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A National Endowment for the
Humanities 1998 Summer Institute
Sponsored by CCHA
Application deadline: March 1, 1998
The Community College Humanities Association announces the award of a major grant form the National Endowment for the Humanities to convene a six-week national Institute on the topic "Center and Periphery in New Spain: 16th and 17th Century Spanish and Indigenous Cultures in Mexico and New Mexico," June 21-August 1, 1998. Sessions will be held in Mexico City from June 21 through July 11 and in New Mexico from July 12 through August 1, 1998. The Institute is intended to enrich college teaching, curriculum development and research in any field to which study of the New World encounters is relevant, including language and literature, history, religious studies, anthropology, theater, art history, political science, sociology or American studies. The Institute aims to enable participants to expand or to introduce units on the New World encounters and Mexican or Southwestern cultural studies in courses in any of those disciplines, as well as to enrich courses currently devoted to the subject, and to provide ideas and materials for future and on-ongoing research projects.
A six-week Summer Institute supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent agency, for twenty-five full-time faculty at two-year and four-year colleges, to be held in Mexico City and New Mexico, June 21 - August 1, 1998, sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association.
Dr. Florence Starr Hesler (English)
Dr. George L. Scheper (Humanities)
Essex Community College
Baltimore County, MD 21237
In Mexico City, lodging is in a centrally-located hotel in the Zocalo area and seminar facilities in the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana; and in New Mexico, dormitory/conference facilities at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. All study field trips will utilize charter coaches. Participants will have access to research facilities in Mexico City and will enjoy full library privileges at the University of New Mexico.
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Each participant will receive a stipend plus an allowance toward travel and room and board for full-time participation during the Institute.
The Institute welcomes applications from faculty at two-year and four-year colleges and universities, and is open both to those with an established interest in the topic and those seeking to develop new competencies. The Institute aims to advance college teaching, curricular development and research. Participants will be selected on the basis of their statement of purpose and their potential contributions to the Institute. Knowledge of Spanish or an indigenous language is advantageous but is not a criterion for selection. All assigned readings are in English or English translation. In accordance with NEH guidelines, participation is limited to full-time faculty teaching in colleges and universities in the United States.
Participants will have the opportunity to study with twelve internationally known scholars in the fields of Pre-Columbian, Spanish and colonial Latin American and Southwestern history and culture. The six-week Institute will explore the following topics:
Pre-Contact Cultures of Spain and Mexico
Faculty:
Teofilo Ruiz (History), UCLA)
Richard Kagen (History, Johns Hopkins Univ.)
David Carrasco (Religion, Princeton Univ.)
Maria Elena Bernal-Garcia (Art History, Universidad de Zacatecas)
Study visits: National Museum of Anthropology, Tula, Teotihuacan & Templo Mayor
Spanish/Indigenous Encounters in the Valley of Mexico
Faculty:
Rolena Adorno (Spanish & Portuguese, Yale U)
J. J. Klor de Alva (Anthropology, U of California, Berkeley)
Angel Garcia-Zambrano (Art History, Universidad de Zacatecas)
Study visits: Tepotzotlan, Acolman, Franz Mayer Museum
Indegenous Cultures of the Southwest
Faculty:
Ramon Gutierrez (Ethnic Studies, U of California, San Diego)
Fran Levine (Southwestern Studies, Santa Fe Community College)
Study visits to Jemez, Aztec Ruins, Canyon de Chelly, Zuni, Acoma, Taos, Chimayo, Pecos, and Santa Fe research collections.
Spanish/Indigenous Encounters in the Southwest
Faculty:
David Weber (History, Southern Methodist U)
John Kessell (History, Univ of New Mexico)
J.J. Brody (Art, U of New Mexico, emeritus)
Study visits to Santa Fe: Laboratory of Anthropology: MOIAC, Indian Art Research Center, Museum of International Folk Art
Detailed information about the daily schedule of the Institute, including reading assignments, will be sent with the application. After receiving this packet, applicants may address any further questions to the Institute directors:
Dr. Florence Starr Hesler (English)
Dr. George L. Scheper (Humanities)
Division of Humanities and Arts
Essex Community College
Baltimore, MD 21237
phone: (410) 780-6538
fax: (410) 682-6871
Application deadline: March 1, 1998
Application forms are available from:
David A. Berry, Executive Director
Community College Humanities Association
c/o Essex County College
303 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102-1798
Phone: (973) 877-3577
Fax: (973) 877-3578
e-mail: daberry@email.njin.net
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