5.0453 NEH Summer Seminars (1/907
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 18 Nov 1991 13:42:38 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0453. Monday, 18 Nov 1991.
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 91 09:16:48 CST
From: nm1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor)
Subject: NEH Summer Seminars
I apologize for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting this announcement
on several lists. The purpose of the posting is two-fold: (1) to announce
the NEH Summer Seminars for 1992, and (2) to help NEH test the efficacy of
making such announcements via e-mail.
Natalie Maynor, English Department, Mississippi State University
(nm1@ra.msstate.edu)
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Seminars for College Teachers
1992
(Seminars last from five to eight weeks. Participants receive a stipend
between $2,825 and $4,000, depending on the length of the seminar.)
Application deadline: March 2, 1992
ANTHROPOLOGY AND FOLKLORE
LAWRENCE ROSEN
Department of Anthropology
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Anthropological Approaches to Law
Interactions between law and society in
various cultures, with frequent references
to American legal thought
June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks)
See also:
Foreign and Comparative Literature--Foley,
Slater
ARTS
ALISTAIR DUCKWORTH
Department of English
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611
The Picturesque Movement
The history and resonances of the debate
over the cultural role of the picturesque in
literature, painting, and landscape
June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks)
WILLIAM FERRIS
Center for the Study of
Southern Culture
University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi 38677
Blues as History, Literature,
and Culture
Origin and development of the blues, and its
relation to other music and literature
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
MARCIA HALL
Art History Department
Retter Annex 8
Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122
Roman Painting, 1480-1550
High Renaissance paintings examined with the
aid of recent restoration campaigns and new
approaches to color and technique
Location: Rome
June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks)
JOHN PINTO
Department of Art and Archaeology
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Architecture and Urbanism in Rome,
1500-1750
Renaissance and baroque architecture in the
historical and physical context of Rome's
urban fabric
Location: American Academy in Rome
June 8 to July 24, 1992 (seven weeks)
RICHARD WENDORF
The Houghton Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Portraiture: Biography, Portrait
Painting, and the Representation
of Historical Character
Parallel transformations in writing and
painting as seen in Boswell, Strachey,
Rembrandt, Hogarth, and Reynolds
June 29 to August 21, 1992 (eight weeks)
See also:
English and American Literature--Stein
Foreign and Comparative Literature--Kaes
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
HANS AARSLEFF
Department of English
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
The Problem of Language and
Human Nature: Locke through
Romanticism
Roles of new conceptions of language in
artistic and cultural developments
June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks)
PAULA BACKSCHEIDER
English Department
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York 14627
Biography and the Uses of
Biographical Evidence: The
Restoration through the
Eighteenth Century
Relationship between critical theories of
biography and the practices of locating,
interpreting, and using evidence
Location: Public Records Office, London
June 8 to July 24, 1992 (seven weeks)
JEROME CHRISTENSEN
English Department
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
British Romanticism and the Triumph of
Liberalism
Canonical texts of the post-Napoleonic era
in which liberalism emerged, read against
present-day political commentary
June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks)
MARK KRUPNICK
Divinity School
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Jewish-American Literature
since 1925
The shift from ethnic to religious concerns
in novels, stories, and essays
June 15 to July 31, 1992 (seven weeks)
MASON I. LOWANCE, Jr.
Department of English
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts 01003
Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ante-Bellum
American Culture: The Puritan
Sermon, the Slave Narrative, and the
Captivity Narrative
How several American literary traditions
culminate in the rhetorical strategies of
Stowe's novel
Location: Newberry Library, Chicago
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
STEVEN MULLANEY
c/o E. Karen Clark
Department of English
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Inventing the New World: Texts, Contexts,
Approaches
Narrative and pictorial constructions of the
New World, in light of 16th- and
17th-century politics and culture
July 7 to August 14, 1992 (six weeks)
KAREN NEWMAN
Department of Comparative Literature
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
City Scenes: Culture and Society in
Seventeenth-Century London and Paris
Impact of urban development on verbal and
visual texts in the two cities
June 8 to July 17, 1992 (six weeks)
MICHAEL SEIDEL
Department of English
c/o Summer Session Office
419 Lewisohn Hall
Columbia University
New York, New York 10027
Narrative Theory and Narrative
Practice: Reading, Interpreting,
and Teaching James Joyce's
Ulysses
Intensive reading and discussion, examining
the conception and design of Joyce's novel
June 22 to July 24, 1992 (five weeks)
HOWARD STEIN
Theater Division: School of the Arts
c/o Summer Session Office
419 Lewisohn Hall
Columbia University
New York, New York 10027
The American Playwright, 1920-80
Values and concepts of reality: From O'Neill
and Odets, through Miller, to Gelber and Rabe
June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks)
MARTHA VICINUS
Department of English
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1045
The Construction of the "New Woman"
and the "New Man" in the 1890s
Public discussions and literary
representations of masculinity and
femininity in late Victorian England
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
See also:
Arts--Duckworth, Wendorf
Foreign and Comparative Literature--Furst
FOREIGN AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
ERNST BEHLER
Comparative Literature, GN-32
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195
Romantic Literary Theory and
Literary Modernity
Romantic theory through 18th-century
debates, its 19th-century reception, and its
postmodern reformulation
June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks)
HOWARD BLOCH
French Department
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720
Old French Fabliaux and the
Medieval Sense of the Comic
The cultural context of some 170 tales, and
their effect on European comic traditions
June 22 to July 31, 1992 (six weeks)
JOHN FOLEY
Center for Study in Oral Tradition
301 Read Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri 65211
The Oral Tradition in Literature
The Bible, Homer, Beowulf, and the Cid
alongside living oral literature (Yugoslav,
American Indian, and African)
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
LILIAN FURST
c/o Karen Rezendes
Comparative Literature
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-2087
Rereading Realist Fiction: Balzac, Eliot,
Mann
Critical approaches to the means, devices,
and artifices of the 19th-century realist
novel
June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks)
BENJAMIN HARSHAV
c/o Yale Summer Programs/NEH
Box 2145--Yale Station
New Haven, Connecticut 06520
The Modern Jewish Revolution:
Literature, Culture, and History
Modernity expressed in Jewish literature and
in assimilated writers like Kafka and Freud
June 14 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
ANTON KAES
Department of German
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720
Modernity and the City: Film,
Literature, and Urban Culture
in the Weimar Republic
Responses of German filmmakers, writers, and
intellectuals to urbanization and
modernization
Location: Berlin
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
JOHN KRONIK
Department of Romance Studies
Cornell University
Goldwin Smith Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853
Hispanic Metafiction
Critical examination of texts (Galdos,
Cortazar, Garcia Marquez, Galdo, Cela) that
deploy self-consciously literary strategies
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
ENRICO MARIO SANTI
Department of Spanish
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C. 20057
Poetry and Poetics in Latin America,
1880-1980
Methodological and critical issues grounded
in the works of Dario, Mistral, Neruda, Paz,
et al.
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
CANDACE SLATER
Department of Spanish
and Portuguese
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720
Images of Amazonia
The symbolic transformation of historic and
geographic realities into works of the
imagination
June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks)
See also:
English and American Literature--Aarsleff,
Newman
HISTORY
LOIS BANNER
Program for the Study of
Women and Men
Social Sciences B15
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California 90089-0036
The New Gender Scholarship: Women
and Men in U.S. History
Rethinking historical texts and issues in
terms of gender and other human differences
June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks)
RICHARD HERR
Department of History
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720
Group Identity and Loyalty in Europe
and the Americas from 1700
Nationalism compared with class, ethnic,
racial, and gender bases for group
identification
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
DAVID KATZMAN
Hall Center for the Humanities
Watkins Home
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2967
The Growth of Urban African-American
Communities
Influences on urbanization, from the era of
slave communities to the rise of urban black
enclaves in the 1920s
June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks)
KAREN OFFEN
Institute for Research on
Women and Gender
Serra House
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-8640
The Woman Question in Western
Thought, 1750-1950
The controversy over women's status in
relation to political and intellectual
developments
June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks)
CARROLL PURSELL
History Department
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
[Seminar designed for, but not limited to,
two-year college teachers]
The Role of Technology in
American Culture
Interactions between technologies and social
settings explored in recent research
June 15 to July 24, 1992 (six weeks)
ERIC VAN YOUNG
Department of History, 0104
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California 92093-0104
Resistance, Rebellion, and
Adaptation in Rural Latin America,
1500-1900
Examines the traditional moral economy of
the peasantry, and the impact of
millenarianism and collective action
June 29 to August 14, 1992 (seven weeks)
CHARLES WILSON
Center for the Study of
Southern Culture
University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi 38677
Religious Traditions and the History of
the South
Southern religious pluralism and its
influences on secular life
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
ROBIN WINKS
c/o Yale Summer Programs/NEH
Box 2145--Yale Station
New Haven, Connecticut 06520
The Historian as Detective
Affinities among the historian, the
fictional detective, and the real and the
fictional intelligence agentJune 15 to
August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
OLIVIER ZUNZ
History Department
Randall Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
American Urban History: Places
and Process
Investigates the reciprocal relation between
knowledge of particular places and broader
historical forces
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
See also:
Arts--Ferris
English and American Literature--Mullaney,
Vicinus
Politics and Society--Gordon
Religious Studies--Feldman, Hillerbrand
PHILOSOPHY
PETER ACHINSTEIN
Department of Philosophy
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Methodological Debates in
Nineteenth-Century Physics
Philosophical issues pertaining to the
wave-particle debate, kinetic theory, and
the discovery of the electron
June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks)
EDWIN CURLEY
Department of Philosophy
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois 60208
Religion and Politics in Hobbes
and Spinoza
How theology and Biblical hermeneutics have
interacted with political philosophy
June 29 to August 21, 1992 (eight weeks)
JERRY FODOR and
ERNEST LEPORE
Philosophy Department
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903
Meaning Holism
Examination of the claim that the smallest
units of meaning are not words but whole
languages
June 29 to August 14, 1992 (seven weeks)
PETER FRENCH
Department of Philosophy
Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas 78212
Responsibility in the Real World:
Theory and its Application
Competing philosophical analyses of
individual and corporate moral responsibility
June 15 to July 24, 1992 (six weeks)
MICHAEL RESNIK
Department of Philosophy
CB# 3125 Caldwell Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3125
Frege and the Philosophy of Mathematics
Historical and contemporary readings will
connect mathematics to the philosophy of
mind, science, and language
June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks)
AMELIE RORTY
c/o Maggie Collins
Conference Coordinator
Humanities Division
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California 95067
Virtues and their Vicissitudes: A
History of Philosophical Conceptions
of Virtue
Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and contemporary
philosophers on the relation of reason,
happiness, and citizenship to virtue
June 29 to August 7, 1992 (six weeks)
J.B. SCHNEEWIND
Department of Philosophy
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
History of Modern Moral Philosophy
Major writers from Montaigne and Hobbes
through Kant, illuminated by readings of
their contemporaries
June 22 to August 7, 1992 (seven weeks)
MICHAEL WILLIAMS
Department of Philosophy
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois 60208
Knowledge, Realism, and Reflection:
Examining the New Skeptics (Cavell,
Nagel, Strawson, et al.)
Influential contemporary philosophers on the
nature, sourcees, and significance of
philosophical skepticism
June 22 to August 14, 1992 (eight weeks)
POLITICS AND SOCIETY
JOEL BEST
Department of Sociology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
Social Problems: The Constructionist
Stance
Focuses on the processes by which certain
social conditions are labeled social problems
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
NEWTON GARVER and
CLAUDE WELCH
Philosophy Department
5tate University of New York
Buffalo, New York 14260
Human Rights in Theory and Practice
The clash between the ideal of universal
human rights and the reality of cultural
diversity
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
ROBERT GORDON
Stanford Law School
Stanford, California 94305-8610
History in Law: Construction of the
Past in American Legal Thought
Two centuries of legal disputes over the
proper interpretation of historical
developments
June 29 to August 7, 1992 (six weeks)
SIDNEY TARROW
129 Burleigh Drive
Ithaca, New York 14850
Political Histories of Collective Action
Examination of the processes through which
widespread grievances are translated into
cycles of protest, reform, and revolution
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
CALUM CARMICHAEL
Department of Comparative Literature
Cornell University
145 Goldwin Smith Hall
Ithaca, New York 14853
Law and Religion in the Bible
The relationship between biblical law and
the historical narratives of the Bible
June 15 to August 7, 1992 (eight weeks)
LOUIS FELDMAN
Department of Classics
Yeshiva University
500 W. 185 Street
New York, New York 10033
The Greek Encounter with Judaism
in the Hellenistic Period
Western humanism's roots examined through
the cultural contacts between Greeks and Jews
June 8 to July 31, 1992 (eight weeks)
HANS HILLERBRAND
Department of Religion
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina 27706
Religious Reform and Societal Change
in the Sixteenth Century
Recent theological, social, and political
perspectives on Reformation history
June 22 to August 7, 1992 (seven weeks)
CLAUDE WELCH
Graduate Theological Union
2400 Ridge Road
Berkeley, California 94709
Church and Society in
Nineteenth-Century Religious
Thought
The evolution of Western religious thought,
studied in the context of broader social and
cultural developments
June 15 to July 31, 1992 (seven weeks)
See also:
History--Wilson
1992 SUMMER SEMINARS FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS
[Following program title: "Seminars Open to: College Teachers,
Independent Scholars, and other Scholars such as Archivists,
Curators, Editors, and Librarians."]
Purpose of the Program
The Summer Seminars for College Teachers Program, offered by the
National Endowment for the Humanities, provides college teachers,
independent scholars, and other scholars, such as archivists,
curators, editors, and librarians, with a unique opportunity for
advanced study or research in their own fields or in fields related
to their interests. During the summer, the twelve scholars selected
to participate in each of the seminars will work together on a topic
of mutual interest under the direction of a distinguished scholar and
teacher. Seminar participants, who will have access to the
collections of a major library or museum, will discuss a body of
common readings with their colleagues in the program, prepare written
work, and, outside the seminar, pursue individual research or study
projects of their own choosing and design. Through research,
reflection, and frequent formal and informal discussions with the
seminar director and with other scholars from across the country,
seminar participants will increase their knowledge of the subjects
they teach and enhance their ability to impart to others an
understanding of their disciplines and of the humanities in general.
The seminars are especially designed for the Summer Seminars for
College Teachers Program and are not intended to be identical to
courses normally offered by graduate departments; nor will graduate
credit be given for them. Seminar topics are broad enough to
accommodate a wide range of interests while remaining central to the
major ideas, texts, critical concerns, and approaches of the
humanities. The focus of each seminar is substantive rather than
pedagogical, reinforcing the participants' commitments to teaching
and research. In many cases the seminar is designed to be
interdisciplinary, and participants need not be specialists in the
particular subject of the seminar. Seminars are five, six, seven, or
eight weeks in length.
Individual Projects
Beyond the work of the group, each participant will undertake an
individual research project or a program of intensive reading under
the guidance of the director. This project may or may not be
directly related to the seminar topic. A tentative plan of research
or study for the seminar is a required part of the application, but
participants will be able to change or amend their projects with the
guidance of the director once the seminar has begun. In many cases,
the individual projects will tie into the work of the seminar and
serve as bases for discussion and written assignments.
Particular seminars will vary in their research emphases, some
focusing on individual reading or research projects, others
concentrating more exclusively on the work of the seminar itself.
Stipend and Tenure
Participants in the program's eight-week seminars will receive a
stipend of $4,000; participants in seven-week seminars will receive
$3,600; participants in six-week seminars will receive $3,200; and
those in the five-week seminar will receive $2,825. The stipend is
intended to help cover travel expenses to and from the seminar
location, books and other research expenses, and living expenses for
the tenure period.
Participants are required to remain at the seminar location until the
final meeting of the group and to spend full time on individual study
for the entire tenure period.
Eligibility
The program is intended to serve those whose primary duties involve
teaching undergraduates, but others who are qualified to do the work
of the seminar and contribute to it (such as independent scholars and
scholars employed by museums, libraries, historical societies, and like
organizations) are also eligible and encouraged to apply.
Preference is given to those who have not recently had the
opportunity to use the resources of a major library or who have not
had significant released time for independent study and professional
development. Applications from members of Ph.D.-granting departments
are normally not eligible. The Endowment encourages applications
from faculty at historically black colleges and universities and from
two-year colleges.
Applicants must have completed their professional training by March
2, 1992. Although an applicant need not have an advanced degree in
order to qualify, neither candidates for degrees nor persons seeking
support for work leading toward a degree are eligible. Individuals
should not apply to seminars directed by either their dissertation
advisers or faculty at their own institutions.
An individual may apply to no more than two seminars in any one
year. Persons found to have applied to more than two will not be
awarded a place in any seminar. College teachers who participated in
NEH Summer Seminars in 1989 or earlier are eligible to apply for
1992, but those who attended seminars in 1990 or 1991 are not
eligible.
How to Apply
For detailed information about the requirements and subject matter of
individual seminars, the availability of housing, and for application
instructions and forms, please write to the seminar directors at the
addresses indicated below their names.
The application deadline is March 2, 1992, and the announcement of
awards will take place on March 26, 1992.
Equal Opportunity
Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color,
national origin, sex, handicap, or age. For further information,
write to the director, Office of Equal Opportunity, National
Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20506.