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scheduled tor February 29 ttl ,
Institute for advanced study
was postponed because of illness and rescheduled tor Octo-
ber. In Uppsala (Sweden), he participated in May in an international symposium on Kos
in the hellemstic period and gave a paper, "The Dating of the Koan Monarchoi."
The Harvard University Press published, in the summer of 1999, a paperback edition of
his Athens from Alexander to Antony. A French edition, Athenes hellenistique, translated
by Martine and Denis Knoepfler, was published in March 2000, by Les Belles Lettres,
Paris.
His publications included "Stadtische Polemarchen in Thessalien," Hermes 127, 1999,
254-256; "Zum Vertrag zwischen Latmos und Pidasa," Epigraphica Anatolica 30, 1999, 9-
10; "Zu griechischen Inschriften aus Kleinasien," Epigraphica Anatolica 31, 1999, 19-29,
and a review of Jochen Bleicken, Augustus. Eine Biographie, in Rechthistorisches Journal 18,
1999, 12-22. Six other articles and two reviews were accepted for publication.
PROFESSOR GEORGE KENNAN, concerned to restrict his writings and statements to
ones not unseemly for one of his age and condition, devoted most of his scholarly efforts
in 1999 to the preparation of a small history of the first three generations of his New
England family. The book is scheduled to be published in October 2000.
By way of exceptions to this restraint, he gave in the same year two interviews, one with
Professor Richard Ullman of Princeton University, for publication in The New York
Review of Books; and the other to Mr. George Seay of the Woodrow Wilson Center, for
dissemination over National Public Radio.
He also attended, as guest of honor and speaker, a formal Washington dinner for which
both the Woodrow Wilson Center and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Stud-
ies figured as hosts. The occasion tor the dinner was the celebration of the 25 th anniver-
sary of the later institution.
PROFESSOR PETER PARET has begun work on a new project, a study of the relationship
between certain forms of modernism in German art and the aesthetics of Adolf Hitler, a sub-
ject that grew out of his forthcoming book on German modernism. During the academic
year, he published an expanded version of his Festvortrag at the annual meeting of the
Fontane- Gesellschaft in Potsdam in September 1999, "Fontane und der nicht gegenwartige
Clausewitz," in Fontane Blatter, LXIX (2000). His address at the annual meeting of the
Clausewitz Gesellschaft in Hamburg in August 1999, "Wege der Annaherung an das Werk
des Generals von Clausewitz," appeared in a special number of the Akademie information of
the Fuhrungsaiajaemie der Btmaestfehr (1999); and an essay, "The History of Armed Power,"
in The Blaekudl Companion to Historical Thought, ed. Lloyd Kramer and Sara Ma:a, Blackwell,
( )xfbid. A review essay, "Three Perspectives on Art as a Force in German 1 listory," is forth-
coming in Central European History. He revised his entry "Clausewitz" tor the second edition
of the ( )\jirrd Dictionary of International Politics. His introduction to Carl vonClausewit:. Two
/ titers on Strategy, came out in a third edition by the Army War College Foundation and the
Command and General Siatl t lollege, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In June, Professor Pare!
received the Order of Merit from the German Federal Republic.
PROFESSOR MORTON WHITE delivered the John Dewey Memorial Lecture. "From
Rationalism to Holistic Pragmatism," on April 25, 2000, at the annual meeting ot the
John Dewey Society and the American Educational Research Association in New
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