Visual Resources for Teaching and Research
in Early East Slavic Cultures
A Summer Institute Sponsored by
The National Endowment for the Humanities
Saturday, June 17—Thursday, June 29, 2006
The New York Public Library (NYPL) invites applications for a Summer
Institute for 20 undergraduate teaching faculty, librarians/bibliographers,
and museum curators in the arts and humanities. Participants will analyze,
interpret, contextualize, and “deconstruct” the early corpus of East Slavic
visual images collected at the NYPL over more than a century and a half.
Although the Institute’s focus is early East Slavic cultures, the core goal
is to expose individuals from a wide array of backgrounds to the theory and
methodologies of visual materials as research resources. A reading
knowledge of Russian and/or Church Slavic is desirable, but not required.
Institute Director Edward Kasinec, Curator of NYPL’s Slavic and
Baltic Division, will moderate a series of daily forums with more than a
dozen prominent guest lecturers and discussion facilitators drawn from the
academic, museum, library, and art historical communities. Valerie
Kivelson, Associate Professor of History, the University of Michigan, will
serve as Faculty Advisor. Participants will have ample opportunity for
hands-on work with the historic collections of the NYPL, and to visit other
New York cultural institutions.
Successful applicants receive NEH stipends in the amount of $1,800 to
help defray housing, travel, and other expenses. The Institute will
suggest options for local housing for those who require it. Applications
should be postmarked by March 1, 2006.
Requests for further information should be directed to:
Robert Davis, Co-Director and Associate Curator, Slavic and Baltic
Division, The New York Public Library, New York, NY 10018-2788; 212
930-0940; -0713 or email: [log in to unmask]
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