Workshops & Seminars
ASLE is pleased to list workshops or seminars that may be of interest to our members. To post a listing for your event here, please send relevant information to the ASLE Managing Director, including registration deadlines and contact information.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars and Institutes for 2010
The 21 seminars and institutes will address the following topics:
• British Romanticism
• Interwar Shanghai and Berlin
• Contemporary Brazilian literature
• Descartes, Galileo, and Hobbes
• The American Civil War
• Autobiography: Perpetua and Augustine
• Aristotle on truth
• Mapping and art in the Americas
• The golden age of magazines
• Rome in late antiquity
• Cultural and technical exchange between early modern Islam and Europe
• Philosophical perspectives on liberal democracy
• Teaching the history of political economy
• History of the Silk Road
• Interactions between Native Americans and European colonists
• Medieval philosophy, history, and interfaith exchanges between Christians, Muslims, and Jews
• American maritime history
• Native cultures of the Pacific Northwest
• Ritual and ceremony in Europe and the Americas
Many of these seminars and institutes take place on American campuses, but some will be held at sites in Brazil, England, Italy, Spain, and Tunisia.
The application deadline is March 2, 2010.
For a list of the seminars and institutes to be offered in the summer of 2010, along with eligibility requirements and contact information for the directors, please visit www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html
New this year: A select number of spaces in seminars and institutes are now reserved for full-time graduate students.
DIRECT an NEH Summer Program in 2011
The NEH invites you to join a distinguished roster of humanities scholars who have enjoyed the rewarding experience of organizing and directing an NEH summer program in their own field of expertise.
- Guidelines for proposing a seminar or institute to be held in 2011 will be posted on the NEH website at www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html.
Application Deadline: March 2, 2010
- Guidelines for proposing a Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop to be held in 2011 will be posted on the NEH website at www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarks.html (for school teachers) and www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/landmarkscc.html (for community college faculty).
Application Deadline: March 16, 2010
ABOUT NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes
Each summer, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports rigorous national, residential seminars and institutes in the humanities for faculty who teach American undergraduates.
These study opportunities allow college and university teachers to gain a deeper knowledge of current scholarship in key fields of the humanities and advance their own teaching and research. Participants in these two- to six-week projects receive stipends to help defray travel and living expenses.
May 1, 2010. Call for Creative Writers: The Mount St. Helens Field Residencies, July 18-24, 2010. Sponsored by the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word at Oregon State University; the US Forest Service; and the Andrews Forest Long-Term Ecological Research group.
Creative writers whose work in any genre reflects a keen awareness of the natural world and an appreciation for both scientific and literary ways of knowing are invited to apply for a weeklong writing residency at Mount St. Helens. The Mount St. Helens Field Residencies will take place July 18-24, 2010, with a base camp near Randle, WA, and will be held in conjunction with the 2010 Mount St. Helens Science Pulse, a gathering of ecologists and research scientists who are engaged in field work on Mount St. Helens. Residency writers will be able to join ecologists on field trips to various locations on Mount St. Helens, interact informally with scientists, and to focus on writing projects that embody creative responses to the volcano and its varied landscapes and the role of volcanic landscapes in the imagination and culture of the Northwest.
For the Mount St. Helens Field Residencies, writers will be provided:
• campsites at a private campground near Mount St. Helens (Bring your own camping gear. See the Spring Creek website for more information on the campground.)
• all meals provided by a camp caterer
• field trips to Mount St. Helens research sites and trailheads
• opportunities to interact with research scientists
• opportunities to write and have their writings included in The Volcano Log
• an honorarium of $1,000
• a copy of In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens
Deadline for applications is May 1, 2010. See the attached Call for Applications for more details, or visit the Spring Creek website http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/.
May 13-22, 2010. NEW! Graduate and Professional Course: Conservation Conflict Resolution. Smithsonian-Mason Global Conservation Studies Programs, at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (formerly CRC), Front Royal, Virginia.
Conservation Conflict Resolution, an intensive 10-day experiential training course, is a must for anyone addressing conservation conflicts, whether these are conflicts between people and wildlife or between people about wildlife or other natural resources. To reach our conservation goals more effectively, we need to better analyze conflict dynamics, anticipate and address arising conflicts, and reconcile old conflicts which impede new progress. We also need to understand how struggles about identity, status, and group recognition play into conservation conflicts.
A collaborative learning approach combined with peer-to-peer consulting among participants and instructors are course hallmarks that provide rich classroom experiences and a unique post-course professional network. Employing principles developed by a leading conflict resolution training organization, the Human-Wildlife Conflict Collaboration (HWCC), this course teaches strategies and processes for effectively addressing conservation-related conflicts, including:
• The role of neutrality in conflict prevention and reconciliation
• Effective conflict-resolving communication techniques
• Applying conflict analysis and process models to develop real-life conflict resolution plans
The course fee is $2,500, which includes instruction and course materials plus all meals, lodging, and ground transport to/from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD). All other travel costs and incidental expenses are the participant’s responsibility. Participants earn Continuing Education Units, or graduate credits are available through Mason for qualified applicants, at additional cost (and upon completion of further course requirements).
Smithsonian-Mason Global Conservation Studies course participants engage in dynamic learning communities, build lifelong professional networks, and connect with valuable conservation resources.
Contact zootraining@si.edu or visit www.conservationtraining.si.edu for more information.
May 16-28, 2010. Species Monitoring and Conservation: AMPHIBIANS. Course offered through the Smithsonian-Mason Global Conservation Studies Programs, at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (formerly CRC), Front Royal, Virginia.
This course engages graduate students and practitioners in developing skills, approaches and solutions applicable to the worldwide extinction crisis affecting amphibians. Course participants explore the many tools and techniques for in-situ and ex-situ amphibian research and conservation practice. The curriculum includes: Amphibian biology and ecology Habitat monitoring and management Species monitoring plans Field techniques and collection methods Lab techniques: toxicology, pathology, specimen preparation and genetics Captive breeding and husbandry Community outreach and education
The course fee is $2,750, which includes instruction and course materials as well as all meals, lodging, and transport to/from Washington-Dulles International Airport (IAD). All other travel costs are the participant’s responsibility. Course participants earn Continuing Education Units, or graduate credits are available through Mason for qualified applicants, at additional cost (and upon completion of further course requirements).
Smithsonian-Mason Global Conservation Studies course participants engage in dynamic learning communities, build lifelong professional networks and connect with valuable conservation resources.
For more information, visit www.conservationtraining.si.edu or e-mail zootraining@si.edu
July 19-30, 2010. SPATIAL ECOLOGY, GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS, AND REMOTE SENSING FOR CONSERVATION. Course offered through the Smithsonian-Mason Global Conservation Studies Programs, at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (formerly CRC), Front Royal, Virginia.
Our world is changing rapidly. Environmental changes occur over areas so large and time spans so long they often escape human perception, sometimes with catastrophic consequences. Geospatial analysis techniques have radically transformed our ability to detect, monitor, map, and model these changes. Advances in spatial ecology allow us to analyze these data to develop both ecological theory and conservation applications.
Taught by SCBI researchers, this hands-on, 10-day intensive course is designed for anyone seeking expertise in using geospatial technologies to monitor biological systems and quantify the effects of human-induced global changes on wildlife and biodiversity conservation. Assigned their own SCBI desktop computer for all lab exercises, participants learn to use ArcMap, Spatial Analyst, ERDAS Imagine, and other programs. By the course’s end, participants will: Perform basic geospatial analysis; Conduct remote sensing analysis and use satellite data to make land cover and habitat maps; Collect GIS data in the field using statistical sampling and GPS; Conduct a basic land cover change assessment using satellite imagery; Link species presence/absence or abundance data in a GIS; Compare existing techniques for modeling species habitat, niche selection, and distribution; Apply advanced spatial analysis techniques to real-world conservation and ecology problems, with case examples based on Smithsonian research.
The $2,500 course fee includes instruction/lab use/course materials, Washington-Dulles (IAD) International Airport transfers, and local transport between lab/restaurants. Meals (~ $25/day), lodging (~ $70/day), and other expenses are the participant’s responsibility. Contact us to book discounted lodging with daily lab/hotel shuttle. Participants earn Continuing Education Units, or graduate credits are available through Mason for qualified applicants, at additional cost (and after completing further course requirements). Smithsonian-Mason Global Conservation Studies course participants engage in dynamic learning communities, build lifelong professional networks, and connect with valuable conservation resources.
For more information, visit www.conservationtraining.si.edu or e-mail zootraining@si.edu
July 26th – 31st, 2010, Medomak Retreat Center in Washington, Maine: the 7th annual workshop led by Tom Wessels of Antioch New England. Deforestation, urban sprawl, agriculture, and other human influences have substantially altered and fragmented our landscape. All the more reason we need the opportunity for continuing education when it comes to promoting healthy land use in America. Professor and author Tom Wessels presents a multi-day workshop like no other, where one can explore the issues in-depth far beyond the headlines. In “Reading the Forested Landscape” Mr. Wessels takes readers on a physical and cultural investigation of the forests, fields and streams to reveal the scientific evidence that proves something must be done NOW to restore balance to this earth.
During this retreat, participants will hike the historic property of Medomak Camp – a camp established in 1904 and a property of pristine forests, fields and lake; investigate Acadia National Park, and learn while exploring the forests outside Camden in the Coastal Mountains’ Land Trust - Fernald’s Neck Preserve.
This is the only extended workshop Tom facilitates each year. Space is limited to provide an intimate setting and the opportunity to interact with Wessels and learn his techniques. A keen sense of observation is valuable when it comes to reading the landscape. Because of the length of the retreat attendees have the opportunity to attend multiple field studies, ask wide-ranging questions and discuss points of interest with Wessels.
To learn more go to http://www.medomakcamp.com/wessels.php , call us toll free at 866-633-6625 or email us at retreats@medomakcamp.com.
Written In Nature
Writing School and Retreat offering writing lessons & women's retreats
in Bragg Creek and British Columbia, Canada. (Ongoing)