Berber North Africa: The Hidden Mediterranean Culture

In a previous post, I reported that Oregon State University was awarded a grant to host a summer school titled Berber North Africa: The Hidden Mediterranean Culture.

The program is finalized now. For more info, take a look at The Rational for Berber Studies

National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Institute for College and University Teachers
Oregon State University
June 25—July 20, 2007

Berber North Africa: The Hidden Mediterranean Culture

Letter from the Co-Directors
Nabil Boudraa
Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Joseph Krause
Professor of French and Chair

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,
Oregon State University

Dear Colleague:
Many thanks for your interest in the 2007 NEH Summer Institute Berber North Africa: The Hidden Mediterranean Culture that we will direct next summer. The Institute will run for four weeks, from June 25 to July 20, 2007 on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, located eighty miles south of Portland and some fifty miles from the Pacific Ocean. Because Berber North Africa has rarely been the object of rigorous academic attention in the United-States, we are very excited at the prospect of bringing together some of the foremost scholars of Berber culture and twenty-four college and university teachers wishing to integrate the Berber world into their coursework and research .../...