Philosophical Ideas and Artistic Pursuits in the Traditions of Asia and the West

Recipient: Rapple, Eva Maria (Glen Ellyn, IL 60525 USA) in affiliation with College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 USA)

Goal: A yearlong workshop for seven full-time and seven part-time humanities and fine arts faculty members to compare aesthetic concepts and beliefs in Asian and Western traditions through the study of philosophy and the fine arts.

Description: College of DuPage, located in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, will plan and implement a year-long workshop series targeting seven full-time and seven part-time Humanities and Fine Arts faculty members. Faculty will participate in lectures which will set the stage for extensive dialogues with a group of distinguished scholars in the fields of philosophy, Asian studies, and fine arts. The intellectual framework is intended to foster comparative analyses of differences and convergences of aesthetic concepts and beliefs via exemplary arts and philosophies of Asian and Western traditions. The goal is to promote knowledge about global cultural contexts in a collegial work and learning environment led by highly qualified scholars in their respective fields.

Grant: 185025 / EZ-50190-07,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Faculty Humanities Workshops,   Year Awarded: 2007

Art, Philosophy of Mind, and Cognitive Science

Recipient: Levinson, Jerrold (College Park, MD 20742 USA) in affiliation with University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141 USA)

Goal: A six-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers on the relation of the arts to perceptual and cognitive processes.

Grant: 142757 / EH-22311-01,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2001

Nature, Art, and Politics after Kant: Re-evaluating Early German Romanticism

Recipient: Kneller, Jane E (Fort Collins, CO 80523 USA) in affiliation with Colorado State University

Goal: A six-week national institute for 25 college and university teachers on the legacy of early German Romanticism (1794-1800).

Grant: 142740 / EH-22276-00,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2000

Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, Commodity Fetishism, and the Aesthetics of the City

Recipient: Gelley, Alexander (Irvine, CA 92612 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA 92697 USA)

Grant: 151623 / FS-23212-00,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2000

Humanities Scholar in Residence

Recipient: Martin, Bill D (Austin, TX 78746 USA) in affiliation with Westlake High School

Grant: 157567 / HE-20013-00,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Humanities Scholar in Residence Awards,   Year Awarded: 2000

Philosophy and the Histories of the Arts

Recipient: Crawford, Donald W (Madison, WI 53706 USA) in affiliation with American Society for Aesthetics

Goal: To support a six-week summer institute for 25 college teachers on aesthetic theory in historical contexts.

Grant: 142379 / EH-21122-90,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1990

Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts, by Kendall L. Walton

Recipient: Fulton, Margaretta L (Cambridge, MA 02138-0000 USA) in affiliation with Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA 02138 USA)

Goal: To support the publication of a philosophical work on the theory of representa-tion in art.

Grant: 160843 / RP-21221-89,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1989

Translation/Edition of Wilhelm Dilthey, Selected Works (6 vols.)

Recipient: Makkreel, Rudolf A (Atlanta, GA 30322 USA) in affiliation with Emory University

Goal: To support translation and editing of six volumes of the "Selected Works" of the German philosopher and historian Wilhelm Dilthey (l833-l9ll), important to the study of history, literary history and philosophy.

Grant: 137550 / RL-*0868-81,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Translations,   Year Awarded: 1981

Interdisciplinary Course on Television Process and Effects

Recipient: McGuckin, Henry E (San Francisco, CA 94132 USA) in affiliation with Frederic Burk Foundation for Education

Goal: To develop, teach and evaluate a course on modern TV, combining "inside" issuesof production and aesthetics and "outside" issues of social and cultural impact. Proj. Director

Grant: 124635 / E0-*0841-78,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Humanities Institutes Program,   Year Awarded: 1978