Summer Seminars and Institutes for School Teachers
This program supports intensive two- to six-week projects in which fifteen to thirty school teachers, working with scholarly experts, engage in collegial study of significant texts and topics in the humanities. Participants receive a stipend to help defray expenses.
Guidelines URL: www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html
For participants: www.neh.gov//projects/si-school.html

ES-50197, Moravian College:
J.S. Bach in the Age of the Baroque and the Enlightenment.
In 2007 Moravian College sponsored a summer institute, “J.S. Bach in the Age of the Baroque and the Enlightenment.” Directed by Hilde Marga Binford, the institute enabled schoolteachers to explore the social, cultural, intellectual, and religious changes that occurred in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, using Bach as the central figure. Participants learned about Bach’s life in various German towns and cities, and they made use of superb cultural and scholarly resources to study Bach’s work in context.
Project URL: home.moravian.edu/public/music/bach/

FV-50197, University of California, Santa Cruz:
Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1950.
A 2009 seminar for schoolteachers, “Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1950,” focused on the historical connections between producers and consumers of basic commodities across the globe, in order to understand how the modern world economy emerged. Working with seminar director Edmund Burke, III, participants studied the linked histories of production and consumption. They learned how economic exchanges have transformed the world, for example by linking South Asian spinners, textile factory workers in the East Midlands, and consumers in Europe, the Americas, and Australasia.
Project URL: cwh.ucsc.edu/NEHseminar/