Library of Congress: talks and concerts

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Library of Congress Concert: Eddie Daniels, Roger Kellaway & the American Songbook 2011 · Talk "A duet of one" -- a concert with Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellaway, two jazz masters with classical leanings and an impressive command of the American Songbook. Library of Congress In Concert: Paolo Pandolfo & Thomas Boysen 2011 · Talk Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba) and Thomas Boysen (theorbo/Baroque guitar) play in a dazzling program of Renaissance improvisations and celebrated works by… Library of Congress One Muslim is Enough!' Evidence from a Field Experiment in France 2011 · Talk David Laitin, a political science professor who has examined the causes of religious discrimination in France, discusses the rationales that sustain… Library of Congress Schumann Trio 2011 · Talk The Schumann Trio plays works of Mozart, Schumann and Brahms. Anthony McGill, clarinet, Michael Tree, viola, Anna Polonsky, piano Program: Wolfgang Amadeus… Library of Congress NLS 80th Anniversary 2011 · Talk On March 3, 2011, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (now the National Library Service for the Blind and Print… Library of Congress Fashion & Politics in Postcolonial Argentina 2011 · Talk Regina Root discusses her new book "Couture and Consensus: Fashion and Politics in Postcolonial Argentina" (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Library of Congress Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West 2011 · Talk Elizabeth Eisenstein discusses five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers, based on her new book, "Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The… Library of Congress Father Chief Justice 2011 · Talk In honor of former Supreme Court Chief Justices Edward Douglass White (1845-1921) and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), the Law Library presented… Library of Congress Belly Dancers, Harems & Chadors 2011 · Talk Author Maha Addasi discusses the importance of getting multicultural details right in children's books. Library of Congress Marvels of Roadside & Main Street America: John Margolies 2011 · Talk The eccentric landmarks glimpsed on a road trip through a car window and the changing commercial vistas on familiar hometown streets can reveal much about… Library of Congress Ronen Givony & Tyondai Braxton 2011 · Talk Wordless Music founder and artistic director Ronen Givony and composer Tyondai Braxton discuss their work. Library of Congress Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time 2011 · Talk French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote his seminal chamber work Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) while he was a prisoner of the… Library of Congress Educating Girls in Tsarist Russia 2011 · Talk Eliyana Adler discusses her new book, "In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia." Library of Congress Assessing Options for Large Collections I (morning) 2011 · Talk (Morning Session) This symposium reviewed current best-practice preservation options of mass deacidification and environmental control for preserving… Library of Congress Assessing Options for Large Collections II (afternoon) 2011 · Talk (Afternoon Session) This symposium reviewed current best-practice preservation options of mass deacidification and environmental control for preserving… Library of Congress Compassionate Conservation in East Africa 2011 · Talk Will Travers of the Born Free Foundation offers a multimedia presentation on wildlife conservation in East Africa. Library of Congress Protectionist Empire: Trade, Tariffs & U.S. Foreign Policy, 1890-1914 2011 · Talk Ben Fordham discusses the emergence of the United States as a world power during the years prior to World War I. Library of Congress The Many Colors of the Sun 2011 · Talk W. Dean Pesnell of the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory presents an illustrated lecture on new observations and views of solar phenomena. Library of Congress The Capital Pool Checkers Club: Tradition, Competition & Community in Washington DC 2011 · Talk Ethnographic photographer Peggy Fleming spent three years photographing and interviewing the members of Washington's Capital Pool Checkers Club. Her resulting… Library of Congress Joel ben Simeon & the Washington Haggadah 2011 · Talk David Stern and Katrin Kogman-Appel discuss the 1478 Washington Haggadah illustrated by Joel ben Simeon, among the most gifted and prolific scribe-artists in… Library of Congress Poets C.D. Wright & David Wagoner 2011 · Talk Two distinguished poets, C.D. Wright and David Wagoner, will read from their work in an evening presentation at the Library of Congress. Library of Congress American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World 2011 · Talk On Nov. 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the… Library of Congress Shaping Physics in the Three Nations 2011 · Talk Kluge Fellow Josep Simon spoke on the role of pedagogy and the importance of international scientific communication in the making of modern science,… Library of Congress Ameen Rihani: The Book of Khalid 2011 · Talk The Library of Congress and the Ameen Rihani Institute presented a symposium on the 100th anniversary of the first Arab-American novel, Ameen Rihani's "The… Library of Congress Ellen & Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies 2011 · Talk The wives of Woodrow Wilson were strikingly different from each other. Ellen Axson Wilson, quiet and intellectual, died after just a year and a half in the… Library of Congress Dancing on the Volcano: The Haitian Revolution and Atlantic Performance 2011 · Talk Haiti's revolutionary origins and independence influenced its theatrical style. Kluge Fellow Peter Reed discusses the resulting perceptions of Haitians and… Library of Congress Coffee, Culture and Intellectual Property Rights: The Case of Ethiopia 2011 · Talk Heran Sereke-Berhan discusses coffee and intellectual property rights in Ethiopia. Library of Congress Money on the Road to Empire: Japan & Gold, 1873-1897 2011 · Talk Japan's gold standard adoption of 1897 might have come from the country's inability to raise foreign loans denominated in its own currency. This and other… Library of Congress IMPOWR: Women and the Rule of Law 2011 · Talk Aileen Pisciotta introduces and demonstrates the new website impowr.org from the International Models Project for Women's Rights, established by the American… Library of Congress Arthur Szyk and His Passover Haggadah 2011 · Talk Irvin Ungar discusses Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk and his haggadah created in the stunning style of medieval illuminated manuscripts. Library of Congress Health Risks of Atomic Bomb Exposure 2011 · Talk Human geneticist William Jack Schull outlines the health effects of exposure to atomic bomb radiation. Library of Congress The Last Full Measure: Civil War Photo Exhibition Opening 2011 · Talk Portrait photographs of the young men who fought in the Civil War, as well as their wives and children--poignant faces that gaze across time--are the subject… Library of Congress The Impact of Mobile Technology & Telephony in East Africa 2011 · Talk J. Kwabena Addo discusses how mobile technology and telephony have affected job and wealth creation in East Africa, and possible lessons for the rest of Africa. Library of Congress Jews & Magic in Medici Florence 2011 · Talk With work published widely in the course of his 30 years of archival research in Florence, Edward Goldberg founded the Medici Archive Project to provide… Library of Congress Carla Peterson: Black Gotham: A Family History 2011 · Talk Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, "Black Gotham: A Family History of African-Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York" (Yale University… Library of Congress Challenges of Designing the Roud Folk Song Index 2011 · Talk Steve Roud discusses his work compiling The Folk Song Index, an online index to all the traditional folksongs of the English-speaking world. The Folk Song… Library of Congress The Marriage of Preservation & Access 2011 · Talk The close alliance between preservation of cultural heritage collections and the provision of access to them will be explored, with particular reference to… Library of Congress Modigliani: A Life 2011 · Talk Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was considered the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh's. In Modigliani's time, his work… Library of Congress HIV/AIDS 2011: Where Are We Now? 2011 · Talk Mehret Mandefro discusses the past, present and future of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Library of Congress Cuba & Florida: Exploration on a Historical Connection, 1539-1991 2011 · Talk In the annual Kislak Lecture, Miguel Bretos looks at the Cuban presence in "La Florida" from the time of Ponce de Leon, almost 500 years ago, through the late… Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellows Poetry Reading 2011 2011 · Talk Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin chose two seasoned voices in poetry, Forrest Gander and Robert Bringhurst, to receive the 2011 Witter Bynner Fellowships, and… Library of Congress Teatro de la Luna's 19th Poetry Marathon 2011 · Talk In this celebration of words, the only Spanish-language poetry marathon in the country, renowned Spanish-language poets were accompanied by audience members… Library of Congress The Story of the Town of Minas de Oro in Honduras 2011 · Talk Author Marcial Cerrato Sandoval gives a Spanish-language book talk on his newest work, "The Story of the Town of Minas de Oro in Honduras." Library of Congress Student Voices: President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities 826 Workshop 2011 · Talk U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan speaks to high school students about the importance of arts education and commends them for their participation in the… Library of Congress Dignity of the Human Person 2011 · Talk What is "human dignity"? How important is it? What is its origin? Six distinguished scholars, in an informal conversation, probe the meaning of human dignity… Library of Congress American Political Cartoons: 1764-2010 2011 · Cartoon From Benjamin Franklin's drawing of the first American political cartoon in 1754 to Herblock's blistering attacks on Richard Nixon, editorial cartoons have… Library of Congress George Crumb & David Starobin 2011 · Talk A conversation with composer George Crumb on his American Songbooks cycle with a longtime friend, Bridge Records producer David Starobin. Library of Congress Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin Closes the Literary Season 2011 · Talk U.S. Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin--the two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, hailed by the New York Times as the "undisputed master"-- concluded the Library of…