Below is a listing of events at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, including lectures, book talks, symposia, workshops and round-table discussions. Links to more information and/or webcasts are given when available. Unless otherwise indicated, all events are free and open to the public; no reservations are required. Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at 202-707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.
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February 9, 2012
Lecture: Hector Leyva Carlas - “Marvelous Country, Precious and Horrible: Honduras through Travel Writing from the Nineteenth Century”
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ 119 <view map>
February 15, 2012
Event: John Hessler - “Written in Stone: Roman Law, Legal Epigraphy, and the Geography of Roman Agriculture.” Kluge Center and the Law Library
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., Whittall Pavillion <view map>
February 16, Thursday
Lecture: Dmitry Galtsin - "A Train of Disasters: Puritan Reaction to New England Crisis of 1680-90s."
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ119 <view map>
February 29, 2012
Book Talk and Signing: William May, Former Cary and Ann Maguire Chair “Testing the National Covenant”
3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m., LJ119 <view map>
March 1, 2012
Lecture: Adriana Brodsky: "Becoming Jewish-Argentines: Sephardim, marriage choice, and the construction of a Jewish Argentine Identity (1920-1960)"
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ 119 <view map>
March 15, 2012
Lecture: Chet Adam Van Duzer "The Legends on Martin Waldseemüller's Carta marina of 1516."
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m., LJ 119 <view map>
March 26-27, 2012
Stress Conference with George Chrousos, Kluge Chair in Technology and Society
(times, TBD), LJ 119 <view map>
April 4, 2012
Symposium: Victoria Arana: ‘Creolization, multiculturalism, interculturality and the global present: Beyond the naming of things.’
Time and location TBD
April 13, 2012
Lecture: Aziz Al-Azmeh: “The Middle East: Liberal values and Muslim populist identity.”
4:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m., LJ119 <view map>
