The 21 seminars and institutes will address the following topics:

• British Romanticism
• Interwar Shanghai and Berlin
• Contemporary Brazilian literature
• Descartes, Galileo, and Hobbes
• The American Civil War
• Autobiography: Perpetua and Augustine
• Aristotle on truth
• Mapping and art in the Americas
• The golden age of magazines
• Rome in late antiquity
• Cultural and technical exchange between early modern Islam and Europe
• Philosophical perspectives on liberal democracy
• Teaching the history of political economy
• History of the Silk Road
• Interactions between Native Americans and European colonists
• Medieval philosophy, history, and interfaith exchanges between Christians, Muslims, and Jews
• American maritime history
• Native cultures of the Pacific Northwest
• Ritual and ceremony in Europe and the Americas

Many of these seminars and institutes take place on American campuses, but some will be held at sites in Brazil, England, Italy, Spain, and Tunisia.

The application deadline is March 2, 2010.

For a list of the seminars and institutes to be offered in the summer of 2010, along with eligibility requirements and contact information for the directors, please visit www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html.

New this year: A select number of spaces in seminars and institutes are now reserved for full-time graduate students.
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DIRECT an NEH Summer Program in 2011

The NEH invites you to join a distinguished roster of humanities scholars who have enjoyed the rewarding experience of organizing and directing an NEH summer program in their own field of expertise.

- Guidelines for proposing a seminar or institute to be held in 2011 will be posted on the NEH website at www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html.
Application Deadline: March 2, 2010

- Guidelines for proposing a Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop to be held in 2011 will be posted on the NEH website at www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarks.html (for school teachers) and www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarkscc.html (for community college faculty).
Application Deadline: March 16, 2010
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ABOUT NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes

Each summer, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports rigorous national, residential seminars and institutes in the humanities for faculty who teach American undergraduates.

These study opportunities allow college and university teachers to gain a deeper knowledge of current scholarship in key fields of the humanities and advance their own teaching and research.

Participants in these two- to six-week projects receive stipends to help defray travel and living expenses.