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His Royal Highness Prince Ermias Sahle-Selsssie Haile Selassie discusses his work.

Speaker Biography: Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie is president of the Crown Council of Ethiopia. He is the only son of Prince Sahle Selassie of Ethiopia and Princess Mahisente Habte Mariam. He is the grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, and also of Dejazmach Habte Mariam Gebre Igziabiher, the heir to the former Welega kingdom of Leqa Naqamte. Prince Ermias was named recipient of the ISSA Silver Star Award for Outstanding Contributions to Strategic Progress Through Humanitarian Achievement by the International Strategic Studies Association, for his work for Ethiopian refugees in Africa.

Noted writer, illustrator and designer Maira Kalman's year-long investigation of democracy and how it works has resulted in her newest book, "And the Pursuit of Happiness."

Speaker Biography: Maira Kalman is widely renowned for her contributions to The New York Times, The New Yorker and other major publications.

Joan Nathan discusses her latest book.

Speaker Biography: Joan Nathan is the author of ten cookbooks, including the much-acclaimed Jewish Cooking in America. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Food Arts Magazine and Tablet Magazine, among other publications.

Lucia Perillo, winner of the 2010 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, reads from her book "Inseminating the Elephant," at the awards ceremony. The 2010 prize, the 11th to be given, is awarded for the most distinguished book of poetry published in the preceding two years, 2008 and 2009. "Inseminating the Elephant" was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2009.

Speaker Biography: Lucia Perillo's poetry has been described as vibrant, lyric and full of interesting paradoxes: elegant adjectives paired with visceral images, and violence tempered by the possibilities of human compassion and language. The New Yorker magazine said the poems in "Inseminating the Elephant" were "tough and witty" and the topics in the book ranged from "Viagra and video games to Transcendentalism." The book was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

In recognition of Human Rights Day 2010, the Law Library of Congress hosted a panel discussion on "Cultural Property Rights of Indigenous People."

Speaker Biography: Roberta I. Shaffer is the Law Librarian of Congress.

Speaker Biography: Helen Stacy is a senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where she coordinates the human rights program and is a scholar of international and comparative law, human rights and legal philosophy.

Speaker Biography: Betsy Kanalley is assistant manager for geospatial services at U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, where she coordinates various federal Geographic Data Committee activities within the agency and with external partners.

Speaker Biography: Kelly Buchanan is a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Australia, New Zealand, independent Pacific Island nations, Indonesia and Malaysia. She is also a member of a team of writers for the Law Library's blog, "In Custodia Legis".

Speaker Biography: Stephen Clarke is a senior foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Canada, Ireland, Commonwealth Caribbean countries and the English-speaking U.S. territories. He has extensive expertise in comparative and international law with an emphasis on the North American Free Trade Agreement, immigration and national security.

Ambassador Francisco Campbell Hooker of the Republic of Nicaragua disucsses the African presence in Latin America. Speaker Biography: Francisco Campbell is Nicaraguan Ambassador to the United States.