The Summer Institute will foster collegial relationships among graduate students, without the pressures of a graded seminar. A certificate of completion that may be used towards academic credit will be given at the end of the term. Works to be discussed encompass fiction, poetry and essays dealing with issues of national identity, cultural regionalism, and geographic displacement in the literature of the Americas. There is no tuition fee. Advanced registration is required.
Enrollment is limited to twenty.
Applications should include a one page statement of interest, a letter of reference from a faculty member, and a brief curriculum vitae. Deadline for fellowship applications and advanced registration is February 15, 1998. Applicants will be notified by March 15. The seminar will provide an immersion in the most recent research on US political and economic history, the US Constitution and the judiciary, Congress, the presidency, political parties and elections, the mass media, the economy, organized labor, environmental and other non-governmental organizations, foreign policy and the US role in the global economy. The seminar is seeking professors or researchers who need to update their knowledge, students who have completed one year of graduate school, students who have been accepted for graduate study in the US for the fall 1998 semester, and individuals working in the fields of ecology, human rights and poverty alleviation whose work relates to the United States.