{"id":647,"date":"2011-11-07T22:37:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T22:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/~arendt\/wp\/?p=647"},"modified":"2011-11-07T22:37:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T22:37:57","slug":"neh-summer-seminars-and-institutes-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/2011\/11\/07\/neh-summer-seminars-and-institutes-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/~arendt\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/NEH-Logo-Horizontal_RGB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-658\" title=\"NEH Logo Horizontal_RGB\" src=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/~arendt\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/NEH-Logo-Horizontal_RGB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been a very busy fall for me. Since I learned that my NEH seminar on Arendt will again be offered in the summer of 2012, I have been working on revising the program. One challenge has been to fit what I used to have six weeks to discuss into five weeks, the maximum number of weeks now allowed for a seminar. The seminars have now been officially announced on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neh.gov\/\/projects\/si-school.html\">NEH site<\/a>, so please visit, and tell your colleagues to apply!!<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for next summer, my assistant, Simone Arias, and I attended the NEH directors&#8217; meeting in Washington D.C. in October. There we met all the other seminar and institute directors to discuss how to plan and implement an effective program. And while I was in the area, one of the summer scholars who was a member of my seminar last year, Dr. Pat Dingle, invited me to appear on her television program, &#8220;An Educational Moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pat interviewed me about the NEH seminars, my seminar in particular, and also about the career path to university teaching. I enjoyed our conversation. You can watch the video here:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An Educational Moment - Kathy Jones, NEH Seminar Director\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DUMx36LgtMM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After the NEH meeting ended, I met with my program officer to fine tune my seminar for next year. Then, I headed to the Boston area and the Schlesinger Library, to research in the archives on subjects related to Hannah Arendt. The collection I was most interested in was the Papers of Elzbieta Ettinger, who wrote a book about the relationship between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The relationship itself caused a scandal when it became widely known, and Ettinger&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Hannah_Arendt_Martin_Heidegger.html?id=1UaRXIFHULcC&quot;&gt;\"><em>Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger<\/em><\/a>, contributed to that phenomenon. I spent four days&#8211;too few&#8211;in the archives reviewing materials that Ettinger had collected for the longer biography she was in the process of writing. She only published a portion of that work, the section on Arendt and Heidegger, and was still in the process of revising her longer and incomplete work when she died in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The archives proved a valuable resource for me as I revise my own book, <em>Diving for Pearls: A Thinking Journey with Hannah Arendt<\/em>. Suffice it to say that my research at the Schlesinger this fall will have a major impact on the final form of my book and, I think, have a major impact on the field of Arendt research in general.<\/p>\n<p>From Boston I traveled (through a blizzard!!) to Bard College and the fourth annual Hannah Arendt conference. The theme of this year&#8217;s conference was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hannaharendtcenter.org\/?p=2463\">Truthtelling: Democracy in an Age without Facts.<\/a> It was an exciting event, and soon you will be able to see all the lectures at Bard&#8217;s Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities&#8217; web site.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_654\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/~arendt\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/snow-taconic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-654\" title=\"Snowy Taconic\" src=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/~arendt\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/snow-taconic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/snow-taconic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/snow-taconic-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/snow-taconic-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/snow-taconic-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/snow-taconic.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Along the Taconic\/October Storm<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the conference was ending, the snow returned with a fury. I spent an unexpected extra night at the motel in Red Hook, heading back to NYC by a very slow road the following day with a car load of people who had been stranded by the storm. Leading a tour through New York&#8217;s boroughs, I dropped off the last passenger, a grandparent of a Bard student, at La Guardia, and then drove myself to JFK to catch a flight back to the west coast.<\/p>\n<p>After a few days home, I headed to Chicago, where four NEH summer scholars from Arendt seminars (Alicia Harris, Eric Carlson, Heather Nordstrom, and Chris Zegar) past were presenting their curriculum projects on a panel I led at the <a href=\"http:\/\/nameorg.org\/\">National Association of Multicultural Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, a busy fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a very busy fall for me. Since I learned that my NEH seminar on Arendt will again be offered in the summer of 2012, I have been working on revising the program. One challenge has been to fit what I used to have six weeks to discuss into five weeks, the maximum number of weeks now allowed for a seminar. The seminars have now been officially announced on the NEH site, so please visit, and tell your colleagues to apply!! In preparation for next summer, my assistant, Simone Arias, and I attended the NEH directors&#8217; meeting in Washington D.C. in October. There we met all the other seminar and institute directors to discuss how to plan and implement an effective program. And while I was in the area, one of the summer scholars who was a member of my seminar last year, Dr. Pat Dingle, invited me to appear on her television program, &#8220;An Educational Moment.&#8221; Pat interviewed me about the NEH seminars, my seminar in particular, and also about the career path to university teaching. I enjoyed our conversation. You can watch the video here: After the NEH meeting ended, I met with my program officer to&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[45,50,83,87],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hannah-arendt","tag-arendt","tag-bard-college","tag-name-conference","tag-neh-seminars"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arendt.sdsu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}