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The African Section, African & Middle Eastern Division is sponsoring “Conversations with African Poets and Writers”, featuring Lesley Nneka Arimah, author and 2019 Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, on Thursday, February 20, 2020, from 12:00 -1:00PM, in the Whittall Pavilion, Ground Floor, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 11 First St. SE, Washington, DC.  A book signing and a display of Africana books and other materials follow. 

The Conversations with African Poets and Writers Series presents interviews with current African diaspora writers committed to the literature of continental and diasporic Africa (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, literary criticism) and readings from their written works. Authors include established writers as well as highly talented ‘new’ and emerging writers.

Please forward inquiries to Laverne Page at (202) 707-1979 or email mpag@loc.gov.

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or email ADA@loc.gov.

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Country Music Icon Trisha Yearwood and Gershwin Prize Recipient Garth Brooks “In Conversation with Librarian of Congress,” March 2

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will host a conversation with Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter Garth Brooks and country music artist, actress, author, celebrity chef and wife of Brooks, Trisha Yearwood on Monday, March 2 at 7:00 p.m. in the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium in the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C.

Brooks will receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song later that week on Wednesday, March 4. The country music titan and multiple hall of famer is the youngest recipient of the prestigious prize. You can follow and join in on the #GershwinPrize conversation via Twitter.

During the conversation, Brooks and Yearwood will discuss their success as a country music power couple, their careers as music industry changemakers and the humanitarian projects they devote their efforts to each year. The conversation is being presented as part of the Library’s initiative to Explore America’s Changemakers.

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Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

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Fraser, Nancy, author

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Online Resource

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Panel:

• Joe Eames
• Aimee Knight
• AJ ONeal

Special Guests: Tom Dale

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panel talks to Tom Dale about Ember 3.0 and the future of Ember. Tom is the co-creator of Ember and is a principle staff engineer at LinkedIn where he works on a team called Presentation Infrastructure. They talk about being in the customer service role, having a collaborative culture, and all the information on Ember 3.0. They also touch on the tendency towards disposable software, the Ember model, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How Joe met Tom
• Programmers as rule breakers
• The pressure to conform
• Tom intro
• Staff engineer at LinkedIn
• Customer service role
• Having a way to role improvements out to a lot of different people
• JavaScript and Ember at LinkedIn
• Having a collaborative culture
• All about Ember 3.0
• Banner feature – there is nothing new
• Cracked how you develop software in the open source world that has longevity
• Major competition in Backbone previously
• The Ember community has never been more vibrant
• Tendency towards disposable software
• The idea of steady iteration towards improvement
• The Ember model
• Being different from different frameworks
• Ember adoption rates
• Python 3
• Valuable from a business perspective to use Ember
• Ember community being friendly to newbies
• How much Ember VS how much JavaScript will a new developer have to learn?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Ember
• LinkedIn
• JavaScript
• Backbone
• Python
• @tomdale
• tomdale.net
• Tom’s GitHub

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Sentry
• Digital Ocean

Picks:

Joe

• Framework Summit
• Jayne
• React sent Evan You a cake

Aimee

• Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule by Paul Graham

AJ

• James Veitch

Tom

• JavaScript Tech Talk
• Drake’s Ties
• Melissa Watson Ellis at Hall Madden

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On May 13, join the John W. Kluge Center for the first in our Conversations on the Future of Democracy series featuring Yuval Levin, who will be discussing his new book, A Time to Build, a look at the critical importance of formative institutions in society, their deterioration in recent decades, and practical steps to begin addressing the problem.

Find the event on May 13 at the Library’s showcase for everything you can access while the doors are closed: Library of Congress: Engage!

And sign up for a free ticket to get a reminder when the event happens.

Yuval Levin is a distinguished scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies. Levin is also the editor-in-chief of National Affairs.

Also, we’ve got a packed schedule of virtual events lined up, so stay tuned for more.

Interesting conversation topics for friends

JAMA Author Interviews is taking on a new look! Be sure to subscribe to Conversations with Dr Bauchner, a podcast that features the same insightful interviews with leading researchers and thinkers in health care. Covering a broad range of practice-changing research and important innovations, Conversations with Dr Bauchner is a convenient way to stay current with the most pressing issues facing medicine and healthcare. Listen and subscribe at jamanetworkaudio.com.

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Jensen, Michael P., interviewer

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We sit down with the first president and ask him questions submitted by podcast listeners. Listen as Ron Carnegie interprets George Washington.

George Washington shares his thoughts on the role of government and his hopes for the future in part two of this listener-question interview. Ron Carnegie interprets the first president.

Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin talks with us about the challenges of applying the founders’ vision to modern governance. Even after two centuries, the America they envisioned still matters.

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper says negative politics erodes citizens’ faith in government. Hear his views on the founders, participation, and local involvement.

Former head of the CIA and Secretary of Defense in Republican and Democratic administrations, Robert Gates is a man who knows something about politics, pragmatism, and compromise. He sits down with us this week to talk about the portability of American values, the constants of conflict, and the nation’s unique fortune in the caliber of […]

Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss visits Colonial Williamsburg and shares his views on the changes technology brings to politics and the presidency, and ruminates on the importance of place.

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Ekta was seen on a live stream with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in a show called "Heart to Heart".