7.0309 NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers (1/683)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 25 Nov 1993 16:49:09 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0309. Thursday, 25 Nov 1993.

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 12:56:23 -0500 (EST)
From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell)
Subject: NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers

Posted at the request of Michael Hall of NEH. This file and that listing
the corresponding program of seminars for secondary and other school teachers
are also available on gopher through ccat.sas.upenn.edu under menu item 12,
Other Information and Services. Other gophers are welcome to point to that
menu entry to make the information availble on their own clients.

Jim O'Donnell
Classics, U. of Penn
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu



NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
1994 SUMMER SEMINARS FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS


Stipend and Duration:

Eight-week seminars: $4,000
Seven-week seminars: $3,600
Six-week seminars: $3,200
Five-week seminars: $2,825
Four-week seminars: $2,450


Eligibility:

Applicants must have completed their professional training
by March 1, 1994. Although an applicant need not have an
advanced degree in order to qualify, candidates for degrees are
not eligible.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens, native residents of U.S.
jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been residing in the
United States or its jurisdictions for at least three years
immediately preceding the application deadline.


How to Apply

For detailed information about the requirements and subject
matter of individual seminars and 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 1, 1994, and awards will be
announced on March 28.





ANTHROPOLOGY

ANDREI SIMIC
Department of Anthropology
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California 90089
Understanding Culture Through Visual
Media
Films and other visual media, as aids in
studying ethnography and as cultural
artifacts themselves
Location: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY
June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks)

See also: Foreign and Comparative
Literature--Foley
History--Perdue and Green


ARTS

ROBERT BAILEY AND DAVID PITUCH
Department of Music
New York University
New York, New York 10003
Richard Wagner's Festival Dramas
Wagner's revolution in opera and its
literary, social, and philosophical
contexts
Location: NYU and BAYREUTH, GERMANY
June 27 to August 19, 1994 (eight weeks)

WALTER M. FRISCH
Department of Music
c/o Summer Session Office
419 Lewisohn Hall
Columbia University
New York, New York 10027
Music and German Modernism, 1885-1915
The transition from romantic music,
focusing on Mahler, Strauss, and
Schoenberg, with attention to modernism
in the other arts
June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks)

ELAINE K. GAZDA AND MIRANDA MARVIN
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
The Roman Art of Emulation
The theoretical problem of artistic
imitation, with attention to Roman
sculpture and its Greek prototypes
Location: AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME
June 6 to July 22, 1994 (seven weeks)

JOHN T. PAOLETTI AND WENDY S. SHEARD
Art Department
Wesleyan University
Middletown, Connecticut 06459
Constructing the Image of the State, the
Family, and the Individual in
Renaissance Florence and Venice
Works of art as expressions of political
identity and of familial and individual
self-image
June 27 to August 5, 1994 (six weeks)

See also: Foreign and Comparative
Literature--Kaes, Scher, Ungar and
Andrew
History--Spitzer and Walters


CLASSICS

STEPHEN L. DYSON
Department of Classics
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York 14260
The History and Legacy of the Western
Roman Empire
Recent research on the Romanization of
Europe, examining conquest, continuity,
and resistance, with comparisons to
other colonial systems
June 27 to August 5, 1994 (six weeks)

TIMOTHY E. GREGORY
Department of History
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Classical Archaeology in a Greek
Context: Theory and Practice
The history and theoretical basis of
classical archaeology, explored through
participation in work at the Isthmia
excavation site
Location: CORINTH, GREECE
June 20 to July 29, 1994 (six weeks)

See also: Arts--Gazda and Marvin
Religion--Gager


ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

PAULA R. BACKSCHEIDER
Department of English
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama 36949
Biography and the Uses of Biographical
Evidence: The Restoration through the
Eighteenth Century
The relationship between critical
theories of biography and the practices
of locating, interpreting, and using
evidence
Location: PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
June 22 to August 10, 1994 (seven weeks)

JAMES E.B. BRESLIN
Department of English
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century
Biography: Theory, Practice, History
Implications for the study and writing
of biography posed by critiques of "the
author," "events," "documents," etc.
June 20 to August 12, 1993 (eight weeks)

GILES B. GUNN
Department of English
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California 93106
Pragmatism and Cultural Criticism
The disciplinary diffusion of pragmatism
in contemporary theory, and its roots in
works of Emerson, Dewey, and the Jameses
June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks)

ELIZABETH D. KIRK
Department of English
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
Worlds on Pilgrimage: Piers Plowman and
the Canterbury Tales
The responses of Langland and Chaucer to
literary and religious traditions and
social change, examined in the context
of developments in medieval studies
June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks)

R.W.B. LEWIS
Department of English
c/o NEH Summer Seminars
Yale Summer and Special Programs
246 Church Street, Suite 101
New Haven, Connecticut 06510-1722
The Literary Figure and the Public Scene
The writer who speaks out on social and
political challenges as a recurring
figure in American cultural history from
Thoreau to Ralph Ellison
July 18 to August 12, 1994 (four weeks)

A. WALTON LITZ AND TIM REDMAN
Department of English
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Ezra Pound and his Contemporaries
Pound as a poet-critic among such
figures as Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, and
H.D., with attention to their Italian
connections
Location: POUND ARCHIVE, MERANO, ITALY
July 4 to August 12, 1994 (six weeks)

ANNE K. MELLOR
Department of English
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California 90024
Romanticism and Gender
Constructions and representations of
masculinity and femininity in poetry,
fiction, drama, and essays by canonical
and unfamiliar writers
June 20 to August 12, 1994 (eight weeks)

JAMES OLNEY
Department of English
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
Memory, Narrative, and Life-Writing
The twin processes of remembering and
narrating a life story, through case
histories, fiction, and autobiography
June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks)

DONALD E. PEASE
Department of English
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
Slavery, Reconstruction, and the Civil
Imagination, 1845-1900
Literary representations of civic life
and their transformation by the Civil
War, as seen through seven American
writers
June 20 to August 12, 1994 (eight weeks)

JOHN J. RICHETTI
Department of English
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Social Change in Early Modern Britain
and the Rise of the Novel
The eighteenth-century novel as a form
of cultural production, viewed against a
background of social and political
change
June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks)

A. LaVONNE B. RUOFF
Department of English
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 S. Morgan Street
Chicago, Illinois 60680
American Indian Written Literature
Influences of tribal oral traditions and
non-Indian literature on autobiographies
and fiction from 1829 to the present
June 20 to August 12, 1994 (eight weeks)

ERIC J. SUNDQUIST
Department of English
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California 90024
Literature of the Civil Rights Era
Post-World War II novels, prose, and
poetry written by blacks and whites,
linked with sources in law, social
theory, and film
July 4 to August 12, 1994 (six weeks)


FOREIGN AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

DAVID BATHRICK
Department of German Studies
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853
The Writer and the Socialist State
The rise of opposition to the state
among literary intellectuals, focussing
on the German Democratic Republic
June 6 to July 22, 1994 (seven weeks)

JOHN M. FOLEY
Center for Studies in Oral Tradition
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri 65211
The Oral Tradition in Literature
Theories of creation and transmission,
studied in living oral literature, the
Bible, the Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Cid
June 20 to August 12, 1994 (eight weeks)

BENJAMIN HARSHAV
Department of Comparative Literature
c/o NEH Summer Seminars
Yale Summer and Special Programs
246 Church Street, Suite 101
New Haven, Connecticut 06510-1722
The Modern Jewish Renaissance:
Literature, Culture, and History
Modernity expressed in Hebrew and
Yiddish literature, and in the works of
assimilated Jews like Kafka and Freud
June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks)

ANTON KAES
Department of German
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720
The City and Modernity: Film,
Literature, and Urban Culture
in the Weimar Republic
The responses of German filmmakers,
writers, and intellectuals to mass
culture and modernity
Location: BERLIN
June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks)

GIUSEPPE F. MAZZOTTA
Department of Italian
c/o NEH Summer Seminars
Yale Summer and Special Programs
246 Church Street, Suite 101
New Haven, Connecticut 06510
Dante and the Philosophy of Education in
the Middle Ages
The development of the soul in the Vita
nuova and Divine Comedy, and its sources
in theories and modes of education
June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks)

EARL R. MINER
Department of English
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Literary History in Conception and
Practice
The contemporary revival of literary
history, explored with attention to
literary theory and questions of
justice, race, and gender
June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks)

STEVEN P. SCHER
Department of German
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
Literature and Music
Interrelations of the two arts, studied
through readings in German and English
romantics, French symbolists, and
contemporary writers
June 20 to July 29, 1994 (six weeks)

MARCEL TETEL
Department of Romance Studies
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina 27706
Framing the Tale in the Renaissance
The meanings and perspectives of short
narratives set within a written work (by
Rabelais, Jeanne Flore, Boccaccio, et
al.) and within a literary tradition
June 20 to July 29, 1994 (six weeks)

KARL D. UITTI
Department of Romance Languages
Princeton University
Ithaca, New York 14853
The Languages of "Courtliness" in
Medieval Europe
Literary understandings of courtesy,
chivalry, and love, and their role in
forming medieval values
June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks)

STEVEN R. UNGAR AND J. DUDLEY ANDREW
Program in Comparative Literature
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Images of the Nation in Interwar France
Debates over nationhood and colonialism
and their impact on high culture and the
mass media, explored through the study
of films and literature
June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks)


HISTORY

GREGORY L. FREEZE
Department of History
Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts 02254
Church, Religion, and Society in Modern
Russia, 1860-1930
Religious reform, social revolution, and
relations between the Orthodox church
and the Soviet state, drawing on newly
available archives
Location: MOSCOW
June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks)

PETER GAY
Department of History
c/o NEH Summer Seminars
Yale Summer and Special Programs
246 Church Street, Suite 101
New Haven, Connecticut 06510-1722
Psychoanalysis in History
The promise and peril of applying
psychoanalytic methods and insights to
the writing of history
June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks)

DAVID M. KATZMAN
Hall Center for the Humanities
Lawrence, Kansas 66045
The Growth of African-American Urban
Communities
Influences that shaped communities
through the 1920s, with attention to
migration, family, gender, education,
social classes, and leadership
June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks)

RACHEL C. LAUDAN
General Science
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Images of Science, 1789-1914
Scientific writings and the public image
of science in relation to changes in
Europe's political and cultural ambience
June 13 to July 22, 1994 (six weeks)


THEDA PERDUE AND MICHAEL D. GREEN
Department of History
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40507
The Ethnohistory of Southeastern Indians
Ethnographers' questions applied to
historical sources, exploring economic
and political developments and the
retention of ethnic identity
June 13 to July 22, 1994 (six weeks)

JOHN SPITZER AND RONALD WALTERS
Peabody Conservatory
1 East Mt. Vernon Place
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
American Song and Culture in the
Nineteenth Century
The words, music, and cover art of
American songs as indicators of U.S.
cultural history, explored through
modern theories of popular culture
Location: PEABODY CONSERVATORY and JOHNS
HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks)

ROBERT WOHL
Department of History
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California 90024
Intellectuals and Power in Twentieth-
Century Europe
Modernist intellectuals in relation to
political power, with attention to their
responses to Fascism, Nazism, and
Communism
June 20 to July 29, 1994 (six weeks)

See also: Classics--Dyson, Gregory
English and American Literature--
Backscheider


PHILOSOPHY

ALLEN E. BUCHANAN
Department of Philosophy
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
The Philosophy of Political Self-
Determination
Philosophical understandings of
political self-determination, examined
through historical and contemporary case
studies
June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks)

THOMAS P. KASULIS
Department of East Asian Languages and
Literatures
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Themes in Japanese Philosophy
Reality, humanity, and creativity in the
Buddhist, Shinto, Confucian, and modern
academic traditions
June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks)

LARRY L. LAUDAN
Department of Philosophy
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
The Concept of Evidence
Different philosophical standards for
and accounts of evidence, with attention
to natural science, psychiatry, history,
and law
June 13 to July 22, 1994 (five weeks)

BERND MAGNUS
Center for Ideas and Society
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California 92521
Postmodernism: A Philosophical Genealogy
Readings in Nietzsche, Heidegger, and
Derrida, exploring the claim that
philosophy has ended and become a
literary genre
June 27 to August 19, 1994 (eight weeks)

RICHARD L. MENDELSOHN
Ph.D. Program in Philosophy
City University of New York
33 West 42nd Street
New York, New York 10036
Reference: Language and Reality
Theories of Frege, Russell, and
contemporary philosophers, exploring how
mind and language are connected to
reality
June 20 to August 5, 1994 (seven weeks)

JAMES W. SCHMIDT
University Professors Program
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
"What is Enlightenment?": Eighteenth-
Century Answers and Twentieth-Century
Questions
German Enlightenment and 20th-century
explorations of religious faith, public
opinion, and political authority
June 13 to August 5, 1994 (eight weeks)

See also: English and American
Literature--Gunn

POLITICS AND SOCIETY

JOEL BEST
Department of Sociology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois 62901
Social Problems: The Constructionist
Stance
The processes by which certain social
conditions are labeled social problems,
examined through historical and
contemporary examples
June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks)

ELLIS S. KRAUSS
Department of Political Science
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
The Democratic Experience in Japan
The emergence and evolution of democracy
in postwar Japan, with comparisons to
Western democratic philosophy and
experience
July 11 to August 12, 1994 (five weeks)

ALAN J. RYAN
Department of Politics
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Democracy and Liberty in Mill and
Tocqueville
The prospects for liberal democracy and
the dangers of "tyranny of the
majority," studied through classic 19th-
century analyses
July 4 to July 29, 1994 (four weeks)

VLADIMIR TISMANEANU
Department of Government and Politics
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742
Democracy and Ethnic Conflict in East
Europe Today
The collapse of Communism, the emergence
of pluralism, and the prospects for
democracy in eastern and central Europe
June 27 to August 5, 1994 (six weeks)

ALAN WOLFE
Department of Sociology
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Morality and Society
Kantian philosophy and Durkheimian
sociology as approaches to moral
obligation, used to analyze issues like
affirmative action and abortion
June 20 to August 12, 1994 (eight weeks)

M. CRAWFORD YOUNG
Department of Political Science
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Cultural Pluralism and the Nation-State
The political impact of cultural
pluralism in the contemporary world, and
the attempt to achieve unity in the face
of diversity
June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks)

See also: Philosophy--Buchanan

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

CALUM M. CARMICHAEL
Department of Comparative Literature
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853
Law and Religion in Biblical Antiquity
Biblical law in relation to the
historical narratives of the Bible, with
attention to views of sexuality and
statecraft
Location: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY
June 13 to July 29, 1994 (seven weeks)

JOHN G. GAGER
Department of Religion
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
The Problem of Religion and Magic
Assessments of the theory of magic
evolving into religion and then to
science, using anthropological,
literary, and philosophical sources
June 20 to August 12, 1994 (eight weeks)

See also: History--Freeze
Philosophy--Kasulis