====================== HES POSTING ==================== 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] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]