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Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Kissinger Chair Bradford Lee arrived at the Kluge Center this fall with an ambitious research question: were the results of one hundred years of American military interventions in foreign conflicts worth the costs of achieving them? He sat down with Jason Steinhauer to discuss his research, in particular his analysis of World War I, a …
Posted in: Foreign Policy, History, Politics
Posted by: Travis Hensley
As I write this post I can see the sun shining through the windows of the Kluge Center. It seems the winter we never thought would end, finally has. Personally I am looking forward to spring with all that it brings: warmer weather, renewal, and a new cohort of fellows. During the chillier months of …
Posted in: General News
Posted by: Dan Turello
Members of the Scholars Council are appointed by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to scholarship at the Library, with special attention to the Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize. The Council includes distinguished scholars, writers, researchers, and scientists. “Insights” is featuring some of the work of this highly-accomplished group of thinkers; …
Posted in: Health & Medicine, Psychology & Psychiatry
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by Dr. Jane McAuliffe, Director of The John W. Kluge Center. More years ago than I like to admit, I began graduate work at the University of Toronto in the newly formed Centre for Religious Studies. The director of that fledgling operation was an American scholar of Zoroastrianism, Willard …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
For the tenth year in a row, The John W. Kluge Center will welcome the International Seminar on Decolonization to the Library of Congress for the month of July. This year we’re particularly delighted that two Kluge Center alumni will be among the cohort. Historian Emily Baughan was an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Dan Turello
That Paul Ricoeur was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century needs little emphasis. Ricoeur wrote on many of the major themes relating to human experience, and did so extensively and methodically. A fruitful way to get a sense of his work would be to pick one of his areas of study …
Posted in: Philosophy
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
How does a scholar research a topic as formidable as the Cold War using the Library of Congress collections? Historian Kevin Kim recently answered this question in a blog post for the American Historical Association (AHA). Dr. Kim was the Kluge Center’s most recent J. Franklin Jameson Fellow in American History, a Fellowship offered annually …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Seventy top scholars in foreign policy, history, ethics, religion and other fields within the humanities and social sciences will convene on Capitol Hill over a two-day period to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress with the premiere #ScholarFest, a unique mixture of rapid-fire dialogues, panels and …
Posted in: General News
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
When historian Romila Thapar first reviewed student textbooks in her native India, she was surprised. “I was appalled by the quality of the information that was being conveyed in these books,” she wrote in a 2009 journal article recalling the experience. Particularly, she was struck by “an adherence to outdated ideas and generally colonial views …
Posted in: History