The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent grant-making agency of the federal government which supports the humanities. Each year the NEH offers teachers opportunities to study humanities topics in a variety of Summer Seminars and Institutes. The dates and duration of each project are listed under each title. The application deadline is March 3, 2008 (postmark).

Amount of Award
All teachers selected to participate in a seminar or institute will be awarded a fixed stipend based on the length of the seminar or institute to help cover travel costs, books and other research expenses, and living expenses: $1,800 (2 weeks), $2,400 (3 weeks), $3,000 (4 weeks), $3,600 (5 weeks), or $4,200 (6 weeks).

Eligibility
For detailed eligibility requirements, applicants should consult the written application materials. Selection committees for seminars and institutes are directed to give first consideration to applicants who have not participated in an NEH supported seminar or institute in the last three years.

How to Apply
Please mail or e-mail a request for application information and expanded project descriptions to the seminar and institute directors listed here. When doing so, please include your regular mailing address because directors may send application material through the mail. You may request information about as many projects as you like, but you may apply to no more than two projects. The application deadline is March 3, 2008 (postmark).

Information
Please direct all questions concerning individual seminars and institutes as well as all requests for application materials to the appropriate director. General questions concerning the National Endowment for the Humanities' Seminars and Institutes Program may be directed to 202/606-8463 or e-mail: sem-inst@neh.gov.

Equal Opportunity
Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age. For further information about the NEH EEO policy, write to the Equal Employment Opportunity Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20506.TDD (for the hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282.

Seminars
Each seminar includes fifteen participants working in collaboration with one or two leading scholars. Participants will have access to a major library collection, with time reserved to pursue individual research and study projects.

Traditions into Dialogue:
Confucianism and Contemporary Virtue Ethics
July 7-August 15, 2008 (6 weeks)
Stephen Angle, Wesleyan University, and
Michael Slote, University of Miami
Information: Stephen Angle
Department of Philosophy
Wesleyan University
350 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459
860/685-3394
neh08@wesleyan.edu
(Seminar location: Wesleyan University, Connecticut)

St. Francis of Assisi and the Thirteenth Century
June 25-August 6, 2008 (6 weeks)
William R. Cook
Department of History
SUNY Geneseo
1 College Circle
Geneseo, NY 14454
585/243-3139
Cooksem@geneseo.edu
www.geneseo.edu/~cooksem/
(Seminar locations: Rome, Siena, and Assisi, Italy)

Identity and Self-Representation in the Subcultures
of Ancient Rome
June 23-July 27, 2008 (5 weeks)
Eleanor Winsor Leach, Indiana University, and
Eve D'Ambra, Vassar College
Information: Erin Taylor
Department of Classical Studies
547 Ballantine Hall
1020 East Kirkwood Ave.
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
812/855-6651
meletayl@indiana.edu
artcourses.vassar.edu/identityandself-representation/index.html
(Seminar location: American Academy in Rome, Italy)

Narrative Theory:
Rhetoric and Ethics in Fiction and Nonfiction
June 16-July 25, 2008 (6 weeks)
James Phelan
Department of English
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210-1370
614/292-6669 or 2061
Information: Paul McCormick
mccormick.150@osu.edu
people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/Phelan1/neh/index.html

Homer's Readers, Ancient and Modern
June 23-July 18, 2008 (4 weeks)
James I. Porter
Information: Cassandra Borges and Michael Kicey
Department of Classical Studies
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
734/647-4893
neh-homer@umich.edu
jamesivanporter.googlepages.com/home

Institutes
Institutes provide intensive collaborative study of texts, topics, and ideas central to undergraduate teaching in the humanities under the guidance of faculties distinguished in their fields of scholarship. Institutes aim to prepare participants to return to their classrooms with a deeper knowledge of current scholarship in key fields of the humanities.

Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture:
Historical Eras and Cultural Representations
June 16-July 18, 2008 (5 weeks)
Murray Baumgarten, University of California, Santa Cruz, and
Shaul Bassi, Ca'Foscari, University of Venice
Faculty: Margaret Brose, Donatella Calabi, Enrico Fink, Joshua Holo, Dana Katz, Marina del Negro Karem, Ariella Lang, Deanna Shemek, Simon Levis Sullam, Gadi Luzzato Voghera
Information: Tim Guichard
UCSC Jewish Studies
Humanities Academic Services
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
831/459-1225
831/459-1925 (fax)
jvenice@ucsc.edu
jewishstudies.ucsc.edu/NEH/
(Institute location: Venice, Italy)

Past and Present in the Study of India's History
and Culture
July 7-August 1, 2008 (4 weeks)
Beverly Blois, Northern Virginia Community College, and
Daniel Ehnbom, University of Virginia
Faculty: Swapan Chakravorty, Ashgar Ali Engineer, Sunil Kumar, Meena Nayak, Janaki Nair, Shiva Prakash, Shereen Ratnagar, Indrani Sanyal, Kumar Shahani, Romila Thapar
Information: David A. Berry
Community College Humanities Association
c/o Essex County College
303 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102-1798
973/877-3577
berry@essex.edu
www.ccha-assoc.org/Bharata08/index.html
(Institute locations: Shimla and New Delhi, India)

The Medieval Mediterranean and the Origins of the West
June 30-July 25, 2008 (4 weeks)
Brian A. Catlos, History Department, and
Sharon Kinoshita, Literature Department
Faculty: Jonathan Bloom, Ross Brann, Richard Bulliet, Anthony Cutler, Peregrine Horden, Maria Rosa Menocal, Júlio Samsó Moya, David Nirenberg.
Information: Michael Ursell
Literature Department
University of California Santa Cruz
1156 High St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org
www.mediterraneanseminar.org
(Institute location: Palau del Lloctinent, Barcelona, Spain)

Shakespeare's Blackfriars' Playhouse:
The Study, the Stage and the Classroom
June 29-August 2, 2008 (5 weeks)
Ralph Alan Cohen
Faculty: Alan Armstrong, Stephen Booth, Alan Dessen, Ros Knutson, Jeremy Lopez, Paul Menzer, Tiffany Stern
Information: Sarah Enloe
The American Shakespeare Center
13 W Beverley 4th Floor
Staunton, VA 24401
540/885-5588
sarahe@americanshakespearecenter.com

Regional Study and the Liberal Arts: Appalachia Up-Close
June 8-July 4, 2008 (4 weeks)
Peter Crow
Faculty: Mary Anglin, Rebecca Bailey, Todd Fredericksen, Tina Hanlon, George Loveland, Susan Mead, Gordon McKinney, Phillip Obermiller, Carolyn Thomas, Adriana Trigiani, Frank X. Walker, Vaughan Webb, Lana Whited, Daniel Woods
Information: Sandy Doss
School of Arts and Humanities
Ferrum College
P.O. Box 1000
Ferrum, VA 24088-9000
540/365-4321
cdoss@ferrum.edu
www.ferrum.edu/neh

The Literature of Equatorial Guinea:
A Pedagogical Perspective
June 23-July 25, 2008 (5 weeks)
James J. Davis, Howard University, and
Marvin A. Lewis, University of Missouri, Columbia (emeritus)
Faculty: John Lipski, Donato Ndongo Bidyogo, Mbaré N'gom Faye, Nicole D. Price, Elisa Rizo
Information: James J. Davis
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Howard University
Washington, DC 20059
202/806-6758
jdavis@howard.edu

Andean Worlds: New Directions in Scholarship
and Teaching
June 29- July 26, 2008 (4 weeks)
Laraine Fletcher, Adelphi University, and
George Scheper, Community College of Baltimore County (emeritus)
Faculty: Richard Burger, Sara Castro-Klarén, Susan deFrance, Christopher Donnan, Regina Harrison, Michael Moseley, Frank Salomon, Jeffrey Quilter
Information: David A. Berry
Community College Humanities Association
c/o Essex County College
303 University Ave.
Newark, NJ 07102-1798
973/877-3204
berry@essex.edu
www.ccha-assoc.org/andeanworld08/index.html
(Institute locations: Lima, Chiclayo, Pisac, and Cusco, Peru)

African American Civil Rights Struggles in the
Twentieth Century
June 30-July 25, 2008 (4 weeks)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Waldo Martin, and Patricia Sullivan
Faculty: Julian Bond, Kevin Boyle, Gerald Early, Raymond Gavins, Peter Guralnick, Leon Litwack, Kenneth Mack, Deborah McDowell, Martha Norman Noonan, Kimberly Phillips, Lewis Steel
Information: Dell Hamilton
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
Harvard University
104 Mt. Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617/495-3611
617/495-8511 (fax)
nehinst@fas.harvard.edu

Rethinking America in Global Perspective
June 16-July 11, 2008 (4 weeks)
John R. Gillis, Rutgers University (emeritus), and
Carl J. Guarneri, Saint Mary's College of California
Faculty: Alan Dawley, Laurent Dubois, Donna Gabaccia, Eliga Gould, Paul Kramer, Elizabeth Mancke, Charles Mann, Penny Von Eschen
Information: Miriam Hauss
National History Center
American Historical Association
400 A Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
202/544-2422 x103
mhauss@historians.org
www.historians.org/projects/rethinkingamerica/2008/
(Institute location: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.)

Sources of Russian and Soviet Visual Cultures, 1860-1935: Study, Teaching, and Education
June 21-July 12, 2008 (3 weeks)
Edward Kasinec and Robert Davis
Faculty: Konstantin Akinsha, James T. Andrews, Jared Ash, Jeffrey P. Brooks, William C. Brumfield, Valerie Hillings, Mikhail Iampolski, Peter B. Kaufman, Janet Kennedy, Karen L. Kettering, Stephen Kotkin, Steven A. Mansbach, Kelly Miller, Myroslava M. Mudrak, Stephen M. Norris, Kristen Regina, Jane Ashton Sharp, Richard S. Wortman, Denise J. Youngblood, and others
Information: Robert Davis
Slavic and Baltic Division, Rm. 216
The New York Public Library
476 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
212/930-0940 or -0713
rdavis@NYPL.org
www.nypl.org/research/chss/slv/neh/

W.B. Yeats: A Reassessment
July 7-August 1, 2008 (4 weeks)
Edward O'Shea
Faculty: Daniel Albright, Brian Arkins, Terence Brown, Margaret Mills Harper, William O'Donnell, James Pethica, Ann Saddlemyer
Information: Joan Wallace
Department of English
P301 Poucher Hall
SUNY Oswego
Oswego, NY 13126
315/312-2150
wallacej@oswego.edu
www.yeatsinstitute.com
(Institute locations: Galway, Dublin, Yeats Summer School, Sligo, Ireland)

Holy Land and Holy City in Classical Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
July 9-August 12, 2008 (5 weeks)
Irven M. Resnick, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and
Jeremy Cohen, Tel Aviv University
Faculty: Thomas Asbridge, Georgia Frank, Martin Goodman, Carole Hillenbrand, Ora Limor, Suleiman Mourad, Yoram Tsafrir
Information: Irven M. Resnick
Department of Philosophy and Religion
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Ave.
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
(423) 425-4446
Irven-Resnick@utc.edu
http://www.utc.edu/NEHHolyland
(Institute location: Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, England)