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Fall semester seminar & topic in fall 2008 Winter/spring short-term seminars
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Fall Seminar Topics and Faculty Fellows A list of the Newberry Seminar topics for the fall semester since the program began in 1965. |
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2008: Community and Memory: Texts, Images and Monuments -- Ellen Joyce (history, Beloit) and Hannah Schell (religious studies, Monmouth) 2007: Words and Deeds: Speech and Action in Western Culture -- Kevin Miles (philosophy, Earlham) and Robert Southard (history, Earlham) 2006: On the Road: Intercultural Encounters in Europe and the Americas -- David George (foreign languages and literatures, Lake Forest) and Benjamin Goluboff (English, Lake Forest) 2005: The Problem of Slavery and Visions of Freedom in Western Culture -- Robert Bennett (classics, Kenyon) and Glenn McNair (history, Kenyon) 2004: Encountering Worlds: Human Views of Nature -- Carol Neel (history, Colorado) and John Horner (psychology, Colorado) 2003: Picturing the Past: Studies in the Visual Representation of History -- Clay Steinman (communication studies, Macalester) and Paul Solon (history, Macalester) 2002: Confluence of Cultures: Histories and Fictions of the Americas -- Gilberto Gómez-Ocampo (modern languages, Wabash) and James Fisher (theatre, Wabash) 2001: Religion and Secularism -- David Spadafora (history, Lake Forest) and Richard Mallette (English, Lake Forest) 2000: Enlightenment Dreams/Enlightenment Realities -- James Diedrick (English, Albion) and Deborah Kanter (history, Albion) Return to: top of page ... fall seminar ... opportunities for faculty |
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1999: Art and Culture -- James Martin (music, Cornell) and Susan Wolverton (theater arts, Coe) 1998: Unmasking Gender -- Carla Zecher (French, Coe) and Terry Heller (English, Coe) 1997: The Contested Past: Histories and Fictions of Human Conflict -- Robert Warde (English, Macalester) and Paul Solon (history, Macalester) 1996: Landscape and Culture -- Juliana Mulroy (biology, Denison) and William Nichols (English, Denison) 1995: The Paradox of Slavery and Freedom in the Western World -- Harry M. Williams (history, Carleton) and Darrell LaLone (anthropology, DePauw) 1994: Frontiers of the Land, Frontiers of the Mind -- Lance Factor (philosophy, Knox) and Laurel Carrington (history, St. Olaf) 1993: The Self in Context -- James Cook (English, Albion) and James Diedrick (English, Albion) 1992: The Dialogue with Progress -- (David Hopper (religion, Macalester) and James Fisher (theater, Wabash) 1991: Concepts of Freedom in the Modern Age -- Paul Cohen (history, Lawrence) and Deborah VanBroekhoven (history, Ohio Wesleyan) 1990: Distant Encounters: Journeys and the Image of the Other -- Kathleen Adams (anthropology, Beloit) and Charles Stoneburner (English, Denison) Return to: top of page ... fall seminar ... opportunities for faculty |
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1989: The Self in Context: Exploration of Selfhood in Western Culture -- James Cook (English, Albion) and Peter Frederick (history, Wabash) 1988: Cultural Encounters in the New World -- Pamela Jensen (political science, Kenyon) and Donald Irving (English/American studies, Grinnell) 1987: The Ruling Taste: Governmental Influence on European and American Culture -- Debra Mancoff (art, Beloit) and Lyman Leathers (history, Ohio Wesleyan) 1986: Cultural Ideals and Realities in History and Literature -- Steve Fineberg (classics, Knox) and Roy Wortman (history, Kenyon) 1985: Play and Society in Literature and History -- Phyllis Gorfain (English, Oberlin) and Clark Halker (history, Albion) 1984: Crime and Justice in Literature and History: the 16th-20th Centuries -- Joseph Musser (English, Ohio Wesleyan) and Charles Flynn (history, Denison) 1983: Love, Marriage and Family in Western History, 1100-1914 -- Penny Gold (history, Knox) and Warren Rosenberg (English, Wabash) 1982: Literature and Politics -- Catherine Zuckert (political science, Carleton) and Michael Zuckert (political science, Carleton) 1981: Cycles of Change: The Concept of Revolution in History, Politics, Art and Literature -- Susan McCarthy (French, Hope) and Peter Weisensel (history, Macalester) 1980: Public vs. Private: the Dilemma of Liberalism in England and America -- William Frame, (political science, Kenyon) and Randall Schrock (history, Earlham) Return to: top of page ... fall seminar ... opportunities for faculty |
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1979: Changing Concepts of Nature in the Western Tradition: Enlightenment in the Twentieth Century -- John Riker (philosophy, Colorado) and Charles Miller (political science, Lake Forest) 1978: Individualism and Community: Studies in the Relationship of Self and Society, 1750-1900 -- Robert Fogerty (history, Antioch) and Rosemary Jann (literature, Ripon) 1977: All Coherence Gone: the Modern World Emerging -- Paul Solon (history, Macalester) and Lowell Johnson (English, St. Olaf) 1976: Art and Capital: the Creative Arts in a Commercial World -- Robert Shimip (history, Ohio Wesleyan) and William Nichols (English, Denison) 1975: Myth and History: the Social Uses of the Imagined Past -- E. Gordon Whatley (English, Lake Forest and Tom K. Barton (history, Colorado) 1974: The Machine in the Garden: the Impact of Industrialization on Society and Social Ideals -- Richard Gamble (English, Coe) and George Tselos (history, Monmouth) 1973: Alienation & the Search for Community: Studies in Literature and Social History -- Robert Hellenga (English, Knox) and Kirk Jeffrey (history, Carleton) 1972: Radicalism and the Radical Temperament: Studies in the American and English Traditions -- Harley Henry (English, Macalester) and James Stewart (history, Macalester) 1971: Eighteenth Century Enlightenment -- Jean Kern (English, Coe) and John Treon (history, St. Olaf) 1970: Origins of Anglo-American Culture, 1576-1688 -- William Schutte (English, Lawrence) and Thomas Schlereth (history, Grinnell) Return to: top of page ... fall seminar ... opportunities for faculty |
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1969: Renaissance –- Focus on the Elizabethan Court -- Milton Krieger (history, Cornell) and William Schutte (English, Lawrence) 1968: Nineteenth Century Studies -- Michael Crowell (English, Knox) and Henry Fritz (history, St. Olaf) 1967: Eighteenth Century Studies -- Thomas Gilmore (English, Cornell) and J. Lynn Osen (history, Beloit) 1966: Seventeenth Century Studies -- Robert Irrmann (history, Beloit) and Sheldon Zittner (English, Grinnell) 1965: Renaissance Studies – John J. Murray (history, Coe) and Richard VanFossen (English, Cornell) Return to: top of page ... fall seminar ... opportunities for faculty |
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