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Leading scholars from throughout the United States will join experts from the Library of Congress in the program, "Art, Culture, and Government: The New Deal at 75," on Thursday and Friday, March 13 – 14, at the Library of Congress. -�[Read�more]

The Library of Congress has begun to receive donated books from the National Library of China through the Window of China Project. Founded in 2006, the Window of China Project donates books to national libraries and other institutions around the world.

To celebrate the Library’s participation in this project, a ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 12 in the Asian Reading Room, Room 150 of the Thomas Jefferson Building located at 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C. The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature a small display of selected donated books. -�[Read�more]

Three films produced by students at the Ma’ale School of Television, Film and the Arts in Jerusalem will be screened at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 19 in Dining Room A, located on the sixth floor of the Library’s James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. The event is free and open to the public; no tickets are required. -�[Read�more]

Ellen Berg, Swann Foundation fellow, will present "Where Have You Gone, Miss Columbia? American Identity and Uncle Sam’s Forgotten Partner," at noon on Wednesday, March 5, in Dining Room A on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. The event is free and open to the public; no reservations are required.

Berg’s illustrated lecture is based on research conducted at the Library of Congress during her fellowship awarded last year by the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon. Berg’s presentation is sponsored by the foundation, which is managed by the Library, and the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division. -�[Read�more]

Artistic Performances, Lectures and Comedy Revue Film Headline Library of Congress African American History Month Events
Web Site and Display Showcasing Librarys Black Collections Kick Off Celebration -�[Read�more]

Award-winning author and illustrator Tracy Sugarman will give a visual presentation and discuss his new memoir, "Drawing Conclusions: An Artist Discovers His America," at a special program at noon on Thursday, Feb. 7, in Dining Room A of the Library’s James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. -�[Read�more]

The Druze are a thousand-year-old religious community of the Middle East, whose members today live primarily in Lebanon, Syria and Israel, while others have emigrated to the United States, Europe and Africa. Their historical and intellectual legacy will be examined by 10 scholars from the U.S. and Middle East who will participate in a symposium to be held at the Library of Congress from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7 in Room LJ-119, located on the first floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street S.E., Washington D.C. -�[Read�more]

Raphael Cohen-Almagor will discuss the theories about democracy outlined in his book at a lecture to be held at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 12 in Room 220 of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building located at 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C. The lecture, sponsored by the African and Middle Eastern Division, is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required but seating is limited. -�[Read�more]

Advances in science in recent decades have revolutionized the understanding of the nature of drug abuse and addiction and what society needs to do about them.

Alan Leshner, chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), will discuss the topic in a lecture titled "The New Science of Addiction and What It Means for Society" at the Library of Congress at noon on Tuesday, March 4, in the Mumford Room on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. -�[Read�more]

Noted poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller, Sally Bliumis-Dunn and Benjamin Morris will read poems about love from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 12, in the Mary Pickford Theater on the third floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. -�[Read�more]

Donald A. Ritchie will discuss and sign his new book, “Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932,” at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 14, in the Mary Pickford Theater on the third floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C. -�[Read�more]

Tim Davis, owner and director of International Visions-The Gallery in Washington, D.C., will give an overview of the gallery’s exhibition "Africa Revisited" at a lecture titled "Conversations on African Cultural Expression." The lecture will be held at the Library of Congress at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 30, in Room 220 in the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C. -�[Read�more]

Homegrown Concert: Major League Tassa performs Indo-Caribbean drumming and dance from Queens, N.Y. No tickets are required. Noon, Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. -�[Read�more]

Michael B. Oren will discuss and sign his book "Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present" at the Library of Congress at noon on Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Mary Pickford Theater on the third floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C. -�[Read�more]

"Terrorism Trials - Some Experiences from US Allies" Presented by James Renwick

Date: January 14, 2008
Time: 12 to 1 p.m.
Location: Law Library Multimedia Room, LM 240 2nd floor, blue corridor James Madison Building Library of Congress

Seating is limited, reservations are required, R.S.V.P. to Alisa Carrel (acar@loc.gov) by Friday, January 11, 2008.

James Renwick, an Australian Barrister, is a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. -�[Read�more]

The Library of Congress Spring 2008 Literary Season will include poetry readings by U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic and six other distinguished poets; the presentation of the Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowships in March; and the 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry in April during National Poetry Month.

The readings will be Thursday, Feb. 7, with poets Li-Young Lee and David Kirby; Thursday, March 27, with Rodney Jones and Ellen Bryant Voigt; Thursday, April 24, with Charles Wright and former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand; and Thursday, May 8, with Simic, who will also attend the March 27 and April 24 readings to introduce the poets. -�[Read�more]

Is a philosophical system born in China 2,500 years ago still relevant in the 21st century? A panel of scholars will attempt to answer this question in a symposium titled "The Contemporary Significance of Confucianism" to be held at the Library of Congress from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24 in the Whittall Pavilion of the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C. The second day of the conference will be held at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md.

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The story of how one man made a difference in the lives of more than 600 children and their descendants is the subject of "Nicholas Winton: The Power of Good," an Emmy Award-winning film by Matej Minac. The film about the man known as "The British Schindler" will be shown at noon on Tuesday, Jan. 29 , in the Pickford Theater, located on the third floor of the Library’s James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. -�[Read�more]

Economic globalization is a new word for an old process, according to economic historian Herman Van der Wee, holder of the Chair of the Countries and Cultures of the North in the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. -�[Read�more]

Was the bombing of Pearl Harbor an unprovoked attack on the United States? According to a new book by Edward S. Miller, the Japanese motivation stemmed from U.S. plans to defeat Japan economically in the years before World War II.

Miller will discuss his book, "Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor" at noon on Tuesday, Jan. 15, in the Whittall Pavilion on the ground floor of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C. -�[Read�more]