Summer seminars for university teachers
For general information, consult the NEH website.
Each seminar includes sixteen participants, including two current full-time graduate students in the humanities, working in collaboration with one or two leading scholars. Participants will have access to a major library collection, with time reserved to pursue individual research and study projects.
"Ask of Me Spiritual Things. Ask of Me Myself": The Autobiographies of Perpetua and Augustine
Carthage, Tunisia, 1 July–6 August 2010 (5 weeks)
Thomas J. Heffernan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Information: Prof. Thomas J. Heffernan, Department of English and Religious Studies, 301 McClung Tower, University of Tennesssee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0430 (865-974-5401; theff@utk.edu; http://web.utk.edu/~theff/carthage)
Free Will and Human Perfection in Medieval Jewish Philosophy
Hamilton, N.Y., 27 June–31 July 2010 (5 weeks)
Jonathan Jacobs, Colgate University
Information: Jean Getchonis, Admin. Asst., Department of Philosophy, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346 (315-228-7681; jgetchonis@colgate.edu; http://sites.google.com/a/colgate.edu/jphilfwill/)
Re-Mapping the Renaissance: Exchange Between Early Modern Islam and Europe
College Park, Maryland, 13 June–2 July 2010 (3 weeks)
Adele Seeff, University of Maryland, College Park; Judith Tucker, Georgetown University
Information: Dr. Adele Seeff, Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies, 0139 Taliaferro Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 (301-405-6830; crbs@umd.edu; http://www.crbs.umd.edu/programs/re-mapping_the_renaissance)
Institutes for university teachers
Institutes provide intensive collaborative study of texts, topics, and ideas central to undergraduate teaching in the humanities under the guidance of faculties distinguished in their fields of scholarship. Institutes aim to prepare twenty-five participants, including three current full-time graduate students in the humanities, to return to their classrooms with a deeper knowledge of current scholarship in key fields of the humanities.
Cultural Hybridities: Christians, Muslims, and Jews and the Medieval Mediterranean
Barcelona, Spain 4–31 July 2010 (4 weeks)
Brian A. Catlos and Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz
Faculty: Judith Cohen, Steven Epstein, Harvey Hames, Peregrine Horden, Cynthia Robinson, Daniel Selden
Information: The Mediterranean Seminar, Institute for Humanities Research, Attn: Michael Ursell, Humanities 1, Suite 515, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064( 831-459-1780; mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org; http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org)
Representations of the "Other": Jews in Medieval Christendom
Oxford, U.K. (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, England) 6 July–11 August 2010 (5 weeks)
Irven M. Resnick, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Faculty: Anthony Bale, Jeremy Cohen, Daniel L. Lasker, Sara Lipton, Robert Stacey
Information: Irven M. Resnick, Professor and Chair of Excellence; Department of Philosophy and Religion (#2753); University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; 615 McCallie Ave.; Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598 (423-425-4446; Irven-Resnick@utc.edu; http://www.utc.edu/NEH)
Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America
Washington, D.C. 21 June–23 July 2010 (5 weeks)
Claire Sponsler, University of Iowa
Faculty: Ian Archer, Lawrence M. Bryant, Barbara Fuchs, Gail McMurray Gibson, Bruce Holsinger, Roslyn Knutson, Joseph Roach, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Michael Wintroub, Barbara Wisch
Information: Kathleen Lynch, Executive Director, Folger Institute, or Adrienne Shevchuk, Program Assistant, Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC 20003-1094 (202-675-0333; institute@folger.edu; http://www.folger.edu/institute/NEH2010)
The Silk Roads: Early Globalization and Chinese Cultural Identities
Honolulu, Hawai'i. 24 May–25 June 2010 (5 weeks)
Peter D. Hershock, East-West Center
Faculty: Roger Ames, Victor Mair, Pamela Crossley, Kate Lingley, Steve Goldberg, Tansen Sen, Fred Lau, Ellen Widmer, Morris Rossabi, Shana Brown, Jungmin Seo, Chris McNally
Information: East-West Center, ASDP Secretariat; 1601 East-West Road; Honolulu, HI 96848-1601 (808-944-7337; Osakis@eastwestcenter.org; http://www.eastwestcenter.org/?id=1268)
Seminars for school teachers
For general information, consult the NEH website.
A seminar for school teachers enables sixteen participants, of whom two may be current full-time graduate students who intend to pursue careers in K-12 teaching, to explore a topic or set of readings with a scholar having special interest and expertise in the field. The core material of the seminar need not relate directly to the school curriculum; the principal goal of the seminar is to engage teachers in the scholarly enterprise and to expand and deepen their understanding of the humanities through reading, discussion, writing, and reflection.
The Canterbury Tales and Medieval Culture
New Haven, Conn. 28 June–6 August 2010 (6 weeks)
Lee Patterson, Yale University
Information: Prof. Lee Patterson or Ms. Roberta Hudson; Yale Conference and Event Services; P.O. Box 208355; Yale University; New Haven, CT 06520-8355 (lee.patterson@yale.edu; http://www.yale.edu/medieval/neh.html)
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
London, U.K. 19 July–14 August 2010 (4 weeks)
David Raybin, Eastern Illinois University and Susanna Fein, Kent State University
Information: David Raybin; Canterbury Tales Seminar; English Department; Eastern Illinois University; 600 Lincoln Ave.; Charleston, IL 61920 (217-581-2428; draybin@eiu.edu; www.eiu.edu/~neh2010/)