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Archive: April 2019 (7 Posts)

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Connections in Sound: Irish traditional music at AFC

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

The following post was written by Meghan Ferriter and originally appeared on The Signal. Patrick Egan is a scholar and musician from Ireland, currently serving as Kluge Fellow in Digital Studies at the Kluge Center. He has recently submitted his PhD in digital humanities with ethnomusicology in at University College Cork. Patrick’s interests over the …

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

Conflict, Fortresses, and Threat Environments in the Ancient Maya World

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

Stephen Houston is the Library of Congress Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas, as well as Dupee Family Professor of Social Science at Brown University. In the lead-up to Professor Houston’s April 25 event at the Library, titled “Flint, Shield, and Fire: Exploring Ancient Maya Warfare,” I …

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

Reflecting on Earthrise

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

Bruce Clarke is the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, as well as Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science at Texas Tech University. On April 23, Clarke will host a discussion titled Earthrise: Celebrating the Photograph that Changed (How We View) the World at 4pm in room LJ-119 at the …

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

Anxiety and Ambivalence in the Asia-Pacific region: The Dark Shadow of U.S.-China Strategic Competition

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

The following is a guest post by Minxin Pei, Library of Congress Chair in U.S.-China relations. Pei is the Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 professor of government and the director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He is also a non-resident senior fellow with the Asia program at …

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

April 2019 Kluge Arrivals

Posted by: Michael Stratmoen

Spring has arrived, and with the Cherry Blossoms at their peak, the Kluge Center has welcomed three new scholars into residence in April 2019. Here are the projects they will be working on: Rebecca Iszatt, our first incoming Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellow, arrived from the University of Leeds. During her residency, Rebecca …