Welcome
Welcome to the website for the NEH Summer Seminar on Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento - New Perspectives that we will be directing at the American Academy in Rome (Italy) in July 2013. The seminar is designed to provide college and university teachers with an intensive introduction to new, more comparative and transnational approaches to nineteenth-century Italian history that have emerged in recent years. A product of collaborative work of Italian and non-Italian historians, these new approaches enable us to set Italy's nineteenth century more firmly in comparative European, transnational, and global contexts, at the same time placing greater emphasis on cultural and social dimensions. The seminar is designed for a wide spectrum of teachers in the humanities and social sciences, with special emphasis on the political, social, and cultural history of Europe in the contemporary era. As well as appealing to those whose interests lie primarily in Italian history, the seminar will also be attractive for those humanities scholars seeking to link Italian developments within the social, cultural, political, religious, or intellectual history of other parts of Europe or the Americas in this period.
The seminar includes guest lectures, a program of gallery and museum visits, guided city walks, and the screening of movies that illustrate changing Italian representations of the Risorgimento. NEH Summer Seminar Scholars will have the opportunity to prepare individual research projects in consultation with the seminar directors. The seminar website will facilitate the communication of information and course materials and support the creation of a sense of intellectual community among the directors, participants, and guest lecturers that will generate on-going exchanges of ideas, information and publications beyond the short life of the seminar.
Participants will be chosen on the basis of their ability to contribute to an intellectually stimulating program that requires active participation and the exchange of ideas. The most important consideration in the selection of participants is the likelihood that an applicant will benefit professionally. The selection committee will pay special attention to the following: quality and commitment as a teacher, scholar, and interpreter of the humanities; intellectual interests, in general and as they relate to the work of the seminar; the special perspectives, skills, or experiences that they would contribute to the seminar or institute; their commitment to participate fully in the formal and informal collegial life of the seminar and the likelihood that the experience will enhance the applicant's teaching and scholarship; the conception and organization of the applicant's independent project and its potential contribution to the seminar.
It is not necessary that you should have a specialist’s knowledge of Italian history in this period, but it is expected that NEH Summer Seminar Scholars will have some scholarly engagement with modern European history. Knowledge of Italian is desirable, although knowledge of other European languages may compensate for lack of proficiency in Italian.
Summer NEH Fellows will arrive at the American Academy in Rome on Monday, July 1, and depart on Thursday, August 1.
For further information on the aims and organization of the seminar, on the AAR, on travel, housing and accommodations, and on how to make an application please visit the relevant sections from the links on this page.
John Davis (University of Connecticut) David Kertzer (Brown University)
The seminar includes guest lectures, a program of gallery and museum visits, guided city walks, and the screening of movies that illustrate changing Italian representations of the Risorgimento. NEH Summer Seminar Scholars will have the opportunity to prepare individual research projects in consultation with the seminar directors. The seminar website will facilitate the communication of information and course materials and support the creation of a sense of intellectual community among the directors, participants, and guest lecturers that will generate on-going exchanges of ideas, information and publications beyond the short life of the seminar.
Participants will be chosen on the basis of their ability to contribute to an intellectually stimulating program that requires active participation and the exchange of ideas. The most important consideration in the selection of participants is the likelihood that an applicant will benefit professionally. The selection committee will pay special attention to the following: quality and commitment as a teacher, scholar, and interpreter of the humanities; intellectual interests, in general and as they relate to the work of the seminar; the special perspectives, skills, or experiences that they would contribute to the seminar or institute; their commitment to participate fully in the formal and informal collegial life of the seminar and the likelihood that the experience will enhance the applicant's teaching and scholarship; the conception and organization of the applicant's independent project and its potential contribution to the seminar.
It is not necessary that you should have a specialist’s knowledge of Italian history in this period, but it is expected that NEH Summer Seminar Scholars will have some scholarly engagement with modern European history. Knowledge of Italian is desirable, although knowledge of other European languages may compensate for lack of proficiency in Italian.
Summer NEH Fellows will arrive at the American Academy in Rome on Monday, July 1, and depart on Thursday, August 1.
For further information on the aims and organization of the seminar, on the AAR, on travel, housing and accommodations, and on how to make an application please visit the relevant sections from the links on this page.
John Davis (University of Connecticut) David Kertzer (Brown University)
