New Pontus Lidberg Commission to Premiere The Martha Graham Dance Company comes to the Library of Congress for a 10-day spring festival March 24-April 2, 2016. As the centerpiece for a wide-ranging celebration marking the Library’s 90th anniversary as a…
Theologian and human-rights scholar David Hollenbach will discuss humanitarian crises and the responsibilities of nations and organizations to assist people displaced by war, in the annual Maguire lecture at the Library of Congress on Jan. 26. Hollenbach holds the Cary…
Twice each year, the Library of Congress opens its magnificent Main Reading Room for a special open house to share information about how the public can access the Library’s resources year-round. The second open house of the year will take…
To launch the annual International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries and Museums, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress (AFC) and the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums (ATALM) present a symposium. Titled “Civil Rights, Identity and…
Monday, July 6, 12:00 Noon Ethiopian poet Lemn Sissay will read selections from his work and participate in a moderated discussion with Fentahun Tiruneh, Reference Specialist in the African and Middle Eastern Division. This event is free and open to…
“Our Auntie Rosa” Memoir Offers Personal Side of Parks’ Life Rosa Parks is internationally famous for her role in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. Yet few know the other side of Parks’ life. A new memoir, “Our…
Event to Feature 32 “Lightning Conversations” – 70 top scholars, Three Past Kluge Prize Winners to Take Stage Seventy top scholars in foreign policy, history, ethics, religion and other fields within the humanities and social sciences will convene on Capitol…
Noted literary critic and translator of Portuguese literature Richard Zenith presents a lecture titled “Fernando Pessoa: An Englishly Portuguese, Endlessly Multiple Poet” at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4, in the Library’s Whittall Pavilion. The pavilion is located on the…
