Colleagues: I recently learned of a National Endowment of Humanities grant opportunity that seems to be a good fit for us here in New Mexico.
*"The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Humanities Department of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Coordinación de Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México [UNAM]) are cooperating to foster the exchange of information and advance research in the humanities." * The full RFP can be found at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/BridgingCultures_Mexico-US.html <http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/BridgingCultures_Mexico-US.html%20> A major goal of the NEH is our collaboration with colleagues at UNAM and, specifically, those in fairly traditional humanities departments/disciplines. While such folks are easily found in Santa Fe, I am lacking contacts in the humanities at UNAM. Ergo, can you suggest anyone in Mexico City who might (a) be connected with UNAM and (b) interested in planing and participating in a conference here that could focus on how we can use analytic techniques from the sciences to better tease out meaning from the cultural artifacts found in New Mexico and the Southwest. For example, who at UNAM might be using gas chromatography to investigate pottery or the DNA analysis of hide paintings? Innovative techniques for dating textiles or determining their origin? Remote sensing and pattern analysis methods from GIS to facilitate statistical distribution analysis of rug designs over time? Of course, these are approaches I have heard and read about: it will be much more fun to turn up surprises. Thanks for any suggestions, and apologies for the double-postings. -tom johnson ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] "Be Your Own Publisher" http://indiepubwest.com ==========================================
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