Tuesday, December 13, 2016, 11 a.m. Hispanic Reading Room Research Orientation Sign up for our research orientation and learn about the Hispanic Reading Room services and collections. Orientations are offered to the public the second Tuesday of every month from 11:00am-12:00pm. Those attending should obtain a Library of Congress Reader Identification Card prior to the […]
(The following is a post by Georgette Dorn, Chief of the Hispanic Division.) On Dec. 7, 2016, the Hispanic Division honors the great Chilean writer José Donoso on the 20th anniversary of his death. I recorded Donoso on three different occasions for our Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape — twice at the Library of […]
Tuesday, December 6, 2016, noon – 1:30 p.m. (ET) Panel Discussion: Prophet Muhammad and the Pledge to Civil Rights The Asian Division of the Library of Congress and KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights present “Prophet Muhammad and the Pledge to Civil Rights.” Speakers include: Aisha Rahman, Executive Director, KARAMAH; Hilary O. Shelton, NAACP, […]
(The following is a repost from the Insights: Work at the John W. Kluge Center, written by Lucy Taylor, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Leeds and a 2015-2016 British Research Council Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center.) The Library of Congress holds some of the richest material in the world concerning African dance. […]
Friday, December 2, 2016, noon – 1 p.m. (ET) Book Talk: The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World Professor William Egginton who teaches in the Spanish Program of the Department of German and Romance Languages at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, will present and sign his new book entitled […]
(The following is a post by Marília Costa, Researcher in the Hispanic Reading Room, and Talía Guzmán-González, Reference Librarian in the Hispanic Division.) You are probably familiar with the postcard images of Brazilian beaches, the country’s soccer stars, and samba music. Now it’s time to get to know the contemporary literature of one of Latin […]
Friday, December 2, 2016, noon – 1 p.m. (ET) Book Talk: The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World Professor William Egginton who teaches in the Spanish Program of the Department of German and Romance Languages at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, will present and sign his new book entitled […]
(The following is a post by Angel Batiste, Area Specialist, African Section, African and Middle Eastern Division.) A hidden treasure in the Africana Collections of the Library of Congress is a vast repository of well over 35,000 items of an ephemeral nature relating to ‘post’ independence era political developments in the 54 nations of sub-Saharan […]
Monday, November 14, 2016, noon – 1 p.m. (ET) Book Talk: The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey, featuring Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt Laila El-Haddad, co-author of “The Gaza Kitchen,” is an award-winning Palestinian writer, activist, and public speaker. She was the Gaza correspondent for Al Jazeera English website and a regular contributor to […]
(The following is a post by Taru Spiegel, Area Specialist, European Division.) Among the many fascinating items found in the Library of Congress collections is a volume consisting of the first 45 issues of Atuagagdliutit, the Inuit-language (Kalâtdlisut) newspaper from the years 1861 to 1864. Published in Greenland under difficult conditions where paper occasionally froze […]