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THE SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES
Donors, Museums," which he had chaired at the Institute in October 1991. The
volume, Sammler und Mdzene (Boehlau Verlag, 1993), includes expanded versions
of two papers he gave at the conference: an analysis of 19th-century museums
as political and cultural phenomena; and a study of philo-Semitic and anti-Semitic
interpretations of Jews as agents of modernism in the arts. His talk "Jefferson
and the Birth of European Liberalism," which he gave at the 250th anniversary
meeting of the American Philosophical Society in April 1993, was published
together with a talk by Bernard Bailyn in a pamphlet. Two Lectures on Jefferson
(Institute for Advanced Study, 1993), and will also appear in the Proceedings of
the Society. He contributed a chapter on Prussia in the Napoleonic Era, based
on an earlier lecture at Yale, to the volume Recovery after Defeat, edited by Paul
Kennedy (Yale University Press, 1993). Among his book reviews and shorter
pieces is an introduction to a monograph by a former student, Carl Boyd, Hitler's
Japanese Confidant (University Press of Kansas, 1993).
During the summer of 1992 Professor Paret was again in residence at Stanford
as a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, where he organized an exhibition
of historical posters from the Hoover archives, which ran from September to
December, and will also be shown at Rutgers. In March 1993 he chaired a confer-
ence on "The History of War as Part of General History" at the Institute, during
which he gave a paper on unideological resistance to military service. He contin-
ued his participation in the work of various committees and editorial boards,
among them the Council of the American Philosophical Society and its commit-
tees on research and on publications. He was appointed chairman of the Society's
new committee on the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, Senior Fellow
of the Rutgers University Center for Historical Analysis, and member of the
joint commission of the Berlin Senate and the State of Brandenburg on the
reorganization of historical research in Berlin. During the academic year he
received the degree of D. Lit. from his alma mater, the University of London,
the Thomas Jefferson Medal for distinguished achievement in the humanities
from the American Philosophical Society, and the Samuel Eliot Morison Medal
from the Society for Military History.
PROFESSORS EMERITI
MARSHALL CLAGETT completed Volume II of his Ancient Egyptian Science.
It will go to press shortly with the subtitle Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomical
Monuments.
Much of GEORGE KENNAN's time in 1992 was taken up with the completion,
editing, and publication of his most recent book. Around the Cragged Hill. He was
also extensively involved with the adjustment to the post-Cold-War period of
the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington. Published
articles included a major review, for the New York Review of Books, of Vaclav
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