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Archive: October 2019 (3 Posts)

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Fall 2019 Arrivals at Kluge

Posted by: Michael Stratmoen

The Kluge Center welcomes four new fellows into residence this October and November. Get to know them and the projects they will be working on. David Johnson, a J. Franklin Jameson Fellow in American History, will arrive from Rice University in November. David will work on a project titled, “Descent into the Lowcountry: Enslaved Native …

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

New Resource Guide Highlights Kislak Chair Simon Martin

Posted by: Giselle M. Avilés

In September, the John W. Kluge Center welcomed Simon Martin, anthropologist and specialist in Maya hieroglyphic writing, as the second Jay I. Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas. He is working on a project called “Articulations of Power Among the Classic Maya.” We’ve created a resource guide, …

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

Will AI Become Conscious? A Conversation with Susan Schneider

Posted by: Dan Turello

Susan Schneider is associate professor of philosophy and the director of the A.I., Mind and Society Group at the University of Connecticut. She was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Kluge Center in the spring and will be back in residence as the Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology beginning in October 2019. She …