Seated, left to right: Hugh Heclo, Judith Margaret Brown, the Librarian, Prosser Gifford, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Jaroslov Pelikan; standing, left to right: James Turner, Baruch Blumberg, Bruce Mazlish, Toru Haga, Robert Fogel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Sara Castro-Klaren, Amartya Sen, John Searle, William Julius Wilson, Bronislaw Geremek, Bernard Bailyn. Not pictured: Vyacheslav Ivanov, Walter McDougall, Wole Soyinka, Mario Vargas-Llosa - John Nelson
The Scholars' Council met on Sept. 24 to discuss the Kluge Prize, and on Sept. 25 it considered Kluge chairs and junior scholar fellowship competitions. They also gathered suggestions for future subjects that could, in Librarian of Congress James Billington's words, "connect scholarship with the concerns of Congress." Over the course of their two-day meeting, the council heard three presentations: the first by Pelikan titled "Normative Scripture—the Christian Bible and the American Constitution"; a second by Library staff member (who was the first Kluge Staff Fellow) Sylvia Albro on "Italian Papermaking in Fabriano, Italy"; and the third by Derrick deKerckhove, incoming Papamarkou Chair in Education, titled "Text, Context, and Hypertext." They also learned about congressional topics of interest from Roger White of the Congressional Research Service and met with Michael Sohlman of the Nobel Foundation.
