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Archive: October 2015 (3 Posts)

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

Expanding the Astrobiology Conversation

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

This year’s Blumberg Dialogues on Astrobiology expanded the conversations around astrobiology to include philosophers, historians, religion scholars, literature scholars, communications scholars and professors of English and theater, in addition to scientists. The videos of these public dialogues are now available on our website and YouTube; the dialogues were part of the Kluge Center’s Baruch S. …

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

Examining Armenian History in the Library of Congress Collections

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

Earlier this year, Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari spent five months at the Kluge Center researching the photographs and memories of Armenians during the First World War. Currently in the third year of her Ph.D. at University of the Arts London, Saraidari’s project, titled “The Materiality of Photography and the Memory of the Armenian Genocide,” documents the …

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

Photos From This Year’s Kluge Prize Ceremony

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

The sixth Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity was conferred upon Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor on September 29, 2015. The Kluge Center was privileged to welcome these two distinguished philosopher to the Library of Congress for the ceremony and related events. Here are some photographs from a wonderful three days… Tour …