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Tag Archives: Humanities
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Henry Petroski discusses his most recent book The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance, scheduled for publication by Alfred Knopf in January, 1990. Michael White discusses the languages of specialized inquiry in the sciences and the humanities.
Politics and Posterity
Franklin Ford and William Leuchtenburg discuss the John M. Olin Seminar in Political History, which they coordinated at the National Humanities Center. Cynthia Herrup and Mark Kishlansky discuss the history and historiography of the English Revolution in the 17th-century.
Humanities in America
Lynne V. Cheney discusses her report to the Congress and the nation, ?Humanities in America,? which was published by the Endowment in the fall of 1988.
Rhetoric and Ideology
During a recent fellowship year at the National Humanities Center, Daniel Gunn worked on a study entitled Ideological Rhetoric in the English Novel, 1748-1910.
The Good Life
During a fellowship year at the National Humanities Center, Marcia Homiak is at work on a study of Aristotelian ethics.
Yemeni Music and Tradition
Philip Schuyler is an ethnomusicologist who has worked for many years in the Middle East. During a fellowship year at the National Humanities Center, he is at work on a study entitled The Politics of Tradition: Music and Musicians in the Yemen Arab Republic.
Saints and Legends
Monsignor Corish, and authority on the life of Saint Patrick, was a recent visitor at the National Humanities Center. Ewa Kuryluk is at work on a book entitled Veronica and her Cloth: Origins, Tradition, and a ‘True’ Icon.
Eve and the Making of the Hebrew Bible
Carol Meyers, Kyle McCarter, and Michael Fishbane participated in a recent conference at the National Humanities Center on The Making of the Hebrew Bible.
Religion Then, Love Now
William Gass, Indira Peterson, and Glenn Yocum all participated in recent conferences at the National Humanities Center, respectively entitled Theoretical Perspectives on Love, Friendship, Marriage, Sexuality, Men, and Women and Exemplary Religious Lives: Hagiography and ‘Sainthood’ in South Indian Religions.
The Clothing of the French Mind
During a recent fellowship year at the National Humanities Center, Sima Godfrey worked on a forthcoming study entitled The Concept of Fashionability in 19th-Century French Literature.
Bloomsbury’s Prophet
During a recent fellowship year at the National Humanities Center, Tom Regan completed Bloomsbury’s Prophet: The Moral Philosophy of G. E. Moore. Professor Regan is also the editor of G. E. Moore: The Early Essays. Both books are published by Temple University Press.
Emblems of Marriage and Manners
Aubrey Williams recently completed a fellowship at the National Humanities Center, where she worked on a forthcoming study entitled Emblematic Situation on the Restoration Stage.
Teachers on Teaching Part 1
Paul Rahe, Patricia Reifsnyder, Patricia Meyer Spacks, and Sarah Foelsche participated in two recent seminars for high school teachers sponsored by the National Humanities Center on Republics Ancient and Modern and Representations of Self in Literature.
Ratifying the Constitution
Michael Lienesch and Michael Gillespie participated in a recent conference at the National Humanities Center on the ratification of the American Constitution. They are co-editors of a forthcoming collection of essays entitled Ratifying the Constitution: Ideas and Interests in the Several American States.
Will Religion Destroy the World?; Commentary – Will Religion Destroy the World?
John Bowker recently visited the National Humanities Center and North Carolina State University, where he delivered a lecture entitled Will Religion Destroy the World?