Webcasts from the Library of Congress I
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Video webcasts from the Library of Congress, posted prior to August, 2013. Also see "Webcasts from the Library of Congress II" for webcasts posted after August, 2013.
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| 1 | VideoAn Anthropologist Looks Back on Decades Living in the Middle East | April 30, 2014. Andrea Rugh reflects on her years living and working as an anthropologist in the Middle East. Speaker Biography: Andrea Rugh is an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. She has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the American University in Washington. Between 1964 and 1995, she lived in the Middle East region, including three years in the United Arab Emirates. Her publications include four books on Arab society: "Coping with Poverty in a Cairo Community," "Family in Contemporary Egypt," "Reveal and Conceal: Dress in Egypt" and "Within the Circle: Parents and Children in a Syrian Village," plus introductions and English versions of Siham Tergeman's "Daughter of Damascus" and Samir Tahhan's "Folktales of Syria." For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6345 | 9/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoSignificance of the Religious Experience | Howard Wettstein speaks on his new book "The Significance of the Religious Experience." Speaker Biography: Howard Wettstein serves on the faculty of the department of philosophy at University of California, Riverside. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5945 | 11/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoNigerian Writer A. Igoni Barrett | Nigerian writer A. Igoni Barrett reads from his work and discusses the state of contemporary African literature. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5953 | 11/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoA Poetry Reading by Richard Blanco | American poet and teacher Richard Blanco delighted readers with his work. Blanco recited his poem, "One Today" at President Obama's second inauguration. He is the first immigrant, the first Latino, the first openly gay person and the youngest person to be the U.S. poet for a presidential inauguration. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5983 | 11/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoAdvances in Raman Spectroscopy for Analysis of Cultural Heritage Materials | A panel discussion on the advances in Raman Spectroscopy for analysis of cultural heritage materials. Speakers included Lynn Brostoff, Richard Bormett, Silvia Centeno and Marco Leona. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5949 | 11/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoFrom Mecca to Mashhad: A Lithographed Shiite Pilgrimage Scroll from Iran | A Nowruz lecture featuring Ulrich Marzolph speaking about a lithographed Shiite pilgrimage scroll from Qajar, Iran. Speaker Biography: Ulrich Marzolph is an author and professor of Islamic studies at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5948 | 11/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoThe New Generation of Modern Arab Women | Judith Hornok describes a new image of the Arab world, the modern generation of Arab women. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5961 | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | VideoA Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington | U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who was a young civil-rights leader in 1963, opened the photo exhibition "A Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington" at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: Rep. John Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties and building what he calls "The Beloved Community" in America. His dedication to the highest ethical standards and moral principles has won him the admiration of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the U.S. Congress, where he represents Georgia's 5th District. In 1965, Lewis helped spearhead a seminal moment in the civil rights movement: Along with Hosea Williams, Lewis led more than 600 peaceful protesters across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in a demonstration of the need for voting rights in the state. The marchers were attacked by state troopers in a brutal confrontation that became known as "Bloody Sunday." The incident helped hasten passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5960 | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoBecoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language & Culture of Orthodox Judaism | In her book, "Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism," Sarah Bunin Benor describes how newly orthodox Jews have to adopt not only the laws and customs, but also new speech patterns. Speaker Biography: Sarah Bunin Benor is associate professor of contemporary Jewish studies at Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles campus. She is a socio-linguist focusing on the spoken language of American Jews. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5965 | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | VideoMuhammed ibn Dawud: The Man of Our Times & the Abbassid Language of Brotherhood | Jennifer Tobkin discusses Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Isfahani (d. 297/909), compiler of an anthology of poetry called "Kitab al-Zahra" ("The Book of the Flower") and author of some 500 lines of poetry in it as well as commentary on poems by other poets. Ibn Dawud is arguably more famous for the legend that he died from love for a male friend than for any of his own writings. As early as the 11th century, biographical dictionaries such as "Ta'rikh Baghdad" told the story of Ibn Dawud's writing those poems of his which appear in "Kitab al-Zahra" for a man who did not reciprocate Ibn Dawud's feelings for him and eventually dying from this unrequited love. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5969 | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoExploring Cultural Heritage Collections with Viewshare | Viewshare is a free, Library of Congress-sponsored platform that empowers historians, librarians, archivists and curators to create and customize dynamic interfaces to collections of digital content. Viewshare requires no particular technical proficiency, and participants will leave ready to use the application to help understand and provide access to digital collections of cultural heritage materials. Speaker Biography: Camille Salas is a program support assistant with the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program and a recent MLS graduate of the University of Maryland's iSchool. She serves as a technical writer for the Viewshare online service development project. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5970 | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | VideoKnowledge Designers | What turns a Shakespeare scholar into a digital entrepreneur? Katherine Rowe will talk about the opportunities and challenges that led two academics to design an application for social reading: Shakespeare's The Tempest for iPad, published by Luminary Digital Media. This initiative illuminates larger transformations of reading, writing, teaching, and learning that so many of us are experiencing today. Speaker Biography: Katherine Rowe is professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of "Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern" and co-author of "New Wave Shakespeare on Screen." She writes about media history (with an emphasis on performance media), Renaissance cultural history, adaptation as a cultural process, and the digital humanities. She has served on the editorial board of the Shakespeare Quarterly and is a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is also co-founder of Luminary Digital Media (luminary.co), publisher of the Luminary Folger Shakespeare Editions, available in the Apple Store. Speaker Biography: Abby Yochelson is the English and American Literature reference specialist in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Library of Congress. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5973 | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoDevelopment of Transjordan During the 19th Century | Raouf Abujaber discusses the development of Transjordan during the 19th century. Speaker Biography: Raouf Abujaber is a historian of 19th century Transjordan. He obtained his BBA from American University in Beirut, an MA from Jordan University, and PhD. from Oxford University in 1987. He has published eleven books and is the author of over hundred articles in both English and Arabic. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5975 | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | VideoExotic Earths: Progress Towards the Discovery of Inhabited Exoplanets | Avi Mandell discusses how we discover and learn about planets around other stars. Speaker Biography: Avi Mandell is a research scientist in the Planetary Systems Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His research focuses on the formation and evolution of planetary systems and the characterization of extrasolar planets. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5976 | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoLiterary Birthday Celebration: Paul Laurence Dunbar | Poets Holly Bass and Al Young celebrate the birthday of American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar by reading selections from his work and discussing his influence on their own writing. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5981 | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | VideoEl Maratón De Poesia Del Teatro de La Luna | El Maratón De Poesia Del Teatro de La Luna is the only Spanish-language poetry marathon in the country gathering poets together from Latin America. This event is hosted on a yearly basis by the Teatro de la Luna in Arlington, Va., and at the Library of Congress. The poets featured in the 21st marathon included Jorge Miguel Cocom Pech (Mexico), José Eduardo Degrazia (Brazil), Ángela Hernández Núñez (Dominican Republic), Laura Hernández Muñoz (Mexico), Astrid Lander (Venezuela), Emilio Mozo (Cuba), and Nicasio Urbina (Nicaragua). Each year, this event is moderated by poet, and literary critic Rei Berroa (Dominican Republic/United States). For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5574 | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | VideoHow to Find Stuff at the Largest Library in the World | Finding just what you want at a large library can be daunting. Imagine how overwhelming that might be at the largest library in the world. It doesn't have to be. This tutorial video from the Library of Congress shows you how easy finding what you want can be by using subject headings and a helpful librarian. And these tips can be used in any library. | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | VideoA Renaissance Globemaker's Toolbox: Johannes Sch??ner & the Revolution of Modern Science 1475-1550 | John Hessler discusses Renaissance cartographer Johannes Schöner. Speaker Biography: John W. Hessler is senior cartographic reference specialist in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of "The Naming of America: Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 World Map and the Cosmographiae Introductio" (2008), "Thoreau on Cape Cod: His Journeys and the Lost Maps" (2011), and "Seeing the World Anew: The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 and 1516 World Maps" (2012). For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5964 | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | VideoPreserving Your Memories: Traditional & Digital Albums & Scrapbooks | Conservators highlight basic preservation measures one can do at home for long-lasting albums and scrapbooks; enumerate the pros and cons of dismantling old scrapbooks and albums in poor condition; and discuss how to address condition problems. Digital archivists cover preservation considerations for digital scrapbooks and albums. Staff from the Library's Veterans History Project share information on how to participate in the Project. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5954 | 11/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 20 | VideoCarl Gustav Jung & The Red Book (part 1) | "Carl Gustav Jung and the Red Book," an all day symposium, featured presentations by prominent Jungian scholars. Speaker Biography: Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani is a London-based author, editor, and professor at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London WIHM/UCL. Shamdasani works discuss the history of psychiatry and psychology from the mid-nineteenth century to current times. Shamdasani holds a BA from Bristol University, followed by MSc, History of Science and Medicine, University College London/Imperial College and gained his Ph.D. in History of Medicine from WIHM/UCL. Speaker Biography: James Hillman is a psychologist, scholar, international lecturer, pioneer psychologist, and the author of more than twenty books. Hillman has held teaching positions at Yale University, the University of Chicago, Syracuse University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Dallas, where he cofounded the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Speaker Biography: Ann Ulanov is a professor of psychiatry and religion at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She is the author of several books, including Religion and the Spiritual in Carl Jung and The Healing Imagination: The Meeting of Psyche and Soul. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4909 | 8/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 21 | VideoHoneypots and Archive Realism | As the Internet continues to seep into the marrow of our lives, the distinction between libraries, archives, museums, and increasingly, the digital services they seek to collect and preserve continues to blur to the point of collapse. How do we archive the invisible interaction architectures of social websites? How do we archive the relationships and permission models that people form on those websites? How do we meaningfully preserve the increasingly conceptual spaces that define the future now? What are the often overlapping responsibilities of service providers, cultural heritage institutions, and users themselves in this work? Through projects like Parallel-Flickr, Privatesquare, Parallel-o-Gram, and Artisanal Integers, we can attempt to understand these questions and try to prove or disprove theories about how we answer them. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5907 | 7/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | VideoLady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp | Ann Kirschner discussed her new book, "Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5912 | 7/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 23 | VideoLincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History | John Fabian Witt signed and discussed his book, "Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History," which describes Lincoln's development of a code regulating conduct in war whose articles later became the basis for a new international law of war. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5904 | 7/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 24 | VideoAnxieties of Authorship & Ownership: Intellectual Property, Indigenous Collections & Decolonial Futures | Jane Anderson discussed the philosophical and practical problems for intellectual property law and the protection of Indigenous/traditional knowledge resources and cultural heritage. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5920 | 7/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | VideoOmékongo Dibinga | Poet Omékongo Dibinga, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, reads from his work and discusses the state of contemporary African literature. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5911 | 7/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 26 | VideoBringing Digital Forensics to the Library: An Introduction to the BitCurator Project | Porter Olsen discussed the BitCurator Project, a system for cultural heritage professionals that incorporates the functionality of many digital forensics tools. In this presentation, he demonstrated a beta version of the BitCurator Environment and specifically showed how the digital forensics tools included in BitCurator address the needs of digital archivists. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5922 | 7/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 27 | VideoFellowship of Southern Writers Celebration | This event highlights distinguished literary writers and writing from the South, hosted by Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (and Mississippi Poet Laureate) Natasha Trethewey. Readers included Madison Smart Bell, Edward P. Jones, Jill McCorkle, Ron Rash and Charles Wright. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5908 | 7/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 28 | VideoShahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings | Hamid Rahmanian presented an innovative version of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh "The Epic of the Persian Kings" based on illustrations from thousands of Iranian, Mughal Indian, and Ottoman manuscripts. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5906 | 7/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 29 | VideoThe Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War | Daniel Stashower discussed and signed his book, "The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War," a riveting historical narrative which delves into the "Baltimore Plot" conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5902 | 7/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 30 | VideoThe Knowledge Revolution and the Future of Libraries | Ismail Serageldin speaks on the transformation of knowledge and how it will impact the future of libraries. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5910 | 7/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 31 | VideoThe Loss and Rebirth of the Library of Alexandria | Renowned thinker, writer and speaker Ismail Serageldin discusses the restoration of the Library of Alexandria. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5909 | 7/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 32 | VideoProphet in a Time of Priests | In celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month, Janice Rothschild Blumberg discussed her new book "Prophet in a Time of Priests." Speaker Biography: Janice Rothschild Blumberg is a past president of the Southern Jewish Historical Society. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5918 | 7/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 33 | VideoDanny Kaye Website Launch | At an evening celebration on March 19, the Library launched a website featuring 2,000 items from its Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection. Speaker Biography: Including: Michael Feinstein, Christopher Dodd, James Billington, Dena Kaye and Daniel Walshaw. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5913 | 7/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 34 | VideoClimate Change Policy: Updates | Ecologist Peter Frumhoff discussed whether scientific findings can or should inform the public discourse on climate-change policy. Frumhoff examined results from his own ecological studies over the past several years and how this information can build an informed, pragmatic, science-based discussion. He also considered how lessons from history and the social sciences can build a more broadly shared understanding of climate risks and choices. Speaker Biography: Peter C. Frumhoff is director of science and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and chief scientist of the UCS climate campaign. He has published and lectured widely on topics including climate change impacts, climate science and policy, tropical forest conservation and management, and biological diversity. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5921 | 7/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 35 | VideoWalt Whitman: Literary Birthday Celebration | Poets Joshua Beckman and Stanley Plumly celebrate the birthday of American poet Walt Whitman by reading selections from his work and discussing his influence on their own writing. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5759 | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 36 | VideoBill Veeck: Baseball's Great Maverick | Paul Dickson discussed and signed his book "Bill Veeck: Baseball's Great Maverick" at the Whittall Pavilion. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5675 | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 37 | VideoPhilip Levine Closes the Literary Season | Philip Levine, 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, concludes the Library's literary spring season. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5557. | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 38 | VideoArmenian at the Library of Congress | Levon Avdoyan discusses the establishment and growth of the Library's Armenian language collections. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5633. | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 39 | VideoLincoln's Forgotten Ally | In a new biography, author Elizabeth D. Leonard illuminates the history of this seldom-discussed but important figure in Lincoln's presidency. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5766. | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 40 | VideoCampus Traditions | Simon J. Bronner interprets the uses of play and ritual for students in different eras to work through tough issues of their age and environment. More broadly, campus traditions are shown to function centrally in the development of American culture. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5740. | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 41 | VideoEnhancing Access to the Library's Collections | Since early 2007, the Library of Congress and several partner organizations have worked to create a thesaurus of genre/form terms (MARC 21 tag 155), that describe what a work is, as opposed to what it is about. Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT) now includes over 700 terms in four disciplines; hundreds more terms, representing literature, music, religion, and non-disciplinary materials (such as dictionaries and bibliographies), are now being actively developed. The use of genre/form terms has a positive effect on both cataloging and reference services, and this effect will be magnified as terms for more disciplines are implemented throughout the Library. This presentation emphasizes the principles of LCGFT development and rules for the practical application of the terms. An update on the status of each of the projects, including tentative timelines where applicable, will also be provided. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5870 | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 42 | VideoFrom Spanish Court to Ottoman Palace | Ann Brener discusses Hebrew books from the 16th century in the collections of the Library of Congress. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5623. | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 43 | VideoThe Stations that Spoke Your Language: Radio and the Yiddish-American Cultural Renaissance (Day 1) | Leading Yiddish language and culture experts joined media scholars and Library of Congress specialists to address Yiddish radio in America: its history and cultural impact, its continuing influence on American media, and its multifaceted legacy. (Day 1) For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5760. | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 44 | VideoThe Stations that Spoke Your Language: Radio and the Yiddish-American Cultural Renaissance (Day 2, afternoon) | Leading Yiddish language and culture experts joined media scholars and Library of Congress specialists to address Yiddish radio in America: its history and cultural impact, its continuing influence on American media, and its multifaceted legacy. (Day 2, afternoon). For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5762. | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 45 | VideoInternational Literacy Day 2012 | The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress hosted a program in recognition of International Literacy Day that included a discussion on preparing teachers for Common Core Standards excellence in the classroom. Speakers included John Y. Cole, Carrice Cummings, Jill Lewis-Spector, Jane Hansen, Greg Mullenholz, Carol da Silva, Marcie Craig Post, Rich Carson, Adam Ray, Kathy Davin and Susan Bodenner. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5629. | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 46 | VideoThe Stations that Spoke Your Language: Radio and the Yiddish-American Cultural Renaissance (Day 2, morning) | Leading Yiddish language and culture experts joined media scholars and Library of Congress specialists to address Yiddish radio in America: its history and cultural impact, its continuing influence on American media, and its multifaceted legacy. (Day 2, morning). For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5761. | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 47 | VideoBibliographic Framework Initiative Update Forum | The Library of Congress sponsored an update forum on the Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative in Seattle, Wash., during the midwinter meeting of the American Library Association on January 27, 2013. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5789. | 6/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 48 | VideoArchie Green, Working-Class Hero | This talk explores the relationship between folklorist Archie Green's formative political experiences at home, at school, and at work during the "Age of the CIO" and his subsequent development of "laborlore" as a public-oriented interdisciplinary field. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5777 | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 49 | VideoGardens for a Beautiful America, 1895-1935 | Sam Watters discusses the photographs of urban and suburban gardens taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston at the beginning of the 20th Century and preserved by the Library of Congress for more than 70 years. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5691 | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 50 | VideoRiver of Words 2012 | Ten remarkable young poets and artists -- ranging in age from 7 to 16 -- and more than a dozen national finalists were honored at the 17th annual River of Words International Youth Creativity Awards. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5628 | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 51 | VideoSite & Sound of New Opera Houses | Victoria Newhouse has discussed her book "Site and Sound: The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls." Newhouse argued that although exteriors of opera houses and concert halls have become more daring, the interiors have stayed the same due to acoustics. The event ws co-sponsored by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5674. | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 52 | VideoIndependent Comix Art & Mini-Comix | A discussion by comics creator Dean Haspiel on the new Small Press Expo (SPX) collection of the Serial & Government Publications Division. The collection of mini-comics -- "small in size but impressive in cultural impact" -- will contain, among other worthy selections, past and future Ignatz Award nominated works. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5709. | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 53 | VideoPoet Laureate Natasha Trethewey | On June 7, 2012, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the appointment of Natasha Trethewey as the Library's Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2012-2013. Trethewey, the 19th Poet Laureate, opened the Library's annual literary season with a reading of her work. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5645. | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 54 | VideoCovering America: A Nation's Journalism | Christopher B. Daly discusses the development of journalism in America from the early 1700s to the digital revolution of today. Daly placed the current journalism crisis within a broader historical context, showing how it is only the latest in a series of transitions that have required journalists to devise new ways of plying their trade. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5632. | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 55 | VideoOrigins of Traditional Palestinian Garb | Hanan K. Munayyer discusses the origins of traditional Palestinian dress and embroidery. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5704. | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 56 | VideoMandlakayise C. Matyumza | Mandlakayise C. Matyumza discusses African poets and writers in an event co-sponsored by the Africa Society for the National Summit on Africa. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5646. | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 57 | VideoThe Ancient Library of Alexandria | Hassan Eltaher discusses the considerable cultural and historical project of reviving Egypt's ancient library at Alexandria. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5765. | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 58 | VideoDisability Awareness in South Africa | Mbambo Thata discusses disability awareness in his native South Africa. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5671. | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 59 | VideoDomestic Engraving & European Letterpress | Gaylord Shanilec, Wisconsin wood engraver, talks about his intricately realized multi-colored engravings inspired by his rural Midwestern surroundings. Russell Maret, a New York-based private designer and letterpress printer, discusses the high and low corners of European alphabetical history for both form and content. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5673. | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 60 | VideoCartoon View of Campaign 2012 | Editorial cartoonists from the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New Orleans Times-Picayune and Pocho.com discuss the highlights and challenges of creating cartoons, representing opinions from both left and right of center, during the 2012 presidential campaign. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5683. | 6/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 61 | VideoBook-Collecting Contest Awards | The Center for the Book and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and the Fellowship of American Bibliographic Societies announced the winners of the National Collegiate Book-Collecting Contest. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5731. | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 62 | VideoCreation of the Civil Rights Lawyer | Through the stories of such figures as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, author Kenneth W. Mack brings to life African-American legal practice across the nation during the civil rights movement. According to Mack, Marshall rose to prominence by convincing local blacks and prominent whites that he was -- as nearly as possible -- one of them. In addition to Marshall, Mack introduces readers to a little-known cast of other characters important to this narrative. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5698. | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 63 | VideoDonn Piatt: Gadfly of the Gilded Age | Peter Bridges discussed his book on writer, editor and diplomat Donn Piatt. Born in 1819 in Cincinnati, Donn Piatt died in 1891 at the Piatt Castles that still stand in western Ohio. He was a diplomat, historian, journalist, judge, lawyer, legislator, lobbyist, novelist, playwright, poet, politician and well-known humorist, once called on to replace Mark Twain when Twain's humor failed him. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5730. | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 64 | VideoNew Research on Iron Gall Ink | Prior to the 20th Century, iron gall ink (IGI) was the most common ink in the western world, and a plethora of recipes from which to produce the dark, permanent ink can be found starting from the Middle Ages. The Library's Conservation Division (CD) has led an organized effort to conduct treatment assessment for IGI-containing documents since the late 1990s. At this time, new research in Europe had established some basic hypotheses concerning IGI chemistry, which led to proposal of new strategies for the preservation of IGI-containing works. Recently, the Library's Preservation Research & Testing Division (PRTD) initiated IGI research in collaboration with scientists at the University of Maryland at College Park and at the Catholic University of America; this research complements on-going CD efforts by endeavoring to elucidate some poorly understood aspects of IGI chemistry. Presenters include Lynn B. Brostoff, Aldo A. Ponce, Karen J. Gaskell, Richard C. Wolbers and Anthony F. Lagalante. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5699. | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 65 | VideoStreet Level | A lecture by Sarah Markes on a collection of drawings and creative writing on Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5719. | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 66 | VideoThe Jewish Book Since Printing | A lecture by Dr. Emile Schrijver on the history of the Jewish book since the invention of printing. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5776. | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 67 | VideoPlayscript Analysis in the Federal Theatre Project | Amy Brady discusses the Federal Theatre Project, America's first and only nationally subsidized theater, and how hyperspectral imaging helped to elucidate the history of some of the project's most popular performances. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5702. | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 68 | Video100 Years of Hebrew Poetry | Poet and anthologist Peter Cole reads from his poems and discusses the history of Hebrew poetry. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5710. | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 69 | VideoWildlife Heroes | A lecture by Jeffrey Flocken, whose book discusses the work of 40 top conservationists and the animals they study and protect. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5712. | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 70 | VideoJames Meredith & the Ole Miss Riot | In September 1962, James Meredith became the first African American admitted to the University of Mississippi. A milestone in the civil rights movement, his admission triggered a riot spurred by a mob of 3,000 whites from across the South and all-but- officially stoked by the state's segregationist authorities. The escalating conflict prompted President John F. Kennedy to send in 20,000 regular Army troops, in addition to federalized Mississippi National Guard soldiers, to restore law and order. "James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot" is the memoir of one of the participants, a young Army second lieutenant named Henry T. Gallagher, born and raised in Minnesota. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5806. | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 71 | VideoThere Was Once | Filmmaker Gabor Kalman discusses his film about a high school teacher in Kalocsa, Hungary, who discovered a lost Jewish community while researching local history. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5764. | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 72 | VideoUNESCO World Heritage Sites in Mali | Janet Goldner, scholar and sculptor speaks on the UNESCO World Heritage sites within the Republic of Mali. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5862. | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 73 | VideoArt of Arthur Szyk | An illustrated lecture on the art of Arthur Szyk by Irvin Ungar. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5718. | 6/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 74 | VideoAnna Mwalagho | Anna Mwalagho reads from her work and discusses the state of contemporary African literature. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5693. | 6/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 75 | VideoCultural Heritage in South Sudan | The Library of Congress in partnership with the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area presented a lecture on the cultural heritage of the new Republic of South Sudan. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5792. | 6/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 76 | VideoTijan Sallah | A reading with Tijan Momodou Sallah. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5729. | 6/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 77 | VideoInternational Summit of the Book 4: Closing | The closing session of this annual event featured a passing of the torch to officials from Singapore, the site chosen for the 2013 International Summit of the Book. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5669. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 78 | VideoThe Will to Adorn | Diana N'Diaye shares stories, observations, and insights from "The Will to Adorn," a community-centered research and public presentation project, which explores and examines the diversity of African American cultural identities as expressed through traditional arts of the body, dress, and adornment. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5836. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 79 | VideoPoet Laureate Civil War Reading | Natasha Trethewey reads historically focused poems in celebration of "The Civil War in America" exhibition at the Library of Congress. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5843. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 80 | VideoSomali Collections at the Library | Abdulahi Ahmed discusses the Somali collections at the Library of Congress. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5775. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 81 | VideoMaaza Mengiste | Ethiopian novelist Maaza Mengiste reads from her work and discuss the state of contemporary African literature. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5867. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 82 | VideoThe March on Washington | The works of photographer Leonard Freed, specifically the photo essay "This Is the Day" about the 1963 March on Washington, is the subject of a lecture and discussion. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5866. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 83 | VideoBooks That Shaped the World | In keeping with the theme of this year's National Book Festival theme, Library of Congress staff share their thoughts and opinions on books that shaped the world. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5757. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 84 | VideoNGOs & Importing Democracy | Author Julie Fisher discusses her book, "Importing Democracy: The Role of NGOs in South Africa, Tajikistan, and Argentina." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5857. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 85 | VideoBelfast's Linen Hall Library | John Killen brings to life the collections of this unique Irish institution. The Linen Hall Library was envisioned as the archive of its community; its mission statement, written on 1 January 1795, outlines its goals: "The object of this society is the collection of an extensive Library, Philosophical Apparatus and such productions of Nature and Art as tend to improve the mind and excite a spirit of general enquiry; the society intends to collect such materials as will illustrate the antiquities, the natural, civil, commercial and ecclesiastical history of this country [Ireland] - provision has been made to render the institution as permanent as the vicissitudes of human affairs permit by making the Library...a general and hereditary property...." According to Killen, "the collections in the Linen Hall tell the story of Ireland, the divisions in its society, its trials and tribulations, its successes and failures; and, throughout, they tell of the spirit of a people. All books tell a story; but the story behind each book can be equally (or more) important. They show the inter-connectivity of human experience in communities that are different in many ways, but similar in that the human spirit is shared by all." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5647. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 86 | VideoDeath & the Civil War | In conjunction with the landmark exhibit The Civil War in America, the Library presented Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust in conversation with filmmaker Ric Burns for this commemoration of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced the event, which explored how death in the Civil War permanently transformed the character of American society. The program featured a clip from the PBS documentary "Death and the Civil War," produced by Burns and based upon Faust's book "This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5868 | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 87 | VideoEdna St. Vincent Millay Birthday | Poets Alicia Ostriker and Claudia Emerson celebrate the birthday of American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay by reading selections from her work and discussing her influence on their own writing. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5848. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 88 | VideoWomen in Lebanon | Marie-Claude Thomas of the United States Naval Academy discusses "Women in Lebanon: Living Together and Facing Modernity." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5853. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 89 | VideoGrowth & Transformation Plan of Ethiopia | Girma Birru discusses the prospects and challenges of the Ethiopian 2011-2015 Growth and Transformation Plan. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5860. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 90 | VideoArise! Arise! Deborah, Ruth & Hannah | An illustrated lecture by artist and calligrapher, Debra Band, on the publication of her new book "Arise! Arise! Deborah, Ruth and Hannah." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5805. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 91 | VideoThe Healing Art of Kalman Aron | An illustrated lecture by Susan Beilby Magee about her new book on Holocaust survivor Kalman Aron. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5720. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 92 | VideoMary Pickford: Queen of the Movies | A century ago, in the early days of cinema, when actors were unbilled and unmentioned in credits, audiences immediately noticed Mary Pickford. Dubbed "America's Sweetheart," Pickford charmed moviegoers during the first three decades of the 20th century with magnetic talent, as she rose to become cinema's first great star. Christel Schmidt's "Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies," sheds new light on this icon's life and legacy. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5820. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 93 | VideoMemories of the Lithuanian Holocaust | Ellen Cassedy discusses her new book, "We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5721. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 94 | VideoInternational Summit of the Book 1: Day One | The Library of Congress hosted the first International Summit of the Book and began what library leaders envision as an annual global meeting of minds to discuss and promote the book as a crucial format for conveying societies' scholarship and culture. Leaders in academia, libraries, culture and technology debated and discussed the powerful and crucial form of information transmittal: the book. Day One included remarks and presentations by Hon. John Larson, Hon. Jack Reed, James H. Billington, David M. Rubenstein, Robert Forrester, Ismail Serageldin, Elizabeth Eisenstein, Daniel DeSimone, Sarah Thomas, John Van Oudenaren, Caroline Brazier, Glòria Pérez-Salmerón, Ramón Mujica Pinilla, Anton Likhomanov, John Kgwale Tsebe, Emily E. Kadens and Mark Dimunation. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5666. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 95 | VideoInternational Summit of the Book 2: Day Two, Morning | The Library of Congress hosted the first International Summit of the Book and began what library leaders envision as an annual global meeting of minds to discuss and promote the book as a crucial format for conveying societies' scholarship and culture. The morning of Day Two included remarks and presentations by James H. Billington, Walter Dean Myers, John Y. Cole, Sir Harold Evans, Jim Leach, Carla D. Hayden, Ira Silverberg, Maria Pallante, Tom Allen, James S. Shapiro and Peter Jaszi. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5667. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 96 | VideoInternational Summit of the Book 3: Day Two, Afternoon | The Library of Congress hosted the first International Summit of the Book and began what library leaders envision as an annual global meeting of minds to discuss and promote the book as a crucial format for conveying societies' scholarship and culture. The afternoon of Day Two included remarks and presentations by Marie Arana, Nan Talese, Geoffrey Kloske, Karen Lotz, Niko Pfund, Michael Suarez, Karen Keninger, Thomas Mallon and Fenella G. France. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5668. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 97 | VideoPrinting in Color: Lessons in Technique | A demonstration of the progress of color printing from 1457 until 1800, using examples from the Library's Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection and recent acquisitions. The focus of the talk is a discussion of the techniques developed by printers to apply color to printed images through the mechanical process of the printing press and how these techniques changed as the technology of printing developed over the centuries. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5864. | 6/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 98 | VideoTimeline of the Civil War | Margaret (Peggy) Wagner discusses "The Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War" in commemoration the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5863. | 6/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 99 | VideoLiterary Birthday Celebration: Robert Frost | Poets Dana Gioia and Eric Pankey celebrate the birthday of American poet Robert Frost by reading selections from his work and discussing his influence on their own writing. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5869 | 6/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 100 | VideoHay Copy of Gettysburg Address | The Library of Congress displays the John Hay copy of the Gettysburg Address for six weeks, from March 22 to May 4, in its "Civil War in America" exhibition. The John Hay copy of the address is one of five known manuscript drafts. The Hay copy is considered the second draft, made by Lincoln shortly after his return to Washington from Gettysburg. Lincoln gave the copy to Hay, one of his two secretaries. His other secretary was John Nicolay, and the presumed first draft is known as the Nicolay copy. Hay's descendants donated both the Hay and the Nicolay copies to the Library of Congress in 1916. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5854. | 6/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 101 | VideoAfricans & African-Americans in Germany | A discussion on the pluralistic and multifaceted presence of Africa in Germany with visiting Fulbright Scholar, Magueye Kasse. Speaker Biography: A Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor of German Literature and Language at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5900. | 5/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 102 | VideoCultural Institutions & Wikipedia: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship | Over the past few years, cultural institutions have formed partnerships with Wikipedia in order to increase their visibility on the web and connect with a vibrant community of online volunteers. As a purpose-driven, non-profit educational project, Wikipedia and its sister sites have shared values and interests with cultural institutions that are only now being fully realized. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has become an enthusiastic and vocal participant in this movement to build bridges with Wikipedia and its community. Using specific examples, Dominic McDevitt-Parks discusses how NARA views the partnership as a vehicle for increasing access to holdings, citizen engagement, and openness, while addressing practical concerns and challenges institutions will likely face if they choose to become involved. Speaker Biography: Dominic McDevitt-Parks was Wikipedian in residence at the National Archives and Records Administration from 2011-2012. He came to NARA from the Archives Management program at Simmons College and also holds a B.A. in history from Reed College. He has been a volunteer Wikipedia contributor since 2004. Speaker Biography: Kristin Anderson is a cataloging librarian in the History and Military Science section at the Library of Congress. She is an active volunteer in the Wikipedia community. For captions, transcripts, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5897. | 5/29/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 103 | VideoHow to Put Your Brain on the Internet: Lessons from a Cyborg | Michael Chorost discusses his book "World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5899. | 5/28/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 104 | VideoKarl Ove Knausgaard Reading Selections from his Novel "My Struggle: Book One" | Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard reads selections from his novel 'My Struggle: Book One' and discusses the state of contemporary Norwegian literature. | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 105 | VideoArmenian Literary Identity | Kevork Bardakjian presented "Scribes, Compositors and the Mind in the Making: the Armenian Script and the Creation of an Armenian Literary Identity." Levon Avdoyan discussed "The Continuity and Change of an Armenian Identity in the Digital Age." Following the lectures, participants visited the new exhibition, "To Know Wisdom and Instruction: The Armenian Literary Tradition at the Library of Congress." Speaker Biography: Born in Beirut, Kevork Bardakjian received a degree in Armenian Studies at Yerevan State University in 1969 and a Ph.D. in Armenian Studies at Oxford University in 1979. He is the director of the Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan and the director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. He has written six books, including "Hitler and the Armenian Genocide." His main interests are literature, history, church history, identity and genocide. Speaker Biography: Levon Avdoyan is a specialist for Armenia and Georgia in the Library's African and Middle Eastern Division. | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 106 | VideoThe State of Art in Ethiopia | Renowned artist Afewerk Tekle presented a lecture on the state of art in his native Ethiopia. Speaker Biography: Afewerk Tekle was one of Ethiopia's most celebrated artists, particularly known for his paintings on African and Christian themes as well as his stained glass. He died in April 2012. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5509. | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 107 | VideoThe Secret Faces of Women from the Nigérien Sahel: Agency, Influence and Contemporary Challenges | Lecture by Professor Antoinette Tidjani Alou, "The Secret Faces of Women from the Nigerien Sahel: Agency, Influence and Contemporary Challenges" | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 108 | VideoOccupy Rousseau: Inequality and Social Justice | The Embassy of Switzerland and the Library of Congress presented Occupy Rousseau: Inequality and Social Justice, with an international panel and display of rarely seen Rousseau-related objects. Featured speakers: Guillaume Chenevière, former Director, Télévision Suisse Romande ("Rousseau, Citizen of Geneva"); Michael O'Dea, Lyon University, ("Are we Friends with Jean-Jacques Rousseau?"); and James Swenson, Rutgers University, ("Liberal and Conservative Egalitarianisms in Rousseau"). | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 109 | VideoRalph Eubanks: Presidential Campaign Posters | Along with every presidential campaign there are great campaign posters. There are also ridiculous ones. In "Presidential Campaign Posters: Two Hundred Years of Election Art" (Quirk Books, 2012), editors and curators of the Library of Congress have mined the institution's extraordinary collections for 100 posters -- from the campaigns of Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama. "Presidential Campaigns" includes 100 ready-to-frame political campaign posters from the annals of American history. The candidates range from Andrew Jackson ("Defender of Beauty and Booty") and William Henry Harrison ("Have Some Hard Cider!") to Richard Nixon ("He's the One!"), Barack Obama ("Hope") and many, many more. The posters are backed with colorful historical commentary and additional artwork, and they are bound with perforated edges so they can be removed, framed and displayed. | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 110 | VideoOdysseas Elytis and the Hispanic World | Elytis influenced Hispanic literature in the late 1930s and 1940s with his exuberant style, adding a further level of passion to the established poetic romanticism of the day. In this presentation, which commemorates the centennial of Elytis' birth, poets Pedro Serrano and Rei Berroa discussed the Nobel Laureate's importance within the Hispanic world of letters. | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 111 | VideoMarvelous Country, Precious and Horrible: Honduras through Travel Writing from the 19th Century | Travel books from the past have the appeal of communicating vivid experiences of places and people, especially exotic or from remote locations. The analysis of such books written on Honduras during the nineteenth century clearly shows the influence of the romantic aesthetics distinctive of the period. Deeply moving and sometimes contradictory images bring to life a country of dreams and nightmares. This research explores the many transfigurations of the country through travel writing and the possibility of an alternative reading on the threshold between reality and fiction. | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 112 | VideoLinked Data at the National Library of Sweden | Martin Malmsten is a developer/architect/technical lead at the National Library of Sweden. He works with many aspects of LIBRIS[1], the Swedish union catalog. He created the linked data interface to LIBRIS[2] to experiment with RDF (Resource Description Framework) and linking to other datasets. Malmsten is interested in how libraries continually re-link vast datasets. He believes that making information available to anyone is what libraries are about, and he supports linking to information using technologies created/used outside the library community. Miriam Safstrom is the metadata coordinator for the National Library of Sweden and works closely with Malmsten. Speaker Biography: Martin Malmsten is a developer/architect/technical lead at the National Library of Sweden. He works with many aspects of LIBRIS[1], the Swedish union catalog. Speaker Biography: Miriam Safstrom is metadata coordinator at the National Library of Sweden. For captions, transcripts, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5521. | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 113 | VideoMapping Water Use from Space: Martha Anderson | Dr. Martha Anderson, research scientist, USDA, will talk about using images from the Landsat satellite program to monitor water use and drought on U.S. farms with pinpoint accuracy to measure evapotranspiration, the total amount of water used in the process of growing crops. For captions, transcript, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5529. | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 114 | VideoDiving Deep in a Pool of Pictures: Prints and Photographs Online Catalog | Prints and Photographs Division staff provide an overview of the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC), highlighting features researchers have found useful for discovering, analyzing, and sharing pictures from the Division's collections. In addition to introduction by Chief Helena Zinkham, speakers are Barbara Orbach Natanson, Head, Prints and Photographs Reading Room; Kit Arrington, Digital Library Specialist; Kristi Finefield, Reference Librarian; Phil Michel, Digital Library Coordinator; Jeff Bridgers, Automated Reference Specialist; and Greg Marcangelo, Cataloging Specialist. Speaker Biography: Helena Zinkham is chief of the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress. Zinkham joined the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division in 1984, working on the Videodisc Project, precursor to the division's popular online catalog (PPOC) at www.loc.gov/pictures/. In 1991, she was appointed head of the Technical Services Section. Under her direction, the division has improved direct public access to the Library's visual collections through the continuous expansion of digital-image programs and participation in the Flickr Commons project, which has made photographs accessible to millions of Web 2.0 users around the world. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5520. | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 115 | VideoBibliographic Framework Initiative | The presenters give an update on the status of the Library of Congress initiative to review the current bibliographic framework to accommodate future needs in a better manner. A major focus of the initiative is to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 exchange format in order to reap the benefits of newer technology while preserving a robust data exchange that has supported resource sharing and cataloging cost savings in recent decades. McCallum will provide background on some of the current standards and format structures to help understand what some of the possibilities might be for the future. Speaker Biography: Beacher Wiggins, director for Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access, has had a long career at the Library of Congress. One of his early positions was as the assistant to Henriette Avram, the developer of the MARC 21 standard. Wiggins compares the history of MARC with today's needs for a bibliographic exchange environment that will support linked data. Speaker Biography: Sally McCallum is chief of the Network Development and MARC Standards Office at the Library of Congress, responsible for the maintenance of the MARC21 formats and a number of other interoperability-related standards such as an XML version of MARC, the Z39.50 Information Retrieval protocol, and the Encoded Archival Description DTD. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5519. | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 116 | VideoConversations with African Poets and Writers: Keorapetse Kgositsile | South African poet and political activist Keorapetse Kgositsile discusses the state of contemporary African culture, including poetry and literature. | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 117 | VideoBooks That Shaped America | As part of our 2012 Celebration of the Book and recognition of Books That Shaped America, we asked several book enthusiasts to talk about the books that they believed shaped America. | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 118 | VideoHuman Migration, Malaria & Modernization in the Pacific: DNA Studies | The research of J. Koji Lum focuses on the origins, interactions, and resulting genetic characteristics of Pacific Island populations, the evolution of the malaria parasite's (Plasmodium falciparum) drug resistance, malaria epidemiology in Melanesia, Southeast Asia, and Africa, forensic genetics, animal and plant domestication, behavioral genetics, and molecular evolution. Speaker Biography: Molecular anthropologist and population geneticist J. Koji Lum is a professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, and the director of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Anthropology and Health (LEAH) at SUNY Binghamton. He also chairs the Human Subjects Research Review Committee. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5617. | 11/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 119 | VideoIntroducing Congress.gov | The Library of Congress, in collaboration with Congress and the Government Printing Office, has launched a new public beta site, Congress.gov, providing free, fact-based legislative information. The site features platform mobility, comprehensive data retrieval and user-friendly presentation. | 10/10/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 120 | VideoMan, Food, and Fire: The Evolution of Barbecue | Award-winning cookbook author and "master griller" Steven Raichlen will lecture at the Library of Congress on the history of barbecue, from the discovery of live-fire cooking nearly 2 million years ago to the invention of the charcoal briquette, gas grills and modern barbecue restaurants. Speaker Biography: The host of "Primal Grill" on PBS, Raichlen is the author of 28 cookbooks, including "The Barbecue Bible" and "BBQ USA." He has won five James Beard Awards for his cookbooks. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5583. | 9/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 121 | VideoJurji Zaidan: His Contributions to Modern Arab Thought and Literature (Morning Session) | Scholars from the Arab world, Europe and North America presented papers and discussed the life and work of the noted Arab novelist, journalist and publisher. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5576. | 9/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 122 | VideoJurji Zaidan: His Contributions to Modern Arab Thought and Literature (Afternoon Session) | Scholars from the Arab world, Europe and North America presented papers and discussed the life and work of the noted Arab novelist, journalist and publisher. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5575. | 9/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 123 | VideoInternational Literature: László Krasznahorkai Reading | Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai reads from his recently translated novel, Sátántangó, and discusses the state of contemporary Hungarian literature. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5563. | 9/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 124 | VideoHeaven on Earth: A Tour of Solomons Temple through Near Eastern Eyes | Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, professor of Bible and Near Eastern literature at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, presented "Heaven on Earth: A Tour of Solomon's Temple Through Ancient Near Eastern Eyes". For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5568. | 9/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 125 | VideoAvant Garde Art and Artists in Mexico | Susannah Joel Glusker discusses and signs her new book "Avant-Garde Art & Artists in Mexico: Anita Brenner's Journals of the Roaring Twenties." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5553. | 9/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 126 | VideoConversations with African Poets and Writers: Helon Habila | The Library of Congress, African and Middle Eastern Division and Poetry and Literature Center in partnership with The Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa hosted a reading and book signing with Award-winning Nigerian Novelist Helon Habila The author read excerpts from his novel "Oil On Water" and discussed his new anthology "The Granta Book of the African Short Story". For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5550. | 9/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 127 | VideoAbout the FSA Collection | Description of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress. History of the New Deal photographic unit and its creation of documentary images from 1935 to 1943, which portray scenes of the Great Depression, farms and small town life, and the buildup of American industry for World War II. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5541. | 9/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 128 | VideoLiterary Birthday Celebration: Gwendolyn Brooks | Poets Kyle Dargan and Janice Harrington celebrate the birthday of American poet Gwendolyn Brooks by reading selections from her work and discussing her influence on their own writing. For captions, transcripts, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5580. | 9/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 129 | VideoMexico in World History | Author William H. Beezley disussed his books "A Companion to Mexican History and Culture" and "Mexico in World History." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5558. | 9/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 130 | VideoLearning from the FSA Collection | Suggestions for using the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress to support research. Includes case studies of the photographic documentation of the tenant farm community of Gee's Bend in Alabama by Arthur Rothstein in 1937 and of the New Mexico Hispanic community of Las Trampas by John Collier in 1943. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5540. | 9/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 131 | VideoVisualizing the Nation's Capital (Day 1-Afternoon) | This conference showcases the unparalleled cartographic collections at the Library of Congress and engage a wide array of experts in exploring how Washington has evolved over 200 years. Speakers include James H. Billington, George Tobolowsky, Ralph Ehrenberg, Richard Stephenson, Ronald Grim, Edward Redmond, Patrick O'Neill, William Stanley, Chas Langelan, Don Alexander Hawkins, Charlene Drew Jarvis, Timothy Davis, Iris Miller, Gail Lowe, Douglas Richardson and Anthony Williams. (Day One: Afternoon Session) For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5595. | 9/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 132 | VideoVisualizing the Nation's Capital (Day 2) | This conference showcases the unparalleled cartographic collections at the Library of Congress and engage a wide array of experts in exploring how Washington has evolved over 200 years. Speakers include Jon Campbell, Pamela Scott, Roberta Stevens, Dan Bailey, Thomas Patterson, Susan Spain and Eliza Voigt. (Day Two) For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5596. | 9/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 133 | VideoCreating a Dynamic, Knowledge-based Democracy (morning session) | Morning session of a conference celebrating the enduring legacies of three key events that shaped America's knowledge-based democracy: passage of the Morrill Act, the founding of the National Academy of Sciences, and the founding of the Carnegie libraries. Speakers included James H. Billington, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), M. Peter McPherson, Michael F. Adams, Edward J. Ray, Mary Evans Sias, Lou Anna K. Simon, David Yarlott Jr., Ralph J. Cicerone, Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), Barbara A. Schaal and Daniel J. Kevles. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5597. | 9/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 134 | VideoVisualizing the Nation's Capital (Day 1-Morning) | This conference showcases the unparalleled cartographic collections at the Library of Congress and engage a wide array of experts in exploring how Washington has evolved over 200 years. Speakers include James H. Billington, George Tobolowsky, Ralph Ehrenberg, Richard Stephenson, Ronald Grim, Edward Redmond, Patrick O'Neill, William Stanley, Chas Langelan, Don Alexander Hawkins, Charlene Drew Jarvis, Timothy Davis, Iris Miller, Gail Lowe, Douglas Richardson and Anthony Williams. (Day One: Morning Session) For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5594. | 9/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 135 | VideoCreating a Dynamic, Knowledge-based Democracy (afternoon session) | Afternoon session of a conference celebrating the enduring legacies of three key events that shaped America's knowledge-based democracy: passage of the Morrill Act, the founding of the National Academy of Sciences, and the founding of the Carnegie libraries. Speakers included James H. Billington, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Vartan Gregorian, Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer, Carla D. Hayden, Anthony W. Marx, David Nasaw and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Includes a wreath-laying ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial. For captions, transcripts, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5598. | 9/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 136 | VideoSketching the Secret Tracts of the Child's Mind | Sketching the Secret Tracts of the Child's Mind: Theorizing Childhood in Early American Fantasy Strips, 1905-1914: Lara Saguisag examines how early 20th-century comic strips that featured child protagonists revealed the nature of the child during that era. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5587. | 9/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 137 | VideoReading Omar Khayyam's Ruba'iyyat with Their Historical Context | Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Mary Washington discusses "Reading Omar Khayyam's Ruba'iyyat within Their Historical Context." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5588. | 9/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 138 | VideoLibrary of Congress "Gateway to Knowledge" Travelling Exhibition | A specially-designed 18-wheel truck brought treasures and information from the Library of Congress into cities and towns across America. Beginning in September 2010, the "Gateway to Knowledge" rolling exhibition visited sites in states across the Midwest, South, and Northeast through September 2011, concluding its tour where it began, at the Library of Congress National Book Festival. The truck, staffed and driven by two docents well-versed in the Library and its collections, parked at various universities, libraries, community centers and other public venues. For captions, transcript, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5565. | 8/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 139 | VideoJung & Aging: Bringing to Life the Possibilities & Potentials for Vital Aging (2) | An exploration of the work of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) and its meaning to an aging population. "Jung and Aging" is moderated by Aryeh Maidenbaum, a Jungian analyst and director of the New York Center for Jungian Studies. Speakers include Joseph Cambray, Robert Langs, Aryeh Maidenbaum, Lee Hammond, Mary McDonald, Kelley Macmillan, Gay Powell Hanna, Melanie Starr Costello, Christina Puchalski, Lionel Corbett. For captions, transcript, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5506. | 8/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 140 | VideoJung & Aging: Bringing to Life the Possibilities & Potentials for Vital Aging (1) | An exploration of the work of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) and its meaning to an aging population. "Jung and Aging" is moderated by Aryeh Maidenbaum, a Jungian analyst and director of the New York Center for Jungian Studies. Dr. Lionel Corbett, a faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, Calif., delivers the plenary address in which he discusses Jungian contributions to psychological development in later life. Two panels of experts discuss the psychological and gerontological applications of these contributions. A third panel addresses the role of spirituality in the second half of life. Speakers include Roberta Shaffer, Jo Ann Jenkins, Ermina Scarcella, Aryeh Maidenbaum, Lionel Corbett and Margaret Wilkinson. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5505. | 8/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 141 | VideoWomen in the Persian Gulf War | The Library's Veterans History Project commemorated Women's History Month with a landmark panel discussion on the contributions of women to the Persian Gulf War and the impact on women veterans in the more than 20 years since. Speaker Biography: One of the first female Navy diving officers, Darlene Iskra was also the first woman to command a ship in the U.S. Navy, the USS Opportune ARS-41, and took it to war during Desert Storm in January 1991. In addition to her experience as a sea-going officer, her staff work has included both enlisted personnel management at the Bureau of Naval Personnel, and civil affairs, disaster and military attache work for USCINCPAC Rep Marianas in Guam and the Marianas Islands. She retired from the U.S. Navy as a Commander in April 2000. Her story is included in the VHP collections and featured in VHP's Voices of War. Speaker Biography: Juliana Mock served in the Persian Gulf War with the US Army, 87th Medical Detachment (Dental Services) and 12th EVAC Hospital. Her unit provided dental support for the Iraqi EPWs at the 301st Military Police Camp. During the months of January, February and March 1991, the unit repeatedly experienced the loud alarms of chemical detectors and ingested expired pyrostigmine bromide tablets. Since the war she and her husband, also a Persian Gulf War veteran, experienced health complications and in 2003 she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She is now president of Veterans of Modern Warfare and an advocate for Gulf War veterans health. Speaker Biography: An African-American woman raised in Philadelphia, Gail Shillingford joined the US Army in order to obtain money for college. She was assigned to support of the 3rd Infantry Division at Ft. Stewart, and deployed to the Persian Gulf for 10 months as a private. She recalls SCUD attacks and other perils in support of the front lines. She remains in the military, currently serving as CW4, GS assistant executive officer to the director of the Army Staff. Speaker Biography: Raised on an Indian Reservation, Juanita Mullen is a pioneer for American Indian women in the US Air Force. She served stateside during the Gulf War in support of troops overseas, watching her husband deploy and caring for her children and family while serving. She was mobilized for deployment but was called back. She retired from the Air Force after 20 years and, after a stint at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, joined the VA Center for Minority Veterans and Center for Women Veterans. She serves as the American Indian veterans liaison for both centers. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5511. | 8/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 142 | VideoDevoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint | R. Andrew Chesnut discusses his book "Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint." Speaker Biography: R. Andrew Chesnut earned his Ph.D degree in Latin American History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1995 and joined the History Department faculty at the University of Houston in 1997. He quickly became an internationally recognized expert on Latin American religious history. Chesnut was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Bishop Walter Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5515. | 8/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 143 | VideoFaulkner and Hemingway: Biography of a Literary Rivalry | William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, both winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, carried on a nuanced and complex literary rivalry. At times, each voiced a shared professional respect; at other times, each thought himself the superior craftsman and spoke disparagingly of the other. Their relationship is discussed by author Joseph Fruscione. Speaker Biography: Joseph Fruscione is adjunct professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and adjunct assistant professor of First-Year Writing at George Washington University. He has been teaching literature and writing at the university level since August 1999. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Delaware and graduate work at George Washington University. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5513. | 8/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 144 | VideoRalph Ellison Literary Birthday Celebration | Writers Danielle Evans and Jabari Asim celebrate the birthday of American author Ralph Ellison by reading selections from his work and discussing his influence on their own writing. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5537. | 8/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 145 | VideoRDA Templates | Daniel B. Schwartz discusses his new book, "The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image." Speaker Biography: Daniel B. Schwartz is an assistant professor of history at George Washington University. He specializes in modern Jewish and European intellectual and cultural history. | 8/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 146 | VideoThe First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image | Daniel B. Schwartz discusses his new book, "The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image." Speaker Biography: Daniel B. Schwartz is an assistant professor of history at George Washington University. He specializes in modern Jewish and European intellectual and cultural history. | 8/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 147 | VideoLaw Day 2012: Richard Dreyfuss | In recognition of Law Day 2012, the Library of Congress hosted actor Richard Dreyfuss for a discussion focused on the Dreyfuss Initiative, a nonprofit organization that aims to revitalize civics education in public schools. For the past seven years, Dreyfuss has been traveling the nation advocating the teaching of civics and the restoration of civil debate in America. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5503. | 5/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 148 | VideoTransit of Venus | NASA's Sten Odenwald discusses the astronomical phenomenon known as the Transit of Venus, which occurs on June 5, 2012, and not again until the 22nd Century. Speaker Biography: Harvard educated, Dr. Sten Odenwald currently works under contract to NASA at the Goddard Spaceflight Center in education-related areas of space science. He also created The Astronomy Cafe, a web site for the "astronomically disadvantaged." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5502. | 5/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 149 | VideoJews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598-1638 | Katherine Aron-Beller will be speaking about her book on the Modena inquisition of 1598-1638. Speaker Biography: Katherine Aron-Beller is adjunct professor at Gratz College of Jewish Studies and lecturer at the International School in Tel Aviv University. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5501. | 5/14/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 150 | VideoHistory of Educa Vision | Readers of the pioneering educational publishing company "Educa Vision" recorded an oral history of their enterprise. Speakers were founder and publisher Fequiere Vilsaint, author and vice-president Maude Heurtelou and Carol Hollander, editor of the firm's Caribbean Studies Press. Established upon a fundamental commitment to recognize, build upon and develop the linguist and cultural asset that is a Haitian-Creole speaking child's native language, the press supports this child when he or she enters a predominately English-Language classroom. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5499. | 5/14/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 151 | VideoGrowing Up Gullah | Dorothy Browner-Hubler discusses growing up Gullah in South Carolina and Maryland. Speaker Biography: Dorothy Browner-Hubler is a retired professor of education and foreign languages who uses song, dance and colorful stories to teach people about her upbringing in a Gullah community in South Carolina. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5500. | 5/14/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 152 | VideoAmerican Anthrax | Jeanne Guillemin discusses her new book, a definitive account of the five-year investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks. Speaker Biography: Jeanne Guillemin is a senior fellow in the Security Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Center for International Studies. Her academic specialty focuses on national security issues involving infectious diseases and in particular the history of biological weapons. For captions, transcript, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5498. | 5/14/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 153 | VideoIslam Through Western Eyes | According to author Jonathan Lyons, the Western view of Islam has prevented the West from responding effectively to its most significant 21st-century challenges: the rise of Islamic power, the emergence of religious violence, and the growing tension between established social values and multicultural rights among Muslim immigrant populations. Lyons addresses the issues of Islam and modernity, Islam and violence, and Islam and women and proposes new ways of thinking about the Western relationship to the Islamic world. Speaker Biography: Jonathan Lyons spent twenty years as a foreign correspondent and editor for Reuters, much of it in the Islamic world. His research focuses on the shifting boundaries between East and West, and his publications include "The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization" and (with Geneive Abdo) "Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-first-Century Iran." He has a doctorate in sociology and lives in Washington, D.C. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5466. | 4/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 154 | VideoDog Tags: History, Stories & Folklore of Military Identification | The 100th anniversary of the official use of American personal identity tags, affectionately known as "dog tags," recently passed without fanfare. Dog tags are highly personal items to warriors of every service and to their families as well. Each dog tag carries its own human-interest story. The acts of receiving the dog tag, hanging it around the neck, and feeling it against the body constitute a silent statement of commitment. The tag itself individualizes the human being who wears it, despite his or her role as a small part of a huge and faceless organization. While the armed forces demand obedience and duty to a higher cause, dog tags, hanging under service members' shirts and close to their chests, remind them of their individuality. They bring comfort and help calm the fears of soldiers facing death: "I do not want to be forgotten; I do not want to become an 'unknown.'" Speaker Biography: Having a personal connection with the military, Ginger Cucolo is married to a career Infantryman with 32 years of active duty service. She is the daughter, daughter-in-law, and sister of servicemen, but her years as the spouse of an Army Soldier have involved her in the lives of other servicemen and women whose families have needed information and support. Cucolo has written articles and been published in Texas Military Force Museum, Korean War Veterans Association Graybeards Magazine, TAPS 2013 Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Quarterly Magazine, and on the US Army's homepage for Memorial Day. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5470. | 4/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 155 | VideoCelebrating the 25th anniversary of the Art Conservation Department at Buffalo State College | In 1960, Sheldon and Caroline Keck, pioneers in the field of art conservation, established the first U.S. conservation training program at New York University. Ten years later, they established a second program in Cooperstown with the State University of New York at Oneonta. Since its founding, the Cooperstown program has accepted 10 students each year into a three-year course of study towards a master of arts degree and certificate of advanced study in art conservation. In 1987, the Cooperstown program, needing larger facilities, relocated to Buffalo State College. This lecture event celebrates the work in conservation education at Cooperstown and Buffalo through the graduates of both programs working at the Library. This lecture is part of a special series commemorating seminal anniversaries of the conservation graduate schools in the U.S. For captions, transcript, or more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5463. | 4/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 156 | VideoNASA's Desert RATS: Desert Research & Technology Studies | The Black Point Lava Flow in northern Arizona offers a research haven for NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS) team of scientists and engineers, because this rough, dusty terrain, with its extreme temperatures that swing from hot to cold, resembles other places in the solar system. On this bleak landscape, NASA crews can test robotic systems and extravehicular equipment; adjust and improve their designs; and create effective procedures for solar-system exploration. NASA scientist Jacob Bleacher visited the Library of Congress to discuss "NASA's Desert RATS". Speaker Biography: Jacob Bleacher is a research geophysicist in NASA's Science and Exploration Directorate at Goddard Space Flight Center. For captions, transcript, or more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5449. | 3/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 157 | VideoPizza & Poetry | Jehanne Dubrow reads and discusses "Stateside", a book of poems which lyrically details the experiences of a military wife. Speaker Biography: Jehanne Dubrow is an assistant professor in creative writing and literature at Washington College. She is the author of three poetry collections, including most recently "Stateside" (2010). In autumn 2012, her fourth book of poems, "Red Army Red" will be published. Her first book, "The Hardship Post" (2009), won the Three Candles Press Open Book Award, and her second collection "From the Fever-World," won the Washington Writers' Publishing House Poetry Competition (2009). For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5450. | 3/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 158 | VideoAmbassador Johnnie Carson: 40 Years of Dedication to Africa | Ambassador Johnnie Carson took part in a discussion of his career in the U.S. State Department. Speaker Biography: Ambassador Johnnie Carson is assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of African Affairs. For caption, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5446. | 3/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 159 | VideoLiterary Birthday Celebration: Langston Hughes | Poets Dolores Kendrick and Evie Shockley celebrate the birthday of American poet Langston Hughes by reading selections from his work and discussing his influence on their own writing. Speaker Biography: Dolores Kendrick is poet laureate of the District of Columbia. She is the author of the award-winning "The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women," as well as "Why the Woman Is Singing on the Corner: A Verse Narrative," a collection of poems on homeless women. Kendrick has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the George Kent Award for Literature; she is the first Vira I. Heinz professor emerita at Phillips Exeter Academy. Speaker Biography: Evie Shockley is the author of two books of poetry, "the new black" and "a half-red sea" (Carolina Wren Press, 2006), and two chapbooks, "31 words * prose poems" and "The Gorgon Goddess." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5448. | 3/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 160 | VideoFarzaneh Milani: Words Not Swords | Farzaneh Milani discusses her recently published book, "Words Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement." Speaker Biography: Farzaneh Milani is an author and professor of Persian literature and women's studies at the University of Virginia. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5357. | 1/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 161 | VideoLiterary Birthday Celebration: Louisa May Alcott | Authors Jo Ann Beard and Maud Casey celebrate the birthday of American author Louisa May Alcott by reading selections from her work and discussing her influence on their own writing. Speaker Biography: Jo Ann Beard is an essayist and instructor at Sarah Lawrence College. Speaker Biography: Maud Casey is an associate professor of English and teaches in the MFA creative writing Program at the University of Maryland. For captions, transcript, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5353. | 1/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 162 | VideoAsian-American Poetry Today | Filipino-American poet Eileen Tabios reads from her work, followed by a moderated discussion. Speaker Biography: Eileen Tabios is an award-winning Filipino-American poet, fiction writer, conceptual/visual artist, editor, anthologist, critic and publisher. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5348. | 1/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 163 | Video2011 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest Winners | The winners of the 2011 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest received their awards during a ceremony at the Library. The program included a talk, "The Thrill of the Hunt: The Serendipitous Pleasures of Book Collecting" by Michael Dirda. Speaker Biography: Michael Dirda is senior editor for "The Washington Post Book World." He taught world literature at the university level and worked as a free-lance writer, translator and editor before joining "Book World" in 1978. He is recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism and is author of "Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5358. | 1/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 164 | VideoNational Ambassador for Young People's Literature Announcement Ceremony: Walter Dean Myers | Walter Dean Myers, five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award and two Newbery Honors, was inaugurated as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. The previous two ambassadors, Katherine Paterson and Jon Scieszka, were also on hand for the event. Speaker Biography: Walter Dean Myers is a critically acclaimed author of books for young people. His award-winning body of work includes "Sunrise Over Fallujah," "Fallen Angels," "Monster," "Somewhere in the Darkness" and "Harlem." Myers has received two Newbery Honor Awards and five Coretta Scott King Awards. He is the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award (for excellence in young adult literature, given by the American Library Association) as well as the first recipient of Kent State University's Virginia Hamilton Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2008, he won the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture Award. He is considered one of the preeminent writers for young people. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5351. | 1/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 165 | VideoThe Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue 1906-1920 | Authors Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler discuss their work and the Mexican Revolution. Charles H. Harris III is emeritus history professor at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. He collaborated with Louis Sadler on "The Archaeologist Was a Spy: Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence" and "The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920," winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Contemporary Historical Nonfiction and the T. R. Fehrenbach Award from the Texas Historical Commission. Louis R. Sadler is emeritus history professor at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. He collaborated with Charles Harris on "The Archaeologist Was a Spy: Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence" and "The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920," winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Contemporary Historical Nonfiction and the T. R. Fehrenbach Award from the Texas Historical Commission. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5105. | 1/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 166 | VideoWhen Washington Bailed Out Mom and Pop | Marc Levinson discusses his book, "The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America." Marc Levinson is an economist and historian whose professional life has centered on disentangling complex economic issues. He was senior fellow for international business at the Council on Foreign Relations. He spent a decade as an economist at J.P. Morgan Chase. Earlier, he had a long career in journalism, serving as finance and economics editor of The Economist and as a writer on business and economics at Newsweek. In addition to writing for many leading publications, he is author of five books. "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" was praised as one of the best business books of 2006 for showing how a seemingly simple invention helped reshape the world economy by driving down the cost of freight. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5325. | 1/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 167 | VideoOral History in the Digital Age | Over the course of the twentieth century, oral history, the gathering and recording of interviews and memories, was an essential ingredient of this democratization of scholarship. Oral histories provided vital evidence to allow scholars to move beyond the written records of elites and expand their focus to broader groups and to social and cultural history. The digital revolution has opened up dramatic new opportunities in this process. As it is easier than ever to capture the actual voices of people, the oral record is being preserved and made accessible to historians and the broader public at a scale previously unimaginable. Two scholars discuss this dynamic and examine its impact. Mark Lawrence Kornbluh is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of History at the University of Kentucky. The author of "Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American Politics," he is a modern American political historian. A pioneer in digital history, he served as co-founder and executive director of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online and as the founding director of MATRIX: The Center of the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences On-Line at Michigan State University. Doug Oard is a library educator and technologist at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he holds joint appointments as professor in the College of Information Studies (Maryland's iSchool) and in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). He is an unrepentant engineer, with three degrees (Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering, but in other ways he is an academic (having, for example, recently served as associate dean for Research at Maryland's iSchool). For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5101. | 1/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 168 | VideoMusic Therapy for Alzheimer's & Post-Traumatic Stress | Alicia Clair discusses music therapy and their affect on patients with Alzheimer's and Post-Traumatic Stress syndrome. Alicia Ann Clair, professor and director of music education and music therapy at the University of Kansas. Dr. Clair is also a Research Associate in Gerontology at KU. A music therapy practitioner for many years, Dr. Clair has specialized in music therapy practice with persons who have diagnoses of Alzheimer's Disease or related dementias and their professional and family caregivers since 1988, and with persons who are well, older adults, and older adults with disabilities since 1975. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5175. | 1/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 169 | VideoMere-Bi: A Senegalese Celebration of Motherhood | Francoise Pfaff introduced the documentary film and show excerpts from "Mere-Bi" a film on Senegal's pioneer journalist, Annette Mbaye d'Erneville, directed by her son and noted filmmaker Ousmane William Mbaye. Francoise Pfaff is professor of French and Francophone Studies at Howard University. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5327. | 1/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 170 | Video2010 Americas Award | Authors Julia Alvarez and Carmen Tafolla and illustrator Magaly Morales received the 2010 Americas Award for Children's and Young-Adult Literature at the 17th annual award presentation. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5128. | 1/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 171 | VideoBlackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay | George Reid Andrews discusses his new book "Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay." George Reid Andrews is distinguished professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of several books on Afro-Latin culture. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5108. | 1/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 172 | VideoVietnam Veterans Collections Initiative Kick-off | Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET/PBS), Senator Chuck Hagel and his brother, Professor Tom Hagel, donate hours of original interview and related materials to the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. This event kicked-off the Veterans History Project's Vietnam Veterans Collections Initiative. Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel served Nebraska in the U.S. Senate from 1997-2009. He currently teaches at Georgetown University in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is chairman of the Atlantic Council, co-chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, a member of the Secretary of Defense's Policy Board and Secretary of Energy's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, and is a member of Public Broadcasting Service board of directors. Tom Hagel is a law professor at the University of Dayton and served alongside his brother Chuck an infantryman in the U.S. Army in the jungles of Vietnam. Bob Patrick is the director of the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress. For captions, transcript, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5344. | 1/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 173 | VideoProhibition in Washington D.C.: How Dry We Weren't | Prohibition ended in Washington, D.C. on March 1, 1934. The Washington Post reported that "Somehow, after 17 years without it, Washingtonians seemed to hold their liquor quite well." One reason might be that the nation's capital had been far from a model dry city, hosting up to 3,000 speakeasies since Prohibition began in 1917. As documented in a new book by Garrett Peck, even Congress had its own bootleggers, especially "The Man in the Green Hat." Speaker Biography: Garrett Peck is a literary journalist and the author of "The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet." A native Californian and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, he lives in Arlington, Va. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5331. | 1/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 174 | VideoPreservation Roadmaps: Transitioning to a Digital Future | This symposium brought together senior managers from the National Archives, Smithsonian Institution, National Park Service, the Library of Congress, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and various foundations to provide their perspectives on the preservation needs, priorities, and challenges in managing the core collections of the federal government in the 21st century, as well as on opportunities for collaborative solutions and possibilities for funding. Speakers included Deanna Marcum, Richard Kurin, Stephanie Toothman, David Ferriero, Eryl Wentworth, Howard Wactlar, Charles Thomas and Charles Henry. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5342. | 1/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 175 | VideoCivil War Photographs: The Liljenquist Family Collection | Close to 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs highlight both Union and Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. The Liljenquist Family sought out high quality images to represent the impact of the war, especially the young enlisted men. The photographs often show hats, firearms, canteens, musical instruments, painted backdrops, and other details that enhance the research value of the collection. Among the rarest images are African Americans in uniform, sailors, a Lincoln campaign button, and portraits of soldiers with their wives and children. A few personal stories survived in notes pinned to the photo cases, but most of the people and photographers are unidentified. Tom Liljenquist donated the entire collection to the Library in 2010. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5337. | 1/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 176 | VideoThe Fandom of the Opera | A lecture by Mark Schubin on how a 400-year-old art form helped create modern media technology. Speaker Biography: Mark Schubin is engineer-in-charge of the Metropolitan Opera's media department and multiple-Emmy Award winning fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5339. | 12/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 177 | VideoPhilip Levine Gives Inaugural Reading as U.S. Poet Laureate | Philip Levine, whose poetry has honored the working man for almost half a century, gives his inaugural reading as the 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the Laureate's appointment on Aug. 10. Speaker Biography: Philip Levine is the author of 20 collections of poems, including most recently "News of the World" (2009), which The New York Times Sunday Book Review describes as "characteristically wise." Levine won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for "The Simple Truth," the National Book Award in 1991 for "What Work Is" and in 1980 for "Ashes: Poems New and Old," the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979 for both "Ashes: Poems New and Old" and "7 Years From Somewhere," and the 1975 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for "Names of the Lost." For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5333. | 12/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 178 | VideoConversation with African Poet and Writer Ali Mazrui | Ali Mazrui discussed the state of contemporary African culture and post-independence literary production. Speaker Biography: Ali Mazrui is an academic and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations. He is an Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5324. | 12/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 179 | VideoContemporary Poetry from China: A Reading and Discussion | An examination of contemporary poetry from China, with a reading and discussion by two Chinese poets. The poets are featured in an anthology titled "Push Open the Window: Contemporary Poetry from China," which former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass said "will give glimpses -- human glimpses -- at what is going on" in China today. Speaker Biography: Poet, essayist and translator Xi Chuan was born in the City of Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, in 1963. He studied English literature at the Peking University from 1981 to 1985, and later worked as an editor for the magazine Huangqiu (Globe Monthly) for eight years. He was a visiting scholar to the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, in 2002, and a visiting adjunct professor to New York University in 2007, the Orion Scholar to the University of Victoria, Canada in 2009. He is currently teaching Classical Chinese Literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Xi Chuan is one of the most influential poets in contemporary China. Speaker Biography: Zhou Zan, a native of China's Jiangsu Province, is a poet, translator, and scholar. She edits the journal Wings, which is devoted to women's poetry, and has also published a collection of poetry and two volumes of literary criticism. Zhou Zan is one of the 49 contemporary Chinese poets published in the new bilingual anthology "Push Open the Window." | 12/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 180 | VideoAfrica: Re-Sourcing History | David Birmingham presents a lecture on "Africa: Re-Sourcing History." Speaker Biography: David Birmingham is emeritus professor of African History at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5340. | 12/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 181 | VideoFrontera Sin Frontera | A panel of experts discusses the poetry traditions of the United States and Mexico and the literary exchanges between the two countries, shedding light on the historical, political and cultural heritages of both nations. Speaker Biography: Jeannette Clariond is co-editor (with Harold Bloom) of a forthcoming anthology of American poets. Speaker Biography: Monica de la Torre is co-editor of "Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry." Speaker Biography: Rafael Perez-Torres is author of "Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins" and co-editor of "The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlan 1970-2000." Speaker Biography: Pedro Serrano is a Mexican poet. Speaker Biography: Luis Alberto Ambroggio is a poet and member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Espanola (North American Academy of the Spanish Language). For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5330. | 12/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 182 | VideoThe Story of the Town of Minas de Oro in Honduras | Author Marcial Cerrato Sandoval gives a Spanish-language book talk on his newest work, "The Story of the Town of Minas de Oro in Honduras." Speaker Biography: Marcial Cerrato Sandoval is an author. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5295. | 11/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 183 | Video2011 Junior Fellows Display | The Junior Fellows program is profiled and the findings of the 2011 class of fellows are featured. | 11/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 184 | VideoMachu Picchu: A Centennial Celebration | This conference on Machu Picchu celebrates the centennial of its exposure to the outside world. Built in the mid-15th century at the height of the Inca Empire, Machu Picchu in Peru is an architectural and historic marvel that was hidden for centuries. Located on a ridge in the high Andes at 7,970 feet above sea level, it is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and UNESCO declared it as a World Heritage site in 1983. Speaker Biography: Margaret MacLean is anthropologist and senior analyst at the Cultural Heritage Center at the U.S. Department of State. Speaker Biography: Abelardo Sandoval is executive director of the Center for Latin American Archeology at the Museum of Natural History. Speaker Biography: Barbara Tenenbaum is a specialist in Mexican culture in the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. For captions, transcript, or more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5273. | 10/20/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 185 | VideoWilliam Faulkner & the Ledgers of History | Two years ago, an important literary discovery was revealed -- the existence of a wealthy plantation owner's mid-1800s diary that had been read by William Faulkner and served as the great author's source for names, incidents and details in his prize-winning novels. Sally Wolff uncovered the connection between the diary and Faulkner when she was working on a book about the people who knew Faulkner. Speaker Biography: Sally Wolff is a Southern literature professor at Emory University and author of the book "Ledgers of History: William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship." For transcript, captions, or more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5257. | 10/20/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 186 | VideoThe New Anbar Awakening, 2009-2011 | Michael Albin discussed his deployment to Iraq. Speaker Biography: Michael Albin is the former chief of Anglo-American Acquisitions at the Library of Congress. For captions, transcript, or more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5265. | 10/20/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 187 | VideoWeb Archiving at the British Library | -- | 10/20/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 188 | VideoTim Tingle & D.J. Battiest-Tomasi | Both D.J. Battiest-Tomasi and Tim Tingle are enrolled as members of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and regularly participate in tribal events. Both also share relatives who came on the Trail of Tears from the original Choctaw homelands in Mississippi. They speak Choctaw as a part of their performances. They normally perform individually, but have been asked to perform together on this occasion. Tim Tingle is a traditional singer, flute player and drummer, and a nationally known performance storyteller, as well as a teacher, writer and lecturer. He delivers lively historical and traditional stories, accompanying himself on the Native American flute, and sings Choctaw songs to the rhythms of a whaleskin drum. From 2002 to the present, Tingle has performed a traditional Choctaw story before Chief Gregory Pyle's Annual State of the Nation Address at the tribal gathering in Tushkahoma, Oklahoma, a Choctaw reunion that attracts more than 30,000 people. D.J. Battiest-Tomasi is a flute player and storyteller, and works as a family counselor. He has performed extensively across Oklahoma and is considered an ambassador of the Choctaw people. | 9/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 189 | VideoThe History of Education in Ethiopia with Special Emphasis on Higher Education | Dr. Aklilu Habte discusses the history of higher education in Ethiopia. Speaker Biography: Dr. Aklilu Habte is former president of the Haile Selassie 1st University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 190 | VideoThe Egyptian Museum | The director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo spoke about the museum. The event was co-sponsored by the Egyptian Embassy Cultural and Educational Affairs Office. Speaker Biography: Wafaa El Saddik is director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 191 | VideoPoet Laureate W.S. Merwin Opens the Literary Season | W.S. Merwin, the newly-announced 17th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, an undisputed master who has won nearly every major literary award, opens the Library's 2010-2011 literary season with a reading of his poetry. Speaker Biography: In a career spanning five decades, W.S. Merwin, poet, translator, and environmental activist, has become one of the most widely read - and imitated - poets in America.In July 2010, William Merwin was appointed United States Poet Laureate by the Librarian of Congress. He lives, writes, and gardens in Hawaii, on the island of Maui. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 192 | VideoNational Federation of the Blind President Marc Maurer | Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, provides an overview of the National Federation of the Blind and its agenda. Speaker Biography: Attorney Marc Maurer has served as president of the National Federation of the Blind since 1986. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 193 | VideoFilangieri & Franklin: The Italian Enlightenment and the U.S. Constitution | The Library sponsored a conference on Gaetano Filangieri and Benjamin Franklin: The Italian Enlightenment and the U.S. Constitution, with speakers including Marcello Pera and Justice Antonin Scalia. Speaker Biography: Marcello Pera has participated in many scientific workshops, conferences and congresses organized by universities and research institutes in Italy and abroad. He has written a number of articles and essays for Italian and international journals, in particular concerning scientific method, theory of evidence, and scientific argumentation. He is the author of a number of books, including "The Ambiguous Frog," "The Galvani-Volta Controversy on Animal Electricity" and "The Discourses of Science" Speaker Biography: Giannicola Sinisi is the attache for Justice Affairs at the Embassy of Italy. He has a doctorate in law, served in the Ministry of Interior, and is a former senator of the Italian Parliament. He has long had an interest on Gaetano Filangieri and the Neapolitan Enlightenment. Speaker Biography: Antonin Gregory Scalia is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. As the longest-serving justice on the Court, Scalia is the senior associate justice. Appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Scalia has been described as the intellectual anchor of the Court's conservative wing. Speaker Biography: Monica D'Agostini has a master's degree in history and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Bologna in Italy. She worked as a fellow in the European Division during the summer of 2010 gathering primary sources for Giannicola Sinisi in a research project on Gaetano Filangieri and Benjamin Franklin. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 194 | VideoData Conservancy: A Web Science View of Data Curation | The Data Conservancy is one of two initial awards through the National Science Foundatiom's DataNet Program. The Data Conservancy embraces a shared vision: data curation is not an end, but rather a means to collect, organize, validate and preserve data to address grand research challenges. Sayeed Choudhury provides an overview of the Data Conservancy with an emphasis on the data framework aspects of the project. Speaker Biography: Sayeed Choudhury is associate dean for library digital programs at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 195 | VideoChesapeake Bay from Space: New Views of a National Treasure | he National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) studies Earth from space, and the Chesapeake Bay is an important part of NASA research. Changes in the waters of the bay and on the land nearby are generating questions about the sustainability of current land-use practices. NASA scientist Eric Brown de Colstoun discusses this research. Speaker Biography: Eric Brown de Colstoun is the coordinator of Earth Science Education and Public Outreach in the Earth Sciences Division of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He has been working in the Biospheric Sciences Branch at Goddard since 1999. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in geography from the University of Maryland at College Park. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 196 | VideoInterview with the Ambassadors: Why Reading Makes a Difference | Following the Jan. 5, 2010, ceremony announcing the appointment of Katherine Paterson as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2010-2011, Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for 2008-2009, interviewed his successor. They discussed a wide range of issues, both serious and humorous, in a room in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. Speaker Biography: Jon Scieszka is author of such children's classics as "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales," "Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka" and "Robot Zot." He was National Ambassador for Young People's Literature in 2008-2009. Speaker Biography: Katherine Paterson is the acclaimed author of "Bridge to Terabithia," "Jacob Have I Loved" and "The Day of the Pelican." She is National Ambassador for 2010-2011. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 197 | VideoInterview with the Ambassadors: The Joy of Writing | Following the Jan. 5, 2010, ceremony announcing the appointment of Katherine Paterson as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2010-2011, Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for 2008-2009, interviewed his successor. They discussed a wide range of issues, both serious and humorous, in a room in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. Speaker Biography: Jon Scieszka is author of such children's classics as "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales," "Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka" and "Robot Zot." He was National Ambassador for Young People's Literature in 2008-2009. Speaker Biography: Katherine Paterson is the acclaimed author of "Bridge to Terabithia," "Jacob Have I Loved" and "The Day of the Pelican." She is National Ambassador for 2010-2011. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 198 | VideoInterview with the Ambassadors: Reading Is a Privilege | Following the Jan. 5, 2010, ceremony announcing the appointment of Katherine Paterson as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2010-2011, Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for 2008-2009, interviewed his successor. They discussed a wide range of issues, both serious and humorous, in a room in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. Speaker Biography: Jon Scieszka is author of such children's classics as "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales," "Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka" and "Robot Zot." He was National Ambassador for Young People's Literature in 2008-2009. Speaker Biography: Katherine Paterson is the acclaimed author of "Bridge to Terabithia," "Jacob Have I Loved" and "The Day of the Pelican." She is National Ambassador for 2010-2011. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 199 | VideoInterview with the Ambassadors: Privileges of Being an Ambassador | Following the Jan. 5, 2010, ceremony announcing the appointment of Katherine Paterson as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2010-2011, Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for 2008-2009, interviewed his successor. They discussed a wide range of issues, both serious and humorous, in a room in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. Speaker Biography: Jon Scieszka is author of such children's classics as "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales," "Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka" and "Robot Zot." He was National Ambassador for Young People's Literature in 2008-2009. Speaker Biography: Katherine Paterson is the acclaimed author of "Bridge to Terabithia," "Jacob Have I Loved" and "The Day of the Pelican." She is National Ambassador for 2010-2011. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 200 | VideoInterview with the Ambassadors: A Different Approach to Being an Ambassador | Following the Jan. 5, 2010, ceremony announcing the appointment of Katherine Paterson as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2010-2011, Jon Scieszka, National Ambassador for 2008-2009, interviewed his successor. They discussed a wide range of issues, both serious and humorous, in a room in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building. Speaker Biography: Jon Scieszka is author of such children's classics as "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales," "Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka" and "Robot Zot." He was National Ambassador for Young People's Literature in 2008-2009. Speaker Biography: Katherine Paterson is the acclaimed author of "Bridge to Terabithia," "Jacob Have I Loved" and "The Day of the Pelican." She is National Ambassador for 2010-2011. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 201 | VideoWork & Transformation: Panels 5, 6 & 7 (3 of 3) | This symposium featured presentations by the 2010 recipients of the American Folklife Center's Archie Green Fellowships on their research and documentation of the culture and traditions of American workers in New York, Idaho, and Louisiana. Panels also included representatives of community-based documentation projects supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services concerning the role of America's libraries and museums as vibrant centers for the documentation of oral history and the development of 21st century skills. Speakers also included social and economic policymakers, who explored the value of using personal narratives about work to address broader social issues. See http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5153 for speaker biographies. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 202 | VideoWork & Transformation: Panels 1, 2 & Keynote (1 of 3) | This symposium featured presentations by the 2010 recipients of the American Folklife Center's Archie Green Fellowships on their research and documentation of the culture and traditions of American workers in New York, Idaho, and Louisiana. Panels also included representatives of community-based documentation projects supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services concerning the role of America's libraries and museums as vibrant centers for the documentation of oral history and the development of 21st century skills. Speakers also included social and economic policymakers, who explored the value of using personal narratives about work to address broader social issues. See http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5151 for speaker biographies. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 203 | VideoWork & Transformation: Panels 3 & 4 (2 of 3) | This symposium featured presentations by the 2010 recipients of the American Folklife Center's Archie Green Fellowships on their research and documentation of the culture and traditions of American workers in New York, Idaho, and Louisiana. Panels also included representatives of community-based documentation projects supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services concerning the role of America's libraries and museums as vibrant centers for the documentation of oral history and the development of 21st century skills. Speakers also included social and economic policymakers, who explored the value of using personal narratives about work to address broader social issues. See http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5152 for speaker biographies. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 204 | VideoPoet Yermiyahu Ahron Taub | Yermiyahu Ahron Taub reads from his new book of poetry, "Uncle Feygele," which explores the issues encountered by gay Orthodox Jews. He follows up with questions from the audience regarding the book and translating between English and Yiddish. Speaker Biography: Yermiyahu Ahron Taub was born and raised in an ultra-Orthodox community in Philadelphia. He received his secondary education in yeshivot in his hometown and in Baltimore. A Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of Temple University, he received an M.A. in history from Emory University and an M.L.S. from Queens College, City University of New York. Taub is is the author of three volumes of poetry, "Uncle Feygele," "What Stillness Illuminated/Vos shtilkayt hot baloykhtn" and "The Insatiable Psalm." He is a librarian in the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 205 | VideoJoaquim Nabuco Seminar (Portuguese) | This seminar examines the life and career of Joaquim Nabuco, a leader of the abolitionist movement in Brazil and later Brazil's first ambassador to the United States. (This seminar is also available in English.) Speaker Biography: Prior to being appointed Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Mauro Vieira was the Brazilian Ambassador to Argentina since 2004. He holds a JD from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and graduated from Instituto Rio-Branco, the Brazilian diplomatic academy. At the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations, Ambassador Vieira has had several positions, including Chief of Staff to the Secretary General, and Chief of Staff to the Minister of External Relations. From January 2003 to May 2006, he was the representative of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations to the Board of Directors of Itaipu Binacional hydroelectric power plant. Speaker Biography: James Hadley Billington is 13th Librarian of Congress, a position he has held since 1987. Speaker Biography: Leslie Bethell is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History and Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London; Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford; and Senior Research Associate, Centro de Pesquisa e Documentacao de Historia Contemporanea do Brasil, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro. Speaker Biography: David K. Jackson is professor and director of Undergraduate Studies of Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Speaker Biography: Ivo Pitanguy is a philanthropist and plastic surgeon based in Rio de Janeiro. Speaker Biography: Mauricio Rands is a member of the Brazilian Congress. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 206 | VideoTories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War | Most Americans have learned the essential narrative of the American Revolution: Our Founding Fathers led proud Patriots to fight against British rule and ultimately prevailed. Rarely mentioned are the thousands of Tories, or Loyalists, who supported the British and fought to remain in their American homes as loyal subjects of the crown. Historian Thomas B. Allen contends the American Revolution was as much a civil war as it was a rebellion against the British. Thomas B. Allen is the author or coauthor of more than 30 books on subjects ranging from espionage to exorcism. But his primary interest is history, especially military history,an interest that recently produced Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War, which he wrote with his son, Roger MacBride Allen. The book was cited by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and selected by Voice of Youth Advocates Magazine as one of the best nonfiction books of 2009. Another recent book, published jointly by the National Geographic Society and the International Spy Museum is Declassified: 50 Secret Documents that Changed History, a History Book Club selection. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 207 | VideoJoel ben Simeon & the Washington Haggadah | David Stern and Katrin Kogman-Appel discuss the 1478 Washington Haggadah illustrated by Joel ben Simeon, among the most gifted and prolific scribe-artists in the history of the Jewish book. Speaker Biography: David Stern is Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of Hebrew literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Speaker Biography: Katrin Kogman-Appel is associate professor of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 208 | VideoJews & Magic in Medici Florence | With work published widely in the course of his 30 years of archival research in Florence, Edward Goldberg founded the Medici Archive Project to provide worldwide public access to the historical data in the Medici Granducal Archive through a fully searchable database. Established by Grand Duke Cosimo I in 1569, the archive of the Medici Grand Dukes offers the most complete record of any princely regime in Renaissance and Baroque Europe. The 3 million letters contained in more than 6,000 volumes richly document more than 200 years of human history (1537-1743). Through introducing his latest publication, "Jews and Magic in Medici Florence," Goldberg outlines Medici Florence and the culmination of his study on the topic. Speaker Biography: Edward Goldberg is a former fine arts professor at Harvard University and founder of the Medici Archive Project. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 209 | VideoThe Marriage of Preservation & Access | The close alliance between preservation of cultural heritage collections and the provision of access to them will be explored, with particular reference to the ways in which the grant programs of the Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities exemplify that alliance. The results of a recent strategic planning effort, which included attention both to physical preservation and to preservation of the digital cultural record, will be presented and shown to have led to changes and additions that strengthen the bond between preservation and access in the division's programs. Speaker Biography: Nadina Gardner is director of the division of preservation and access at the National Endowment for the Humanities. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 210 | VideoHealth Risks of Atomic Bomb Exposure | Human geneticist William Jack Schull outlines the health effects of exposure to atomic bomb radiation. Speaker Biography: Human geneticist William Jack Schull is president of the Schull Institute and professor emeritus of the University of Texas School of Public Health. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 211 | VideoFoundation of the American Institute for Conservation: Strategic Planning for the Future | This presentation examined the three overarching goals in the Foundation's strategic plan: expanding education programs, building awareness of the conservation profession, and strengthening the organizational structure and capacity of FAIC. The plan was developed through a series of stakeholder meetings and surveys that highlighted the needs and trends in the field. Speaker Biography: Wentworth has served as the executive director of AIC and FAIC since 2004, following a museum career spanning over 20 years. Her most recent museum position, held for six years, was director of the Octagon, Museum of the American Architectural Foundation, a museum of architecture and design and an 1801 National Historic Landmark. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 212 | VideoJoaquim Nabuco Seminar (English) | This seminar examines the life and career of Joaquim Nabuco, a leader of the abolitionist movement in Brazil and later Brazil's first ambassador to the United States. (This seminar is also available in Spanish.) Speaker Biography: Prior to being appointed Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Mauro Vieira was the Brazilian Ambassador to Argentina since 2004. He holds a JD from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and graduated from Instituto Rio-Branco, the Brazilian diplomatic academy. At the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations, Ambassador Vieira has had several positions, including Chief of Staff to the Secretary General, and Chief of Staff to the Minister of External Relations. From January 2003 to May 2006, he was the representative of the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations to the Board of Directors of Itaipu Binacional hydroelectric power plant. Speaker Biography: James Hadley Billington is 13th Librarian of Congress, a position he has held since 1987. Speaker Biography: Leslie Bethell is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History and Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London; Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford; and Senior Research Associate, Centro de Pesquisa e Documentacao de Historia Contemporanea do Brasil, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro. Speaker Biography: David K. Jackson is professor and director of Undergraduate Studies of Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Speaker Biography: Ivo Pitanguy is a philanthropist and plastic surgeon based in Rio de Janeiro. Speaker Biography: Mauricio Rands is a member of the Brazilian Congress. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 213 | VideoHIV/AIDS 2011: Where Are We Now? | Mehret Mandefro discusses the past, present and future of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Speaker Biography: Dr. Mehret Mandefro is a physician, medical anthropologist, and public health researcher on faculty at George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. She received both her undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University, a Master of Science from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a Fulbright Scholar, and was recently a White House Fellow where she co-authored the first joint Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense Mental Health Summit report and recommendations. Dr. Mandefro is the founder of a nonprofit, TruthAIDS which focuses on health literacy among vulnerable populations. Her ethnographic work is the subject of a documentary film, "ALL of Us", that premiered on Showtime Networks. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 214 | VideoExpecting Pears from an Elm Tree | Boliva historian Eric Langer speaks at the Library of Congress. Eric Langer is a professor at Georgetown University and expert in Bolivian history. His works include "Economic and Rural Resistance in Bolivia" and "Historia de Tarija," and he is the editor of the second volume of "Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture" (6 volumes), the editor of the forthcoming third edition and a contributing editor to the Library of Congress Handbook of Latin American Studies. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 215 | VideoDavid McCullough: Americans in Paris | When historian David McCullough announced his intention to write a book about Americans in Paris, his interest was in Americans who went to Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, not, as he observed, "to make a social splash, but with the ambition to excel. The old world was the new world to them," says the author. McCullough discusses his latest work, "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris." Speaker Biography: Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has called David McCullough the "citizen chronicler" for his meticulously researched and beautifully written historical books, such as the Pulitzer Prize winners "Truman" and "John Adams," the latter of which became an Emmy Award-winning miniseries on HBO. He is also a two-time winner of the National Book Award, for "The Path Between the Seas" and "Mornings on Horseback." His newest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris" (Simon & Schuster). McCullough has also received the National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award, the National Humanities Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 216 | VideoChicago Victory Gardens: Yesterday and Tomorrow | During World War II, Chicago led the nation in urban food production with its Victory Gardens program of 1,500 community gardens and more than 250,000 home gardens. The city's North Park neighborhood was also home to the largest Victory Garden in the United States. In fact, the Victory Gardens campaign in Chicago was so successful that it was emulated across the country. Seventy years later, Chicago continues this tradition with an estimated 700 community gardens. In 2010, LaManda Joy launched the Peterson Garden Project, on land that was part of an original World War II Victory Garden from 1942-1945. The Peterson Garden is Chicago's largest community-allotment vegetable garden, with 157 plots tended by community members growing only organic vegetables. Volunteers and students also tend several garden plots and donate their produce to local food pantries and homeless shelters. Speaker Biography: LaManda Joy is an award-winning gardener, blogger and founder of Chicago's Peterson Garden Project. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 217 | VideoConservation Training: Commemorating 50 Years | This 50th anniversary of New York University's graduate program in conservation features NYU allumni contributions to the Library of Congress. Dianne van der Reyden is director for Preservation at the Library of Congress. Lynn Brostoff is a preservation scientist in the Preservation Directorate at the Library of Congress. Cyndy Ryan is a preservation specialist and physical scientist in the Preservation Directorate at the Library of Congress. | 9/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 218 | VideoThe Impact of Mobile Technology & Telephony in East Africa | J. Kwabena Addo discusses how mobile technology and telephony have affected job and wealth creation in East Africa, and possible lessons for the rest of Africa. Speaker Biography: J. Kwabena Addo is director of FIT Group Holdings. | 6/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 219 | VideoPoets C.D. Wright & David Wagoner | Two distinguished poets, C.D. Wright and David Wagoner, will read from their work in an evening presentation at the Library of Congress. Speaker Biography: C.D. Wright was born in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, the daughter of a judge and a court reporter. She has published over a dozen books, including "Rising, Falling, Hovering" (2008); "Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems" (2007); and a text edition of "One Big Self: An Investigation" (2003), a project she undertook with photographer Deborah Luster to document Louisiana inmates. She has also published several book-length poems, including the critically acclaimed "Deepstep Come Shining" (1998). Speaker Biography: David Wagoner is recognized as the leading poet of the Pacific Northwest, often compared to his early mentor Theodore Roethke, and highly praised for his skillful, insightful and serious body of work. He has won numerous prestigious literary awards including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and the Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and has twice been nominated for the National Book Award. The author of ten acclaimed novels, Wagoner's fiction has been awarded the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award. Professor emeritus at the University of Washington, Wagoner enjoys an excellent reputation as both a writer and a teacher of writing. He was selected to serve as chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1978, replacing Robert Lowell, and was the editor of Poetry Northwest until its last issue in 2002. | 6/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 220 | VideoBelly Dancers, Harems & Chadors | Author Maha Addasi discusses the importance of getting multicultural details right in children's books. Speaker Biography: After a career as a news correspondent and producer for Jordan and Dubai television, Maha Addasi moved to the U.S. in 1998 and began writing books for children. Her books include "The White Nights of Ramadan" and "Time to Pray." | 6/3/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 221 | VideoCoffee, Culture and Intellectual Property Rights: The Case of Ethiopia | Heran Sereke-Berhan discusses coffee and intellectual property rights in Ethiopia. Speaker Biography: Heran Sereke-Berhan is a scholar of Ethiopian culture. | 6/3/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 222 | VideoArthur Szyk and His Passover Haggadah | Irvin Ungar discusses Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk and his haggadah created in the stunning style of medieval illuminated manuscripts. Speaker Biography: Irvin Ungar is the foremost expert and leading dealer of the art of Arthur Szyk. A former pulpit rabbi fluent in Jewish history and tradition, Irvin is CEO of the firm Historicana and the tireless force behind the Szyk renaissance. | 4/19/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 223 | VideoEducating Girls in Tsarist Russia | Eliyana Adler discusses her new book, "In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia." Speaker Biography: Dr. Eliyana Adler is former visiting assistant professor and current research associate at the University of Maryland, College Park. She served as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland after completing her doctorate in Jewish history at Brandeis University. | 4/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 224 | VideoGamma-Ray Bursts and the Birth of Black Holes | Dr. Neil Gehrels discusses "Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Birth of Black Holes" as part of the Library's series in conjunction with NASA. Speaker Biography: Neil Gehrels is chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and principal investigator for the SWIFT satellite mission. | 4/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 225 | VideoMoving images- Digitizing to the Future | This workshop covers the key concepts and technologies pertaining to moving image preservation and digitization in libraries, archives, and museums, including the typical elements in the preservation and digitization of moving images, how to assess their condition, and relevant technologies and best practices. An overview of the conservation research underway at the National Audio Visual Conservation Center will also be included. Speaker Biography: James Snyder is a digital media engineering, production & project management specialist. His extensive experience includes television, film, radio, internet technologies and covers the gamut from traditional analog to cutting edge digital data, audio and video technologies. His career in both commercial and non-commercial sectors spans over 30 years. Mr. Snyder currently serves as the Senior Systems Administrator for the Library of Congress' National Audio-Visual Conservation Center located on the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia. He is responsible for all the audio, video and film preservation and digitization technologies, including long-term planning, technology services to the United States Congress and Capitol Hill, as well as standards participation and interaction with media content producers. He has worked for many of the top organizations in media, entertainment, engineering & communications including MCI, Verizon Business, Intelsat, PBS, Harris Corporation, the Advanced Television Test Center, Fox News, Communications Engineering Inc, Reuters and Discovery Communications. He has consulted on many types of projects for organizations including Sarnoff Corporation, Turner Engineering, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, News Corporation, FedNet and agencies of the Federal Government. Mr. Snyder is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Association of Motion Imaging Archivists (AMIA) and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). He is a member and serves as an officer & on standards committees of the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE), and as the President of the Association of Washington Executive Broadcast Engineers (WEBE). He currently serves as the frequency coordinator for the National Capital Area, Baltimore and the State of Maryland. He lives and works in central Virginia adjacent to the Washington, DC metro area. Speaker Biography: Michael Stelmach has twenty-five years of information management experience, with a concentration on providing digital access to content originating from print. Formerly the Vice President of eBook Production at netLibrary, he is currently the Manager of Digital Conversion Services in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress. Michael has been active in the research and development of an automated approach to evaluating digital image performance. | 4/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 226 | VideoFashion & Politics in Postcolonial Argentina | Regina Root discusses her new book "Couture and Consensus: Fashion and Politics in Postcolonial Argentina" (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Speaker Biography: Regina A. Root is associate professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and a core faculty member of the Environmental Science and Policy and the Global Studies programs at the College of William and Mary. She is the editor of The Latin American Fashion Reader (Berg Publishers, 2005). | 4/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 227 | VideoChaplains: Reflections from the Past | Retired military chaplains from various branches of service discuss chaplaincy from a historical perspective and share their experiences of service. Speaker Biography: RADM (Ret.) Ross Trower is former Chief of Chaplains for the Navy. Speaker Biography: LtCol (Ret.) Linda George is a retired chaplain in the US Army. Speaker Biography: LCdr (Ret.) Michael McCoy is a retired chaplain in the US Navy. Speaker Biography: 1stLt (Ret.) A. Nathan Abramowitz is a retired chaplain in the US Army. | 4/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 228 | VideoKevin Kosar on Whiskey: A Global History | "Whiskey: A Global History" (University of Chicago Press, 2010) is an informative, concise narrative of the drink's history, from its obscure medieval origins to the globally traded product of today. Focusing on three nations -- Scotland, Ireland and the United States -- author Kevin R. Kosar charts how the techniques of distillation moved from ancient Egypt to the British Isles. Speaker Biography: Kosar is the founder of AlcoholReviews.com. His writings on alcoholic beverages have appeared in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America and NewYorkHangover.com. He is an analyst in American National Government in the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service. | 4/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 229 | VideoKate Masur: An Example for All the Land | In "An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, D.C." (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), author Kate Masur offers the first major study in more than 50 years of the nation's capital during Reconstruction. The author's panoramic account considers grassroots struggles, city politics, Congress and the presidency, revealing the District of Columbia as a unique battleground in the American struggle over equality. After slavery's demise, the question of racial equality produced a multifaceted debate about who should have which rights and privileges, and where. Speaker Biography: Kate Masur is assistant professor of History and African American studies at Northwestern University. | 4/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 230 | VideoUsing Fair Trade Principles to Empower Women in Northern Uganda | Halle Butvin discussed using fair trade principles to empower women in Northern Uganda. Speaker Biography: Halle Butvin is the founding director of One Mango Tree, which seeks to improve the lives of women in impoverished and conflict-ridden areas of the globe. | 4/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 231 | VideoWeight Loss Through the Ages | Nutrition, obesity and weight-loss experts gathered at the Library of Congress to present "Weight Loss Through the Ages: Where We've Been, What We've Learned and Where We're Going." Speaker Biography: Ron Kind is a congressman serving the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives. (2:09) Speaker Biography: David Kirchhoff is president and CEO of Weight Watchers International. (13:17) Speaker Biography: Ellen Granberg is associate professor of Sociology at Clemson University. (17:31) Speaker Biography: Karen Miller-Kovach is chief scientific officer at Weight Watchers International. (29:48) Speaker Biography: Ann Albright is director of the Division of Diabetes Translation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As director, Albright leads a team of more than 100 who strive to eliminate the preventable burden of diabetes through leadership, research, programs, and policies that translate science into practice. (44:29) Speaker Biography: Patrick O'Neil is a professor of of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. He has devoted his career to helping patients manage their weight and is the author of more than 100 scientific papers and presentations. (57:50) | 4/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 232 | VideoThrough Veterans' Eyes: The Iraq and Afghanistan Experience | Larry Minear discusses his book "Through Veterans' Eyes: The Iraq and Afghanistan Experience," based on interviews culled from the Library of Congress Veterans History Project collection. Speaker Biography: For the past twenty years Larry Minear has worked as a researcher on international and internal armed conflicts, interviewing aid workers, soldiers and local populations in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean. Director of the Humanitarianism and War Project at Brown and then at Tufts universities, he is the author, co-author or editor of several dozen research monographs and fourteen books, including (with Ian Smillie) "The Charity of Nations: Humanitarian Action in a Calculating World." | 4/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 233 | VideoCuisine and Culture in the Arab World | Author Amy Riolo discusses cuisine and culture in the Arab world. Speaker Biography: Amy Riolo is a cookbook author, food historian, culinary expert, lecturer, team building facilitator specializing in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine. | 4/11/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 234 | VideoBernstein Meets Broadway | The composer Leonard Bernstein once wrote that his now-famous "West Side Story" of 1957 included a plea for racial tolerance as materials reveal in the Bernstein Collection in the Music Division of the Library of Congress. This lecture traces Bernstein's composer-activism back to "On the Town" of 1944, which was his first Broadway show and grew out of a fruitful collaboration with Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Jerome Robbins. Produced with a racially integrated cast during WWII, On the Town crossed race lines boldly, and it did so in an era when racial segregation held firm yet faced increasing resistance. In the historical literature about Broadway, the show's racial advances have been ignored. Fusing musical and cultural history, this lecture draws upon manuscripts for "On the Town" in the Bernstein Collection to explore political activism embedded in the show, as well as to consider Bernstein's early fascination with the blues. Speaker Biography: Carol J. Oja is William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard and on the faculty of its program in the History of American Civilization. Her "Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s" (2000) won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. She has also published "Copland and his World" (co-edited with Judith Tick) and "Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds." She is past president of the Society for American Music, and she is currently completing a book tentatively titled "Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War." | 4/11/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 235 | VideoNLS 80th Anniversary press conference | On March 3, 2011, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)—the Library of Congress' talking-book and braille program—celebrated 80 years of helping visually impaired and physically handicapped individuals enjoy reading their favorite books and magazines. This free library program brings reading materials in digital audio and braille formats straight to the homes of patrons from preschoolers to centenarians. Books on digital cartridge, digital talking-book players and braille books are sent to patrons via the U.S. mail at no cost to users. People who sign up with the program also have the option of downloading books and magazines over the Internet in audio or braille format. | 4/7/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 236 | VideoQuiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France | Joan Nathan discusses her latest book. Speaker Biography: Joan Nathan is the author of ten cookbooks, including the much-acclaimed Jewish Cooking in America. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Food Arts Magazine and Tablet Magazine, among other publications. | 3/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 237 | VideoThe Lion of Judah: Prince Ermias Sahle-Selsssie | His Royal Highness Prince Ermias Sahle-Selsssie Haile Selassie discusses his work. Speaker Biography: Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie is president of the Crown Council of Ethiopia. He is the only son of Prince Sahle Selassie of Ethiopia and Princess Mahisente Habte Mariam. He is the grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, and also of Dejazmach Habte Mariam Gebre Igziabiher, the heir to the former Welega kingdom of Leqa Naqamte. Prince Ermias was named recipient of the ISSA Silver Star Award for Outstanding Contributions to Strategic Progress Through Humanitarian Achievement by the International Strategic Studies Association, for his work for Ethiopian refugees in Africa. | 3/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 238 | VideoAnd the Pursuit of Happiness | Noted writer, illustrator and designer Maira Kalman's year-long investigation of democracy and how it works has resulted in her newest book, "And the Pursuit of Happiness." Speaker Biography: Maira Kalman is widely renowned for her contributions to The New York Times, The New Yorker and other major publications. | 3/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 239 | Video2010 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry | Lucia Perillo, winner of the 2010 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, reads from her book "Inseminating the Elephant," at the awards ceremony. The 2010 prize, the 11th to be given, is awarded for the most distinguished book of poetry published in the preceding two years, 2008 and 2009. "Inseminating the Elephant" was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2009. Speaker Biography: Lucia Perillo's poetry has been described as vibrant, lyric and full of interesting paradoxes: elegant adjectives paired with visceral images, and violence tempered by the possibilities of human compassion and language. The New Yorker magazine said the poems in "Inseminating the Elephant" were "tough and witty" and the topics in the book ranged from "Viagra and video games to Transcendentalism." The book was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. | 3/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 240 | VideoHuman Rights Day 2010: Cultural Property Rights of Indigenous People | In recognition of Human Rights Day 2010, the Law Library of Congress hosted a panel discussion on "Cultural Property Rights of Indigenous People." Speaker Biography: Roberta I. Shaffer is the Law Librarian of Congress. Speaker Biography: Helen Stacy is a senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where she coordinates the human rights program and is a scholar of international and comparative law, human rights and legal philosophy. Speaker Biography: Betsy Kanalley is assistant manager for geospatial services at U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, where she coordinates various federal Geographic Data Committee activities within the agency and with external partners. Speaker Biography: Kelly Buchanan is a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Australia, New Zealand, independent Pacific Island nations, Indonesia and Malaysia. She is also a member of a team of writers for the Law Library's blog, "In Custodia Legis". Speaker Biography: Stephen Clarke is a senior foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Canada, Ireland, Commonwealth Caribbean countries and the English-speaking U.S. territories. He has extensive expertise in comparative and international law with an emphasis on the North American Free Trade Agreement, immigration and national security. | 3/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 241 | VideoFrancisco Campbell Hooker on the African Presence in Latin America | Ambassador Francisco Campbell Hooker of the Republic of Nicaragua disucsses the African presence in Latin America. Speaker Biography: Francisco Campbell is Nicaraguan Ambassador to the United States. | 3/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 242 | VideoMichal Govrin: Hold on to the Sun | Michal Govrin presents a lecture about her new book, "Hold on to the Sun." Speaker Biography: Michal Govrin was born in Tel Aviv, the daughter of an Israeli pioneer father and a mother who survived the Holocaust. Working as a novelist, poet and theater director, Govrin has published ten books of poetry and fiction. In 2010 she has been selected by the Salon du Livre of Paris as one of the most influential writers of the past 30 years. | 1/19/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 243 | VideoDavid Warren Steel: Makers of the Sacred Harp | David Warren Steel discusses his new book, "The Makers of the Sacred Harp," newly published by the University of Illinois Press. Speaker Biography: David Warren Steel, associate professor of music and southern culture at the University of Mississippi, has been singing in the Sacred Harp since 1972. A graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan, he edited the collected works of early American composers Stephen Jenks and Daniel Belknap. He was an editor of "The Sacred Harp," 1991 Edition, and provided liner notes for several recordings of Sacred Harp music; he has taught at Camp Fasola, a residential singing school, and appears in the documentary film "Awake My Soul." | 1/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 244 | VideoAysha Murad: From Dilmun to Bahrain | Aysha Murad discusses the past and future of Bahrain. Speaker Biography: Aysha Murad is counselor of cultural affairs for the Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain. | 1/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 245 | VideoAfrican Elites in India | Author Kenneth X. Robbins discusses his book, a series of snapshots, in the form of essays by specialists in the history numismatics, architecture, and art history of South Asia. Speaker Biography: Kenneth X. Robbins, a psychiatrist, has published more than fifty articles and three sets of 100 slides on Indian history and art. He co-edited a book on African elites in India and is currently preparing a series of books dealing with Jews in India. He has curated ten exhibitions dealing with India. His special interest is the study of the comprehensive history of the maharajas and other Indian princes utilizing everything from paintings to medals. | 1/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 246 | VideoTranslating Africa in Global Contexts | Although African myths and folktales have long been trivialized as childish, translators today are revealing new insights, which show that Africa led the world in the invention of the most sophisticated literary styles. Critics now particularly value the figurality, or use of metaphor, which dominates the African literary imagination. The ethics and politics of translating African oral literature, or folklore, are a microcosm of ethical and political problems around the world. Populations of the Indian Ocean islands, almost unknown in the English speaking world, are loyal to the traditions they inherited from their slave ancestors, thus attesting to the power of the African imagination, but they rely on those traditions to help them negotiate the flow of money, imagery, and music, which we call globalization. This talk advocates for clearer understanding of such remote cultures. Speaker Biography: Lee Haring is professor emeritus of English at Brooklyn College. He conducted folklore research for thirty years in the islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean: Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Reunion, and the Comoros. His most recent book is a collection of the region's folktales, titled "Stars and Keys." | 1/10/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 247 | VideoObserving the Living Oceans from Space | According to oceanographer Gene Feldman, there is no question among scientists that the Earth is changing. Observing the oceans from space enables NASA to monitor the biological consequences of that change and determine how it affects Earth's ability to support life. Speaker Biography: Gene Carl Feldman as been an oceanographer at Goddard since 1985 and has been involved with the production, archiving and distribution of satellite-derived ocean color-data sets. Feldman served 3.5 years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Western Samoa, where he was involved in fish farming, sea-turtle conservation, boat building and village fisheries development. After the Peace Corps, he worked as a fisheries biologist in Seattle, Alaska and San Diego. He then earned a Ph.D. in coastal oceanography from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The author and co-author of numerous publications, Feldman has also contributed to a large number of programs by the Discovery Channel, National Geographic Society, the Cousteau Society, the Smithsonian and many more. | 1/10/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 248 | VideoBroken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption | William Cope Moyers spiraled into a crack-cocaine binge that threatened to destroy his life. After multiple attempts at rehabilitation, Moyers was finally able to recover from his addiction and make sobriety the center of his life. Moyers discussed his story. Speaker Biography: A former newspaper journalist and writer at CNN, Moyers is the vice president for external affairs at the Hazelden Foundation, a renowned drug-treatment center, and executive director of Hazelden's Center for Public Advocacy. | 1/10/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 249 | VideoThe Story Behind the Stamp | Kim Therault talks about Arshile Gorky's Stamp and the development of abstract expressionism. Speaker Biography: Kim Therault is a professor at Dominican University. | 1/7/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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