NEH Announces 2016 Summer Seminars & Institutes

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 10:39:04 -0500
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) offers tuition-free opportunities for college and university educators to study a variety of humanities topics in the summer. Stipends of $1,200-$3,900 help cover the expenses for these one- to five-week programs.

Applications (to the individual programs) are due by March 1, 2016.

Visit the NEH website for eligibility requirements and links to the programs and directors: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs

Contact Rachel Brubaker, Dresher Center Assistant Director, for assistance.

The seminars and institutes for summer 2016 will address the following topics:

Alexis de Tocqueville and American Democracy

American Maritime History

Beowulf and Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

The Commonplace Book and Its American Descendants

Confucian Asia

Ernest J. Gaines and the Southern Experience

The History of Political Economy

The Land Ethic, Sustainability, and the Humanities

Mapping, Text, and Travel

Modern Mongolia

Moral Psychology and Education

Native American Histories and the Land

The Ottoman Empire, Europe, and the Mediterranean World, 1500-1800

Presuppositions and Perception

Problems in the Study of Religion

Religion, Secularism, and the English Novel, 1719-1897

Teaching the Reformation

Tokyo: High City and Low City

Urban Arts in Africa and the African Diaspora

Veterans in American Society

The Visual Culture of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Westward Expansion and the Constitution