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Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by Lauren Sinclair, Program Assistant at The John W. Kluge Center. Jaroslav Pelikan was awarded the Kluge Prize in 2004 for his comprehensive and prolific study of the Christian tradition. Pelikan saw the history of the Christian tradition as a human science, calling it “an almost unique laboratory of …
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Sixty years ago, representatives from twenty-nine Asian and African nations gathered in Bandung, Indonesia, for the “Conference of Afro-Asian Peoples,” known more colloquially as the Bandung Conference. The conference discussed economic development, trans-racial unity and uplift among Third World nations in the wake of their emergence from colonial rule. Sixty years later, the term Third …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by Joe Ryan-Hume, 2014 Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center. In 2014 I had the pleasure of completing an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded fellowship at The John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. A year has passed since then, but …
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Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor, two of the world’s most important philosophers, will share the prestigious $1.5 million John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity awarded by the Library of Congress. The announcement was made today by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. They are the ninth and tenth recipients of …
Posted in: Philosophy