THIS WEEK
FEBRUARY 11, 1983
Faculty
Bulletin
Stetson
University
DeLand
Florida
32720
THIS WEEK is published each Friday. All items for the Bulletin should be sent to D .E. Miller , Box 1358,1
noon on Thursday of each week.
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Thursday-Sunday
February 10-13
Wednesday
February 16
Homecoming
Chapel: Rev. William Allen
Assistant Director of Church Relations
and Baptist Campus Ministry
Stetson University
Appropriations in the 1982-83 budget for capital and equipment items
are now released and requisitions may be processed. Budget supervisors are encouraged to proceed with these purchases promptly.
Please keep in mind that all 19 82-83 budget requisitions are to be
in process by March 25. Any further necessary budget transfers
or revisions for this year should be presented now for consideration
by appropriate deans and other budget supervisors, so that approval
might be in place before that date. From: H. Graves Edmondson
The National Endowment for the Humanities will offer 84 seminars
this summer in various disciplines of the humanities and the humanistic social sciences. College teachers who are selected to particpate
in the program will receive a stipend of $2,700 to cover travel
expenses to and from the seminar location, books and other research
expenses and living expenses for the eight weeks during which the
seminars are offered. Areas included are: American and Afro-American
Studies, Anthropology, Area Studies (Religion, Nationalism and Conflict
in South Asia: Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Middle East
and Central Asia: Power and Class in Africa: Marxism and Communism
in China), Art History, Classics, Communications, Comparative Literature, Composition and Rhetoric, Drama, Economics, English and
American Literature, Film, Folklore, History, Legal Studies, Linguistics, Literary Theory and Criticism, Medieval Studies, Modern
Languages (French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish), Music,
Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Science-Technology
and Human Values, Sociology, Urban Studies, Women's Studies.
Each seminar will be conducted by a major scholar at a major research
center. (For example, Herbert Blau will conduct a seminar entitled
"Performance Theory: Problems in Contemporary Theater" at the University
of Wisconsin. Alvin B. Kerman will teach "Literature as a Social Institution, 17 50 to the Present" at Princeton University. Robert Brentano
will teach a seminar in "Medieval Local History" at the American
Academy in Rome. Leonard M. Thompson will offer "The Political
Mythology of Race" at Yale University. Robert C. Coburn will teach
"The Metaphysics of Identity" at the University of Washington.) The
