Event Details

End: June 27, 2014
Contact: ann.davis@marist.edu
More Info: http://www.marist.edu/management/neh

This interdisciplinary summer institute will focus on “Meanings of Property,” inviting notable scholars in related fields to Poughkeepsie, New York, for open-ended, small group discussions. The 25 participating college and university professors in the summer institute will engage in dialogue with Mary Poovey, literary scholar at New York University, Alan Ryan, Professor of Political Science at Princeton University, John R. Searle, Professor of Philosophy from University of California at Berkeley, Hendrik Hartog, Professor of History at Princeton University, Stuart Banner, Professor of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles, Kenneth Pomeranz, Professor of History at University of Chicago, and Robert J. Goldstein, Professor of Law at the United States Military Academy at West Point. They will also meet Marist Academic Vice President and Hudson Valley historian Thomas Wermuth, as well as Director of the Hudson River Valley Institute Col. James Johnson, former military historian at West Point. Participants will enjoy historic site visits to New York City and in the Hudson Valley region. Application deadline is March 4, 2014. See also resources at the Marist College Hudson River Valley Institute. http://www.hudsonrivervalley.org/