Upcoming Events at the Library of Congress

Events at the Library of Congress Cathy Park Hong & Wayétu Moore on the Art of the Memoir Thursday, May 27, 7 - 8 pm ET Watch the premiere with closed captions on Facebook and YouTube. Poet Cathy Park Hong ("Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning") and novelist Wayétu Moore ("The Dragons, the Giant, the Women"), both nominees for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography, discuss how their memoirs give voice to history and speak to the present moment. Click here to learn more.  Marouan Benabdallah, Piano Thursday, May 27, 8 - 9 pm ET Watch the premiere with closed captions on Facebook and YouTube. Marouan Benabdallah will perform some of the remarkable finds from his explorations, with music by composers from Syria, Algeria, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Morocco on the program. These pieces are paired with his own solo piano arrangement of Saint-Saëns' Africa, juxtaposing the exoticized European "Arabesque" with recent music by composers who offer their own take. Click here to learn more.  Conversation with Irenosan Iseghohi-Okojie Tuesday, May 25, 10 - 11 am ET Nigerian-born short story and novel writer Irenosen Iseghohi-Okojie discusses her writing and career. She is the winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize, a literature prize awarded to an African writer of a short story published in English. The prize was launched in 2000 to encourage and highlight the richness and diversity of African writing by bringing it to a wider audience internationally. The program will also feature a collection presentation of the Library's Africana collections. Watch on Zoom. Click here to learn more.  Kassern's Opera 'The Annointed,' the Koussevitzky Foundation, and the Music of Holocaust Memory in Early Cold War Wednesday, May 26, 10 - 11 am ET Watch the premiere with closed captions on YouTube. Professor Mackenzie Pierce analyzes one of the earliest operas that commemorates the Holocaust, "The Annointed" (1951) by Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern. Drawing on unexamined materials from the Koussevitzky papers and Koussevitzky Foundation's collection at the Library of Congress, Pierce examines how Holocaust survivors deployed music to navigate the often incompatible personal, political, and commemorative demands of the early postwar period. Click here to learn more. Central Bank Digital Currencies - the Future of the Monetary System? Thursday, May 27, 2 - 3 pm ET This event will discuss central bank digital currencies and how they fit in the general monetary system. This webinar will discuss the definition of money, fiat currencies, digital currencies, cryptocurrencies, and their similarities and differences. Register on Zoom.  Click here to learn more.  Home  |  About  |  Contact Subscriber Preferences & Unsubscribe  |  Subscriber Help   This email was sent to stevenmagallanes520.nims@blogger.com using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: Library of Congress · 101 Independence Ave, SE · Washington, DC 20540 · 202-707-5000