharon Horowitz, reference librarian in the Hebraic Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division. It originally appeared on the Library of Congress blog.) Exodus 23:15 tells us that Passover should be celebrated in the spring. The rabbis understood this to mean it was their job to maintain the …
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Hebraic Section
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
Saturday, April 8, 2017, 10 – 11:30 a.m. (ET) Saturday Research Orientation: Asian Reading Room This free course is an introduction to the Asian Reading Room for researchers and the general public. The first part of the orientation gives the history of the Asian Division, as well as overviews of the six collections: Chinese, Japanese, …
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(The following is a post by Ann Brener, Hebraic Area Specialist in the Library’s African and Middle Eastern Division.) Problems about copyright are much in the news these days, and here in the Library of Congress they often seem very real indeed. Not only do many of us face copyright issues on an almost daily …
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Hebraic Section