Kluge Center Series: Prominent Scholars on Current Topics
By Library of Congress
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At the Library's John W. Kluge Center, prominent scholars present public lectures, book talks and workshops as part of the Library's ongoing mission of sharing its knowledge with the public.
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| 1 | VideoCapturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music | -- | 5/28/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoNobel Laureates on the Origins of Life and of the Universe | -- | 5/28/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoVietnam: Will There Be Peace Again? | July 23, 2015. Sarah Parker presents photographic representations of the American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, asserting that Millay consciously used her public image to promote her career and to subtly subvert expectations surrounding the "poetess." Speaker Biography: Sarah Parker is an Arts and Humanities Research Council fellow. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6857 | 5/28/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoFrom Vienna to Chicago and Back | -- | 5/28/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoIs Diplomacy the Answer? | -- | 5/28/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoMark Anderson on Brazilian Literature | -- | 5/29/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoRemember Belgium: Poetry as Propaganda in WWI | -- | 5/29/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | VideoReformist Voices of Islam: Mediating Religion and Modernity | -- | 5/29/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family | -- | 5/29/2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | VideoIndustrial Democracy and the Civil Rights Establishment of the 1930s | Toure F. Reed examines the influence of labor activism on the civil rights agendas of the NAACP and National Urban League and challenges presumptions about the ideological orientations of these important civil rights organizations. Reed describes how mainstream civil rights activists of the 1930s and 1940s began to perceive racial discrimination as an outgrowth of class exploitation as they were pushed to the left by New Deal labor law and working-class political movements. Afro-American activists during the Depression and Second World War thus frequently identified black participation in the American union movement as a key component to the quest for racial equality. Speaker Biography: Toure F. Reed is an associate professor of history at Illinois State University. An historian of Afro-American History, his research interests include 20th century black politics and US urban and labor history. He earned a B.A. from Hampshire College and his M.A., M.Phil, and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Reed has received both a University Teaching Initiative Award (2005-2006) and an outstanding faculty award presented by the Dean of Students (2007). During his tenure as a fellow in the John W. Kluge Center, he focused his research on New Deal Civil Rights. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5301. | 11/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoThis Separation Forced upon Us: Philadelphia's Free Quakers and the Culture of Revolution | Despite their history of pacifism, Philadelphia Quakers were deeply entangled in the American Revolution. When a small number of disowned Friends came together in February 1781 to form a group they called "The Society of Friends Known by Some as the Free Quakers," they were motivated by the genuine desire for shared religious communion in keeping with the "fundamental Principals" of Quakerism -- but also by their shared support of Independence. Their organized dissent against the all-but-Loyalist Society of Friends was unprecedented, as was their appeal to Pennsylvania's radical Assembly for ongoing access to Friends' property on the basis of shared rights. When in 1784 the Free Quakers built a meeting house of their own, it embodied a set of newly intersecting cultural practices through its integration of Quaker traditional forms with an emerging early-national iconography. Drawing on a rich survival of primary documents -- including those housed in the Library's Marian S. Carson Collection -- this talk will explore the convergence of social, economic, political and religious factors that together shaped Philadelphia's Free Quakers as a movement and as a community. Can the contours of this smaller separation shed light on our understanding of the cultural upheavals of the Revolution itself? Speaker Biography: Susan Garfinkel is a staff fellow in the John W. Kluge Center. She is a specialist in the Library's Digital Reference Section. | 11/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | VideoLiberty or Death: Slaves' Suicides & the Fight to Destroy American Slavery | As northern abolitionists set about trying to exploit mass media to denounce and destroy American slavery, they found themselves wrestling with the problem of slave suicide. Was it an act of principled resistance to tyranny that struck at the heart of the plantation economy? Or was it a measure of abject victimhood that begged to be mourned and avenged through humanitarian intervention? Kluge Fellow Richard Bell describes the deep differences within the northern abolitionist movement as to who had the power to bring slavery to its knees: white evangelicals who might be moved to action by displays of wretched slave suffering, or black slaves with the courage to fight and die for their freedom. Speaker Biography: Richard Bell is a professor of history at the University of Maryland. Bell has held research fellowships at more than a dozen libraries and institutes. Since 2006 he has served as the Mellon Fellow in American History at Cambridge University, the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, a Mayer Fellow at the Huntington Library, a research fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition and Resistance at Yale University and as a resident fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He is currently at work upon a new book-length study of a female Marylander who kidnapped free black people and sold them into slavery in Mississippi in the 1810s and 1820s. For captions, transcript, or more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5264. | 10/20/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoInside Compassion: Edge States, Contemplative Interventions, Neuroscience | Joan Halifax Roshi talks about empathy and compassion on the part of caregivers who are tending to the ill and dying. A follow-up was given by George Chrousos, who will discuss the stressors caregivers may experience. Joan Halifax Roshi is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author. She is founder, abbot, and head teacher of Upaya Zen Center, a Buddhist monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has worked in the area of death and dying for over thirty years and is director of the Project on Being with Dying. For the past 25 years, she has been active in environmental work. George Chrousos is a professor and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the Athens University Medical School in Greece. Previously, at the National Institutes of Health, he was chief of the Pediatric and Reproductive Endocrinology Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and director of the Pediatric Endocrinology Section and Training Program. Chrousos has been professor of Pediatrics, Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical School in Washington, D.C. He is one of the world's most prominent clinical investigators. | 9/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | VideoHistory and the Movies: An Historian Writes a Screenplay | The process of compressing history into drama often generates sharp tensions between the historian and the dramatist. As James Reston Jr. will testify, the historian usually feels a sinking disappointment as the dramatist explains what it will take to capture and hold the attention of an audience. When Reston was asked to write a screenplay based on his own 2005 book, "Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors," he leapt at the chance to resolve and to control the historian/dramatist tension. | 9/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoDignity of the Human Person | What is "human dignity"? How important is it? What is its origin? Six distinguished scholars, in an informal conversation, probe the meaning of human dignity from a variety of historical, philosophical, religious, medical and social perspectives. For speaker biographies, captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5294. | 11/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | VideoCuba & Florida: Exploration on a Historical Connection, 1539-1991 | Miguel Bretos looks at the Cuban presence in "La Florida" from the time of Ponce de Leon, almost 500 years ago, through the late 20th century. Speaker Biography: Historian Miguel Bretos was born in Cuba and received his doctorate from Vanderbilt University. He is currently senior scholar at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | VideoDancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and Atlantic Performance | Haiti's revolutionary origins and independence influenced its theatrical style. Kluge Fellow Peter Reed discusses the resulting perceptions of Haitians and their republic in the Atlantic world from the 1790s to the twentieth century. Speaker Biography: Peter P. Reed is assistant professor of early American literature and culture at the University of Mississippi. His scholarship focuses on early American and Atlantic drama, theatre, and popular culture, and he has recently published "Rogue Performances," a study of early American theatre and the roles of the young nation's less privileged classes. His current research follows transnational circulations of performance cultures throughout the Caribbean and Atlantic world. | 12/5/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | VideoIan Fleming, James Bond & the Public Perception of the CIA | Christopher Moran explores the similarities between Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and the real world of the Central Intelligence Agency. Speaker Biography: Christopher Moran is an author and postdoctoral fellow in the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. | 12/5/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | VideoBetween European and Ottoman: Turn of the 18th Century | By the nineteenth century, philhellenic Europeans had appropriated the classical Greek world as their distinct cultural patrimony. However, sources composed in the late 1600s and early 1700s by Ottoman dignitaries, Greek Orthodox intellectuals, and French and English travelers reveal a more fluid period when the Greco-Roman tradition exerted an influence on the perceptions all these (sometimes overlapping) groups had of themselves and one another. Greek, Ottoman, French, and English literary texts, archival records, and visual sources thus reveal the cross-cultural currents and ties connecting members of the Ottoman intelligentsia with their counterparts in Paris and London in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Lecture given by Karen Leal, Kluge Fellow. Speaker Biography: Karen Leal is a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress who was educated at Harvard completing her dissertation in 2003. She received a post-doctoral award at the Packard Humanity Center and served as assistant professor at St. John's University in New York. Her research interests have focused on the perception of minorities within the Ottoman Empire. Leal's Kluge project examines the Ottoman understanding of the Empire's classical heritage. | 12/5/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 20 | VideoNew Sources: Early Cold War Soviet Espionage Records | Kluge Staff Fellow John Haynes discusses making new sources accessible and specifically, a digital concordance to early Cold War Soviet espionage record. Speaker Biography: John E. Haynes is an American historian and specialist in 20th century political history in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. He is known for his books on the subject of the American Communist and anti-Communist movements, and on Soviet espionage in America (many written jointly with Harvey Klehr). He received his undergraduate degree from Florida State University in 1966, and his master's degree and doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1968 and 1978, respectively. | 12/5/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 21 | VideoPolitics of Nixon & Obama | Klaus Larres discusses how the 1970s, like today, were characterized by controversial military engagements, deep political divisions and severe financial disruptions. Larres describes the Nixon/Kissinger approach to overcoming U.S. "decline" in an increasingly multilateral world and analyzes whether this approach is still relevant for the current administration. Speaker Biography: Klaus Larres, former holder of the Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Kluge Center, has returned to the center as distinguished visiting scholar. Frequently called upon as a speaker, panelist and commentator on both current and past European-American relations and the history of the Cold War, Larres is also a senior research fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations and visiting professor at The Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Larres is a professor of history and international affairs at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Previously, he was a professor in international relations at the University of London and the Jean Monnet Professor at Queen's University, Belfast. Larres has held fellowships and visiting professorships at a number of prestigious academic institutions and "think tanks." Larres has published widely on transatlantic relations during the Cold War and the post-Cold War years. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5335. | 12/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | VideoThe Amman Message: A Magisterium for Islam? | Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick discusses the similarities between Muslim and Christian quests for common understanding among adherents of each religion. Speaker Biography: Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick is archbishop emeritus of Washington and a distinguished visiting scholar at the John W. Kluge Center. He has served on several international bodies and has been a member of the board of Catholic Relief Services for many years. In his retirement, he has been dedicated to inter-religious dialogue, especially in the Holy Land and the Middle East. He served as part of a delegation of American religious leaders that was instrumental in the release from Iranian prison of two young American hikers. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5350. | 1/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 23 | VideoThe Americas' Idylls: The Quest for an Elusive Continental Ideal | Ricardo Luna talks on the efforts of thinkers and leaders from North America and Latin America to develop a definition of a single Western culture across the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The ideal of a single hemispheric identity has captivated thinkers and statesmen for more than two centuries with shifting trends in thought. Preconceptions will be examined in hemispheric identity as Luna seeks to demystify stereotypes. Speaker Biography: Ricardo Luna served as Peru's ambassador to the United States from 1992 to 1999. He was the Peruvian ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992, and ambassador to the Court of St. James, London, from 2006 to 2010. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5359 | 1/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 24 | VideoThe Quiet People: A Memoir | Kelle Groom reads from a manuscript in progress, which is a memoir incorporating private and public history in a lyrically structured narrative that examines contemporary concerns through the lens of the author's Finnish, Irish, and Wampanoag ancestors in Massachusetts. The title references ancestors who left little written record, which challenges Groom to make their lives visible and discover how her life connects to their earlier struggles. Speaker Biography: Kelle Groom is a poet and author. Her third poetry collection, "Five Kingdoms," will be published this fall by Anhinga Press. She is also the author of "Luckily," winner of a 2006 Florida Book Award, and "Underwater City." | 1/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | VideoFinancial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865 | Mark W. Geiger describes how, during the Civil War, planters in the border state of Missouri had bet on the South's victory and that the financial scheme they devised had backfired. The resulting collateral damage to the state's pro-Confederate citizens set off a series of worsening consequences that ultimately cost thousands of people their property and many, their lives. Speaker Biography: Mark W. Geiger is a Kluge Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center and an honorary research fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He received his BA from Carleton College and his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Before entering academia, he worked in industry, primarily in financial services. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5349. | 1/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 26 | VideoFederal Discrimination & the Decline of National Black Politics in the Early 20th Century | Racial discrimination in federal offices during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson implicated the United States government in the economic limitation of African Americans in the early twentieth century. The Civil Service's stable pay and chance for promotion had helped to foster a vibrant black middle class in the nation's capital. This promising island in Jim Crow America was maintained by a political patronage coalition of black and white Republican politicians. Patronage was a fundamental element of American politics. This talk will reveal how African Americans used federal employment to establish a bulwark against a rising tide of racism in the United States. When Wilson's Democrats came to Washington in the spring of 1913, they brought with them an administrative ideology that combined progressive politics and white supremacy. The result was diminished political power and fewer economic opportunities for African Americans in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Eric Yellin is assistant professor of history and American studies at the University of Richmond. | 1/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 27 | VideoExpedition to the Equator: A Scientific Adventure Story | Ricardo V. Luna holds a conversation with Larrie D. Ferreiro, whose latest book describes an 18th-century scientific expedition to the equator to determine the true shape of the Earth. Ferreiro's new book tells the story of a 10-year scientific expedition to the equator to resolve the mystery surrounding the shape of the Earth. It was known that the Earth was not a perfect sphere, but scientists did not know if it was elongated or flattened at the poles. As a Washington Post book review asked, did the planet look like an egg standing upright in its carton or like an exercise ball when someone sat on it? Speaker Biography: Ricardo V. Luna is a distinguished visiting scholar at the John W. Kluge Center and former ambassador of Peru to the United States. Speaker Biography: Larrie D. Ferreiro is an award-winning science writer whose latest book is "Measure of the Earth: The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World." For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5347 | 1/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 28 | VideoMarket Empire: The U.S., the Philippines & Natural Resource Management | The importation of tropical products from the Caribbean and the Pacific accompanied the growth of American industrial development in the early twentieth century. While the new demand for tropical fruits, woods, and products dramatically altered tropical ecosystems and contributed to food shortages in what is today called the "global south," it also encouraged the development of an ethic of natural resource management and conservation. By focusing on the work of American agricultural scientists, foresters, and chemists during the U.S. occupation of the Philippines (1898-1936), Theresa Ventura shows how science was integral to the emergence of the United States as a world power; the influence of Philippine knowledge on environmental and nutritional knowledge; and the often devastating impact of conservation and land management programs on indigenous communities. Speaker Biography: Theresa Ventura is an assistant professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5346. | 1/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 29 | VideoIn Mexico There Are No Mexicans: Decolonization and Modernization, 1750-1850 | New Spain became Mexico virtually overnight, in 1821, although a decade of bloody civil strife preceded its final independence. Historian Eric Van Young uses the case of Mexico to examine the layered and contradictory nature of decolonization. Speaker Biography: Eric Van Young is a historian and academic of the University of California, San Diego, focusing on colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American history, with an emphasis on Mexico. His publications include "The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Struggle for Mexican Independence, 1810-1821," "In the Vanguard of the Virgin: Popular Rebellion in Mexico, 1810-1821" and "From Empire to Nation: Historical Perspectives on the Making of the Modern World." He has been awarded the Thomas F. McGann Memorial Prize in History (1984); the Hubert Herring Award for the Best Article in Latin American Studies (1984); Conference Prize of the Conference on Latin American History (1989); and the Bolton-Johnson Prize of the Conference on Latin American history (2000). For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5232. | 1/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 30 | VideoCornelis de Bruyn & His Contemporaries: Internationalism and Late Seventeenth Century Dutch Art | Rebecca Parker Brienen addresses the phenomenon of Internationalism as exemplified in the work and career of painter, traveler, and writer Cornelis de Bruyn (1652-1726). Speaker Biography: A 2010 Kluge Fellow, Rebecca Parker Brienen is a professor of art history at the University of Miami. Her most recent book is "The Dutch Republic Circa 1700: Artists, Travelers, and Collectors in the Circle of Nicolaes Witsen (1641-1717)." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5118. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 31 | VideoBlack Campus Movement in Higher Education, 1965-72 | Hundreds of thousands of black students, aided on some campuses by white and Latino students, demanded and protested for a relevant learning experience. At upwards of 1,000 traditionally white and historically black colleges and universities in the United States, black campus activists initiated a range of campus reforms, including the addition of more black students, faculty, administrators, and coaches, and the establishment of black cultural centers and Black Studies courses and programs. Their ultimate aim was to diversify and thus transform higher education. This Black Campus Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s is the subject of this presentation. Speaker Biography: Dr. Ibram H. Rogers is a postdoctoral fellow in the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis in New Brunswick, N.J. His writings have been published in several academic journals, magazines, and newspapers. He earned his doctorate in African American Studies from Temple University. His dissertation is the first full length study on what he calls the Black Campus Movement, the struggle of newly arrived Black students in the late 1960s and early 1970s, who demanded the diversification of higher education. They organized BSUs and successfully fought for Black Studies departments and courses, Black Cultural Centers, and the increase of Black students, faculty, administrators, and coaches. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5188. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 32 | VideoBuilding Model Modernities in Shanghai & Mumbai | Through the unique architectures of Shanghai and Mumbai, from their imperial origins to their current building booms, Black Mountain Institute fellow Daniel Brook examines the cities' volatile, continuing experiments in forging a Chinese and Indian modernity. Speaker Biography: Daniel Brook was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, and educated at Yale. His first book, The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner Take All America, was published by Times Books/Henry Holt & Company in 2007, and he received a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Fellowship in 2008. During the Kluge Fellowship, he will be writing about the architectural history and Westernization of St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai. His writing about politics, economics, and architecture has appeared in publications such as Harper's, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Slate, The Huffington Post, The Nation, and Dissent, among others. While at Yale, he won the 2000 Rolling Stone College Journalism Competition and received the John Hersey Prize for an outstanding body of nonfiction work. He lives in Philadelphia. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5110. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 33 | VideoDecolonization: A History of Failure? | Decolonization is widely considered one of the foundational processes of the modern world--an old imperial order was swept away, and a new world of nations emerged to replace it. But is the modern era really a world of nations or largely the detritus of broken-down empires? Is a world of nations an attainable or even desirable situation? Speaker Biography: John Darwin is Beit University lecturer in the history of the British Commonwealth at Nuffield College, Oxford University. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5246. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 34 | VideoObama's Victory & the Democratic Struggle for Power | Jeffrey Alexander offers a new way of looking at the struggle for political power by discussing what happened and why during Barack Obama's run for the presidency. He argues that images, emotion and performance are the central features of the battle for power. Speaker Biography: Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University. With Ron Eyerman, he is Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS). Jeffrey Alexander works in the areas of theory, culture, and politics. An exponent of the "strong program" in cultural sociology, he has investigated the cultural codes and narratives that inform diverse areas of social life. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5073. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 35 | Video'One Muslim is Enough!' Evidence from a Field Experiment in France | David Laitin, a political science professor who has examined the causes of religious discrimination in France, discusses the rationales that sustain discrimination against Muslims in the French labor market. Speaker Biography: David D. Laitin is Watkins professor of political science at Stanford University. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5197. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 36 | VideoSkulls, Scalps and Seminoles: Science and Violence in Florida, 1800-1842 | Exploration of the history of science in Florida during the decades before and after the beginning of U.S. governance in 1821. The lecture emphasizes the context of violence in Florida shaped scientific practices in the region as well as knowledge circulating throughout the United States of Florida's native peoples and natural history. The overlap between science and violence reached its climax during the Second Seminole War, when U.S. Army surgeons and other amateur naturalists were both the targets of Seminole attacks and the perpetrators of brutalities against Florida's Indians. Most notably, white naturalists in Florida collected, analyzed, mutilated, and exported the remains of Florida's Indian dead, particularly the skulls of both long-buried and recently killed Seminoles. Although they carried out their grisly work in an isolated region, the practices, specimens, and ideas of these skull collectors had a lasting influence on scientific approaches to Indian remains throughout the United States. Speaker Biography: Cameron B. Strang was a resident scholar in the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5237. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 37 | VideoThe Making of Soviet Central Asia, 1917-1932 | Adeeb Khalid discusses the transformation of culture and identity in Central Asia during the early years of Soviet rule and how the transformations in culture came not from Moscow, but from the Central Asian people themselves and how their new identity fostered a growing modernity that shaped the region as it is today. Speaker Biography: Adeeb Khalid is Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History at Carleton College. A historian of modern Central Asia, he is the author "The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia" and "Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia." He has lived and studied in Uzbekistan, Russia, Turkey, and Pakistan, and travelled al over Central Asia. For captions, transcript, or more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5213. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 38 | VideoShaping Physics in the Three Nations | Kluge Fellow Josep Simon spoke on the role of pedagogy and the importance of international scientific communication in the making of modern science, particularly physics. Speaker Biography: Josep Simon completed his thesis on 19th-century physics teaching in international perspective. With extensive training in the curatorship of scientific instruments at museums in Valencia and Oxford, he is author of a guide for novices to instrument cataloging and co-author of a catalog of physics instruments in the Valencia collection. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5205. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 39 | VideoThe Jihadis' Path to Self-Destruction | Do contemporary jihadists hold, in their own doctrine, the seeds to self-destruction? Nelly Lahoud, a top expert on jihadi ideology and a West Point associate professor, discusses this topic, the subject of her new book of the same name. Speaker Biography: Nelly Lahoud is associate professor with the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) in the Department of Social Sciences, U.S. Military Academy, West Point. Prior to joining CTC, Lahoud was assistant professor of Political Theory, including Islamic Political Thought, at Goucher College. She completed her Ph.D. in 2002 at the Research School of Social Sciences' Australian National University. In 2003, she was a postdoctoral scholar at St John's College, University of Cambridge, UK. In 2005, she was a Rockefeller Fellow in Islamic studies at the Library of Congress. Her publications include "Political Thought in Islam: A Study in Intellectual Boundaries" (2005) and co-editor (with A.H. Johns) of "Islam in World Politics" (2005). For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5154. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 40 | VideoEarly Cartography of Panama & Darien | Due to its role as a world's crossroads, the Isthmus of Panama has been one of the most mapped regions in the Americas. Hernan Arauz examines some of Panama's most significant maps and their interpretation and how the feats of the early conquistadors, buccaneers, surveyors and explorers influenced the development of cartography there. Speaker Biography: Hernan Arauz is a Kislak Fellow at the Library of Congress, where he is studying descriptive and interpretative carto-bibliography of the maps of Panama and Darien from the 16th Century to 1865. In his native Panama, he is well-known as the country's most experienced and respected naturalist guide. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5117. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 41 | VideoFrom Ptolemy to Pilgrimage: Images of Late Antiquity in Geography, Travel & Cartography | A survey of Greek and Latin geographical tradition during Late Antiquity (c. 200-600 CE), when various genres of travel narrative rose to prominence. Scott Johnson links this mode of writing to the transition from a pagan/Greco-Roman world to a Christian one as new ways of explaining the known world mixed the classical inheritance with biblical and early Christian history. This mixture was to influence directly the new institution of Christian pilgrimage, while setting a foundation of religious practice for Byzantium, Islam and the western Middle Ages. Speaker Biography: Scott Johnson received his doctorate in classics from the University of Oxford in 2005. He is a postdoctoral teaching Fellow in Byzantine Greek at Georgetown University and Dumbarton Oaks. He has been a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows (2004-07), a fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (2009-10), and a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress (2010-11). His current research project, "All the World's Knowledge: Geographical Thought in Late Antiquity and Byzantium," is designed to form the basis of his next book. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5241. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 42 | VideoThe Political Implications of Human Genomics | A discussion on the rapid growth of genomic science, how political views and public policy have not caught up, and its likely effect on our identities and on the criminal-justice system. Speaker Biography: Jennifer L. Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and professor of African and African-American Studies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She studies the intersection of American politics and political philosophy, particularly racial and ethnic politics and policy, immigration, educational and social policy, and public opinion or political culture. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5245. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 43 | Video"Seeing You Is Equivalent to Being the King": Loyalty, Ethics & Piety in 16th Century India | A look through a literary window into the politics and culture of pre-colonial South India. Christopher Chekuri examines loyalty and piety in the making of an ethical kingship during the seventeenth century. The talk will explore vernacular concepts of Hindu kingship through a close reading of the Telugu-language text Tanjavuri Andhra Rajula Caritra, which recounts the life histories of courtly figures of the 16th- and 17th-century Vijayanagara Empire. He will reveal the culture of the Nayaka elite and their state-making practices, and describe ways of reading texts and inscriptions in the study of empire and sovereignty in medieval India. Speaker Biography: Christopher Chekuri is assistant professor of at San Francisco State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include the study of states and families, early modern empires in the Indo-Islamic world, comparative colonialism and nationalism, modern Telugu literary criticism, and globalization. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5240. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 44 | VideoProtectionist Empire: Trade, Tariffs & U.S. Foreign Policy, 1890-1914 | Ben Fordham discusses the emergence of the United States as a world power during the years prior to World War I. Speaker Biography: Benjamin Fordham is professor of Political Science at Binghamton University. His research interests concern the influence of domestic political and economic interests on foreign policy choices, especially on security issues such as military spending and the international use of force. He has published articles on the role of domestic economic performance in decisions to use military force abroad, the effect of party differences on policy choices about the use of force and the allocation of the military budget in the United States, and on the influence of economic interests on congressional voting on foreign economic and security policy matters. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5185. | 1/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 45 | VideoWhitman's Future-Founding Poetry | In his preface to the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman offers a programmatic statement for his entire poetic project: "Finally, as I have lived in fresh lands, inchoate, and in a revolutionary age, future-founding, I have felt to identify the points of that age, these lands, in my recitatives, altogether in my own way." Sascha Poehlmann uses Whitman's term and argues that his work can serve as a model of future-founding poetry, or poetry that aims to actively mark and perform a beginning as well as that a poets after Whitman have employed, modified, and adapted such a future-founding mode, most recently in poems on 9/11, The presentation focuses on Whitman's own poetry and prose in order to show how his cultivation of the future in the present fuses the aesthetic and the political as it negotiates openness between an uncertain and a determined future. Speaker Biography: Sascha Poehlmann is a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and the 2011 Bavarian Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center. For captions, transcripts, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5383. | 1/31/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 46 | VideoMurder & Martyrdom in Spanish Florida: Don Juan & the Guale Uprising of 1597 | In the late fall of 1597, Guale Indians murdered five Franciscan friars stationed in their territory and razed their missions to the ground. The 1597 Guale Uprising, or Juanillo's Revolt as it is often labeled, brought the missionization of Guale to an abrupt end and threatened Florida???s new governor with the most significant crisis of his term. This lecture explores the 1597 uprising and its aftermath, and aims to shed light on the complex nature of Spanish-Indian relations in early colonial Florida. Speaker Biography: J. Michael Francis is professor and chair of the history department at the University of North Florida. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5384. | 1/31/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 47 | VideoMedical Culture in Yuan China (1206-1368): Aspects of Mongol Rule and Neo-Confucian Activism | Challenging the conventional image of Mongols as ruthless destroyers of civilizations in the 13th & 14th century world, specialists in the past few decades have examined the complex roles that Mongols played in global history. Recent historians of middle-period China have uncovered the transformation of Neo-Confucianism from a philosophy/religion for the rebellious to an ideology for political power. The Yuan period is an enormously interesting moment in global and Chinese history because the Mongol intervention in Chinese history and the transformation of Neo-Confucianism occurred at the same time and interacted with each other. These interactions resulted in a culture that valued medical learning and doctors. The life-story of a scholar-official Yuan Jue (1266-1327) will be used as a personalized window onto this complex history. Speaker Biography: Reiko Shinno is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5398. | 3/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 48 | VideoA Train of Disasters: Puritan Reaction to New England Crisis of 1680-90s | From the 1680-1690s, Puritan New England underwent political and cultural transformations that would eventually turn it from a Puritan "covenanted society," virtually independent of the mother country, into a much more open and secular royal province. The main political events that shaped the crisis and transformations alike are the establishment of a royal Dominion of New England in 1686 and its downfall in the bloodless Boston "revolution" of 1689, "King William's War" with the French and their Algonquin allies and, most notorious of all, the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. Studying a group of texts, written by political and spiritual elite, Galtsin focuses on how the Puritan colonies reacted to the turbulent decade, and how they saw it in a process of divinely ordained history. Speaker Biography: Dmitry Galtsin is with the department of book history at the Library of Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg. He is a Fulbright Fellow in the John W. Kluge Center. | 4/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 49 | VideoTesting the National Covenant: Fears and Appetites in American Politics | In his recent book, ethicist William May argues that the biblical idea of a covenant, which binds people together for a common good, offers a more promising way to deal with national problems than the language of contract, which is grounded in self-interest alone. Speaker Biography: William F. May received his Ph.D. from Yale and taught for many years at Southern Methodist University where he was Cary M. Maguire Professor of Ethics until retirement in May 2001. He was the founding director of the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility. In Sept 2007 he was appointed named to the Maguire Chair in American History and Ethics at John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. He is best known for his work in medical ethics. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5464. | 4/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 50 | VideoBecoming Jewish Argentines | In "Becoming Jewish Argentines: Sephardim, Marriage Choice, and the Construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960)," Adriana Brodsky explores the marriage patterns of Argentine Sephardic Jewish communities, paying special attention to when Sephardim began marrying Ashkenazic Jews, thereby giving birth to a new type of Jewish identity, neither fully Ashkenazic nor fully Sephardic, but Argentine. Although initially Sephardim usually married "within," as the 20th century progressed, and new spaces for interaction of Jews from different origins became available, choosing a marriage partner outside of the group became more common. The presentation suggests that loyalties to communities of origin were slowly superseded by a sense of belonging to the Argentine nation. Speaker Biography: Adriana M. Brodsky is a professor of history at St. Mary's College of Maryland and received her Ph.D. at Duke University. For captions, transcript, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5468. | 4/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 51 | VideoMystery of the "Place of Dog Tail" | Anastasia Kalyuta offers a comparative analysis of land tenure and related practices of inheritance, land distribution and exploitation among Aztec nobility on the eve of Spanish conquest and aftermath. The talk explores distinctions of elite land tenure in two main centers of Aztec empire-Tenochtitlan and Tetzcoco. Speaker Biography: Anastasia Kalyuta is a scholar with the Russian Museum of Ethnography and a Kislak Fellow in American Studies. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5504. | 5/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 52 | VideoSlavica and Rossica | The Library of the Congress has one of world's largest collections of Slavic items. Jefferson's library, bought by Congress in 1815, contained a number of books about this distant region. However, Slavic items were hardly collected for the next century. The purchase of the Yudin Collection in 1906 signaled a turning point in collecting Slavic items with the help of many Russian-born scholars including Babine, Vinokouroff and Yakobson. Since that time, Slavic collections grew rapidly and constantly, passing through several stages and becoming more reader oriented. Projects initiated by these scholars reshaped the methods of Slavic collection development as well as led to the preservation of unique and priceless materials. Speaker Biography: Evgeny Pivovarov is a Fulbright Fellow and instructor at the Russian Academy of Sciences. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5516. | 7/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 53 | VideoKissinger Lecture: Felipe Calderón | President of Mexico Felipe Calderón, guest speaker at the sixth Henry Alfred Kissinger Lecture, focused on global challenges, such as global health, education, international trade, the fight against climate change and organized crime. The President also detailed how the Mexican government needs to strengthen and enforce local and federal entities to fight insecurity and to stop violence and crime in Mexico. Speaker Biography: Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa is the current President of Mexico, having taken office on December 1, 2006. Prior to the presidency, Calderón received two master's degrees and went on to work within the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) while it was still an important opposition party. Calderón served as National President of the party, Federal Deputy, and Secretary of Energy in Vicente Fox's cabinet. He has passed several reforms during his presidency, breaking through some of the gridlock faced since Mexico's transition to democracy. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5508. | 7/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 54 | VideoLegends on Martin Waldseemüller's Carta Marina of 1516 | Martin Waldseemüller's Carta marina of 1516 has always remained in the shadow of his 1507 map--less famous and less studied. In fact the Carta marina is in several ways more interesting than the 1507 map: it is the result of Waldseemüller's radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be. Waldseemüller essentially started from scratch in creating the Carta marina, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating the 1507 map, and adding more descriptive text and a rich program of illustration. In this talk Van Duzer examines the differences between the two maps and discuss the new sources that Waldseemüller used, placing particular emphasis on his iconographical sources. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5539. | 8/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 55 | VideoEmbracing Defeat in the Colonies | Embracing Defeat in the Colonies: The Allies & the Dismantling of the Japanese Empire After World War II: One of the distinctive aspects of the end of the Japanese empire in 1945 is the intersection of defeat, foreign occupation and decolonization. After defeating Japan's military, the Allies occupied all of its colonies as well as the home islands, inserting themselves between the colonizers and the colonized at a critical moment in the decolonization process. They oversaw the end of empire, including the handover of political power, redrawing of borders and transfer of newly displaced populations. Looking at the end of Japanese rule in Korea and the South Seas mandate, Lori Watt examines how Japanese military defeat complicated, and also simplified, the dismantling of the empire. For captions, transcripts, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5590. | 9/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 56 | VideoWhen Insider Trading Was Legal | The United States has stricter laws than any nation against insider trading in financial markets, but the earliest of these laws date only from 1909. Prior, stock and commodities exchanges governed themselves with minimal external oversight. Mark Geiger presents a close-up view of member relationships and business practices within the Chicago Board of Trade during the later 19th century when rival groups of exchange members, often family-centered, competed for money and power on the trading floor. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5593. | 9/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 57 | VideoThe Impact of the Cold War on US-Cuban Economic Relations, 1946-1952 | Historiography on U.S.-Cuban relations has tended to cast an aura of inevitability on Fidel Castro's Revolution—as well as on Cuba's clash with the United States after 1959. Indeed, much of the historiography suggests that it was Washington's hegemonic approach to Cuba that was responsible for creating the structural disequilibrium that made revolution and the rupture of bilateral relationships inevitable. In this talk, Dr. Pettinà argues against this view, maintaining that the US-Cuban relationship during the 1930s and '40s was marked by a reciprocal cooperative attitude that favored the island's democratic consolidation and economic development. The tremendous impact of the Cold War on US-Cuban relations played a crucial role in destroying the equilibrium of earlier decades, destabilizing the island's political system, and creating fertile ground for the crisis of the 1950s. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5571. | 9/20/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 58 | VideoCooperation in Black and White: Innovative Alliances in the Retail Grocery Trade | Beginning in the 1890s through the 1930s, independent grocers (white and black) formed a variety of innovative alliances—cartels, buying syndicates, and cooperatives—to navigate major changes within the trade. Through organizations like the Boston Wholesale Grocers' Association, Independent Grocers' Alliance, Red & White Stores, and Colored Merchants' Association, small businessmen formulated alternative ways of dealing and distributing goods, challenged chain stores, and created new entrepreneurial opportunities for black proprietors. Cooperative enterprise had limitations, however; while some groups advanced, others struggled to maintain a united front. This talk explores both successes and failures while questioning the role of collaboration in small business. For captions, transcripts, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5555. | 9/20/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 59 | VideoOther Cultures Within: Beyond the Naming of Things | How do practices and theories relating to the nation and transnational flows, movements, and institutions function to include/exclude communities—for instance, diasporic communities. How have ideas of creolization, multiculturalism, interculturality contributed to (or limited) possibilities, and what do they promise for the future? What role does intercultural translation that is attentive to "other cultures within" play? How do we carry on the urgent re-configuring required to address these crucial challenges in the present? These questions and more are addressed by the speakers at this symposium. For captions, transcripts, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5543. | 9/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 60 | Video2012 Kluge Prize Ceremony: Fernando Henrique Cardoso | Librarian of Congress James H. Billington awarded the 2012 John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity to Fernando Henrique Cardoso. The award was presented at a ceremony in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. Cardoso is the first prize recipient whose work spans the fields of sociology, political science, and economics. He is the eighth recipient of the $1 million Kluge Prize, which recognizes and celebrates work of the highest quality and greatest impact in areas that advance understanding of the human experience. Speaker Biography: Fernando Henrique Cardoso is one of the leading scholars and practitioners of political economy in recent Latin American history. His scholarly analysis of the social structures of government, the economy and race relations in Brazil laid the intellectual groundwork for his leadership as president in the transformation of Brazil from a military dictatorship with high inflation into a vibrant, more inclusive democracy with strong economic growth. A scholar of enormous intellectual energy, Cardoso has written or co-authored more than 23 scholarly books and 116 scholarly articles, with versions of each produced for a wider public. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5610. | 11/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 61 | VideoMagnificent Distance: Hawk & Dove | In 2010 a Cooper's Hawk took up residency in the Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress, and for a few days the airwaves were full of witty references to the hawks and doves of Congress, and the idea of a bird's eye view of Washington DC. British artist Isabella Streffen was midway through a six-month Arts & Humanities Research Council Fellowship within the John W. Kluge Center, researching the history of ballooning through the Tissandier collection as part of her doctoral research into the use of military visioning technologies in fine art practice. This collision of real life and research, typical of research through creative practice, led Streffen to propose a highly-charged art intervention within federal power structures in the city using two seven-foot remote controlled zeppelins. "Hawk & Dove" is the filming of that art intervention, and will be screened here at the Whittall Pavilion prior to its installation at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, where two silver vinyl prints are currently exhibited as part of the 5x5 Public Art Festival, part of the Centennial National Cherry Blossom Festival. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5613. | 11/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 62 | VideoFrom the Glory of Conquest to Paradise Lost: Al-Andalus as an Arab Realm of Memory | Peter Wien discusses how "Realms of Memory" are central to how societies relate to a perceived collective past. The history of medieval al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain, served as a shared point of reference for Arabs throughout the 20th century. A nationalist symbol for Arab-Muslim civilization, al-Andalus also served as a common nostalgia for a culture of "convivencia" and a flourishing of arts and sciences. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5618. | 11/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 63 | VideoMaking Sense of Ancient Graffiti | In the year AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted with devastating force, burying the nearby town of Pompeii under more than thirty feet of volcanic debris. Pompeii was effectively wiped off the map, but buried below the surface the material remains of the town were preserved in remarkable detail. While best known for its art and architecture, Pompeii also offers a colorful glimpse into the world of ancient graffiti via thousands of messages written on the walls of the city. This talk by Rebecca Benefiel explores this particularly widespread phenomenon occurring in the first century. Including both public advertisements and handwritten messages, these graffiti reveal an active populace, from city magistrate to humble slave, engaging in this mode of communication. What further emerges is a sense of the strong presence of writing in the ancient city, as well as clues into the social and cultural trends that inspired it. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5620. | 11/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 64 | VideoThe Creative Society & the Price Americans Paid for It | Educated professionals have been responsible for shaping much of America's history, according to scholar Louis Galambos. Since the turn of the 20th century, teachers, scientists, doctors, administrators, lawyers and business managers, among others have been at the forefront of innovation and have provided solutions to many of the nation's challenges. Our forefathers from all walks of life make up this creative class who sought education to improve their lives and in the process, made advances for American society. In his book "The Creative Society and the Price Americans Paid for It," Louis Galambos asserts that entrepreneurial thinkers have always been the staple of American progress. Speaker Biography: A graduate of Indiana University and Yale University, Galambos is a professor of history at The Johns Hopkins University and editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower. He also is the co-director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise. Galambos held the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History in 2006 at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5608. | 11/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 65 | VideoNetworks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age | Sociologist Manuel Castells examines the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and other social movements that have emerged in the Internet Age. He shares his observations on the recurring patterns in these movements: their origins, their use of new media, and their goal of transforming politics in the interest of the people. Castells presents what he sees to be the shape of the social movements of the Internet age, and discuss the implications of these movements for social and political change. Speaker Biography: An expert on the information age and its sociological implications, Manuel Castells is a University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California. He is professor emeritus of sociology and professor emeritus of city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 24 years. He is the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library's John W. Kluge Center and a leading expert on the information age and its sociological implications. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5619. | 11/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 66 | VideoGatsby vs. Superman | Three international scholars discuss the significance of comic books and their influence as documents of cultural history. Each scholar responds to questions based on research from the Library of Congress's comics collection and their expertise in Medievalism, the World Wars, and gender and ethnicity. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5865 | 6/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 67 | VideoPerspectives on the Environment | Three scholars from three different disciplines discuss human perspectives on the environment and the moral implications of those views. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5861 | 6/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 68 | VideoKemp and the Reagan Revolutionaries I | The Jack Kemp Foundation and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress co-hosted this symposium that brought together colleagues of Republican Congressman Jack Kemp, along with journalists who covered his career, to elicit and record their recollections and reflections upon Kemp's successes and failures as a leader in Congress, and his place in the history of the Reagan Revolution, the Republican Party, and America. Kemp served as a nine-term Congressman, conference chair, presidential candidate and vice-presidential nominee. Kemp died on May 2, 2009. Participants in the first panel included Morton Kondracke, Robert Walker, Vin Weber, Connie Mack, Robert Livingston, Dan Lungren, Allan Ryskind & Fred Barnes. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5630 | 6/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 69 | VideoKemp & the Reagan Revolutionaries II | The Jack Kemp Foundation and the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress co-hosted this symposium that brought together colleagues of Republican Congressman Jack Kemp, along with journalists who covered his career, to elicit and record their recollections and reflections upon Kemp's successes and failures as a leader in Congress, and his place in the history of the Reagan Revolution, the Republican Party, and America. Participants in the second panel included Morton Kondracke, Vin Weber, Trent Lott, Fred Barnes. Robert Livingston, Connie Mack & Al Hunt. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5631 | 6/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 70 | VideoThe Pilgrimage of World Christianity: A Post-Christian West and the non-Western Church | Distinguished Visiting Scholar Wesley Granberg-Michaelson discusses the major demographic shifts in the Christian world and the impact on efforts for Christian unity. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5723 | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 71 | VideoAfterlives of Specimens | Lindsay Tuggle examines the Civil War narratives of Walt Whitman and Union surgeon John H. Brinton as alternative histories of war casualties: military and poetic, phantom and physical. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5842 | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 72 | VideoThe Lost Tycoon: George Kleine | Kluge Fellow Joel Frykholm examines early Hollywood through the life of one of its first captains, George Kleine--why he drifted into historiographical oblivion and why his case is ripe for discovery. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5847 | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 73 | VideoThe Yankee & American National Character | Stefanie Schaefer traces the origins and functions of the Yankee in 19th century U.S. literary and popular culture. Schaefer traces the Yankee's most commonly known sectional (Northern) denomination to its origins and explores how this allegory was used to imagine an American national identity. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5844 | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 74 | VideoTransmission of Classical & Medieval Manuscripts | New computational techniques show how modern digital philology is changing the way we think of the transmission of medieval manuscripts through space and time. Using the notes of the classical philologist Paul Krüger, whose manuscripts were recently rediscovered in the Law Library of Congress, complex three dimensional visualization techniques will be used to show how the medieval manuscripts making up the Codex of Justinian are spatially and temporally related to each other. The talk also highlights how these new techniques give scholars the tools to postulate what the structure of missing and destroyed manuscripts might have been--changing the face of even the most traditional of the humanities, classical philology. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5700 | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 75 | VideoThe Yank with the Box | The American folk music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell (1903-1995) has been marginalized in the histories of the many places where she worked during her twenty-year career, including North America, Europe, India, Asia, and the Middle East. The talk focuses specifically on her work in Ireland on the music of Conamara and the Aran Islands in 1955 and 1956, work that is largely unknown to music historians, ethnomusicologists, and folklorists. It presents for the first time to an American audience new research on Cowell's international work, research that has yielded fascinating insights into her oeuvre. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5670 | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 76 | VideoThe Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace: Decolonization & the Politics of the Cold War Between Africa & Asia | Christopher J. Lee discusses his research on the 1955 Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung, Indonesia, building upon work done for his editing of the book "Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5682 | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 77 | VideoJack Kemp, An American Idealist | Morton Kondracke discussed the life and political career of Jack Kemp. Kemp served nine terms in Congress as a representative from New York and as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the George H.W. Bush administration. He is known as a leading advocate of supply-side economics, and co-sponsored the law that resulted in the 1981 tax cuts under President Ronald Reagan. Kemp was the first lawmaker to popularize "enterprise zones" to encourage development in underserved urban neighborhoods. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5564 | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 78 | VideoIrony in the Practice of Medicine | Although practicing medicine is a historic and socially established way of living a good and worthy life, the best physicians at times find themselves asking of their own activity, "What does any of this have to do with medicine?" At such moments, physicians are bewildered and are unsure of how to proceed, even as they long to become the physician they are not yet. Physicians may be experiencing irony, at least irony as the concept is used by Kierkegaard and recovered by the philosopher Jonathan Lear in his recent book, "A Case for Irony." Farr Curlin will use Lear's account to describe irony and explore its place in the practice of medicine. He will describe contemporary dynamics that seem to make it hard for physicians to recognize and respond well to irony, and suggest resources--including religious concepts and practices--that may help physicians overcome such obstacles. In the end, how physicians respond to irony will determine if ironic experience leads to renewed efforts to realize a better medicine, or results only in detachment from and cynicism regarding medical practice as a way of living a good and faithful life. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5579 | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 79 | VideoImperialism, Self-Determination & Human Rights | Decolonization was a human rights victory. But did its prime movers and ideologues conceive of it in terms of the "human rights" the United Nations declared, and eventually canonized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948? Was self-determination a human right in those early years -- and if not, when did it become one? This lecture by Samuel Moyn investigates and answers these questions, arguing that human rights history is more interesting and accurate when it is viewed alongside decolonization, which had to conclude as a process and falter as an ideal for the contemporary enthusiasm for international human rights to explode. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5622 | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 80 | VideoWhen the U.S. Went to War with Canada: Competing Narratives of the 1812 War | The War of 1812 remains a central event in national history. Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy examines how historians on both sides of the border articulated distinct and competing narratives about the conflict, its causes, and its outcome. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5586 | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 81 | VideoThe Continuing Problem of Custom | Western legal systems have from ancient times acknowledged that binding laws could be made bottom-up through the repeat behavior of the members of the community as well as top-down through legislation and court decisions, but explaining exactly how behavior creates law has vexed legal thinkers for centuries. This is as true today, in particular in the realm of customary international law, as it was in the Middle Ages. As the Supreme Court struggles with yet another case about what constitutes international custom, it joins in a long conversation about which modern legal scholars are only dimly aware. This talk by Emily Kadens traces the efforts of medieval and early modern jurists to understand how custom functions as law and will suggest what lawyers and judges today can learn from the jurists of an earlier time. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5621 | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 82 | VideoWhy Two in One Flesh: The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy | John Witte Jr. discussed the history of the West's predilection for monogamy over polygamy. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5917 | 7/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 83 | VideoSharia in the West? What Place for Faith-Based Family Laws in Western Democracies? | Legal scholar John Witte Jr. discusses how Western legal systems grapple with non-state-based, family-law systems such as Sharia, Halacha and Canon Law. Witte predicts that the Western-legal-system handling of Sharia will become hotly politicized in America in the next few years, as has happened recently in Canada and the United Kingdom. He believes scholarship can aid in widening the conversation surrounding a potentially inflammatory topic. Speaker Biography: John Witte Jr. Witte is the Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Service Professor and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion Center at Emory University. He has published 220 articles, 15 journal symposia and 26 books, including recently "Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment" and "Sex, Marriage and Family Life in John Calvin???s Geneva." With major funding from the Pew, Ford, Lilly, Luce, and McDonald foundations, Witte has directed 12 major international research projects on democracy, human rights and religious liberty, and on marriage, family and children. He has been selected 11 times by Emory law students as the Most Outstanding Professor and has won dozens of other awards and prizes for his teaching and research. In 2012 he served as the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library's John W. Kluge Center. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5943 | 9/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 84 | VideoThe Quest for the New in Latin American Culture: Fashion & Newspapers in the 19th Century | Kluge Fellow Victor Goldgel-Carballo analyzes the impact that periodicals (new media) and fashion (defined as a pattern of cyclical renovation) had upon Argentine, Chilean, and Cuban culture during the first decades of that century, in order to trace the concept of the new. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5962 | 11/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 85 | VideoThe Ike Age: Eisenhower, America & the World of the 1950s | Historian Will Hitchcock explores America's place in the world and President Eisenhower's leadership during the tumultuous 1950s. Speaker Biography: Will Hitchcock was the 2012 Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. A professor of history at the University of Virginia and a senior scholar at the Miller Center for Public Policy, Hitchcock has written widely on Cold War trans-Atlantic relations and European international affairs in the post-World War II era. He spent six months at the Library of Congress researching his book, "The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5978 | 11/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 86 | VideoIllustrated Books of the 15th & 16th Centuries | Using the Lessing Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress, one of the richest collections of European illustrated books of the 15th and 16th centuries in United States, Ilaria Andreoli shows how images circulated from books to other media and how techniques and printing traveled as well. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5982 | 11/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 87 | VideoWhat's in a Name? The Ghetto Comes to America | The term "ghetto" was first applied to overcrowded Jewish quarters in late nineteenth-century American cities like New York and Chicago. Over the course of the next century the word was thoroughly Americanized and primarily associated with urban segregation in the United States. Daniel Schwartz illustrates the word's diverse history, use and meaning. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5984 | 11/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 88 | VideoHaiti's Environmental History, 1492-Today | Jean-Francois Mouhot (Marie Curie Fellow) discusses Haiti's long history of environmental problems long before the 2010 earthquake. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5987 | 11/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 89 | VideoPresent at the Creation? Human Rights, NGOs & the Trusteeship Debate at the 1945 UN San Francisco Conference | Historian Elizabeth Borgwardt discusses human rights, non-governmental organizations, and the trusteeship debate at the 1945 United Nations Conference on International Organization. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5988 | 11/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 90 | VideoMagical Realism in Russia: How Ancestry Worship, Shamanism & Christianity Shaped the Nation | Oksana Marafioti, Black Mountain Fellow, explores the effects of folk belief and religion on Russian culture, the fascinating relationship between the people of that region and their past, and the connection the Russian complex faith systems might have with Magical Realism as a genre as well as a mindset. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5951 | 11/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 91 | VideoJack Kemp: A Congressman Who Changed America | A discussion on Jack Kemp's congressional career, leadership and influence on the Republican Party and the nation. Speaker Biography: Morton Kondracke has covered all phases of American politics and foreign policy as both a print and broadcast journalist. He recently retired, after 20 years, as executive editor and columnist for the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call; he remains with the publication as senior editor. From 1977 to 1991, he was executive editor and senior editor of The New Republic. He also served as Washington bureau chief of Newsweek and as a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He was a regular panelist on "This Week with David Brinkley" and a panelist in the 1984 presidential debate. For 16 years, Kondracke was also a panelist on the syndicated public affairs show "The McLaughlin Group," and he has been a commentator on Fox News Channel since 1996. Kondracke held the Jack Kemp Chair in Political Economy at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5944 | 11/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 92 | VideoJews & New Christians in Portuguese Asia 1500-1700 | Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South, discusses how the first Portuguese voyage to India in 1497 coincided with the Portuguese attempt to forcibly convert its Jewish residents in the kingdom. Speaker Biography: Sanjay Subrahmanyam is an Indian historian and the holder of Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History at UCLA which he joined in 2004. In 2012, Subrahmanyam won the Infosys Prize for Humanities for his path-breaking contribution to history. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6008 | 12/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 93 | VideoWhat Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China | A discussion of what preoccupied Chinese and Western survivors of one of the most brutal civil wars in human history. Speaker Biography: Tobie Meyer-Fong, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the department of History at Johns Hopkins University, received her bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1989 and her doctoral degree from Stanford University in 1998 For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5997 | 12/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 94 | VideoStudent Rights & the School Environment from a Jurisprudential Perspective | Kluge Fellow J.C. Blokhuis discusses the constitutional rights of students. J.C. Blokhuis is assistant professor of social development studies at Renison University College. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6004 | 12/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 95 | VideoBolivar: American Liberator | Author and journalist Marie Arana discusses the adventurous and volatile life of Simon Bolivar, who famously liberated much of Latin America from Spain. Speaker Biography: Marie Arana is an author, editor, journalist, and member of the Scholars Council at the Library of Congress. She was born in Peru, the daughter of Jorge Arana, a Peruvian born civil engineer, and Marie Campbell Arana, she moved with her family to the United States at the age of 9, achieved her B.A. in Russian at Northwestern University, her M.A. in linguistics at Hong Kong University, a certificate of scholarship at Yale University in China, and began her career in book publishing, where she was vice president and senior editor at Harcourt Brace and Simon & Schuster. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6010 | 12/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 96 | VideoResisting Imperialism, Resisting Decolonization: Making China from the Ruins of the Qing, 1912-1949 | Kenneth Pomeranz discusses the development of China in the early part of the 20th Century. Speaker Biography: American Historical Association President Kenneth Pomeranz is professor of History at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6019 | 12/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 97 | VideoAnother Dimension of Empire: The History of the Oxford University Press | Roger W. Louis discusses the history of the Oxford University Press. Speaker Biography: Roger W. Louis is a distinguished historian at the University of Texas at Austin. Louis is editor-in-chief of "The Oxford History of the British Empire," the former president of the American Historical Association, the former chairman of the U.S. Department of State Historical Advisory Committee, and the founding director of the American Historical Association's National History Center in Washington, D.C. Louis received a B.A. at the University of Oklahoma, M.A. at Harvard University, and D.Phil. at Oxford University. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6024 | 12/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 98 | VideoPrior to Lenin: U.S. Diplomacy & Western Explorers in Early-20th-Century Mongolia | Kluge Fellow Uranchimeg Tsultem discusses U.S. diplomacy and Western explorers in early 20th century Mongolia. Speaker Biography: Uranchimeg Tsultem is a specialist in the art of Mongolia and Tibet. She worked extensively on the modern art of Mongolia prior to her present Ph.D. studies at the University of California, Berkeley. As an assistant professor at the Mongolian University of Arts and Culture (1995-2002), she curated Mongolian art exhibitions in Tsukuba, Japan (1997), New York (2000), and Bonn, Germany (2001), among others, and published on Mongolian modern art. For captions, transcript, and more information visithttp://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6025 | 12/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 99 | VideoThe Longevity of Human Civilization (2 of 4) | Will the longevity of human civilization on Earth be imperiled, or enhanced, by our world-changing technologies? Scientists, humanists, journalists and science-fiction authors convened to answer this question in a daylong symposium. The panel, "Living with Ourselves: Can We Form a Healthy, Stable, Long-term Relationship with Technology and the Biosphere?," includes speakers Seth Shostak, Andrew Revkin, Ken Caldeira and Jacob Haqq-Misra. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6073 | 12/20/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 100 | VideoThe Longevity of Human Civilization (3 of 4) | Will the longevity of human civilization on Earth be imperiled, or enhanced, by our world-changing technologies? Scientists, humanists, journalists and science-fiction authors convened to answer this question in a daylong symposium. The panel, "Living with Ourselves: Can We Form a Healthy, Stable, Long-term Relationship with Technology and the Biosphere?," includes speakers Seth Shostak, Andrew Revkin, Ken Caldeira and Jacob Haqq-Misra. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6074 | 12/20/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 101 | VideoThe Longevity of Human Civilization (4 of 4) | Will the longevity of human civilization on Earth be imperiled, or enhanced, by our world-changing technologies? Scientists, humanists, journalists and science-fiction authors convened to answer this question in a daylong symposium. The panel, "Living with Ourselves: Can We Form a Healthy, Stable, Long-term Relationship with Technology and the Biosphere?," includes speakers Seth Shostak, Andrew Revkin, Ken Caldeira and Jacob Haqq-Misra. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6075 | 12/20/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 102 | VideoThe Longevity of Human Civilization (1 of 4) | Will the longevity of human civilization on Earth be imperiled, or enhanced, by our world-changing technologies? Scientists, humanists, journalists and science-fiction authors convened to answer this question in a daylong symposium. The panel, "Living with Ourselves: Can We Form a Healthy, Stable, Long-term Relationship with Technology and the Biosphere?," includes speakers Seth Shostak, Andrew Revkin, Ken Caldeira and Jacob Haqq-Misra. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6072 | 12/20/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 103 | VideoNo Evil Shall Escape My Sight: Fredric Wertham & the Anti-Comics Crusade | Kluge Fellow Chris Bishop discusses Fredric Wertham and the anti-comics campaign of the 1950s. For transcript, captions and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6132 | 1/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 104 | VideoSea Monsters on Medieval & Renaissance Maps | A discussion on the representations of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps. Sep. 5, 2013 Speaker Biography: Chet Van Duzer, a fellow at the John Carter Brown Library, is an independent scholar focusing on the history of cartography and historical geography, and his articles have appeared in Terrae Incognitae, Imago Mundi, Orbis Terrarum, and Geographical. His monograph on Johann Schoner's terrestrial globe of 1515 was recently published by the American Philosophical Society, and he has a book about sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps. For transcript, captions and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6160 | 1/31/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 105 | VideoTerra Sapiens: The Human Chapter in the History of Earth | David Grinspoon examines choices facing humanity as we enter the Anthropocene Era, the epoch when human activities are becoming a defining characteristic of the physical nature and functioning of Earth. Oct. 31, 2013. Speaker Biography: David Grinspoon is the inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/LC Chair in Astrobiology. For transcript, captions and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6183 | 1/31/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 106 | VideoSearching for Life in the Universe: What Does it Mean for Humanity? | The outgoing and incoming Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chairs in Astrobiology -- David H. Grinspoon and Steven J. Dick -- discuss the societal implications of the search for life in the universe, Jan. 28, 2014. Speaker Biography: David H. Grinspoon held the inaugural astrobiology chair position at the Library of Congress from November 2012 to October 2013. His successful tenure included a day-long symposium on the longevity of human civilization and speaking appearances at the Library, NASA headquarters, NASA Goddard Research Center, the Philosophical Society of Washington, the Carnegie Institute, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Grinspoon's research at the Library of Congress examined the history of the Earth from an astrobiological perspective, and the consequences for life on Earth in the "Anthropocene Era," the name given by some scientists to the current era in the Earth's history. An internationally known planetary scientist, funded by NASA to study the evolution of Earth-like planets elsewhere in the universe, Grinspoon serves as an adviser to NASA on space-exploration strategy. He is involved with many space missions and is a trained suborbital astronaut. He has been published widely in popular magazines, scholarly journals, and blogs. Speaker Biography: Steven J. Dick is an a well-known astronomer, author, and historian of science. His research at the Library of Congress investigates the human consequences of searching and potentially discovering life beyond Earth. Dick most recently testified before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology about astrobiology and the search for bio-signatures in our solar system. Prior to holding the astrobiology chair at the Kluge Center, he was the chair in aerospace history at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. He served as the chief historian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from 2003 to 2009. For more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6194 | 2/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 107 | VideoImagining the Equator: Commemorative Geodesic Science in the Andes, 18th-20th Centuries | Nov. 7, 2013. How have scientific expeditions in Ecuador from the 18th century through the 20th century affected Ecuador's national identity? For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6198 | 2/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 108 | VideoGraphic Satire, Paper Money & the Art of Engraving in Britain, 1797-1821 | Nov. 14, 2013. Amanda Lahikainen demonstrates how graphic satires and satirical banknotes reflected and helped produce the changing cultures of paper money and engraving during the Bank Restriction Period (1797-1821). Speaker Biography: Art historian Amanda Lahikainen, a fellow at the John W. Kluge Center, has spent the past six months as a scholar-in-residence is looking at the ways in which print artists in England satirized the introduction of paper money and the ways in which art may have helped enable paper money to become normalized in society more broadly. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6213 | 3/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 109 | VideoEnglish Colonialism & Piracy from the Atlantic to the Pacific | Aug. 1, 2013. Patricia O'Brien discusses English colonialism and piracy. Speaker Biography: Patricia O'Brien is the current Kislak Fellow for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas at the Kluge Center and a Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University. She is the first full-time faculty member for the Center of Australian and New Zealand Studies, where her research focuses on Australian history, the colonial history of the Pacific, and British imperial history. Currently she is working on histories of Australian imperial relations in the colonies of Papua and New Guinea, New Zealand colonial relations with Samoa and British colonialism, privateers and indigenous contact in the Caribbean. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6219 | 3/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 110 | VideoModernism, African Literature & the CIA | June 13, 2013. Peter Kalliney examines why the CIA sponsored post-colonial African writers in 1960s Africa. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6220 | 3/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 111 | VideoA Teacher's Guide to Education Law | Dec. 11, 2013. J.C. Blokhuis and Jonathan Feldman discuss their new book on education law designed for an audience of educators. Speaker Biography: J.C. Blokhuis is a 2013 Kluge Fellow and assistant professor of social development studies at Renison University College and University of Waterloo. Speaker Biography: Jonathan Feldman is a Senior Attorney with the Empire Justice Center, and recently served as a Visiting Clinical Professor at Cornell University Law School. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6216 | 3/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 112 | VideoEthics, Politics & Institutions: A Moral Vocabulary for Modern Democracy | Jan. 23, 2014. Robin Lovin discusses how to re-introduce a moral vocabulary into contemporary politics. Speaker Biography: Robin W. Lovin is 2013 Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library's John W. Kluge Center. He became director of research at the Center of Theological Inquiry in July 2013, has served as Project Leader of CTI's three-year interdisciplinary research project on new approaches in theological inquiry, and was co-leader of CTI's inquiry on theology and international law. Lovin is the Cary Maguire University Professor of Ethics emeritus at Southern Methodist University. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6217 | 3/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 113 | VideoPhotos of F. Holland Day: Developing a Materials-Based Catalog Raisonne | Sep. 19, 2013. The Library holds the largest collection of photographs by F. Holland Day in the world, a gift from his estate spanning his career and comprising six hundred and ninety prints. The methodology for acquiring material information and the results of paper texture analysis, a new technique in field of conservation, as well as new findings pertaining to Day's working methods are discussed. Speaker Biography: Adrienne Lundgren is a senior photograph conservator in the Conservation Division of the Library of Congress. In 2012 she was awarded the Kluge Staff Fellowship by The John W. Kluge Center, which is given to one staff member annually to conduct independent research using the Library's resources and collections. Prior to joining the Library in 2002, she was a fellow in the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. She holds an M.S. in conservation from the Winterthur-University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6236 | 3/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 114 | VideoReal Realpolitik: A History | April 10, 2014. John Bew argues that real realpolitik is ripe for excavation and rediscovery as it undergoes a renaissance in the English-speaking world. Bew argues that the original concept of 'realpolitik' is still relevant to the challenges of the 21st century. Its use in the English language provides a window into the soul of Anglo-American political culture. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6285 | 6/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 115 | VideoRealpolitik & American Exceptionalism | March 27, 2014. Robert Kagan and John Bew discuss how America positions itself in the world in the 21st-century. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6296 | 7/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 116 | VideoAstrobiology & Theology: A Discussion | June 18, 2014. Discoveries of new, potentially habitable worlds beyond our solar system raise challenging questions for humanity vis-a-vis faith, human nature, reality and religion. This discussion addresses the complex intersection of astrobiology and theology as part of the Kluge Center's astrobiology program. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6330 | 8/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 117 | VideoJascha Heifetz, Iconic Violinist | April 16, 2014. Three Heifetz experts discuss the life and legacy of the great twentieth-century Russian-American violinist. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6351 | 9/12/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 118 | VideoThe Myth of Wilderness: What's Left to Save & What Never Existed | June 5, 2014. The notion of wilderness as a pristine natural environment untouched by human activity is a powerful narrative in discourses of global climate change and literature. The wilderness conjures up feeling of nostalgia, tranquility, and a desire for active conservation. But has wilderness truly ever existed? And what role do both the realities and myths of human interaction with the wild have in framing human thoughts about place, time, and history? Astrobiologist David Grinspoon and literary scholar Charlotte Rogers discuss how these ideas impact their research in both the scientific study of the history of the Earth and the history of literature about the Amazonian rainforest. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6504 | 11/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 119 | VideoMourning El Dorado: The Closing of the Amazonian Frontier in Contemporary South American Fiction | June 19, 2014. Kluge Fellow Charlotte Rogers discusses how literary works from Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Guyana reinvent the myth of a fabulous city of gold, known as "El Dorado," in today's world, and how in the wake of deforestation and settlement in the Amazon river basin, current writers nostalgically mourn for a time when the region was seen as a place of potential wealth and opportunity. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6519 | 11/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 120 | VideoDecolonization & the Nation-State: Reflections on the 1958 Referendum in French West Africa | July 22, 2014. Elizabeth Schmidt discussed why the people of Guinea voted "no" in a referendum on a new French constitution in 1958. Speaker Biography: Elizabeth Schmidt is professor of history at Loyola University, Maryland. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6528 | 11/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 121 | VideoThe Gospel Sensibility: Evangelicals, Modernity & Sacred Song in American Experience | Aug. 14, 2014. Kluge Fellow Douglas Harrison examines the history, performance culture and role of southern gospel music within evangelical Christian experiences. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6534 | 11/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 122 | VideoSpies, Allies & Murder? The Ominous Origins of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Hanoi's Postcolonial War | July 16, 2014. Lien-Hang Nguyen explores the origins of the planning in Hanoi for the 1968 Tet Offensive. Speaker Biography: Lien-Hang Nguyen is author of "Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam." For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6530 | 11/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 123 | VideoPreparing for Discovery: The Impact of Finding Life Beyond Earth (Morning, Day 1) | Sept. 18, 2014. Morning Session. Kluge Center Astrobiology Chair Steven Dick convenes scientists, historians, philosophers and theologians from around the world for a two-day symposium at the Library of Congress to explore how we prepare to face new knowledge that may challenge our very conceptions of life and our place in the universe. Day 1/morning speakers included Mary Voytek, Hon. Lamar Smith, Seth Shostak, Clement Vidal, Iris Fry, Carol Cleland, Dirk Schulze Makuch, Lori Marino, Carlos Mariscal, John Traphagan and Douglas Vakoch. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6574 | 12/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 124 | VideoArt from War: Documenting Devastation/Realizing Restoration | Jan. 22, 2015. Larson Fellow Tara Tappert discusses how different artistic approaches to the experiences of war trauma can be traced to the devastations of the First World War. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6638 | 3/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 125 | VideoMapping New World Peoples in Renaissance Europe | Dec. 3, 2014. Kislak Fellow Surekha Davies discusses how Renaissance mapmakers devised distinctive motifs for the inhabitants of different parts of the Americas. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6643 | 3/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 126 | VideoB.R. Ambedkar: The Life of the Mind & a Life in Politics | Dec. 2, 2014. Ananya Vajpeyi presents a biography and intellectual history of B.R. Ambedkar, politician, jurist and principal architect of the constitution of India. Speaker Biography: Ananya Vajpeyi is an intellectual historian based at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and a Kluge Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6653 | 3/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 127 | VideoThe Swastika Epidemic: Jewish Politics & Human Rights in the 1960s | Dec. 11, 2014. James Loeffler discusses the outbreak of global antisemitism in 1960 that prompted a United Nations investigation, resulting in the creation of the world's first international law against racism and the new ideological charge: "Zionism is racism." Speaker Biography: James Loeffler is a John W. Kluge Center Fellow at the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6658 | 3/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 128 | VideoAmerican Centuries: Henry Wallace, Herbert Hoover & Cold War America's Rise in the World | Dec. 4, 2014. Kevin Kim discusses how Henry Wallace and Herbert Hoover challenged and often transformed America's experiences in the Cold War. Speaker Biography: Kevin Kim is a senior lecturer in history at Vanderbilt University and 2014 Jameson Fellow in American History at the John W. Kluge Center. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6652 | 3/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 129 | VideoHow the Discovery of Life Beyond Earth will Transform Our Thinking | Oct. 30, 2014. Steven Dick discusses his year of research on astrobiology at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in his final lecture as chair. Speaker Biography: Steven Dick is the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology. or transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6644 | 3/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 130 | VideoVáclav Havel's Legacy Today (Part 1) | Nov. 19, 2014. A special conference commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution and its key figure, Václav Havel, who later became president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. Speakers included Michael Zantovsky, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Sen. John McCain. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6671 | 4/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 131 | VideoVáclav Havel's Legacy Today (Part 2) | Nov. 19, 2014. A special conference commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution and its key figure, Václav Havel, who later became president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. Speakers included Martin Palous, Mark Rosenberg, Carl Gershman, Jan Svejnar and Jan Machacek. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6670 | 4/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 132 | VideoFamily Matters: Testing Paternity in the 20th Century | March 17, 2015. Long before daytime television and celebrity tabloids, scientists from around the world sought to develop a test of biological paternity. Nara Milanich offered a social and cultural history that traces parentage testing from its origins in the 1920s to the present. She explored how and why identity and descent first became scientific problems and the consequences of testing for men, women, and children, states and societies, kinship and citizenship. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6686 | 4/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 133 | VideoAstrobiology & the Religious Imagination: Reexamining Notions of Creation, Humanity, Selfhood & the Cosmos | March 19, 2015. Part one of a three-part dialogue series that will convene scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars and writers from across the country and around the world to investigate the intersection of astrobiology research with humanistic and societal concerns. Speaker Biography: Steven Benner is a distinguished Fellow at the Foundation For Applied Molecular Evolution. Speaker Biography: John Hart is a professor of Christian Ethics at Boston University. Speaker Biography: Susannah Heschel is an Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Speaker Biography: Pamela Klassen is a professor of the study of religion at University of Toronto. Speaker Biography: Donald S. Lopez Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetian Studies at the University of Michigan. Speaker Biography: Jonathan Lunine is the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences at Cornell University. Speaker Biography: Ebrahim Moosa is a professor of Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6690 | 4/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 134 | VideoThe Indians' Capital City: Native Histories of Washington DC | April 2, 2015. Kluge Fellow Joseph Genetin-Pilawa presents part of his larger study of the Indigenous histories of Washington, D.C. Genetin-Pilawa argues that far from the passive victims or violent interlopers depicted in much of the iconography of the capital, visiting Native diplomats and as well as residents in the 19th and 20th centuries engaged with the messages encoded on the urban landscape. In so doing, they challenged narratives of settler colonialism, claimed and reclaimed the space of the city, and shaped the development of the US capital as it evolved from a local village to a global metropolis. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6706 | 5/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 135 | VideoScholarfest S4: War/Peace: Perspectives on the Concept of World Order from Former Kissinger Chairs | June 11, 2015. As part of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, five 10-minute rapid-fire "lightning conversations" (followed by 30 minutes of moderated Q&A) covered perspectives on the concept of world order from former Kissinger chairs at the Center. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6744 | 6/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 136 | VideoScholarfest S2: Life/Past: How We Write About Those Who Came Before Us | June 11, 2015. As part of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, seven 10-minute rapid-fire "lightning conversations" (followed by 20 minutes of moderated Q&A) covered how we write about those who came before us. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6746 | 6/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 137 | VideoScholarfest S3: Life/Present: Personal & Cultural Identity in a Multicultural World | June 11, 2015. As part of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, seven 10-minute rapid-fire "lightning conversations" (followed by 20 minutes of moderated Q&A) covered the topic of personal and cultural identity in a multicultural world. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6747 | 6/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 138 | VideoScholarfest S1: Life/Future: Definitions of Life in the 21st Century & Beyond | June 11, 2015. As part of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, seven 10-minute rapid-fire "lightning conversations" (followed by 20 minutes of moderated Q&A) covered definitions of life in the 21st century and beyond. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6745 | 6/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 139 | VideoScholarfest S5: Right/Wrong: Perspectives on Notions & Morality | June 11, 2015. As part of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, five 10-minute rapid-fire "lightning conversations," followed by 30 minutes of moderated Q+A, covered perspectives on notions and morality. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6749 | 7/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 140 | VideoScholarfest: Reflections: Looking Back, Looking Forward | June 11, 2015. As part of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, two former Kluge Center directors reflect on the its past and examine its future. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6748 | 7/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 141 | VideoScholarfest S6: Freedom of Expression & Why it Matters | June 11, 2015. As the finale of the two-day celebration of the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, six leading scholars discuss why freedom of expression matters. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6750 | 7/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 142 | VideoTen Meters Down: Moral Depth in a Chinese Tomb | April 23, 2015. In 2006, tomb robbers in Shaanxi discovered what is now recognized as the most complete 11th century family cemetery ever found in China. In his talk, Jeffrey Moser considers the depth of burial as a matter of moral practice, human labor and the horizon of memory. Speaker Biography: Jeffrey Moser is a Kluge Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6772 | 9/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 143 | VideoScholarfest: Evening Gala | More than 70 scholars descend on Capitol Hill for a lively mixture of rapid-fire dialogues, panels and scholarly conversations to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Center. The opening proceedings bring two former Kluge Prize recipients together in a discussion moderated by Kluge Center director Jane McAuliffe. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6768 | 9/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 144 | VideoNavigating the Blood-Dimmed Tides: Was U.S. Military Intervention in the First World War Worth the Cost? | May 7, 2015. As the centennial of U.S. entry into WWI approaches, Bradford Lee performs a Clausewitzian critical analysis of how the U.S. waged war and negotiated peace from 1917 to 1919, and whether the value of victory was worth the costs of achieving it. Speaker Biography: Bradford Lee is Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6770 | 9/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 145 | VideoShedding Light on Antiquity: The Forensic Imaging and Study of Ancient, Medieval and Modern Manuscripts | April 9, 2015. A lecture by Michael Toth on the forensic imaging and study of ancient, medieval and modern manuscripts, followed by a roundtable discussion. Speaker Biography: Michael Toth is president of R.B. Toth Associates. Speaker Biography: John Hessler is curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: William Noel is with the University of Pennsylvania. Speaker Biography: Chet Van Duzer is a John Carter Brown Research Fellow. Speaker Biography: Fenella France is chief of the Research and Testing Division of the Preservation Directorate at the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6771 | 9/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 146 | VideoThe Digital Traces of User-generated Content: How Social Media Data May Become the Historical Sources of the Future | May 14, 2015. Katrin Weller argues that big data from social media and online communication channels are valuable sources which need to be understood now in order to be preserved effectively for future historians. Speaker Biography: Katrin Weller is one of two inaugural Kluge Fellows in Digital Studies at the Library of Congress. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6775 | 9/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 147 | VideoRethinking Life on Earth & Beyond: Astrobiology and the Role of Paradigm Shifts in Science & Human Self-Understanding | May 28, 2015. Part two of a three-part dialogue series that will convene scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars and writers from across the country and around the world to investigate the intersection of astrobiology research with humanistic and societal concerns. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6818 | 10/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 148 | VideoMadeleine Albright & Colin Powell: Finding Shared Values for U.S. Foreign Policy | July 8, 2015. Ann Compton moderates a discussion by former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell on U.S. foreign policy. The presentation was the inaugural event of a five-year lecture series sponsored by the Library's Kluge Center and the Daniel K. Inouye Institute on themes that reflect Sen. Inouye's legacy of public service and civic engagement. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6842 | 10/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 149 | VideoConferral of the 6th Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity | Sep. 29, 2015. The 6th John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity was awarded to Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor at this ceremony. The Kluge Prize celebrates the importance of the study of humanity and recognizes individuals whose outstanding scholarship in the humanities and social sciences has shaped both public affairs and civil society. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6855 | 10/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 150 | VideoPublicity, Celebrity, Fashion: Photographing Edna St. Vincent Millay | -- | 10/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 151 | VideoBefore Trauma: Nostalgia, or the Melancholy of War | July 30, 2015. Kluge Fellow Thomas Dodman discusses 18th and 19th century psychological designations of the impact of mass warfare on the human psyche -- a predecessor of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- and insights into the inner, emotional lives of common people at the dawn of the modern age. Speaker Biography: Thomas Dodman is assistant professor of history at Boston College and an affiliate scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in history with distinction from the University of Chicago, and his M.A. and B.A. from University College London. Prior to his position at Boston College, he was an assistant professor at George Mason University, as well as a teacher and lecturer at Sans Po Paris and University of Chicago. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6856 | 10/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 152 | VideoDecolonization & the Sexual Revolution | July 15. 2015. Historian Todd Shepard examines public debates about sex in France during the 1960s and 70s, and explores how what made this so-called revolution "French," rather than "Western" or "late modern." Part of the 10th International Seminar on Decolonization. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6870 | 10/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 153 | VideoStories about Life in the Cosmos: Historical, Cultural, and Artistic Perspectives on Astrobiology | Aug. 6, 2015. Part three of the three-part Blumberg Dialogues on Astrobiology series that convenes scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars and writers from across the country and around the world to investigate the intersection of astrobiology research with humanistic and societal concerns. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6879 | 10/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 154 | VideoUnsettled: Refugee Camps in Britain from the Suez Crisis to Idi Amin | July 22, 2015. Historian Jordanna Bailkin examines two sets of British camps that served the refugees of decolonization: Anglo-Egyptians in 1956 and Ugandan Asians in 1972. Part of the 10th International Seminar on Decolonization. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6877 | 10/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 155 | VideoThe Popularization of Islamic Mysticism in Medieval Egypt | Jan. 15, 2015. Nathan Hofer summarizes his book on Sufism (Islamic mysticism). Sufism came to extraordinary prominence in Egypt after the 12th century. By the middle of the 14th century, Sufism had become massively popular. How and why did this popularization happen? Hofer's book is the first to address this issue directly, surveying the social formation and histories of several different Sufi collectivities from this period. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6878 | 12/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 156 | VideoRevisiting Arguments Advanced in the Declining Significance of Race | May 21, 2015. In his controversial book, "The Declining Significance of Race" (1978), scholar William Julius Wilson featured two major underlying themes: the effect of fundamental economic and political shifts on the changing relative importance of race and class as a determinant of a black person's life trajectory, and the swing in the concentration of racial conflict from the economic sector to the sociopolitical order. Wilson reflects on these themes and their application to more recent developments in American race and ethnic relations involving not only African Americans but also other groups, including whites and Latinos. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6784 | 12/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 157 | VideoDiaghilev's Time Travelling Italian Scores | April 30, 2015. Elia Corazza investigates the collaboration between Serge Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes, and Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6805 | 12/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 158 | VideoIntangible Information Costs of Real and Digital Property | Aug. 13, 2015. Wendy Fok discussed her investigation of computational innovation and ethical/equitable application of technical methods, including issues of intellectual property law, ownership and authorship, and the property rights in digital fabrication and commodisation for architecture and the built environment. Fok addressed the intersection of digital technology, especially in the realm of architecture, law, and the rapid advances in these fields that are creating areas of conflict. Speaker Biography: Wendy W. Fok is Kluge Fellow in Digital Studies. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7107 | 2/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 159 | VideoImminence of Estrangement & Liability of Inner Emigration | Oct. 15, 2015. Distinguished visiting scholar Sreten Ugričić discusses the tensions between self-censorship and inner emigration, a form of political disassociation and dissidence, under totalitarian regimes. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7126 | 2/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 160 | VideoFrom Gospel to Law: The Lutheran Reformation & its Impact on Law, Politics & Society | Nov. 5, 2015. Legal scholar John Witte Jr. discussed how the Protestant Reformation transformed not only theology and the church but also law and the state. Drawing on new biblical and classical learning, Protestant theologians and jurists brought sweeping changes to constitutional order, criminal law, family law, and the laws of education and social welfare. This lecture, offered in anticipation of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's Reformation, explored the Reformation's enduring impact, for better or worse, on Western life, law and learning. Speaker Biography: John Witte Jr. is Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North and Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7131 | 2/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 161 | VideoThe Politics of Catastrophe & the Declaration of World War I | Dec. 10, 2015. As members of Congress gathered in April 1917 to decide whether to declare war on Germany, some legislators arrived with battle scars. For Civil War veterans, the memory of that catastrophic war would inform their understanding of a new conflict. Historian Mary Dudziak revealed what it would take to generate sufficient support to enter a faraway war: a politics of catastrophe. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7140 | 2/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 162 | VideoThe Last Mission: The Legacy of a Lost World War II Bomber Crew | Dec. 17, 2015. Journalist and author Gregg Jones reconstructed the lives and times of ten airmen aboard U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator 41-23711, Jerk's Natural, which disappeared over Austria on October 1, 1943. Jones traced the lives of the fallen servicemen, situates them within a larger story of air combat deaths in Europe in the summer and fall of 1943, and tells of his own personal journeys to the village in southern Austria where the men disappeared. Through his encounters in Austria and communities across America, Jones drew a portrait of the lingering impact of war and the ordeal of "ambiguous loss" and "unresolved grief" experienced by the loved ones of the missing crew. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7142 | 2/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 163 | VideoThe Depth of the Challenge: Why Force Alone Will Not Defeat Islamist Extremism | Dec. 3, 2015. Tony Blair delivered the 7th Kissinger Lecture at the Library in the John W. Kluge Center. Blair spoke on the strategies to defeat Islamist extremism. The address was followed by a moderated discussion with Martin Indyk. Speaker Biography: Tony Blair served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. Speaker Biography: Martin Indyk is the vice president and director for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7159 | 3/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 164 | VideoImages of the Earth in American Children's Books | Sep. 17, 2015. German Fellow Sibylle Machat has spent months at the Kluge Center researching images of planet Earth in American children's books from 1843 to the present. How Earth looks from space is well-known today; satellite imagery of the planet is now a part of our collective consciousness. But before public access to photographic representations of Earth, how the planet appeared from space was collectively imagined through the imagery in children's books. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7201 | 4/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 165 | VideoMigration, Asylum & the Role of the State: Defining Boundaries, Redefining Borders | Nov. 12, 2015. Three fellows at the Library's John W. Kluge Center discussed the role of the state in establishing geographic, technological and bureaucratic controls over the flow of peoples, cultures and beliefs across borders. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7223 | 4/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 166 | Video The Struggle for Fairness: National Origin Quotas and the Immigration Act of 1965 | Oct. 8, 2015. On the 50th anniversary of Immigration Amendments Act of 1965, Ruth Wasem discusses the history of the legislative drive to end race- and nationality-based immigration, from World War II to the passage of the Act, and the importance of the effort in defining the nation that America is today. Following the lecture, two distinguished scholars of immigration, Susan F. Martin and Marta Tienda, provide commentary and discussion. Speaker Biography: Ruth Wasem is Kluge Staff Fellow and a domestic policy specialist in the Library's Congressional Research Service. Speaker Biography: Susan F. Martin is Donald G. Herzberg professor of international migration and director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. Speaker Biography: Marta Tienda is Morris P. During Professor in demographic studies, professor of sociology and public affairs, and director of the program in Latino studies at Princeton University. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7245 | 5/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 167 | VideoImagining the Amazon: European Colonialism & the Making of Modern-Day Amazonia | Jan. 14, 2016. Kluge Fellow Anna Browne Ribeiro describes European accounts of travel in Amazonia, depicting a savage and wondrous place. Over the centuries, travel writing fed into Enlightenment thought and vice versa, never losing its fantastical qualities, until Amazonia was transformed into a modern global icon: the relict, sparsely populated virgin forest of a bygone era. Ribeiro examines how, in spite of archaeological evidence that counters this narrative, the language of colonialism shaped, and continues to shape, how the Amazon and Amazonian peoples are depicted, conceptualized, and most importantly, managed. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7281 | 6/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 168 | VideoAbraham Lincoln, the U.S. Supreme Court & the Politics of Slavery | Feb. 18, 2016. In his "House Divided" speech, Abraham Lincoln accused Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan and Senator Stephen Douglas of a conspiracy to perpetuate slavery in the United States. According to Lincoln, this conspiracy took form in the 1857 Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, which excluded African Americans from U.S. citizenship. Kluge Fellow Rachel Shelden re-examines Lincoln's conspiracy charge in the context of how the federal political system -- and particularly the Supreme Court -- operated in the mid-19th century. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7288 | 6/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 169 | Video Medieval Manuscripts at the Library of Congress | March 31, 2016. Kluge Fellow Ilya Dines discusses his current project to catalogue 150 medieval manuscripts and fragments held by the Library of Congress. He analyzes the importance of the Library's medieval manuscript collection and outlines the role it could play in expanding and deepening understandings of the medieval era. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7313 | 6/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 170 | Video It from Bit: Cross-Cultural & Interdisciplinary Links in Modern Computing | April 21, 2016. Jennifer Baum Sevec identifies cross-cultural and interdisciplinary contributions to modern computing using items from the Library of Congress collections. Baum Sevec leverages the information theory of pioneering physicist John Archibald Wheeler, who proposed that the fundamental significance of existence--the "it from bit"--originates in the information-theoretic source of binary indications or bits. The observer-participant dynamic was an elemental part of Wheeler's theory which will figure into Baum Sevec's analysis. Speaker Biography: Kluge Staff Fellow Jennifer Baum Sevec is head of the U.S. Monographs Section in the Library's Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7311 | 6/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 171 | VideoProtecting National Security & Civil Liberties | April 19, 2016. The second annual Daniel K. Inouye Distinguished Lecture at the Library of Congress featured former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta and former U.S. Sen. Alan K. Simpson, who discussed how the United States balances national security with the protection of Americans' civil liberties. Former White House correspondent Ann Compton, who covered both leaders during their long years of public service, moderated. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7329 | 7/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 172 | VideoAfrican Fiddle & Banjo Echo in Appalachia Lecture | Oct. 1, 2015. Alan Lomax Fellow Cece Conway delivers a multimedia presentation on the instrumental and musical history of Appalachian traditional music, with illustration from African and Appalachian musicians, instruments, videos, sounds and images. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7330 | 7/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 173 | VideoThe Origins of the RNA World | March 17, 2016. Nathaniel Comfort convenes four distinguished scientists on-stage for a live oral history interview about the origins of the RNA world, the world at the dawn of life, before DNA, arising nearly four billion years ago. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7353 | 8/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 174 | VideoHumanity in Crisis: Ethical Responsibilities to People Displaced by War | April 26, 2016. David Hollenbach discusses the number of people displaced by war and other crises, which today is higher than at any time since World War II, and the responsibilities of the U.S., of other nations, and of nongovernmental organizations and religious communities to assist these people. Speaker Biography: David Hollenbach is Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library's John W. Kluge Center. He is the university chair in human rights and international justice at Boston College, where he is also the director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice. He was educated at St. Joseph's University with a B.S. in Physics, and then an M.A. from St. Louis University, and a Ph.D. in Religious Ethics from Yale University. Hollenbach has published extensively on Christian ethics, Christian social ethics, human rights, refugees, contemporary theories of justice and the role of religion in public life. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7360 | 8/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 175 | VideoThe Ruins of Paris, 1871 | June 2, 2016. Much of central Paris was burned during the Franco-Prussian War that saw the death of the Commune. The resulting ruins of Paris at once became a tourist attraction, and the subject of remarkable photographs made for the tourist trade. The novelist Gustave Flaubert came to visit the ruins, and found in them a lesson for his contemporaries: if only they had understood the novel he had published some months earlier, "Sentimental Education," this cataclysmic destruction never could have happened. Peter Brooks explores that cataclysm, and the specific role of photography in the historiography of the moment. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7369 | 8/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 176 | Video Profiles in Statesmanship: 20th Century Breakthroughs for Global Peace, Security & 21st Century Challenges | May 19, 2016. Kissinger Chair Bruce Jentleson looks across five dimensions of global peace and security--major power geopolitics, building international institutions, fostering reconciliation of peoples, advancing freedom and human rights and promoting sustainability. Who were the 20th century world leaders who forged transformational breakthroughs in global peace and security? Why did they make the crucial choices that they did? How did they pursue their goals? What are the lessons for the 21st century global agenda? Jentleson structures the profiles of leaders in a Who-Why-How-What framework to both gain better understanding of key 20th century events and draw lessons for 21st century challenges. Kissinger Chair Bruce Jentleson looks across five dimensions of global peace and security--major power geopolitics, building international institutions, fostering reconciliation of peoples, advancing freedom and human rights and promoting sustainability. Who were the 20th century world leaders who forged transformational breakthroughs in global peace and security? Why did they make the crucial choices that they did? How did they pursue their goals? What are the lessons for the 21st century global agenda? Jentleson structures the profiles of leaders in a Who-Why-How-What framework to both gain better understanding of key 20th century events and draw lessons for 21st century challenges. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7393 | 9/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 177 | VideoThe Kingdom of Jerusalem & War Against the Infidel: 16th-Century Doctrines of Just War & the Origins of the Spanish Empire | June 23, 2016. Kluge Fellow Andrew Devereux examined the legal and moral questions of empire on the threshold of the early modern era by casting light on Spain's expansionary ventures in the Mediterranean basin in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. His talk focused on Spain's Mediterranean expansion, particularly on Spanish designs on the Holy Land and the ways in which the acquisition of the title to the defunct crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem served as the basis for legal arguments justifying war and conquest in a range of lands inhabited by non-Christian peoples. Speaker Biography: Andrew Devereux is assistant professor of history at Loyola Marymount University. He is a historian of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean. Devereux earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, where his dissertation examined Spanish imperial ideologies in the context of the Mediterranean world. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7409 | 10/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 178 | VideoCan Depression Be Cured? New Research on Depression and its Treatments | May 5, 2016. Four medical researchers at the forefront of developing treatments for depression present new findings in a special conference held at the Library's John W. Kluge Center. The program was part of the annual meeting of the Library of Congress Scholars Council. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7417 | 10/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 179 | VideoThe Role of "Law of Nations" in America's Independence | May 12, 2016. Kluge Fellow Theo Christov examines the language of Emer Vattel's "Law of Nations" (1758) and the impact of Vattel on turning the newly rising United States into an international actor and eventual global power. One of the most reliable authorities during the Continental Congress (1774-1789), "Law of Nations" was not only the most consulted book on how to turn dependent British colonies into independent political actors on the international stage; it also marked the Declaration of Independence chiefly as a declaration of interdependence with other major European powers and the Constitution as a powerful statement of international law. Speaker Biography: Theo Christov is assistant professor of history and international affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is also been a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University and received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2008. He is the author of "Before Anarchy: Hobbes and His Critics in Modern International Thought." For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7444 | 10/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 180 | VideoThe American Research University: The Decades Ahead | May 26, 2016. John Sexton, immediate past president of New York University and current Kluge Chair in American Law in Governance, offers his perspective on the future of American higher education. The university has been one of American society's most durable institutions for more than a century -- and the modern research university its most sophisticated presentation. Yet globalization, technology and market forces are likely to reshape the form and function of the research university in the coming decades. What are the relevant forces and what are their likely effects? For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7494 | 11/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 181 | VideoPeace & Concord in the Qur'an | Aug. 18, 2016. This talk by Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South Juan Cole will provide a tour of the irenic messages of the Qur'an. The Muslim scripture, the Qur'an or Koran, has been analyzed a great deal for its ideas on a whole range of subjects, from late antique economic practices to notions of the just war. The literature on its ideas regarding peace, however, is remarkably small. Yet peace is central to this book on a whole range of dimensions, from community relations to inner, mystical composure, to visions of heaven and the world after the Judgment Day. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7500 | 11/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 182 | VideoSouth Korean Government Policies on Prostitution | July 28, 2016. Kluge Fellow Jeong-Mi Park discusses how the South Korean government controlled prostitution catering to servicemen in the last century, in the context of war, military occupation, economic development and globalization. She also reveals the ways in which the Korean government worked to change the perception of sex workers from "dangerous" women into "patriotic" citizens who contribute to national security. Speaker Biography: Jeong-Mi Park earned her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology at Seoul National University. She worked as a research assistant professor at Hanyang University as a historical sociologist. She has analyzed the historical transformations of state policies, citizenship and social movements in South Korea from a perspective of gender and sexuality. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7552 | 12/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 183 | Video Popular Politics & Public Opinion in Late Medieval Paris | July 14, 2016. On Bastille Day, Kluge Fellow Michael Sizer discusses the popular politics of late medieval Paris (1380-1422) and what bearing it may have on the way we understand popular political culture today. The late Middle Ages was one of the most tumultuous periods in European political history, featuring revolts, riots, popular preachers, processions, and other engagements of the people in the political realm that was "unheard of in previous times" according to one chronicler of the period. Speaker Biography: Michael Sizer is a historian with interests in political culture and philosophy, cultural history, interdisciplinary studies of literature and ideas, urban history, and the history of revolt and revolutio. He received his Ph.D. in medieval French history from the University of Minnesota in 2008, and during his graduate studies he was also a fellow at the Sorbonne in Paris. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7515 | 12/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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