Caroline Kita
Washington University (St. Louis, MO 63130-4899)
FEL-282212-22
Fellowships
Research Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$60,000 (approved)
$60,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
2/1/2022 – 1/31/2023
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Border Territories: The Emancipatory Soundscapes of Postwar German Radio Drama
Research and writing leading to a book on the importance of radio dramas to the German public in the aftermath of World War II
Border Territories: The Emancipatory Soundscapes of Postwar German Radio Drama, examines the critical role that narrative radio drama played in shaping public discourse in Germany from 1945 to 1961. This project traces how radio drama writers and producers employed this acoustic-literary genre to create imaginary, “emancipatory” realms through sound, where listeners could confront and work through the legacies of war, exile, and the Holocaust. It claims that these radio dramas reflect on a broader “crisis of listening” in the aftermath of National Socialist rule, which questioned if fascist propaganda had rendered German audiences passive, or if German ears could be “retrained” to become critical receivers. This new history of the radio in postwar Germany provides both innovative models for analyzing the intersections of language and sound in acoustic drama and offers insights into the cultivation of critical listening to navigate political and cultural impasses.
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Trustees of Hampshire College (Amherst, MA 01002-3359)
Karen R. Koehler (Project Director: September 2013 to June 2016)
AQ-50988-14
Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants
Education Programs
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Totals:
$22,000 (approved)
$22,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2014 – 12/31/2015
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NEH Enduring Questions Course on Differing Conceptions of Art Over Time
The development of a course for third-semester students on differing conceptions of art from prehistoric times through the present day.
The development of a course for third-semester students on differing conceptions of "art" from prehistoric times through the present day. Drawing from selected texts in philosophy and literature, as well as examples in music, film, architecture, performance, and design, the class on the question, What is art? examines whether art is fundamental to the human psyche or vital to the look of the world we live in. In the first of five sections, Origins, students consider the urge to produce art. They view Werner Herzog's film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which explores the earliest cave paintings though the lens of contemporary desires, and compare early fertility figures with contemporary performance art. This section concludes with essays on critical theory by Martin Heidegger and Theodor Adorno. In the second section, Authenticity, students discuss essays by Walter Benjamin and Jonathon Keats while investigating the stylistic effects and legal ramifications of appropriation in the work of visual artists Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, and Shepard Fairey. Shakespeare's King Lear is paired with film adaptations by Andrew McCullough, Jean Luc-Goddard, and Akira Kurosawa as encouragement to consider how cultural differences are expressed in the act of dramatization. The third unit, Spirituality and the Transcendent, focuses on the ideas of eighteenth-century aesthetic philosophers Kant, Burke, and Goethe, and the poetry and pictures of William Blake, Francisco Goya, and William Wordsworth. The fourth unit, Mimesis, explores the relationship between real life and representation in readings from Plato, Susan Sontag, and Jacques Lacan and portraits ranging from Roman busts to Leonardo, Picasso, and Arbus. Participants also read Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The final unit, Commitment, explores the socio-political dimensions of art with selections from Diderot and Marx, as well as Tolstoy's treatise "What is Art?" and Sartre's "What is Literature?" Examples of political art include the paintings of Jacques Louis David, Russian revolutionary cinema, and two polemical novels, William Morris's News from Nowhere and Emile Zola's The Masterpiece. Arthur Danto's After the End of Art and Hans Belting's Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image Before the Era of Art are used to open up a dialogue on artistic production and intention. The course concludes with an analysis of two films: Exit Through the Gift Shop, a study of the elusive artist Banksy, and Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, a documentary on the Chinese political dissident and experimental performance artist.
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Regents of the University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA 92617-3066)
Alexander Gelley (Project Director: March 2010 to May 2014)
FS-50261-10
Seminars for Higher Education Faculty
Education Programs
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Totals:
$124,703 (approved)
$124,703 (awarded)
Grant period:
10/1/2010 – 9/30/2012
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Walter Benjamin's Later Writings: The Arcades Project, Commodity Culture, Historiography
A five-week seminar for sixteen college and university teachers to study Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project and its impact on technology, media, and history.
Walter Benjamin's career extended from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the second. In contrast to figures like Freud, Heidegger, or Foucault who enjoyed widespread recognition and influence during their lifetime, Benjamin's significance as a theorist and writer only came after his death. But like them, Benjamin may be characterized, in Foucault's words, as one of the "initiators of discursive practices," authors who "produced not only their own work, but the possibility and the rules of formation of other texts." What is more, Benjamin's reputation has been singularly colored by a legendary 'afterlife.' Admittedly, the 'legend' of a writer should not supersede the interpretation of the works, but neither may it be ignored in evaluating their historical impact. It represents an indispensable index of cultural-political currents at a given moment.
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ARCE (Alexandria , VA 22314-1555)
Gerry D. Scott (Project Director: September 2007 to June 2013)
RA-50062-08
Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions
Research Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$164,633 (approved)
$164,633 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2008 – 9/30/2012
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NEH Fellowships at the American Research Center in Egypt
The equivalent of one twelve-month fellowship a year for three years.
The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) respectfully requests continuing support from the NEH for its fellowship program starting in July 2008 through June 2012 (academic years 2009-2010, 2010-2011, and 2011-2012). ARCE's fellowship program is a vital activity designed to foster and support American scholarly humanities-based research in Egypt; to create scholarly, professional, and personal links between American and Egyptian scholars; and to foster a deeper appreciation in the West of Egypt's extensive cultural heritage. ARCE is a mature, innovative institution that has been operating programs in Egypt and the United States for almost six decades. ARCE's prioritized activities include, but are not limited to, the facilitation of scholarly research in Egypt; a program of fellowships awarded for study and research in Egypt; scholarly publications; educational activities for the public and the general membership; academic exchanges; and preservation of Egypt's cultural heritage.
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American Musicological Society, Inc. (New York, NY 10012-1502)
Anne W. Robertson (Project Director: May 2006 to November 2011)
CH-50421-07
Challenge Grants
Challenge Programs
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[Grant products][Media coverage][Prizes]
Totals (matching):
$240,000 (approved)
$240,000 (offered)
$240,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
12/1/2005 – 7/31/2011
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Publishing Musicologal Research in the 21st Century
Endowment for publication subventions and an award program in musicology as well as fund-raising costs.
The American Musicological Society seeks an NEH challenge grant of $240,000, which with a 4:1 match will yield $1,200,000. These funds will endow four publication-related initiatives of the Society. The bulk of the funds ($900,000) will create a new subvention supporting the publication of first books by young scholars, whose work often represents the cutting edge of scholarly research, but whose careers are often at their most fragile or challenging point. The remainder will go primarily to existing publication subvention programs, supporting musicological books more generally ($125,000) as well as a monograph series sponsored by the Society ($100,000). These subventions aim to optimize the quality of the best scholarly books on music while keeping their prices affordable. Finally, we propose a new award for books on music in American culture ($50,000), a vital area of musical research that appeals to the broadest literary and musical public.
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American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies (New York, NY 10017-6706)
Saul Fisher (Project Director: September 2006 to March 2009)
Nicole A Stahlmann (Project Director: March 2009 to March 2012)
RA-50048-07
Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions
Research Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals (outright + matching):
$348,000 (approved)
$348,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2007 – 6/30/2011
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ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship Program
The equivalent of four fellowships a year for three years.
This proposal seeks funding from the NEH for the period July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2011 to support the program of ACLS/SSRC/NEH Fellowships in International and Area Studies. The ACLS has successfully administered this and predecessor programs since 1978. The program is integrated into the central ACLS fellowship competition, since multi-disciplinary research characterizes not only area studies but much work in the humanities in general; area studies scholarship benefits from evaluation in this larger context. Integration of the programs maximizes the number of NEH Fellows, who are supported both by grant funds and by ACLS endowment funds. The program offers 15 fellowships a year to post-doctoral scholars in all disciplines of the humanities working on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, East Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
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Shaden M. Tageldin
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN 55455-2009)
FT-54501-06
Summer Stipends
Research Programs
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[Grant products][Prizes]
Totals:
$5,000 (approved)
$5,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2006 – 8/31/2006
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Disarming Words: European Empires, Native Intellectuals, and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt, 1798-1952
This project shows how the psychodynamics of French and British cultural imperialisms in Egypt (1798-1952) lured colonized Egyptians to seek power through empire rather than against it, to translate their cultures into empowered "equivalence" with those of their dominators and thus repress inequalities between their dominators and themselves. Egyptian intellectuals, I argue, first began to "love" and to translate their colonizers' literatures when those writings spoke to them in "loving" translation: in Arabic or native idiom. Drawn by Europe's self- Arabizations to Europeanize Arabic literature in turn, Egyptians attached themselves to European empires even as they imagined themselves to be overcoming colonial domination.
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American Research Institute in Turkey (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324)
G. Kenneth Sams (Project Director: September 2002 to June 2009)
RA-50003-03
Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions
Research Programs
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[Grant products][Media coverage][Prizes]
Totals:
$193,500 (approved)
$193,500 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2003 – 9/30/2008
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Advanced Fellowships in the Humanities for Research in Turkey
The equivalent of 1.5 fellowships each year for three years.
The American Research Institute in Turkey is requesting support for its fellowship program for advanced research in the humanities in Turkey. Funds for long-term fellowships (tenures from four to twelve months) totaling eighteen months per grant period, are requested from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the academic years 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007. Also requested are funds for a portion of the costs of publicity and selection of the NEH ARIT fellows, beginning in July of 2003.
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Vincent P. Pecora
University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9049)
FA-36424-01
Fellowships for University Teachers
Research Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$35,000 (approved)
$35,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2001 – 12/31/2002
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Religion and Community in Modern Culture: T. S. Eliot, Georges Bataille, and Walter Benjamin
No project description available
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Regents of the University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA 92617-3066)
Alexander Gelley (Project Director: March 2000 to April 2003)
FS-23212-00
Seminars for Higher Education Faculty
Education Programs
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Totals:
$99,265 (approved)
$99,265 (awarded)
Grant period:
10/1/2000 – 9/30/2001
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Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, Commodity Fetishism, and the Aesthetics of the City
No project description available
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Howard A. Eiland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA 02139-4307)
RL-22144-94
Translations
Research Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$70,000 (approved)
$70,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
4/1/1994 – 3/31/1996
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The Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin
To support the translation of critic Walter Benjamin's massive theoretical work on the Paris arcades of the 19th century.
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Marcus P. Bullock
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI 53211-3153)
FT-35607-91
Summer Stipends
Research Programs
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Totals:
$3,750 (approved)
$3,750 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/1991 – 9/30/1991
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Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual Biography
No project description available
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Eugene J. McBride
College of Wooster (Wooster, OH 44691-2363)
FT-32404-89
Summer Stipends
Research Programs
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Totals:
$3,500 (approved)
$3,500 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/1989 – 9/30/1989
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Walter Benjamin's Concept of Messianic Redemption
No project description available
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Carrie L. Asman-Schneider
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar (Davis, CA 95616)
RL-21431-89
Translations
Research Programs
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Totals:
$30,000 (approved)
$30,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/1989 – 11/30/1990
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Walter Benjamin's Writings on Language
To support a translation of Walter Benjamin's writings on language, perception,and image.
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Edward W. Said
Columbia University (New York, NY 10027-7922)
FS-10890-78
Seminars for Higher Education Faculty
Education Programs
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Totals:
$50,580 (approved)
$50,580 (awarded)
Grant period:
1/1/1978 – 9/30/1978
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Modern Criticism Between Culture and System
To study a group of 20th century writers in French, German, Italian and English whose work embodies a skeptical, individual and adversary critical consciousness. These writers are self-consciously situated between, on the one hand, the claims of a dominant culture (which they characterize and describe) and, on the other, the need for a systematic methodology (which they approach, but finally resist). Writers to be studied: Georg Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, Lionel Trilling, R. P. Blackmur, Raymond Williams, Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin and Lucien Goldmann.
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Irving N. Wohlfarth
University of Oregon (Eugene, OR 97403-5219)
FT-12932-76
Summer Stipends
Research Programs
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Totals:
$2,000 (approved)
$2,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/1976 – 7/31/1976
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Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin: A Critical Relationship
To complete a book on Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin. Studying Benjamin's essays on Baudelaire and analyzing Baudelairean texts in a Benjaminian perspective.
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