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Grant program: Seminars for Higher Education Faculty

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FS-*0002-78Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of VirginiaCRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA1/1/1979 - 9/30/1979$48,063.87GreshamM.Sykes   University of VirginiaCharlottesvilleVA22903-4833USA1977Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs48063.87048063.870

Seminar to survey the changing views in the United States concerning the use of punishment as retribution and as a means of controlling crime. Readings, drawn from sociology, law, psychiatry, and history will stress the historical growth of ideas in this area and encompass a wide range of intellectual positions.

FS-*0003-78Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyStanford UniversityThe Historical and Sociological Criticism of Fiction1/1/1979 - 9/30/1979$54,367.41IanP.Watt   Stanford UniversityStanfordCA94305-2004USA1977Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs54367.41054367.410

Seminar to examine the historical and sociological criticism of fiction. The seminar will consider how much background information is required to understand a novel whose social structure and values are so much different from ours; how these sociological and historical differences affect the way such novels should be judged; and what contributions various sociological theories of literature make towards the resolution of these problems.

FS-*0004-78Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyEmory UniversityTHE AMERICAN SOUTH 1800-1865: SLAVERY, SECESSION AND CIVIL WAR1/1/1979 - 9/30/1979$45,612.00BellI.Wiley   Emory UniversityAtlantaGA30322-1018USA1977Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs456120456120

A seminar on the South from 1800 through 1865, with emphasis on slavery, secession, and Civil War. Attention will be given to changing interpretations as reflected in writings of the last half century, and to influences, national and regional, that have contributed to revisionism.

FS-*0005-78Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of Colorado, BoulderFICTIONAL STRUCTURES AND THE QUESTION OF COHERENCE1/1/1979 - 9/30/1979$47,969.25JamesR.Kincaid   University of Colorado, BoulderBoulderCO80303-1058USA1977Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs47969.25047969.250

The seminar will investigate the ways in which novels employ, distort, and parody traditional narrative patterns. Participants will be expected to analyze traditional assumptions about unity and coherence within the novels studied in the seminar.

FS-*0006-78Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of IowaThe Narrativity of Cinema1/1/1978 - 9/30/1979$44,852.26Dudley Andrew   University of IowaIowa CityIA52242-1320USA1977Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs44852.26044852.260

Seminar to catalog in a systematic, or structural, way the variable of all story telling activities, and then apply this catalog to both classic and modernist films. The short comings of this "object-centered" approach will lead to a general psychology of the film experience as an interaction between the spectator and the narrative machine of the film.

FS-*0007-78Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyBrown UniversityTHE BLACK AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS1/1/1979 - 9/30/1979$47,075.94HaroldW.Pfautz   Brown UniversityProvidenceRI02912-9100USA1977Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs47075.94047075.940

To compare the relative merits and defects of "knowledge about" and "acquaintance with," especially in regard to the status of the scholar as "insider" and "outsider" in the study of the Black-American experience.

FS-*0008-78Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyYale UniversityTHE SOCIAL WORLD OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY1/1/1979 - 9/30/1979$45,787.40Wayne Meeks   Yale UniversityNew HavenCT06510-1703USA1977Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs45787.4045787.40

The seminar will explore the "Social World" of early Christian groups. It intends to test the utility for historical research of certain sociological and anthropological theories, and to provide an interdisciplinary exchange for two kinds of participants: (1) teachers trained in traditional New Testament exegesis and (2) classicists and historians of antiquity.

FS-*0009-78Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyYale UniversityTHE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERARY INTERPRETATION1/1/1979 - 10/31/1979$47,336.08FredC.Robinson   Yale UniversityNew HavenCT06510-1703USA1977Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs47336.08047336.080

To study the several ways in which literary interpretation depends upon one's awareness of the nature and history of the language in which the literature is written. The seminar will draw on literature of all genres written in English between 1600 and the present day. The seminar will increase the precision and validity of the participants' explications of literary texts by demonstrating the interdependence of literary and linguistic study.

FS-*0010-78Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyRegents of the University of California, DavisTHE HUMAN CONDITION: THEMES IN RECENT EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY1/1/1979 - 10/31/1979$45,730.58MarjorieGlicksmanGrene   Regents of the University of California, DavisDavisCA95618-6153USA1977Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs45730.58045730.580

The seminar will attempt to strengthen and round out the study of recent European philosophical trends. The course of study will concentrate on Sartre and Merkan-Ponty.

FS-*0011-78Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyRegents of the University of California, IrvineAUTHORITY IN MODERN AMERICAN INTELECTUAL HISTORY AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY1/1/1979 - 9/30/1979$45,587.00JohnP.Diggins   Regents of the University of California, IrvineIrvineCA92617-3066USA1977Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs455870455870

This seminar, designed for teachers in the social sciences as well as the humanities, will explore the theme of authority, especially authority as it was experienced by a number of intellectuals of various generations and in various disciplines.

FS-*0012-78Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH1/1/1979 - 9/30/1979$49,292.52Christophr Wolff   President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCambridgeMA02138-3800USA1977Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs49292.52049292.520

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FS-*0013-78Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyNew York UniversityAVANTE-GARDE THEATRE IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES1/1/1979 - 12/31/1979$55,589.16Thomas Bishop   New York UniversityNew YorkNY10012-1019USA1977Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs55589.16055589.160

No project description available

FS-*0016-78Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyCarnegie Mellon UniversityModern Developments in the Art of Invention1/1/1979 - 12/31/1979$49,459.55RichardE.Young   Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburghPA15213-3815USA1977Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs49459.55049459.550

To enable the seminar participants to become more effective teachers of a more meaningful rhetoric, and to have them become independent inquirers into one of the most important forms of humanistic expression.

FS-*0034-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillContinuity & Change in Southern Culture1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$46,152.00JohnS.Reed   University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel HillNC27599-1350USA1979SociologySeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs46152045741.80

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FS-*0035-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyYeshiva UniversityEncounter with Judaism in the Hellenistic Period1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$50,420.00LouisH.Feldman   Yeshiva UniversityNew YorkNY10033-3201USA1979Religion, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs504200504200

No project description available

FS-*0036-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyPrinceton UniversityArt Since Mid-Century1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$48,575.00Sam Hunter   Princeton UniversityPrincetonNJ08540-5228USA1979Art History and CriticismSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs485750485750

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FS-*0037-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyPrinceton UniversitySpenser & The Epic Romance1/1/1980 - 12/31/1981$51,118.00ThomasP.Roche   Princeton UniversityPrincetonNJ08540-5228USA1979Literature, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs511180511180

No project description available

FS-*0038-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of ConnecticutA Generatiuon of American Foreign Policy, 1945-19751/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$47,895.00ThomasG.Paterson   University of ConnecticutStorrsCT06269-9000USA1979History, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs478950478950

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FS-*0039-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultySyracuse UniversityStained Glass in the Medieval Abbey & Cathedral1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$45,848.00Meredith Lillich   Syracuse UniversitySyracuseNY13244-0001USA1979Art History and CriticismSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs458480458480

No project description available

FS-*0040-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyDartmouth CollegeMusic & Technology1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$45,166.00JonH.Appleton   Dartmouth CollegeHanoverNH03755-1808USA1979Music History and CriticismSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs451660451660

No project description available

FS-*0041-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyWilliams CollegeThe Moral Force of the Passions: Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Rousseau1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$47,458.00Amelie Rorty   Williams CollegeWilliamstownMA01267-2600USA1979EthicsSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs474580474580

No project description available

FS-*0041-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraReligious Studies--Presuppositions of the Methodological In-quiry1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00WalterH.Capps   University of California, Santa BarbaraSanta BarbaraCA93106-0001USA1980Religion, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs70000048608.870

No project description available

FS-*0042-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyColumbia UniversityThe Novel in History1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$51,318.00Michael Wood   Columbia UniversityNew YorkNY10027-7922USA1979Literature, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs513180513180

No project description available

FS-*0042-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of California, BerkeleyFoucault and Heidegger: Interpretive Study of Human Beings1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00HubertL.Dreyfus   University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyCA94704-5940USA1980Philosophy, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs70000048095.730

No project description available

FS-*0043-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of Maryland, College ParkThe Second Scientific Revolution1/1/1980 - 3/31/1981$49,646.00StephenG.Brush   University of Maryland, College ParkCollege ParkMD20742-5141USA1979History, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs496460496460

No project description available

FS-*0043-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillAutobiography: "A Trans-Disciplinary Approach"1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00James Olney   University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel HillNC27599-1350USA1980British LiteratureSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs70000046442.550

No project description available

FS-*0044-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyYale UniversityNew Directions in the Interpretation of English and AmericanFiction1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$52,605.00J. Hillis Miller   Yale UniversityNew HavenCT06510-1703USA1979Literature, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs52605051993.230

No project description available

FS-*0044-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegePatterns in French Civilization1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00LaurenceW.Wylie   President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCambridgeMA02138-3800USA1980AnthropologySeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs70000054907.260

No project description available

FS-*0045-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyArizona Board of RegentsMinorities in the Southwest1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$47,859.00Leonard Dinnerstein   Arizona Board of RegentsTucsonAZ85721-0073USA1979History, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs478590478590

No project description available

FS-*0045-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyColumbia UniversityFrom Michelangelo to Bernini1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00Howard Hibbard   Columbia UniversityNew YorkNY10027-7922USA1980Arts, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs700000596390

No project description available

FS-*0046-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of Wisconsin, MadisonHistory & Literature of the Reformation1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$48,658.00MaxL.Baeumer   University of Wisconsin, MadisonMadisonWI53715-1218USA1979Literature, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs48658048610.040

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FS-*0046-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyColumbia UniversityChinese Literature: Major Poetry and Fiction1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00Chih-tsing Hsia   Columbia UniversityNew YorkNY10027-7922USA1980Literature, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs700000543290

No project description available

FS-*0047-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyColumbia UniversitySuperstition as a Factor in the Decline of Rome1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$52,404.00Morton Smith   Columbia UniversityNew YorkNY10027-7922USA1979Literature, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs524040498040

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FS-*0047-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyCornell UniversityOrtega y Gasset's Idea of Art, Literature and Literary Criticism1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$54,170.00Ciriaco Moron-Arroyo   Cornell UniversityIthacaNY14850-2820USA1980Spanish LiteratureSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs54170053770.660

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FS-*0048-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyCornell UniversityRussian Modernism1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$45,668.00Patricia Carden   Cornell UniversityIthacaNY14850-2820USA1979Literature, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs45668043097.040

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FS-*0048-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of California, BerkeleyFiction and Autobiography1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00RobertB.Alter   University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyCA94704-5940USA1980Comparative LiteratureSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs70000051422.350

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FS-*0049-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyJohns Hopkins UniversityWriting and Understanding History in Britain & America, 1688-17891/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$57,857.00J.G.A.Pocock   Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreMD21218-2608USA1979History, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs57857054694.250

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FS-*0049-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyWellesley CollegeHistory of Moral Philosophy: Theories of the Virtues in Fourth Century Athens and Eighteenth Century Scotland1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00AlasdairC.MacIntyre   Wellesley CollegeWellesleyMA02481-8203USA1980EthicsSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs700000541350

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FS-*0050-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyWashington UniversityFrench Literature & Intellectual Life Since 19601/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$60,000.00Michel Rybalka   Washington UniversitySt. LouisMO63130-4862USA1979Literature, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs60000049494.050

No project description available

FS-*0050-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of California, BerkeleyHumor in Cross-Cultural Perspective1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00StanleyH.Brandes   University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyCA94704-5940USA1980AnthropologySeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs70000043480.220

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FS-*0051-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of OregonViolence in American History1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$60,000.00RichardM.Brown   University of OregonEugeneOR97403-5219USA1979Interdisciplinary Studies, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs60000046733.60

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FS-*0051-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyYale UniversityRhetorical Reading1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00PaulM.De Man   Yale UniversityNew HavenCT06510-1703USA1980Literature, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs700000568060

No project description available

FS-*0052-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of Massachusetts, BostonPhilosophy & the Composing Process1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$60,000.00AnnE.Berthoff   University of Massachusetts, BostonBostonMA02125-3300USA1979CommunicationsSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs600000474110

No project description available

FS-*0052-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeState and Society in Empirical Democratic Theory1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00Michael Shinagel   President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCambridgeMA02138-3800USA1980Political Science, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs70000054168.790

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FS-*0053-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of MinnesotaEnglish Literature and Art, 1660-17601/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$49,707.00RobertE.Moore   University of MinnesotaMinneapolisMN55455-2009USA1979Literature, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs49707048186.430

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FS-*0053-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeThe Unity of Learning in the Later Middle Ages1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00JohnEmeryMurdoch   President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCambridgeMA02138-3800USA1980History of PhilosophySeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs70000054210.610

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FS-*0054-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillFrege and Philosophy of Mathematics1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$47,929.00MichaelD.Resnik   University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel HillNC27599-1350USA1979Philosophy, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs47929047312.670

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FS-*0054-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyKent State UniversityBlack Protest Movement in Twentieth Century America1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00August Meier   Kent State UniversityKentOH44242-0001USA1980U.S. HistorySeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs70000057413.430

No project description available

FS-*0055-80Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyUniversity of Texas at AustinPoetics of Change: The New Latin American Novel1/1/1980 - 12/31/1980$46,947.00JulioC.Ortega   University of Texas at AustinAustinTX78712-0100USA1979Literature, GeneralSeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs46947045722.850

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FS-*0055-81Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education FacultyColumbia UniversitySociety and Literature in the Roman World1/1/1981 - 12/31/1981$70,000.00WilliamV.Harris   Columbia UniversityNew YorkNY10027-7922USA1980Classical HistorySeminars for Higher Education FacultyEducation Programs700000521480

No project description available