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Posted by: Dan Turello
Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor will arrive at the Library of Congress next week to receive this year’s Kluge Prize. Dan Turello reflects. For bibliophiles, meeting a new author on paper is like making a new friend in person. First impressions matter: how do they start a paragraph, is it slow or speedy, are there …
Posted in: General News, Philosophy
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
On Tuesday, September 29th, the Library of Congress will once again confer the Kluge Prize upon two individuals whose outstanding scholarship in the humanities and social sciences has shaped both public affairs and civil society. Here’s a look at all the recipients of the Kluge Prize, past and present… Leszek Kolakowski Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski …
Posted in: General News
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by Lauren Sinclair, Program Assistant at The John W. Kluge Center. It is the eighth post in a series on past recipients of the Library of Congress Kluge Prize. The first-ever Kluge Prize was awarded to Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski in 2003. In conferring the Prize, Librarian of Congress …
Posted in: History, Philosophy
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
German Fellow Sibylle Machat has spent the past seven months at the Kluge Center researching images of planet Earth in American children’s books. How Earth looks from space is well-known today; satellite imagery of the planet is now a part of our collective consciousness. But before public access to photographic representations of Earth, how the …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Education, History, Literature
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by Lauren Sinclair, Program Assistant at The John W. Kluge Center. It is the seventh in a series on past recipients of the Library of Congress Kluge Prize. In 2006 the Library of Congress awarded the Kluge Prize to historians John Hope Franklin and Yu Ying-shih. It was among …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
We at the Kluge Center are very pleased to announce our 2015 Kluge Fellows and their research projects. This diverse group of scholars hails from institutions across the U.S. and includes one scholar from Seoul, South Korea. They represent the fields of law, international affairs, sociology, folklore and ethnography and various sub-disciplines of history, including …
Posted in: General News
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by Emily Coccia, Program Assistant at The John W. Kluge Center. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I arrived for my first day of work at the Kluge Center in June. I knew I’d be working with the database the Center uses to manage information about its scholars, …
Posted in: General News