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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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