Registration Deadline: February 1, 2014

To apply, detach and complete this form. Include a check for $1,066 (includes $50 non- refundable registration fee) payable to NCHC Honors Semesters Committee. NCHC Federal ID #52-1188042

Mail registration form, check and a *brief description of your interest in experiential

education, history, and/or cultural studies to:

Bernice Braid ([email protected]) Long Island University Brooklyn 1 University Plaza – Pratt #514 Brooklyn, NY 11201

For online registration and credit card payment, go to www.nchchonors.org.

REGISTRATION FORM Please type or print clearly.

Name: ______

Institution: ______

Address for mailed materials: THE NEW

______OLD –

______MANOR, MARKET AND Tel: ______MOSQUE Cell: ______FACULTY INSTITUTE

E-mail: ______June 29 - July 4, 2014

Discipline: ______

Enclosed is: Check #______for $______. A faculty institute co-sponsored by NCHC’s Honors Semesters Committee and The Honors College at WKU *Please include a description of your interest and possible applications of City as Text™ with your registration form, or email directly to Bernice Braid at [email protected].

The New Old England: Manor, field-based elements into their courses and programs. explorations of two disparate areas: Peterborough and its Alumni of earlier Institutes have used City as Text™ mosque, and the town of Stamford, “the finest stone town in Market and Mosque pedagogy in disciplines ranging from the arts and social England.” Turning Point Essay writing. sciences to math and science, and in sites from campus to Thursday, July 3 This Faculty Institute will use Place as Text™ pedagogy to town to foreign locations. Ideal as integrative learning explore varied ways the English have constructed their sense Daylong workshop, . Analysis and modalities, these experiential strategies include reflective discussion of group’s Observations and Turning Point of “Englishness” over time. The practice of constructing a practices and writing assignments that can be adapted for Essays, followed by close consideration of participants’ sense of national self is particularly exciting to consider as use in student orientations, campus assessments, and proposals for possible applications to their own site-specific England faces significant cultural changes involving social professional development workshops. Important Institute projects. Closing dinner at the Gregory in Harlaxton class, religion, immigration, industrialism, and more. goals are identifying and transferring principles of Village. Harlaxton Manor is the Institute’s base. Built in 1837, it is integrative experiential learning. Friday, July 4 an ideal setting from which to consider these topics, both in Departure A.M. itself and in juxtaposition with , , an Schedule >>> area rich in history, contradictions, and contested identities. Sunday, June 29 Participants should arrive at Harlaxton Manor, Grantham, Institute Costs >>> COST: $1,066 (includes non-refundable $50 overhead fee) Institute at a Glance >>> Lincolnshire, England, by 2:00 P.M. on Sunday, June 29. After introductions and preliminary briefing, they will Covers Institute reading materials, instructional fees, most Participants will explore sites connected to diverse notions of travel during the Institute, final group dinner, and some “Englishness,” such as a classic English manor, a market engage in a focused exploration of Harlaxton Manor and its grounds, followed by dinner and writing time at the Manor. incidental charges. It does not include travel to England and town, a post-industrial city, and a mosque. Explorations will Harlaxton Manor, accommodations, or most meals. Deadline be augmented by select fiction and nonfiction readings, Monday, June 30 for registration is Febr uary 1, 2014. mapping exercises, interviews, written reflections, and Brief planning meeting to review initial impressions and seminar discussion. While the Institute’s focus is necessarily organize into small teams. Excursions to Harlaxton Village Accommodations >>> England, participants will grapple generally with how and nearby city of Grantham, home of Sir Isaac Newton and Participants will be housed at Harlaxton Manor, near national and regional identities are constructed, interpreted, Margaret Thatcher. Evening discussion of group work, time Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK. Built in 1836, it is listed by the Times as “one of Britain’s 100 Best Country and lived. The Institute will culminate with a workshop on to write, and dinner. Houses.” The cost will be $85 per night, which includes adapting City as Text™ methodology to participants’ home Tuesday, July 1 most on - site meals. campuses and to residential travel programs or academic Breakfast, planning/team formation. Exploration of Melton service-learning immersion projects. Both the structure and Mowbray, a market town dating to before the Roman To make reservations, contact Harlaxton Manor by email content of this particular Institute apply remarkably well to occupation of Britain (43 A.D.), home to Stilton cheese, and [email protected] or phone +44 (0) 1476 403000. travel sites of all kinds. the “rural food capital of England.” Tuesday is the weekly Please be sure to tell them you are with the NCHC Faculty farmers’ market, a particularly rich laboratory for interaction Institute. and explorations. Afternoon seminar, followed by dinner at Participants >>> Harlaxton Manor and writing time. The New Old England: Manor, Market, and Mosque Institute Travel Directions >>> Harlaxton Manor is 65 minutes north of London’s King’s is designed for honors and non-honors faculty and Wednesday, July 2 Cross Station by train on the East Coast Line. Specific administrators who wish to incorporate interdisciplinary and Breakfast, morning seminar, followed by daylong directions will be provided upon registration.

Facilitators and Contacts >>> Clay Motley, Western Kentucky University [email protected]

Susan Cannata, University of North Carolina at Pembroke [email protected]

Kathy Lyon, Winthrop University [email protected]