Rethinking the Post-Colonial Encounter: Transnational Perspectives on the United States's Presence in Latin Amer.

Recipient: Joseph, Gilbert M (New Haven, CT 06520 USA) in affiliation with Yale University

Goal: To support an international interdisciplinary conference to reassess the adequacy of structuralist thought, in particular modernization and dependency theory, for understanding the impact of the United States on Latin America.

Grant: 161602 / RX-21583-95,   Category: Latin American Studies,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1995

The Formation of African American Documentary Collections

Recipient: Harrison, Alferdteen B (Jackson, MS 39217 USA) in affiliation with Jackson State University

Goal: To support a conference to examine how philosophies behind the collecting of African-American archival materials have changed since the American Revolu- tion.

Grant: 161600 / RX-21575-95,   Category: American History,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1995

Beyond the Nationalist Narrative: Hegemony and Modernity in Colonial Korea

Recipient: Shin, Gi-Wook (Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Los Angeles

Goal: To support a conference that will explore historical forces in addition to political and military ones that might explain Japanese cultural hegemony in Korea during the colonial and liberation periods.

Grant: 161604 / RX-21592-95,   Category: Asian Studies,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1995

The Works of John Cage: Music, Poetry, and Art

Recipient: Bernstein, David Walter (Oakland, CA 94613 USA) in affiliation with Mills College

Goal: To support a conference on the musical and other works of John Cage, his relationship to Merce Cunningham, the sources of his music in ordinary sounds, his composition techniques, his influence, and his legacy.

Grant: 161601 / RX-21578-95,   Category: Music History and Criticism,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1995

The History of Early Brass Instruments

Recipient: Nussbaum, Jeffrey (New York, NY 10011 USA) in affiliation with Historic Brass Society

Goal: To support an international conference to review the current state of scholarship on early brass instruments and their use in the performance of music contemporary to their time.

Grant: 161603 / RX-21587-95,   Category: Music History and Criticism,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1995

Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: Contexts and Comparisons

Recipient: Webster, James (Ithaca, NY 14853 USA) in affiliation with Cornell University

Goal: To support a conference devoted to the study of comic opera in its social and artistic contexts in Vienna during the time of Mozart.

Grant: 161590 / RX-21509-94,   Category: Music History and Criticism,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

Russia's Dissident Old Believers

Recipient: Nichols, Robert L (Northfield, MN 55057-0000 USA) in affiliation with St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN 55057 USA)

Goal: To support an international conference on the Old Belief, originating in the 17th century in a refusal to accept the innovations in worship adopted by the Russian Orthodox church and resulting in a cultural and religious schism.

Grant: 161588 / RX-21491-94,   Category: Russian History,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Baroque Theatricality

Recipient: Buxo, Jose P (Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA) in affiliation with University of California, Los Angeles

Goal: To support a conference that will investigate the works of the colonial Mexican nun and author Sor Juana de la Cruz as productions of the baroque and of a theatrical mode of self-presentation.

Grant: 161593 / RX-21519-94,   Category: Latin American Studies,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

Miles Davis and American Culture

Recipient: Early, Gerald (St. Louis, MO 63130 USA) in affiliation with Washington University

Goal: To support an interdisciplinary conference to assess the life and work of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and his impact on American music, culture, and jazz history.

Grant: 161595 / RX-21526-94,   Category: American Studies,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

Osaka: Cultures of Dominance, Cultures of Opposition

Recipient: McClain, James L (Providence, RI 02912 USA) in affiliation with Brown University

Goal: To support an international conference on the cultural history of Osaka in the early modern, or Edo (Tokyo) period, ca. 1550 - 1700, when Osaka was Japan's commercial center.

Grant: 161596 / RX-21530-94,   Category: Far Eastern History,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab World since 1920

Recipient: Jankowski, James P (Boulder, CO 80309 USA) in affiliation with University of Colorado, Boulder

Goal: To support a conference to bring the most recent theoretical literature on nationalism to bear on the varieties of Arab nationalism of the last 75 years and to test that literature against the Arab experience.

Grant: 161591 / RX-21511-94,   Category: Near Eastern History,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

Schubert's Piano Music

Recipient: Edwards, Lynn B (Conway, MA 01341-0000 USA) in affiliation with Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies (Easthampton, MA 01027 USA)

Goal: To support a conference to examine Schubert's piano music, the social circum- stances in which it was written, and the instruments on which it was played.

Grant: 161592 / RX-21512-94,   Category: Music History and Criticism,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

Bicentenary of John Keats

Recipient: Ryan, Robert M (Camden, NJ 08102 USA) in affiliation with Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc. (New York, NY 10018 USA)

Goal: To support a conference, on the bicentenary of John Keats's birth, to share perspectives on Keats's poetry and to consider its place, and the place of poetry generally, in contemporary American culture.

Grant: 161597 / RX-21536-94,   Category: British Literature,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

Italy and America 1943-44: Italian, Amer. & Italian Amer. Experiences of the Liberation of the Italian Mezzogiorno

Recipient: Davis, John Anthony (Storrs, CT 06269 USA) in affiliation with University of Connecticut

Goal: To support a conference on the American liberation of southern Italy in 1943 and 1944 and on its cultural and political effects.

Grant: 161594 / RX-21522-94,   Category: European History,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera

Recipient: Smart, Mary Ann (Oakland, CA 94618 USA) in affiliation with SUNY Research Foundation, Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY 11794-0001 USA)

Goal: To support a conference to examine new ways to understand the cultural context of opera texts and music, focusing on how new musicological work on gender can be applied to the study of opera.

Grant: 161599 / RX-21552-94,   Category: Music History and Criticism,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

W.E.B. Du Bois's THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO: A Centenary Reappraisal

Recipient: Katz, Michael B (Philadelphia, PA 19143 USA) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)

Goal: To support a conference to reconsider W. E .B. DuBois's THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO on the centenary of its publication in light of the current experiences of urban blacks.

Grant: 161598 / RX-21550-94,   Category: American History,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

Petrus Christus in Renaissance Bruges

Recipient: Ainsworth, Maryan W (New York, NY 10028 USA) in affiliation with Metropolitan Museum of Art

Goal: To support a conference, in conjunction with a major exhibition, on the paint- ings of Petrus Christus of Bruges, an early 15th-century Netherlandish artist.

Grant: 161587 / RX-21490-94,   Category: Art History and Criticism,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

The Idea of a System of Transcendental Idealism in Kant, Fiche, Schelling, and Hegel

Recipient: Sedgwick, Sally Stowell (Hanover, NH 03755 USA) in affiliation with Dartmouth College

Goal: To support an international conference to examine the varied reactions of early19th-century German philosophers to Immanuel Kant's attempt to construct a "transcendental system" of philosophy based on pure reason.

Grant: 161589 / RX-21506-94,   Category: History of Philosophy,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

Shostakovich: The Man and His Age, 1906-75

Recipient: Bartlett, Rosamund (Ann Arbor, MI 48197 USA) in affiliation with University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA)

Goal: To support a conference that will examine the works of Shostakovich in the light of recent research and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Grant: 161586 / RX-21488-94,   Category: Area Studies,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994

Access to Archives

Recipient: Gardner, James B (Washington, DC 20003 USA) in affiliation with American Historical Association

Goal: To support a meeting in Bellagio, Italy, of archivists from Eastern and West- ern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and North America to dis- cuss and develop standards for the handling of archives and access to them.

Grant: 161584 / RX-21486-94,   Category: History,   Division: Research Programs,   Year Awarded: 1994