Sunday, July 1, 2012

PAST: LECTURE: Lunchtime Lecture at the Library of Congress on “The Afterlives of Specimens: Science and Mourning in Whitman’s America” THURS, Jan 24th from 12:00pm - 1:00pm, Free

Lunchtime Lecture by Kluge Fellow Lindsay Tuggle at the Library of Congress “The Afterlives of Specimens: Science and Mourning in Whitman’s America” 
Thursday, January 24th 
12:00pm - 1:00pm 
Free 

The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress presents a free lunchtime lecture by Kluge Fellow Lindsay Tuggle his Thursday. Tuggle will examines the Civil War narratives of Walt Whitman and Union surgeon John H. Brinton as alternative histories of war casualties: military and poetic, phantom and physical. The lecture is part of a series of programs commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Co-sponsored by the Library's Poetry and Literature Center.

Thomas Jefferson Building, First floor
10 First St, SE 
Metro: Capitol South

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