| BC-50561-10 | Federal/State Partnership: Grants for State Humanities Councils | New Jersey Council for the Humanities | A Humane Society: Using the Humanities to Bridge Cultures | 9/1/2010 - 2/29/2012 | $153,630.00 | Briann | G. | Greenfield | | | | New Jersey Council for the Humanities | Camden | NJ | 08101-3287 | USA | 2010 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Grants for State Humanities Councils | Federal/State Partnership | 153630 | 0 | 153630 | 0 | Funding will support three week-long residential summer seminars for teachers in 2011, and a series of three town hall meetings on the topic of "The Humane Society."
A HUMANE SOCIETY: USING THE HUMANITIES TO BRIDGE CULTURES is a two-part project. Part 1 consists of three week-long residential summer seminars, to take place in July 2011, for New Jersey's K-12 teachers: America and the Politics of the World's Religions; Narratives of Immigration: Latino/a Lives; and Race in American History and Culture: New Perspectives. They will be led by humanities scholars from the fields of history, religion, literature, and cultural studies. Part 2 will consist of a series of three town hall meetings, in northern, central, and southern New Jersey. Focusing on The Humane Society, these meetings of scholars, civic leaders, and community residents will create a forum, history-based, for informed, civil discussion aimed at understanding the possibilities for greater cooperation among our myriad communities -- both here in America and across the globe. |