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Posted by: Andrew Breiner
This is a guest post by Andrew Hammond, a Kluge Fellow from Aston University in the United Kingdom. Andrew is working on a project titled “Why We Serve”: A Veterans Oral History of 9/11 and the War on Terror. “2002,” was the response; “When were you all born?” the straightforward question. For someone who has …
Posted in: Government, History, Politics
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
Alda Benjamen is a Kluge Fellow, and was most recently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. She studies the Modern Middle East and Iraqi history, focusing on minoritization and pluralism in bilingual communities, as well as identity, memory and cultural heritage, and women and gender issues. Her current project is titled Negotiating …
Posted in: Foreign Policy, General News, Government, History, Politics, Religion
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
In February, the John W. Kluge Center brought together experts on US-Russia relations to discuss the efficacy of the ongoing sanctions on Russia. Jim Goldgeier, the most recent Library of Congress Chair in US-Russia Relations, started off the talk by explaining the significance of the topic. “Given the role of Congress in this, and given …
Posted in: Foreign Policy, Politics
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
On July 16, Karl Rove and David Axelrod delivered the fifth annual Daniel K. Inouye Distinguished Lecture in the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium. Ann Compton, former ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent, moderated the conversation between the two political strategists. Axelrod and Rove reminisced about their days advising presidents, and explored the current political climate, …
Posted in: Government, Politics
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
The John W. Kluge Center is pleased to announce the arrival of three new scholars in residence at the Library of Congress. Rolena Adorno was appointed as Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South. Adorno is Sterling Professor of Spanish at Yale University and the author of Colonial Latin American LIterature: A Very …
Posted in: Culture & Society, History, Latin America, Literature, Media & Communications, Politics
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
On March 21, the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress hosted American University Government Professor David C. Barker, author (with Morgan Marietta) of One Nation, Two Realities (2019), and University of Maryland Government Professor Lilliana Mason, author of Uncivil Agreement (2018), two nationally recognized experts on political polarization. In conversation with Kluge …
Posted in: Government, Politics
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
This is the first post of a new series titled Highlighting Kluge Scholars. For these I interview Kluge scholars on their work and time spent at the Library. R.M. Bates is a 2018 Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow at the Kluge Center from Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is working on a …
Posted in: Government, History, Politics
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
This is a guest post by Helen Margetts, John W. Kluge Center Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress. Margetts is a Professor of Internet and Society at the University of Oxford, and served as Director of the Oxford Internet Institute from 2011 to 2018. Her most recent book, “Political Turbulence: How …
Posted in: Digital Revolution, General News, Government, Media & Communications, Politics
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
Jesse J. Holland joined Adam Rothman, former Kluge Center Distinguished Visiting Scholar, for “African American Passages: Black Lives in the 19th Century,” hosted by the John W. Kluge Center in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress on February 21 this year. Holland and Rothman discussed their experiences using the Library’s collections to …
Posted in: Africa, Government, History, Politics