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Community College Humanities Association announces a 2005 Summer Institute Andean Worlds: New Directions in Scholarship and Teaching June 26 — July 31, 2005 The Community College Humanities Association announces a new Summer Institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities for twenty-four faculty participants from community and four-year colleges and universities to be held from June 26 to July 31, 2005 on the topic of "Andean Worlds: New Directions in Scholarship and Teaching." This five-week Institute, sponsored by The Community College Humanities Association and held on-site in locations in Peru and Bolivia, is an in-depth survey of Andean culture and history, focusing on pre-Columbian, colonial and contemporary manifestations of Andean culture. Participants will receive all lodging, internal travel and site-visit costs for all scheduled activities during the Institute, as specified in the detailed Daily Schedule. Participants are responsible for meal expenses, for personal expenses and for their own travel arrangements to Lima, Peru by Sunday June 26, 2005 and for return from Peru after July 31, 2005. Institute fellows will read and discuss materials from the disciplines of anthropology, history, art history and literary history and criticism. This multidisciplinary approach provides a distinct perspective which allows for greater understanding of the complexities of the culture histories of this large and diverse area. Based in Lima, Pisac, Cusco and Puno in Peru, and with field trips to archaeological and cultural sites in Peru and Bolivia, the institute will feature seven U.S. and ten local Peruvian scholars from a variety of disciplines. The guest scholars will offer seminars and as well as conduct on-site study visits to archaeological sites and contemporary villages for specific ethnographic-related concerns focusing on cultural continuities, particularly in the areas of health care, weaving and textiles and agricultural techniques. Project co-Directors are Laraine Fletcher (Anthropology, Adelphi University) and George Scheper (Humanities, Community College of Baltimore County). Internationally renowned scholars will present seminars at facilities in Lima, Chiclayo, Pisac, Cusco, and Puno, Peru. In addition, these scholars will conduct a series of field studies in many of the most important cultural and archaeological sites and museums in Peru and at Tiwanaku in Bolivia We begin the institute in Lima for a week of seminars and museum visits and then fly north to the Chiclayo/Trujillo area to visit the coastal sites of the Moche and Chimor. The next phase brings us to the Sacred Valley and our instituteÕs base in Pisac, a jumping off place for study visits to Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu. The last weeks will be in Cusco and then south to the Lake Titicaca region for study visits to the important pilgrimage sites of Isla del Sol and Isla de la Luna and to Tiwanaku. A roster of our distinguished visiting scholars appears below, along with contact information for project co-Directors Laraine Fletcher and George Scheper. For Application and Information Packet, just click here, or contact:
Application Deadline: March 1, 2005 Institute Visiting Faculty: Richard Burger (Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University) will conduct four seminars on the pre-Inka cultures of the Andes and conduct a study visit of the Rafael Larco Herrera Museum in Lima. Rolena Adorno (Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish, Yale University) will conduct two seminars in Lima on Guaman Poma and other Andean writers of the early colonial era. Dr. Walter Alva, Director, BrŸning Archaeological Museum, Lambayeque, will lecture and conduct a study visit at the Museum of the Tumbas Reales. Tom Cummins (Dumbarton Oaks Professor of pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art, Harvard University) will conduct three seminars on pre-Columbian and colonial Andean art and architecture and conduct field study at Pisac, Ollantaytambo, Machu Picchu and colonial Cusco. Sara Castro-Klarén (Professor of Latin American Culture and Literature, The Johns Hopkins University) will conduct two seminars in Cusco on Inka social organization and cosmovision, and the work of Garcilaso de la Vega. Frank Salomon (University of Wisconsin) will conduct two seminars in Cusco on Inka history and myth, and khipu communication. Regina Harrison (Comparative Literature Program, and Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, and Anthropology, University of Maryland) will conduct three seminars in Cusco on Quechua oral tradition and cultural survival and revitalization. Charles Stanish (Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Cotson Institute of Archaeology, UCLA) will conduct a seminar in Puno in the Lake Titicaca region and will lead field study to Isla del Sol and Isla de la Luna, and to Tiwanaku in Bolivia. Local Guest Scholars: We also have ten local scholars, whose areas of expertise include textiles and weaving, traditional Andean healing practices, pre-Columbian architectural and agricultural techniques, and colonial art, who will conduct seminars and/or local study visits and museum tours. For additional information feel free to contact one of the project co-Directors:
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