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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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