The National Humanities Center offers “Nature Transformed: Imagination and the North American Landscape,” an institute for high school history teachers this coming June 25-July 14, 2000 at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The institute aims to explore:<\/p>\n
\u2022 How have people in different times and place given meaning to their environment?<\/p>\n
\u2022 How do these meanings shape the way people act towards the environment?<\/p>\n
\u2022 How do transformations of nature affect the people who make them?<\/p>\n
\u2022 In what ways is nature a text, and how do we. interpret it as one?<\/p>\n
Stipend and accommodations<\/p>\n
The Center provides texts and a stipend to cover meals, lodging and travel. Participants will be housed in a comfortable dormitory in Chapel Hill, NC, and will be transported by bus to the nearby center. Each participant will have an office for private study at the Center.<\/p>\n
For an application, contact: Summer Institute Office National Humanities Center, P.O. Box 12256, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 (877) 271-7444. You may also contact by email: summins@ga.unc.edu. or download an application from the Center’s website: http:\/\/www.nhc.rtp.nc.us.8080\/tserve\/tshist99.htm.<\/p>\n
Applications. must be submitted and received no later than March 1, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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