Conferences - National Endowment for the Humanities: Residential seminars and institutes for American undergraduates faculty

Each summer, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports national residential seminars and institutes for faculty who teach American undergraduates. These study opportunities allow faculty and a select number of graduate students to increase their knowledge of current scholarship and advance their own teaching and research. Participants in these two- to six-week projects receive stipends to help cover travel and living expenses. 

The 21 seminars and institutes for summer 2011 will address the following topics: ethnomusicology, American material culture, Eurasian studies, the Maya world, Shakespeare, African-American history and biography, the early American republic, Native Americans in the South, history and culture of India, English encounters with the Americas, twentieth-century American philosophy, Walter Benjamin?s later writings, Daoist literature, modernism in Shanghai and Berlin, Roman art and culture, religious studies, cultural unity and diversity in Southeast Asia, sustainability, slave rebellions, international migration. Many seminars and institutes take place on American campuses; others are held at sites in Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, India, and Italy.

For a list of the seminars and institutes to be offered in the summer of 2011, along with eligibility requirements and contact information for the directors, please visit www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html.