NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 1994-1995 RESEARCH CONFERENCES The Division of Research Programs announces ten research conferences in 1994-1995 that are being supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. These conferences are designed to advance scholarly research in the humanities. Some of the conferences will award small travel subsidies on a competitive basis to junior faculty and graduate students who wish to attend. In most cases the interested public is also welcome. Those interested in additional information should call or write the conference project directors. Proceedings of conferences that have already taken place can also be obtained from the project directors. "The Moral Philosophy of Alan Donagan" April 14-17, 1994, University of Notre Dame Alasdair MacIntyre, Project Director Department of Philosophy University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 219/631-7534 "The Age of Giorgio Vasari: Art, Literature, and History at the Medicean Court" April 15-17, 1994, Yale University Philip Jacks, Project Director Contact: Robert Babcock, Curator Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Beinecke Library Yale University 121 Wall Street (1603A Yale Station) New Haven, CT 06520 203/432-2968 "Petrus Christus: A Symposium" June 10-12, 1994 Metropolitan Museum of Art Maryann Ainsworth, Project Director Contact: Linda Komaroff Education Department Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028 212/879-5500, x3605 FAX: 212/570-3972 "Comparative Penutian Workshop" June 27-July 7, 1994, University of Oregon Scott DeLancey and Victor Golla, Co-Project Directors Department of Linguistics University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 503/346-3901 E-Mail: delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu "Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna" September 8-11, 1994 Cornell University James Webster and Mary Hunter, Co-Project Directors Department of Music Lincoln Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-4101 607/255-3611 FAX: 607/254-2877 E-Mail: jcw4@cornell.edu mhunter@abacus.bates.edu James Belonsoff cjb2@cornell.edu "Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab World" September 22-24, 1994 University of Colorado James Jankowski and Israel Gershoni, Co-Project Directors Contact: Gladys Bloedow Department of History Campus Box 234 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 303/492-6683 E-Mail: bloedow_g@cubldr.colorado.edu "Russia's Dissident Old Believers" September 30 - October 2, 1994 St. Olaf College Robert Nichols and Georg Michels, Co-Project Directors Department of History St. Olaf College Northfield, MN 55057 507/646-3167 FAX: 507/646-3523 "International Dante Seminar" October 21-23, 1994, Chauncey Conference Center, Princeton, NJ Robert Hollander, Project Director Contact: Lauren Scancarelli Seem Department of Comparative Literature Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 609/258-4027 E-Mail: bobh@phoenix.princeton.edu "Schubert's Piano Music" April 6-9, 1995 Smithsonian Institution Lynn Edwards, Project Director The Westfield Center One Cottage Street Easthampton, MA 01027 413/527-7664 FAX: 413/527-7689 "The Idea of a System of Transcendental Idealism in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel" Dartmouth College August 27-30, 1995 Sally Sedgwick, Project Director Department of Philosophy 6035 Phornton Hall Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755-3592 603/646-2112 E-Mail: sally.sedgwick@dartmouth.edu The National Endowment for the Humanities supports conferences designed to advance the state of research in a field or topic of major importance in the humanities. Persons interested in proposing a conference should write to: David Coder Program Officer Division of Research Programs National Endowment for the Humanities Room 318 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 202/606-8210 FAX: 202/606-8204 E-Mail: nehres@gwuvm.edu EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT Endowment programs do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age. For further information, write to the Equal Employment Opportunity Office, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. TDD 202/606-8282 Note: If a proposed project relates to American Indians, Aleuts, Eskimos, or native Hawaiian people and artifacts, an applicant should obtain from the Endowment a copy of its Code of Ethics concerning native Americans. The code establishes certain standards of conduct in research, publication, and public programs involving native American peoples.