Summer Seminar Research Articles

Report on the 9th Summer Seminar of Administration Scholars “Democracy and Europe” (Meissen, 21–26 August 2023)

Report on the 9th Summer Seminar of Administration Scholars “Democracy and Europe” (Meissen, 21–26 August 2023)

Imagining a Higher Education Career in African American Studies

This article was written during the 2020 summer seminar “Imagining a Higher Education Career in African American Studies” at Princeton University, coordinated by Dr. Dannelle Gutarra Cordero. This summer seminar aimed to be a safe and restorative space for ten undergraduate students of Princeton University from underrepresented backgrounds that intend to pursue or explore a career in higher education in African American Studies. This article is the culmination of the scholarly collaboration throughout this summer seminar, where, as research associates, all participants researched the possibilities and challenges of a higher education career in African American Studies in the United States. This article explores institutional anti-Blackness in higher education in the United States, identifies research challenges for scholars of African American Studies, and advocates for educational reform in the institutional valuation of mentorship, of decolonizing academia, of tenure justice, and of anti-racist and reparative support for Black faculty and students.

Surviving and Thriving in Secondary Schools: A Response to the Cluster on “Medieval Studies and Secondary Education”

This essay responds to the cluster “Medieval Studies and Secondary Education” by suggesting that we shift our attention away from our understandable, but often unproductive, anxieties about the obsolescence of Medieval Studies within school curricula and towards the promotion of the professional health and intellectual pleasure of the exhausted and harried secondary school teacher. In addition to lauding the efforts of medievalists to enhance and expand the appeal and relevance of our disciplines through immersive activities and the provincialization of Europe, this response explores and evaluates the feasibility of proposals to offer online and in-person summer seminars on medieval topics, to augment easily accessible online resources for teaching the Middle Ages, and to develop mentorship structures within universities and professional societies that connect prospective and practicing teachers with medievalists in educator preparation programs.

Another reason academic libraries should love the NEH: Or what I did last summer

This essay is an implicit argument for academic librarians to seek out and participate in National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminars and Institutes for Academic Faculty. It takes the form of my account of the NEH Seminar that I attended for four weeks in July 2022. The seminar was called Printing and the Book During the Reformation: 1450–1650, and it was aimed at higher education faculty. Since attending my first NEH Summer Institute in 2007, I’ve felt like this is a scholarly activity that librarians have not pursued as readily as others in the academic community, almost certainly because of the amount of time it takes, which is admittedly a challenge. Nevertheless, the payoff is worth it for participants and their organizations, especially for the three reasons I mention at the end. This seminar took place at The Ohio State University and consisted of 16 participants from colleges and universities across the United States. With only a couple exceptions, all of our seminar activities took place in the Thompson Library and mostly in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library (RBML), or the glass-fronted classroom at the opposite end of the first floor.

Coming September, the 52nd Summer Seminar of SFSTJ in Gifu

Coming September, the 52nd Summer Seminar of SFSTJ in Gifu

52nd Summer Seminar

52nd Summer Seminar

Thoughts on Directing NEH Canterbury Tales Seminars for Secondary School Teachers, 2008–2014

This essay reflects on our experiences in directing four National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for K–12 teachers on The Canterbury Tales, and on the value of basing these Seminars in London. In light of the political pressures that led the NEH to require that Seminars now be conducted in the United States, we encourage our American colleagues to propose Chaucer Seminars at U.S. locations.

The Sesquicentennial, So What? An Assessment a Quarter Century Afterward

The Sesquicentennial, So What? An Assessment a Quarter Century Afterward

The Effect of Answering Pre-questions and Evaluating Confidence in Preparation on Learning in Classroom Instruction

This study examined effective means of preparatory learning for upcoming classroom instructions. In a summer seminar on history, 76 junior high school students were assigned to three experimental groups: the answering pre-questions group, the rating confidence group, and the answering and rating confidence group. The results showed that answering pre-questions enabled students to integrate information in classroom lessons, while the rating confidence directed students’ attention to information in classroom lessons related to pre-questions. This study also revealed that, especially for students with low meaningful learning belief, rating confidence is effective. Suggestions for educational practices and future studies are discussed.

Report of “JSFP Summer Seminar 2021”

Report of “JSFP Summer Seminar 2021”

第51回繊維学会夏季セミナー 開催に向けて

第51回繊維学会夏季セミナー 開催に向けて

Témy prednášok v rámci letných seminárov EPTA v rokoch 1988 – 2008

The paper focuses on topics that were presented at the summer seminars for teachers of the EPTA piano play in the years 1988 – 2008. Briefly presents the European Association of Piano Teachers and the first president of the Slovak section of the EPTA Eva Fischerová – Martvoňová.

Curriculum and Establishment Process of Public Health Nursing Education for a Master’s Course: From Summer Seminar for Faculty in 2021

Curriculum and Establishment Process of Public Health Nursing Education for a Master’s Course: From Summer Seminar for Faculty in 2021

A Report on the 51th Summer Seminar

A Report on the 51th Summer Seminar

Announcing the Levy Economic Institute’s 11th Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar June 12–18, 2022

Announcing the Levy Economic Institute’s 11th Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar June 12–18, 2022

「考現学」原点から未来へ(シンポジウム報告2008)

「考現学」原点から未来へ(シンポジウム報告2008)

多職種産業保健スタッフの研究会による夏季セミナー開催報告—コロナは世界・健康教育・ヘルスプロモーションをどう変えたのか？

多職種産業保健スタッフの研究会による夏季セミナー開催報告—コロナは世界・健康教育・ヘルスプロモーションをどう変えたのか？

Bridge to the stars: A mission concept to an interstellar object

Exoplanet discoveries since the mid-1990's have revealed an astounding diversity of planetary systems. Studying these systems is essential to understanding planetary formation processes, as well as the development of life in the universe. Unfortunately, humanity can only observe limited aspects of exoplanetary systems by telescope, and the significant distances between stars presents a barrier to in situ exploration. In this study, we propose an alternative path to gain insight into exoplanetary systems: Bridge, a mission concept design to fly by an interstellar object as it passes through our solar system. Designed as a New Frontiers-class mission during the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Planetary Science Summer Seminar, Bridge would provide a unique opportunity to gain insight into potential physical, chemical, and biological differences between solar systems as well as the possible exchange of planetary materials between them. Bridge employs ultraviolet/visible, near-infrared, and mid-infrared point spectrometers, a visible camera, and a guided impactor. We also provide a quantitative Monte Carlo analysis that estimates wait times for a suitable target, and examines key trades between ground storage and a parking orbit, power sources, inner versus outer solar system encounters, and launch criteria. Due to the fleeting nature of interstellar objects, reaching an interstellar object may require an extended ground storage phase for the spacecraft until a suitable target is discovered, followed by a rapid response launch strategy. To enable rapid response missions designed to intercept such unique targets, language would need to be added to future NASA announcements of opportunity such that ground storage and rapid response would be allowable components of a proposed mission.

Directions in Sociolinguistics: Report on an Interdisciplinary Seminar

Abstract A 1964 summer seminar hosted by the SSRC’s Committee on Sociolinguistics highlighted tensions between sociology and linguistics when scholars gathered to address how their disciplines can deepen research on language’s impact on society. For example, sociologists questioned linguistics’ lack of definition for language or dialect while linguists raised concerns about sociology’s reliance on large quantified data. However, by the end of the seminar, the scholars agreed the encounter had raised important questions and opened new paths of investigation through both sociological and linguistic approaches, including the study of language and social stratification, multilingualism, and language standardization.

A Participation Report of the JSMP Medical Physics Summer Seminar 2019

A Participation Report of the JSMP Medical Physics Summer Seminar 2019