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Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Finish 2015 with some of the best posts from our blog, “Insights.” Don’t forget to keep up with the Kluge Center in real time by following us on Twitter: @KlugeCtr. From our blog: While conducting research in the Library, scholar Ben Reed discovered a manuscript that traces an Archbishop’s tour through Mexico in the 1680s. …
Posted in: General News
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Author and journalist Gregg Jones spent four months at the Kluge Center researching the American bombing campaign during World War II in an effort to better understand the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the “Jerk’s Natural” over Austria in October 1943. The Black Mountain Institute-Kluge Fellow for 2015-2016, Jones sat down with Jason Steinhauer to …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Last week the Kluge Center hosted the Right Honourable Tony Blair to deliver the Seventh Kissinger Lecture at the Library of Congress. The former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland addressed the challenges posed by Islamic extremism and strategies to defeat the threat. He was then joined by the Honorable Martin S. Indyk, …
Posted in: Foreign Policy
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Legal historian Mary Dudziak is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University and 2015 Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the Kluge Center. A scholar whose work touches upon war history, civil rights history, constitutional law and foreign policy, her research at the Kluge Center has centered on how the American …
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Eliana Hadjisavvas is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Birmingham and a current Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center. She sat down with Jason Steinhauer to discuss her research project, “Jewish Displaced Persons and the Case of the Cypriot Internment Camps: The Role of the United States 1945-1950.” …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
This year the nation commemorated the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. The war was a period of great transformation in America, in Washington, D.C., and in the lives of African Americans. Those changes continued into the second half of the 19th century. Jason Steinhauer sat down with historian Kate Masur, a …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Scholar Thomas Dodman once said, “All wars big and small are catastrophes of one sort or another for those who they affect.” For years scholars at the Kluge Center have reflected on and studied the effects of war on those who fight, the nations who engage in them, and on society as a whole, in …
Posted in: History
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. …
Posted in: Astrobiology
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 …
Posted in: History