Event Lectures and Symposia Carla Hayden and Lonnie Bunch: Cultural Institutions at Times of Social Unrest

Date and Location

  • When: Friday, June 5, 2020

    7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

  • This event will be livestreamed on Facebook External and YouTube External. It will be available for viewing afterwards in the Library's Event Videos collection.

  • Where: Online Only

Part of National Book Festival

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Part of the June National Book Festival Presents series "Connecting the World With Words"

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch discuss the future of their institutions and how they remain accessible and relevant during a period of global pandemic coupled with nationwide protests against injustice. Bunch is the author of “A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Era of Bush, Obama, and Trump.”