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Posted by: Andrew Breiner
This is a guest post by Samira Spatzek, a Kluge Fellow and a postdoctoral researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” at Free University of Berlin, Germany. When Princeton socialite and businessman Arthur B. Turnure ventured to publish a New York social gazette at the …
Posted in: Culture & Society, History, Literature, Media & Communications, United States
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
In 2023, the John W. Kluge Center continued its work bringing scholars, writers, and lawmakers to the Library of Congress for public programming that informs, entertains, and shines a spotlight on the collections of the Library. With 2023 behind us, we’ve collected some of our favorite events we’ve hosted in the last year, all available …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Digital Revolution, Education, Ethics & Morality, Foreign Policy, Indigenous Studies, Latin America, Literature, Media & Communications, Native American, Politics, Sociology, United States, Visual & Performing Arts
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
This is a guest post by Bela Kellogg. Kellogg is a 2023 Kluge Center summer intern, where she worked with Writer-Editor Andrew Breiner and Kluge Fellow Samira Spatzek. She is currently pursuing a BA in English and history of art from the University of Michigan. In addition to being a member of the La Jolla …
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Posted by: Andrew Breiner
This is a guest post by Shealyn Fraser. Fraser is a 2023 Kluge summer intern, where she worked with Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History Tamika Y. Nunley on her projects examining Black women’s knowledge of the law and reproductive rights. She graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in American Studies …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Education, Ethics & Morality, Media & Communications, United States
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
Tom Cryer is a second-year PhD student at University College’s Institute of the Americas, where his research investigates race, memory, and nationhood through the life, scholarship, and advocacy of the historian John Hope Franklin (1915-2009). He is an Events Editor at U.S. Studies Online, a Graduate Representative for the Southern Historical Association, and a host …
Posted in: Africa, Culture & Society, Education, History, Politics, United States
Posted by: Sophia Zahner
It started with a sneeze, or so we thought. Since the 1950s, film historians counted “The Sneeze” from 1894 as the earliest surviving film copyrighted in the United States. At this time, the film began being shown as a motion picture after being copied back to film from a photograph. Claudy Op den Kamp, a …
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Posted by: Sophia Zahner
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the appointment of Timothy Frye as the Library of Congress Chair in US-Russia Relations. Frye began his time at the Kluge Center in January. Frye is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy in the Department of Political Science …
Posted in: Foreign Policy, Government, Politics, United States
Posted by: Andrew Breiner
This is a post by Kevin Butterfield, Director of the John W. Kluge Center. One of the more remarkable coincidences of my professional life happened on September 12, 2022, when I arrived for my first day of work at the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress as the new Director of the John W. …
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Posted by: Andrew Breiner
This is a guest post by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham. Wickham is the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress and Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Emory University. Can one be both a religious person and a humanist? If so, what kind of worldview might this entail? Together …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Ethics & Morality, Government, History, Media & Communications, Philosophy, Religion, United States