Sources of Enlightenment: Identifying Borrowed Passages in the Encyclopedie using Sequence Alignment.

Recipient: Morrissey, Robert (Chicago, IL 60637 USA) in affiliation with University of Chicago

Description: Stanford University professor Dan Edelstein and the ARTFL project of the University of Chicago propose to bring the power of machine-assisted learning and text-mining techniques to bear on the difficult question of the Encyclopedie's relationship to past thinkers. Data-mining techniques will allow us to focus on all forms of citation, allusion, borrowing, and outright plagiarism in the Encyclopedie, through which we hope to reach a more thorough and quantified understanding of the status and state of knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment while at the same time reflecting on the use and development of data-mining techniques in the Humanities.

Grant: 194785 / RF-50003-09,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Fellowships at Digital Humanities Centers,   Year Awarded: 2009

Visions of the Dark Years: World War II and its Legacy in France

Recipient: Golsan, Richard J (College Station, TX 77843-4215 USA) in affiliation with Texas A & M Research Foundation (College Station, TX 77843 USA)

Goal: A five-week seminar for fifteen school teachers to study the legacy and memory of World War II in France through literary texts, films, historical sites, and public debates that have to do with that epoch, to be held in Paris, Lyon, Vichy, and Caen, France.

Description: This seminar examines the troubled legacy of the German Occupation of France during World War II through a study of important films, novels and histories of the period and its memory. Participants will also visit and discuss important museums, monuments, and battle sites in Paris, Lyon, Vichy and Normandy, and discuss the so-called Vichy Syndrome with leading French historians, journalists, and publishers.

Grant: 191953 / FV-50194-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2008

Theatricality and Reality in Modern French Drama

Recipient: Witt, Mary Ann Frese (Raleigh, NC 27695-8106 USA) in affiliation with North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC 27695 USA)

Goal: A four-week seminar for fifteen school teachers on major French contemporary dramas by Sartre, Genet, Ionesco, and Beckett, to be held in Avignon, France.

Description: An intensive study of some major French plays of the twentieth century with special attention to the ways in which the self-conscious theatricality of modern drama has portrayed modern reality. Primary readings and discussion in French. Texts to be studied: Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis Clos; Jean Genet, Les Bonnes and Les Negres; Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros; Samuel Beckett, En Attendant Godot, and one other play to be selected among those produced at the Avignon theater festival, where the seminar will be held. Attendance at this performance required. Seminar meetings based on discussion of texts, oral reports and theater reviews, explications de texte, and staging of scenes by participants. One written paper, one written review. Conducted in French.

Grant: 191931 / FV-50172-08,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2008

Citizenship and Culture: French Identity in Crisis

Recipient: Mellerski, Nancy C (Carlisle, PA 17013-2896 USA) in affiliation with Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA 17013 USA)

Goal: A four-week summer seminar for fifteen French teachers on the construction of, and challenges to, French republican identity over the last two centuries.

Description: This seminar will explore the construction of Republican identity in France and study challenges to the ideal, foundational French Republic since the Revolution of 1789 through its representations in art, theatre, essay and film. With this historical perspective, we will examine regional identities and languages from the viewpoint of language policy and the formation of the state, through autobiographical writings and essays and in debates on the European Charter on Regional and Minority Languages. We will then study how decolonization has brought new pressures on Republican universalism as the Muslim community asserts its cultural identity. The "Headscarf Affair," the most important drama in contemporary France, in which the wearing of religious clothing and symbols in school confronts the Republican sacrament of secularism, will constitute our second case study. Finally, we will devote time to studying the "fracture sociale" recently apparent in the upheavels in the French suburbs.

Grant: 187033 / FV-50147-07,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2007

Creating Digital Facsimiles of Sixteenth-Century French Books

Recipient: McKinley, Mary B (Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA) in affiliation with University of Virginia

Goal: The creation of encyclopedia entries and searchable metadata to accompany digital facsimiles of 100 16th-century French books.

Grant: 179643 / PA-52118-06,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation/Access Projects,   Year Awarded: 2006

Visions of the Dark Years: World War II and its Legacy in France

Recipient: Golsan, Richard J (College Station, TX 77843-4215 USA) in affiliation with Texas A & M Research Foundation (College Station, TX 77843 USA)

Goal: A five-week seminar for fifteen school teachers to study the legacy and memory of World War II in France through literary texts, films, historical sites, and public debates that have to do with that epoch, to be held in Paris, Lyon, Vichy, and Caen, France.

Description: This seminar will study the legacy and memory of World War II in France through site visits to monuments, museums, and other "sites of memory, readings of important literary texts including Camus's The Plague and Marguerite Duras's The War, and screenings and discussions of important films including Marcel Ophuls' The Sorrow and the Pity, Louis Mall's Lacombe Lucien and Goodyby, Children, Francois Truffaut's The Last Metro, and Claude Berri's Lucie Aubrac. After an initial week in Paris and visits to its WWII monuments and museums, we will visit Lyons, the "Capital of the Resistance"; Vichy, the home of the collaboration is Petain regime, and then spend three weeks in Caen, Normandy, where we will discuss the majority of our readings and films and visit the Normandy landing sites.

Grant: 182150 / FV-50109-06,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2006

Lyon's Cultural Heritage: Living the Present in the Shadow of the Past

Recipient: Allen, Linda Quinn (Ames, IA 50011 USA) in affiliation with Iowa State University

Goal: A three-week institute for thirty school teachers of French to deepen their language skills while studying the historical legacy and contemporary culture of Lyon through readings, lectures, visits to museums and sites, and dialogue with the city's residents.

Description: The proposed institute is for secondary school French teachers. We will investigate the cultural heritage of Lyon from its founding as a Roman colony to its current status of the second city of France. Participants will study selected texts, attend lectures by guest scholars and master teachers, take excursions to major historical sites, and take part in symposia with invited residents of Lyon. The institute’s goals are that the participants will develop an appreciation of Lyon’s rich cultural heritage, gain an increased awareness of the city’s prevailing way of life, and enhance their proficiency in French. The intended outcome is that the participants will use the understandings gained through the institute to strengthen the world language education that they provide in their own classrooms in the United States.

Grant: 182178 / ES-50145-06,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2006

Visions of the Dark Years: Legacies of World War II in France

Recipient: Golsan, Richard J (College Station, TX 77843-4215 USA) in affiliation with Texas A & M Research Foundation (College Station, TX 77843 USA)

Goal: A five-week summer seminar for school teachers to study the legacy and memory of World War II in France through literary texts, films, and historical sites.

Grant: 171826 / FV-50046-04,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2004

Picpus; Walled Garden of Memory; A Digital Archive

Recipient: Spencer, Janine (Evanston, IL 60208-2201 USA) in affiliation with Northwestern University (Evanston, IL 60208 USA)

Goal: A digital archive using Picpus Cemetery in Paris as a focal point for exploring the intersections of French and American history over three centuries and related cultural themes.

Description: The Picpus Digital Archive project seeks to promote investigation, discussion and appreciation of commemorative monuments. This archive, focusing on the Picpus Cemetery in Paris, permits students to establish links between the American and French revolutions and invites them to see a deeper understanding of history that stetches from the Reign of Terror to the German occupation of France during WWII, while making them reflect on the nature of monuments and examine the relationship of frief, memory and history to the creation and preservation of national consciousness. The archive incorporates new audio, visual, and textual material that permits studnets to pursue a line of inquiry according to their individual interests. It provides students the material necessary to investigate questions and hypotheses, to analyze and form opinions and judgements. The project is an open-ended research site designed to help investigators reflect on the nature of monuments and to understand their role in history and culture.

Grant: 164214 / ED-50094-03,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 2003

Visions of the Dark Years: Legacies of World War II in France

Recipient: Golsan, Richard J (College Station, TX 77843-4215 USA) in affiliation with Texas A & M Research Foundation (College Station, TX 77843 USA)

Goal: A five-week seminar for school teachers to study the legacy and memory of World War II in France through literary texts, films, and historical sites.

Grant: 114424 / FV-22431-02,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2002

Theatricality and Reality in Modern French Drama

Recipient: Witt, Mary Ann F (Raleigh, NC 27695-8106 USA) in affiliation with North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC 27695 USA)

Goal: A four-week seminar for school teachers on major French contemporary drama by Sartre, Genet, Ionesco, and Beckett to be held in Avignon, France.

Grant: 114444 / FV-22451-02,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 2002

Caribbean Texts: An Exploration of Cultural History and Identity

Recipient: Rosenthal, Alan S (Baltimore, MD 21250 USA) in affiliation with University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Goal: A study project on Caribbean literature, history, film, and culture for faculty at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Grant: 141973 / ED-21685-99,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 1999

A Multimedia/Hypermedia Cross-Cultural Project for CD-ROM and Web

Recipient: Furstenberg, Gilberte (Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA) in affiliation with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA 02139 USA)

Goal: To support the creation of a prototype multimedia CD-ROM and bilingual Web site to enhance French language instruction through contextual learning.

Grant: 141825 / ED-20704-97,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 1997

Visions of the Dark Years: Literary and Cinematic Portraits of the German Occupation of France, 1940-1944

Recipient: Golsan, Richard J (College Station, TX 77843-4215 USA) in affiliation with Texas A & M Research Foundation (College Station, TX 77843 USA)

Grant: 154658 / FV-22200-97,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1997

ECRITS: A Translation of Major Theoretical Works

Recipient: Fink, Bruce S (Moon Township, PA 15108 USA) in affiliation with Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA 15282 USA)

Goal: To support an English translation of Jacques Lacan's major work, ECRITS, which contains articles written from 1936 to 1966 on a variety of topics including ethics, language, literature, metaphor, psychosis, and speech.

Grant: 161612 / RZ-20025-97,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Collaborative Research,   Year Awarded: 1997

Integration of WWW Resources in French Language Instruction: Cultural and Linguistic Enhancement

Recipient: Walton, Stephen (Portland, OR 97207 USA) in affiliation with Portland State University (Portland, OR 97207-0751 USA)

Goal: To support the creation of a Web site incorporating authentic French materials and related exercises and activities.

Grant: 141829 / ED-20738-97,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 1997

Cinema Francais: Matiere Artistique, Materiel Pedagogique

Recipient: Morrissey, Robert (Chicago, IL 60637 USA) in affiliation with University of Chicago

Goal: To support an institute on the cultural context on French film and its use in the foreign language classroom for high school teachers of French in Chicago.

Grant: 141810 / ED-20609-97,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Education Development and Demonstration,   Year Awarded: 1997

AATF-Indiana University Summer Institute for French Teachers

Recipient: Valdman, Albert (Bloomington, IN 47405 USA) in affiliation with Indiana University, Bloomington

Goal: To support a five-week national summer institute on the French language and culture, the use of technology in second-language acquisition, and foreign language teaching methodologies for 24 high school and college French teachers.

Grant: 142154 / EF-20270-95,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Special Opportunity in Foreign Language Education,   Year Awarded: 1995

Rabelais, Humanism, and the Carnivalesque

Recipient: Glidden, Hope (New Orleans, LA 70118 USA) in affiliation with Tulane University

Grant: 154590 / FV-21979-95,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1995

Summer Institute in French Cultural Studies

Recipient: Lionnet, Francoise (Los Angeles, CA 90095-0000 USA) in affiliation with Northwestern University (Evanston, IL 60208 USA)

Goal: To support a six-week institute for 25 college and university faculty members on French identities, communities, and cultural practices, with particular emphasis on France and Francophone North America.

Grant: 142632 / EH-21884-94,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1994