September 2000

Continuing from 20 November 1999 through 22 January 2001

Smithsonian Institution Libraries
National Museum of American History,
First Floor, West Wing
Exhibition: Make the Dirt Fly! Building the Panama Canal
For information call 202/ 357-1568

Continuing from 28 June through 25 November 2000

The Folger Shakespeare Library
The Great Hall
Exhibition: A Decade of Collecting: Celebrating Ten Years Of Acquisitions, 1990-1999
For information call 202/544-7077

Friday, 8 September 9:30 am to 3:00 pm

The Library of Congress
Madison Hall
Dining Room A and Mumford Room
International Literacy Day Celebration
Co-sponsored with 13 National and International Organizations

Friday, 8 September 2:00 pm

The Catholic University of America
School of Philosophy
Life Cycle Institute, Auditorium
Lecture: The Colors of the Spirit: Emerson
and Thoreau on Nature and the Self
RUSSELL GOODMAN, University of New Mexico

Monday, 12 September 9:00 am to 12:00 noon

The Library of Congress
African and Middle Eastern Division,
Office of Scholarly Programs
Jefferson Building, Room LJ-119
Symposium: Islam and Globalization

Friday, 15 September through Saturday, 16 September

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
National Gallery of Art, West Building Lecture Hall
Symposium: Circa 1700:
Architecture in Europe and the Americas
Friday 15 & Saturday, 16 September 10:00 am to 5:30 pm
Friday, 15 September 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
West Building Garden Café

Friday, 15 September 2:00 pm

The Catholic University of America
School of Philosophy
Life Cycle Institute, Auditorium
Lecture: Peirce's Reclamation of Teleology
VINCENT COLAPIETRO, Pennsylvania State University

Friday, 22 September 2:00 pm

The Catholic University of America
School of Philosophy
Life Cycle Institute, Auditorium
Lecture: Pragmatism without Regulative Ideas? In Defense
of Charles Peirce's Theory of Reality and Truth
KARL-OTTO APEL, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet
Frankfurt am Main

Tuesday, 26 September 12:30 pm

Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
Center Conference Room
Works in Progress Series
EYDA MEREDIZ, University of Maryland

Thursday, 28 September 8:30 am to 5:00 pm

The Library of Congress
Office of Scholarly Programs
Madison Building, Mumford Room
Symposium: The American Response to the Armenian Genocide

Thursday, 28 September 7:00 pm

The Library of Congress
Madison Building, Mumford Room
Books and Beyond Lecture Series
Lecture 1: Conversations: How Talk Can Change Your Life
THEODORE ZELDIN, Author

Friday, 29 September 2:00 pm

The Catholic University of America
School of Philosophy
Life Cycle Institute, Auditorium
Lecture: The World Beyond Our Mountains: Nature
in the Philosophy of Josiah Royce
JOHN CLENDENNING, California State University North Ridge