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The Folger Shakespeare Library will host an NEH Summer Institute for 
college faculty from 25 June to 3 August 2001.  Joined by a 
distinguished cast of visiting faculty members, Pamela H. Smith and 
Pamela O. Long will co-direct "Experience and Experiment in Early Modern 
Europe."  The institute will open up a wide ranging and carefully nuanced 
investigation of different strands and shifting understandings of experience 
in the early modern period.  It will explore an increasing reliance on 
instrumentation as well as other material and intellectual strategies for 
the validation of knowledge claims. This interdisciplinary institute 
accordingly encourages historians of science, cultural historians, art 
historians, philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists, literary critics, 
and historians of technology to apply. 
 
Selected participants will examine key texts (many in their original or 
early printings) that affect the histories of practices such as painting, 
architecture, cartography, alchemy, medicine, and performance.  They will 
focus on the technologies that drove change and sustained its effects. 
These technologies may be as specific as the development of artists' 
perspective or as general as the advent of the printing press.  In each 
case, participants will attend to the habits of mind that shaped a new 
empirical method of philosophizing and a new way of viewing nature. They 
will also adapt their research for classroom instruction by selecting 
and annotating a set of images to feature in a website posting. 
 
For more information, including a week-by-week description of the 
institute, its visiting faculty, and an application form, please consult 
http://www.folger.edu/institute/nintro.html  
 
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