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[[NEH Summer Institute for college and university faculty|NEH Summer Institute]]
[[NEH Summer Institute for college and university faculty|NEH Summer Institute]]
[[Center for Shakespeare Studies program archive|Center for Shakespeare Studies]]


''June 14 through July 29, 1994''
''June 14 through July 29, 1994''

Revision as of 09:20, 3 July 2017

NEH Summer Institute

Center for Shakespeare Studies

June 14 through July 29, 1994

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Directed by Harry Berger, Jr., Professor of Literature and Art History at Cowell College at the University of California, Santa Cruz                                    

The Institute                                    

From the fourteenth century on there was an exploration of technical innovations in the arts and sciences in Europe. New representational techniques and forms proliferated in the visual arts; in the writing and printing; in mercantile practices; in mathematics, cartography, and cosmology; in anatomy and medicine; in pedagogy and the regulation of conduct; in theatre and public spectacle; in parliamentary institutions; and in the control of space and its occupants through the political transformation of architecture into civic planning. Much of this activity was based in graphic inventions and improvements that affected signifying practices in all media. The resulting innovations in notational and symbol systems literally underwrote other cultural, social, economic, and political changes. They produced growing awareness that by altering the materials, methods, and modes of representation, one could alter whatever one's representation signified or imitated. These innovations and changes may therefore be viewed in large part as the consequences of a revolution in graphic techniques.                                    

PARTICIPATING FACULTY                                    

Elizabeth J. Bellamy                                    

Margaret D. Carroll                                    

David Lee Miller                                    

Louis Adrian Montrose