Report for the Academic Year 1992-1993 - The Institute Libraries ...

Institute for advanced study
Havel's Summer Meditations; an article, and subsequent published comments, on
the principles governing the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in General
Marshall's time; and another, on the subject of "Who Won the Cold War?"
KENNETH M. SETTON is writing a book entitled Venice Adrift in the Eighteenth
Century. He began this volume early last summer and returned to Venice to
research the archival chronicles pertaining to this period. Publication will be
assumed by the American Philosophical Society, going to press late this year.
HOMER THOMPSON continued to devote much of his time to the publication
program of the Excavation of the Athenian Agora. He has also been doing
research on several architectural problems related to the Agora. On November
20, 1992, he received from the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation of New York
University the Onassis Center Award for Excellence in Hellenic Studies. The
award was the occasion for a conference. The Cradle of Democracy: Athens Then
and Now, at which Professor Thompson presented a paper, "Some Highlights in
the Exploration of the Athenian Agora." The proceedings of the conference are
to be published.
MORTON white's main academic activity during 1992-93 was to revise a
manuscript on free will, now entitled TTte Question of Free Will: A Holistic View.
This is now in page proof and will be published by Princeton University Press
in the fall. AMIAS, through a misunderstanding, announced incorrectly that the
book had been pubhshed last year.
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