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NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
1998 SUMMER SEMINARS AND INSTITUTES
FOR COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY TEACHERS
Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports study
opportunities for educators to strengthen humanities teaching and
scholarship in the nation's colleges and universities.
The Following Seminars and Institutes might be of interest to historians
of economics:
The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self (Seminar)
June 15-July 24, 1998 (6 weeks)
Leo Damrosch
English Department
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
617/495-2533
Email: [log in to unmask]
Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty (Seminar)
July 6-August 7, 1998 (5 weeks)
Avrum Stroll
Department of Philosophy
c/o Extended Studies and Public Programs
9500 Gilman Drive, 0176Q
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0176
619/534-3259
Email: [log in to unmask]
The Environment and World History, 1500-2000 (Institute)
June 22-July 24, 1998 (5 weeks)
Director: Edmund Burke, III
Faculty:
Michael Adas, Rutgers University
Marc Cioc, University of California, Santa Cruz
Ben Crow, University of California, Santa Cruz
Richard Grove, Australian National University
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of California, Irvine
S. Ravi Rajan, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Berlin John F. Richards, Duke University David G. Sweet,
University of California, Santa Cruz Helen Wheatley, Seattle
University
Information:
Edmund Burke, III
Merrill College
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
408/459-2287
Email: [log in to unmask]
The Idea of a Social Science (Institute)
June 22-July 31, 1998 (6 weeks)
Directors:
Paul A. Roth, University of Missouri, St. Louis
James Bohman, St. Louis University
Faculty:
Frank Ankersmit, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Robert Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley
Hubert Dreyfus, University of California, Berkeley
Clifford Geertz, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Steven Lukes, University of Siena
Thomas McCarthy, Northwestern University
Richard Rorty, University of Virginia
Alexander Rosenberg, University of Georgia
Charles Taylor, McGill University
Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, Tampa
Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz
Information:
Paul A. Roth
Department of Philosophy
University of Missouri,St. Louis
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499
314/516-5632 or 6194
Email: [log in to unmask]
View the complete slate of summer study opportunities for college and
university teachers on the NEH home page:
<http://www.neh.fed.us/html/seminar2.html>. More info on participation is
available at that site also.
Information and application forms for specific seminars and institutes are
available from their directors. Participant applications are due March 1,
1998.
For printed copies of the slate of seminars and institutes:
phone: 202/606-8463
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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