Archive: December 2014 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Dan Turello; (Year) 2014; (Month) December

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Charlotte Rogers, Kluge Fellow, on Manaus, the World Cup, and Contemporary South American Fiction

December 5, 2014

The city of Manaus, Brazil, was in the news this past summer as the site of a USA-Portugal World Cup match. Depicted on television and in print as a “jungle city” and “heart of the Amazon,” its intense heat and remote location have captured popular imagination. Charlotte Rogers, a Kluge Fellow at The John W. …

Posted in: Latin America, Literature

Václav Havel: Legacies

December 2, 2014

Posted by: Dan Turello

On November 19, The John W. Kluge Center, The Embassy of the Czech Republic, and Florida International University remembered Václav Havel’s influence and legacy in a private conference at the Library of Congress. The event was immediately followed by the dedication of a bust of President Havel in the U.S. Capitol. Havel twice was a …

Posted in: Government, History, Politics

Refined by: (Author) Dan Turello; (Year) 2014; (Month) December