We hope you have had a chance to attend a recent event sponsored by The Kluge Center. We ended the month of April with Distinguished Visiting Scholar Martin Hilbert taking questions from me and a public audience on the latest developments in the mining of big data as they pertain to elections and governance.
As you can see below, there are more opportunities to attend our events in May.
This month we are also busy notifying selectees for the 2018 Kluge Fellowships. We are accepting applications for the 2019 class of Fellows through July 15.
Below are some highlights of what we’ve been doing and what is coming up.
The Kluge Prize – Announcement in June
After a long and laborious process involving vetting well over 100 nominees, the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, is reviewing materials on the finalists for the one million dollar Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. The announcement of the winner will be in June.
The criteria for selection dictate that the winner should be distinguished by his or her intellectual achievements, by the fundamental importance of the body of work and its impact on society, and by the ability to communicate the significance of the work to broad audiences.
Public Events
This month we continue our conversations on the challenges facing democracy with a May 9 event (starting at noon) in Coolidge Auditorium featuring the Washington Post’s Anne Applebaum on “Disinformation and the Threat to Democracy.” Applebaum has an international reputation for her insights on Eastern Europe and Russia in particular, but also more broadly how the breakdown of the established media has left an opening for disinformation campaigns.
Following that, Seth Masket, who began this month as the Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance, will be featured in a panel discussion, “The Future of Political Parties,” with Yuval Levin (National Affairs and the Ethics and Public Policy Center) and Jennifer Victor, Professor of Political Science at George Mason University. The event will be held May 21 in the Montpelier Room of the Madison Building (4pm) and is co-hosted by Seth’s home institution, the University of Denver.
On May 22, former