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Learning What’s on the Minds of Some of Today’s Top Scholars

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

Scholars today think and write about a myriad of pressing issues confronting humanity. For me, one of the most exciting aspects of this week’s #ScholarFest is to gain insight into what’s on the minds of some of the world’s top scholars, and the questions they’re examining through their research. Thursday’s “lightning conversations” –10-minute dialogues between …

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Introducing #ScholarFest, June 11 at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

This post originally appeared on AHA Today, a blog of the American Historical Association. What happens when you take 70 scholars from multiple disciplines, put them in a room together, and ask them to exchange knowledge, wisdom, and ideas? We don’t know. But we’ll find out on June 11, 2015, at the first-ever ScholarFest. Technically …

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Celebrating 15 Years of Scholarship with #ScholarFest, June 10-11

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 …

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More than a Millionaire!

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

The following is a guest post by Dr. Jane McAuliffe, Director of The John W. Kluge Center. Later this year, the Librarian of Congress will make someone a millionaire. No, this noble institution has not suddenly entered the world of TV games shows nor, for those of you whose memories reach back to the 1950s, …

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Library of Congress to Award $1.5 Million Kluge Prize in 2015

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

The Kluge Center is pleased to announce that the Library of Congress will award one of the largest cash prizes for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences when it confers its John W. Kluge Prize in September 2015. The John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity and its accompanying $1.5 …