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Chairman's Speeches

The German-American Heritage of Scott County, Iowa
St. Ambrose University
Davenport
,
IA

June 16, 2012
Boyhood Roots of National Leadership
50th Anniversary of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum
Iowa City
,
IA

June 15, 2012
Touching the Yupiaq Heart
University of Alaska
Fairbanks
,
AK

May 13, 2012
The Power of the Humanities
American Council of Learned Societies
Philadelphia
,
PA

May 11, 2012
Every Day is History Day
Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C.
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April 26, 2012
On the Screening of the Film Besa
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington
,
DC

April 26, 2012
Comments of NEH Chairman Jim Leach at Dinner Honoring Vice-Chairman Sun Jiazheng of the CPPCC
Dinner Honoring Vice-Chairman Sun Jiazheng of the CPPCC
Washington
,
DC

March 26, 2012
Comments by Jim Leach, NEH Chairman, at screening of documentary Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter
National Gallery of Art
Washington
,
DC

February 12, 2012
The Revolutionary Implications of the Digital Humanities
The Fifth International Conference of HASTAC, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
,
MI

December 2, 2011
Politics: a Game to Win or Challenge to Lead
University of Iowa Political Discourse Symposium
Iowa City
,
IA

November 9, 2011
Re-Imagining the American Dream: the Humanities and Citizenship
2011 National Humanities Conference
St. Petersburg
,
FL

November 5, 2011
Humanities and Citizenship
National Academy of Education 2011 Annual Meeting, George Washington University
Washington
,
DC

October 28, 2011
An Infrastructure of Ideas
Digital Public Library of America Conference, National Archives
Washington
,
DC

October 21, 2011
Benjamin Franklin and Mikhail Lomonosov: Eighteenth-century Brothers in Spirit
American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation, Embassy of the Russian Federation
Washington
,
DC

October 12, 2011
Comments of Jim Leach at the Opening of the Exhibition of the King James Bible
Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington
,
DC

September 21, 2011