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Posted by: Andrew Breiner
At a time when it can be difficult to look beyond the day-to-day, the arts still allow us to experience other eras, places, and perspectives. A break from immediate concerns in the form of reading, listening, and viewing can be a source of encouragement and hope. 2018 Kluge Prize recipient Drew Gilpin Faust shared her …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Education, General News
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
Applications are now open for Kluge Fellowships at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Twelve Kluge Fellowships are awarded each year through a competitive selection process. Kluge Fellowships are offered for a period of four to eleven months. Since the inception of the Kluge Center, dozens of Kluge Fellows have gone …
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Posted by: Andrew Breiner
Aynne Kokas is a Kluge Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Dr. Kokas testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in March 2018, and was scheduled to testify before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Chinese censorship of American …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Digital Revolution, Foreign Policy, Government
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
In February, Carla Freeman, the Library of Congress Chair in US-China Relations as well as Director of the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins University, participated in a conference in Madrid, Spain, looking at the relationship and power dynamics between China, the United States, and the European Union. This conference took place before COVID-19 was …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Foreign Policy, Government
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
Applications are now open for the Library of Congress Fellowship in Congressional Policymaking. Negotiation is vital to public policymaking in the U.S. Congress. In fact, legislative productivity is dependent on effective legislative negotiations, given the complexities of our system of separated branches with a bicameral legislature. In an effort to support scholarship in this area, …
Posted in: General News, Politics
Posted by: Giselle M. Avilés
Women have made incredible strides forward in academia. In 2018, 53% of the 79,000 doctoral degrees in the United States were awarded to women. That said, women still face unique challenges when faced with life after the Ph.D. During March, which is Women’s History Month, the Library, in partnership with the National Archives and Records …
Posted in: Anthropology, Culture & Society, History, Indigenous Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
The John W. Kluge Center congratulates recent Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations Ivan Krastev on winning the prestigious 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize for his book The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy, co-authored with Stephen Holmes. The Gelber Prize is awarded for the year’s best …
Posted in: Foreign Policy, General News
Posted by: Giselle M. Avilés
I talked with Kluge Fellow Gaetano Di Tommaso about his research project, “Petro-Modernity and Statecraft: The U.S. Energy-National Security Nexus Reconsidered (1890s-1920s).” Before coming to the Kluge Center, Tano, as we call him here, was a Teaching Fellow at Sciences Po-Paris (Reims campus), in France. This is part two of the two-part interview. Click here for part one. …
Posted in: Foreign Policy, Government, History, Politics, Sociology
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
One of the goals of the Kluge Center is to make the Library of Congress accessible to researchers, who can investigate and highlight the treasures it holds. In that spirit, I asked our scholars “Have you found anything cool at the Library recently?” These are their responses. Susan Schneider, Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress …
Posted in: Digital Revolution, Government, Media & Communications, Politics