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In 2023, the John W. Kluge Center continued its work bringing scholars, writers, and lawmakers to the Library of Congress for public programming that informs, entertains, and shines a spotlight on the collections of the Library.
With 2023 behind us, we’ve collected some of our favorite events we’ve hosted in the last year, all available to watch now.
Through History to Equality
The Kluge Center worked with 2022 Kluge Prize recipient George Chauncey on a series of three public programs titled “Through History to Equality,” looking at LGBTQ+ life during the 20th and 21st centuries.
In “Fr ..read more
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1y ago
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the appointment of Timothy Frye as the Library of Congress Chair in US-Russia Relations. Frye began his time at the Kluge Center in January.
Frye is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books including “Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Markets in Russia” (University of Michigan Press, 2000), “Building States and Markets after Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy” (Cambrid ..read more
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2y ago
This is part two of our interview with Gene Zubovich. For the first part, click here.
What drew the attention of activist Protestants towards international affairs, and what impact did that have?
In Before the Religious Right I discuss the work liberal Protestants were doing to fight racism, economic inequality, and to reshape American foreign policy. They knocked on doors in San Francisco to organize against racially-restrictive housing covenants. They filed briefs in landmark Supreme Court decisions. In other words, liberal Protestants were at the center of some of the most important domesti ..read more
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2y ago
Gene Zubovich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, as well as a Kluge Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He is the author of “Before the Religious Right.”
On April 19, 2022 at 4pm, Zubovich will discuss “Before the Religious Right” in a public event with the Kluge Center. Register here to attend in person or watch virtually.
This is part one of a two-part blog post. Check back next week for part 2.
How did you come to write this book and how did your thinking about liberal Protestants develop as you researc ..read more
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2y ago
Yu Ying-shih delivering his acceptance speech for the 2006 Kluge Prize.
Yu Ying-shih, considered by many to be the greatest Chinese historian of his time, passed away on August 1st at age 91 in his Princeton, New Jersey home.
Yu was Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Born in Tianjin, China, he received his PhD from Harvard University in 1962. Over a long and distinguished career, he taught at the University of Michigan, Yale University, Princeton University, and Harvard, in addition to serving as Head of New Asia College in Hong Kong. Yu retired fr ..read more
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3y ago
Introduction from the Director of the Kluge Center
Around the turn of the century, then-Librarian of Congress James Billington secured a generous gift to endow the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations, concurrent with the opening of the Kluge Center. Many of Dr. Kissinger’s friends and colleagues, as well as foundations, contributed to the endowment. The first chair, Aaron Friedberg, took residence just as the international order was thrown into disarray with the attacks on the US on September 11, 2001.
From the beginning, the Kissinger chairs have been drawn ..read more
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3y ago
Credit: Rodrigo Corral
Origin stories are never simple, and this is as true for countries as it is for individuals, ideas, and cultures.
That the term “nation-state,” which designates one of the primary building blocks of modern geopolitical order, is a compound word speaks to this complexity, and there are many reasons why scholars are unable to fully agree on its evolution, which dates back at least as far as the Treaty of Westphalia (1648.)
In broad strokes, states are political units while the word “nations” has traditionally referred to groups of people with similar ethnic identities. N ..read more
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3y ago
In an event released on February 11, Kluge Center Director John Haskell interviewed Charles Kupchan on his new book: Isolationism: A History of America’s Effort to Shield Itself from the World.
Kupchan, Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said that he began considering isolationism in the 1990s, at a time when the US was committed to deep involvement in foreign affairs. Kupchan wondered if the American people would want to “put on the brakes” after intervent ..read more
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3y ago
No one needs reminding that democracy in the US, Europe, and elsewhere is under stress. Led by Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden, the Kluge Center has hosted some of the greatest thinkers from the academy and leading practitioners in the political and policymaking world for conversations on the future of democracy. In fact, the goal of making Kluge a go-to place for those conversations informs the process for selecting Kluge Fellows and Chairs, as well as the winner of the Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity.
Over the last few years, as Kluge sharpened its focus on the th ..read more
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3y ago
This is a guest post by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado. He is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies and Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. He plans to be in residence at the Kluge Center during the summer of 2021 as the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the South.
November 20 marks the anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican Revolution and as the pandemic keeps me from visiting my other country, I have been thinking deeply about those cultural ties. American artists, writers, and thi ..read more