The Legacy of Ancient Italy: The Etruscans and Early Rome

FAIN: EH-50423-14

Community College Humanities Association (Baltimore, MD 21237-3899)
P. Gregory Warden (Project Director: March 2014 to June 2016)

A three-week institute for twenty-four college and university faculty on recent discoveries and new understandings of ancient Etruscan culture.

The Community College Humanities Association (CCHA) requests funding to support an NEH Summer Institute for 24 faculty from community colleges and 4-year universities on the topic “The Legacy of Ancient Italy: The Etruscans and Early Rome.” Seven visiting Institute faculty members, all of whom are in the forefront of the newest research in Italian archaeology, art history, history, and cultural history, will conduct seminars and extensive on-site field study. P. Gregory Warden, PhD (University Distinguished Professor, SMU, Dallas, TX, and Franklin University Switzerland) and Gretchen Meyers, PhD (Associate Professor of Classics, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA), will serve as institute co-directors. The goal of this institute is to examine the current state of research in the study of Etruscan and early Roman culture, and, by connecting that research to the western humanistic tradition, to develop strategies for making that knowledge available to a wider audience.