NEH Summer Seminar: "Terror and Culture: Revisiting Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism."
The seminar will take place June 27 to August 4, 2005 at Stanford University. We are inviting scholars from different disciplines to participate in a collaborative exploration of Arendt's study as a way to open a wider discussion of the concept of totalitarianism, terror and culture. The purpose of the seminar is to investigate totalitarianism -- especially, but not exclusively, Nazi Germany -- as a cultural-historical phenomenon. The seminar will pursue this goal through a close reading of Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism; we will also confront Arendt with other texts pertinent to her arguments (Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger, but also Claude Lefort, Slavoj Zizek and Giorgio Agamben).
Information: Russell A. Berman
Department of German Studies
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2030
berman@stanford.edu
Each year NEH offers teachers opportunities to study humanities topics in a variety of Summer Seminars and Institutes. The dates and duration of each project are listed under each title. The application deadline is March 1, 2005.
Amount of Award
All teachers selected to participate in a seminar or institute will be awarded a fixed stipend of $3,000, $3,600, or $4,200 (depending on the length of the seminar or institute) to help cover the costs of travel, books and other research expenses, and living expenses.
Eligibility
For detailed eligibility requirements, applicants should consult the written application materials. Selection committees for seminars and institutes are directed to give first consideration to applicants who have not participated in an NEH supported seminar or institute in the last three years.
How to Apply
Please send or e-mail a request for application information and expanded project descriptions to the seminar and institute directors listed here. When doing so, please include your regular mailing address since directors may send application material through the mail. You may request information about as many projects as you like, but you may apply to no more than two projects. The application deadline is March 1, 2005 (postmark).
Information
Please direct all questions concerning individual seminars and institutes as well as all requests for application materials to the appropriate director. General questions concerning the National Endowment for the Humanities' Seminars and Institutes Program may be directed to 202-606-8463 or e-mail: sem-inst@neh.gov.