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Film, VideoCOVID-19 and the Brain The Library of Congress has collaborated with two expert speakers to help provide further information about COVID-19 associated brain disturbances and their genesis. Although the long-term impacts of COVID-19 are still being...- Contributor: Kazmi, Sahar - Ikegawa, Masaya - Steen, Tomoko - A. Lamis, Dorian - Charles, Sandra
- Date: 2021-05-13
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Film, VideoCovid-19 in Asia Numerous factors and dynamics have been observed in how the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded in different regions of the world. To fully understand the depth of the world's varied COVID-19 experiences, it...- Contributor: Kazmi, Sahar - Hosoda, Miwako - Cowling, Benjamin - Steen, Tomoko - Dimoia, John - Charles, Sandra - Ying Hooi, Khoo - Sethi, Tavpritesh
- Date: 2022-06-22
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Film, VideoCOVID-19 and Ethics: Disparity in Pandemics Discussions about ethical considerations and disparities in COVID-19 infections have risen to prominence throughout this pandemic. The CDC has declared racism as a major public health issue as a result of the...- Contributor: Moreno, Jonathan - Schmidt, Harald
- Date: 2021-06-23
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Film, VideoInfluenza & COVID-19: What to Expect This Winter The COVID-19 pandemic has required us to adjust rapidly to significant changes in our work and home lives. Just as many of us have found a somewhat new experience of normalcy in...- Contributor: Cowling, Benjamin - Charles, Sandra - Lucey, Daniel - Cobey, Sarah
- Date: 2020-12-03
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Film, VideoCOVID-19 and Our Environment This webinar shares three different approaches of environmental detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: to detect outbreaks in its early stage using sewage water; to know the dispersion of the virus particles at...- Date: 2021-07-21
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Film, VideoHow One Pandemic, SARS, Predicted Another, COVID-19 Author and journalist Karl Taro Greenfeld discusses his prescient book on the SARS epidemic, which foreshadowed the more devastating COVID-19 pandemic, with Roswell Encina, chief of communications at the Library of Congress.- Contributor: Encina, Roswell - Greenfeld, Karl Taro
- Date: 2020-05-07
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Film, VideoOur Past and Future of Living with COVID-19 Epidemic expert Stephen Morrison discusses what COVID-19 teaches us about global health security with the Library's John Haskell.- Contributor: Haskell, John - Morrison, J. Stephen
- Date: 2020-05-04
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Film, VideoCOVID-19: Stronger Together Through a One Health Approach The Library of Congress Health Services Division and the Science, Technology and Business Division have collaborated with three expert speakers to provide the public with the latest information about the One Health...- Contributor: Deem, Sharon - McNamara, Tracey - Steen, Tomoko - Dunham, Bernadette - Charles, Sandra
- Date: 2021-10-19
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Film, VideoU.S. Fiscal Policy in the Wake of COVID-19 John W. Kluge Center Director John Haskell talks with economist Jason J. Fichtner on fiscal policy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fichtner and Haskell will consider the tools available to...- Contributor: Haskell, John - Fichtner, Jason
- Date: 2020-07-23
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Film, VideoCreative or Destructive Force? COVID-19, Russia & European Democracies Constanze Stelzenmüller and Andrew Weiss discuss what systems are handling the pandemic better and why, how the European Union is dealing with the pandemic, internal politics in Russia, and how all of...- Contributor: Weiss, Andrew - Haskell, John - Stelzenmüller, Constanze
- Date: 2020-06-10
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Film, VideoNo One Was Immune: Mapping the Great Pandemics from Columbus to COVID-19 The Library's John Hessler and Marie Arana discuss the sweep of history from the 1500s smallpox pandemic that decimated the indigenous population of the Americas to the meticulous work that is being...- Contributor: Arana, Marie - Hessler, John
- Date: 2020-04-23
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Film, VideoThe Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19 Watch a special event featuring Jeremy Brown, author of "The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pandemics from the Bible." In his book, Brown investigates the relation between Judaism and infectious diseases throughout the...- Contributor: Cuffia, Ashley - Brown, Jeremy - Horowitz, Sharon
- Date: 2023-03-29
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Film, VideoUncertainty and Loss: The Impact of the Pandemic This webinar helps promote further understanding of the current COVID-19 pandemic and encourage a dialogue about coping skills and mental health. This webinar was lead by researchers and mental health experts from...- Contributor: Kazmi, Sahar - Steen, Tomoko Y. - Sellevang, Melissa - Charles, Sandra
- Date: 2021-04-27
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BlogWatch a Recording of our Human Rights Day Panel Discussion on Contact Tracing and the Right ... A recording of the Law Library's 2020 Human Rights Day panel discussion on contact tracing and the right of privacy is now available.
- Contributor: Brammer, Robert
- Date: 2021-01-11
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Film, Video1918 Flu: What Did We Learn? The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to have significant changes to our work and home lives. After almost one year, when many of us have found a somewhat new normalcy in the...- Contributor: Lipsitch, Marc - Taubenberger, Jeffrey
- Date: 2021-01-07
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Film, VideoJohn M. Barry on "The Great Influenza" John M. Barry, author of "The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History," talks with David Rubenstein about the 1918 influenza pandemic, how the world responded and lessons to...- Contributor: Rubenstein, David - Barry, John M. - Hayden, Carla
- Date: 2020-04-07
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Film, VideoHuman Rights Day 2020: Contact Tracing & the Right of Privacy The Law Library of Congress annually commemorates Human Rights Day with a special program that promotes understanding and recognition of a critical social, economic, or cultural human rights issue. This year, a...- Contributor: Gesley, Jenny - Thompson, Ron - Rozenshtein, Alan - Roudik, Peter
- Date: 2020-12-10
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Film, VideoRegulating Remote Work During the Pandemic and After: Global Perspectives This webinar provided an overview of the considerations undertaken by the U.S., the European Union (EU), and selected foreign countries in regulating offsite work. The webinar focused on rules adopted by different...- Contributor: Levush, Ruth
- Date: 2022-07-21
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Film, VideoAn Evening with Simon Schama and Atul Gawande Writer, surgeon and public health leader Atul Gawande joined writer and public intellectual Simon Schama to discuss Schama's latest book, "Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations." The conversation explored...- Contributor: Gawande, Atul - Schama, Simon
- Date: 2023-11-16
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Film, VideoPublic Diplomacy After COVID: Is China Winning the Global PR Battle? The level of friction between the US and China appears to be rising as both countries deal with the COVID-19 outbreak, and as other issues like the status of Hong Kong only...- Contributor: Freeman, Carla P. - Haskell, John - Brands, Hal
- Date: 2020-06-26
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Film, VideoSequestered Thoughts: Damien Sneed & Jeremy Jordan Composer Damien Sneed has been paired with pianist Jeremy Jordan to write a new work for solo piano, entitled "Sequestered Thoughts." The piece was inspired by spending many days alone in solitude...- Contributor: Sneed, Damien - Jordan, Jeremy
- Date: 2020-06-15
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Film, VideoReinventing the Festival: National Book Festival 2020 To talk about the ways this book festival and so many others are having to reimagine themselves in the age of COVID-19 and the virtual world, Marie Arana (literary director of the...- Contributor: Florence, Peter - Arana, Marie - Kim, Lois - Fuentes La Roche, Cristina - Kaplan, Mitch
- Date: 2020-09-26
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BlogInspiration for an Archivist: John Cohen, Tommy Jarrell, and the Blue Ridge. This guest post by AFC archivist Maya Lerman is part of a series of posts called Staff Finds During Difficult Times, in which staff members discuss collections and items that have been...
- Contributor: Winick, Stephen
- Date: 2020-05-20
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Film, VideoFreedom of Speech in the Time of Pandemic: Central America and Eurasia The presenters reviewed legislative developments regulating mass media and their ability to distribute information freely during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, the presenters analyzed recently introduced amendments to national legislation aimed at...- Contributor: Figueroa, Dante - Fremer, Iana
- Date: 2021-10-21
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Film, VideoGIS Day 2021 Mapping Ourselves: Geographic Information Science and the 2020 Census "Mapping Ourselves: Exploring the 2020 Census" is a part of the international GIS Day events that take place at research institutions and universities around the globe. The Library of Congress has hosted...- Contributor: Riper, David Van - Bishop, Deirdre Dalpiaz - Hasier, Dr. Paulette - Hessler, John - O'Brien, Mackenzie - Leadbeater, Richard
- Date: 2021-11-17
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Film, VideoGIS Day 2020: Mapping the Pandemic Cases, Traces & Mutations For almost everyone in the world, the last few months have been unlike any experienced in their lifetimes. The current public health crisis, spawned by the outbreak of COVID-19, has shown that...- Contributor: Geraghty, Este - Dong, Ensheng - Hasier, Paulette - Hessler, John - Schoelen, Mike
- Date: 2020-11-18
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Film, VideoAdam Grant and Mishal Husain: National Book Festival 2021 Adam Grant, author of "Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know" (Viking), and Mishal Husain, author of "The Skills: From First Job to Dream Job - What Every Woman...- Contributor: Terrell, Ellen - Husain, Mishal - Burton, Levar - Grant, Adam
- Date: 2021-09-17
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Film, VideoPerspectives on the Post-COVID World Order Kluge Center Director John Haskell interviewed Hal Brands, Francis J. Gavin and historian Margaret MacMillan in a forward-looking conversation about the next few years. Topics will include the future of U.S. leadership...- Contributor: Haskell, John - Macmillan, Margaret - Gavin, Francis J. - Brands, Hal
- Date: 2020-11-19
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Film, VideoConversation with Jennifer Koh Violinist Jennifer Koh participates in an intimate and reflective conversation with the Library's Claudia Morales and Anne McLean. Koh is an artist committed to creating projects presenting many compositional voices. She discusses...- Contributor: Morales, Claudia - McLean, Anne - Koh, Jennifer
- Date: 2020-11-19
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Film, VideoWeb Metrics Analysis of the Presidential Digital Collections The Manuscript Division holds the papers of twenty-three U.S. presidents. In 2020, the division completed their digitization, making all presidential papers accessible online. Rebekah Bain and Magdalene Jensen's 2021 Junior Fellows project...- Contributor: Jensen, Magdalene - Bain, Rebekah
- Date: 2021-07-21
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Film, VideoRewriting America: Alessandro Portelli The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress hosted a one-day symposium bringing together the contemporary perspectives of public scholars, documentary producers and curators on the legacy of the Federal Writers'...- Contributor: Portelli, Alessandro
- Date: 2023-06-16
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Film, VideoRewriting America: Public Humanities & Education The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress hosted a one-day symposium bringing together the contemporary perspectives of public scholars, documentary producers and curators on the legacy of the Federal Writers'...- Contributor: Kaplan, Anna - Mutnick, Deborah - De La Piedra, Benji - Fazio, Michele
- Date: 2023-06-16
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Film, VideoRewriting America: Recovering Voices in the Federal Writer's Project The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress hosted a one-day symposium bringing together the contemporary perspectives of public scholars, documentary producers and curators on the legacy of the Federal Writers'...- Contributor: Morris Davis, Maggie - Robinson, Greg - Curtin, Maureen - Bair, Barbara - Rivera, Diana Noreen - Sun, James
- Date: 2023-06-16
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Film, VideoRewriting America: Politics, Vision, Purpose - Rewriting American Identity The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress hosted a one-day symposium bringing together the contemporary perspectives of public scholars, documentary producers and curators on the legacy of the Federal Writers'...- Contributor: Tidwell, John Edgar - Rutkowski, Sara - Hirsch, Jerrold - Rubenstein Demasi, Sue - Stewart, Catherine
- Date: 2023-06-16
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Film, VideoRewriting America: Archival Resources In Creative Culture and Media Productions The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress hosted a one-day symposium bringing together the contemporary perspectives of public scholars, documentary producers and curators on the legacy of the Federal Writers'...- Contributor: Taylor, David - Hiebert Kerst, Catherine - Morris, C. Zawadi - Emberton, Carole - Shankar, Guha
- Date: 2023-06-16
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Film, Video1462 Willard Street: Luciano Chessa & Charlton Lee Composer Luciano Chessa has been paired with violist Charlton Lee of the Del Sol Quartet to write a new work for solo viola, entitled "1462 Willard Street." From the Composer: Written for...- Contributor: Chessa, Luciano - Lee, Charlton
- Date: 2020-06-22
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BlogBotkin Folklife Lecture Premiere: Beverley Diamond Welcome to a video premiere in the Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture Series! This lecture, Listening to Divergent Histories through Canadian Music, features ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond, Professor Emerita, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland....- Contributor: Winick, Stephen
- Date: 2023-10-16
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BlogHere's to a Couple of Ruff Characters Four hundred years ago this weekend, two of the greatest geniuses in wordcraft this world has ever seen both died: William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. Shakespeare’s plays still dazzle, written though...
- Contributor: Gavin, Jennifer
- Date: 2016-04-22
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BlogLiteracy Awards Opens for Fifth Round of Applications Three awards totaling $250,000 are being offered for the fifth year in a row by the Library of Congress Literacy Awards program. Applications are due no later than March 31 at midnight...
- Contributor: Sayers, John
- Date: 2017-02-02
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BlogHomegrown Plus: PIQSIQ Inuit-Style Throat Singing It's been a while since we posted a Homegrown Plus post! In this ongoing series, we present Homegrown concerts that also had accompanying oral history interviews, placing both videos together in an...
- Contributor: Winick, Stephen
- Date: 2021-11-30
