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

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Institute for advanced study
Nineteen scholars, from an applicant pool of 266, were invited to join the permanent
faculty in the School of Social Science scholarly community as Members
and Visitors for 1992-93; three research assistants also participated in the year's
activities. The Mellon Foundation provided partial support for seven of the fel-
lows, the National Endowment for the Humanities also provided support for
seven, and the Volkswagen Stiftung, one. The UPS Foundation provided general
support for the group of ten women and twelve men.
Individuals in this group came from England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy,
and the Netherlands, as well as the United States. Their fields of inquiry were
anthropology, three; folklore, one; history, seven; philosophy, one; political
economy, one; political science, four; and sociology, five.
In 1992-93 the School concluded a three-year program on new perspectives on
the history, sociology, and philosophy of the sciences and the social sciences,
with the focus for this year on "The Philosophy and Sociology of Science":
how conceptual systems arise and change, the intersection between science and
government, and discussion about how knowledge is produced.
PROFESSOR CLIFFORD GEERTZ was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Cultural
Prize (Academic, International) for 1992. He gave the keynote address to the
conference on "New Directions in Ethnography" at the University of Colorado
in Boulder, spoke at the Instituto Suor Orsala in Naples and the Fondazione San
Carlo in Modena, served as commentator to Professor Amartya Sen's Trilling
Lecture at Columbia University, participated in the conference on "The Cultural
Significance of Place" at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, served
on the Selection Committee of the Cornell Society for the Humanities, and
presented a Faculty Lecture at the Institute. Professor Geertz's recent published
works include "Achter de Feiten: Twee Landen, Vier Decennia, Een Antropo-
loog" in C. Bouw and B. Kruithof, eds., De Kern van het Verschil: Culturen en
Identiteiten, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1993, pp. 41-58; "The
Strange Estrangement: Charles Taylor and the Natural Sciences," The Philosophy
of Charles Taylor: Critical Perspectives, James TuUy, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press; "Preface," to K. Newland and K. Soedjatmoko, Common
Humanity: An Indonesian Voice for Global Solidarity. Selected Writings of Soedjatmoko,
Kumarian Press; " 'Ethnic Conflict': Three Alternative Terms," Common Knowl-
edge, all in press.
PROFESSOR EMERITUS ALBERT O. HIRSCHMAN published "Exit,
Voice, and the Fate of the German Democratic Republic: An Essay in Conceptual
History," W^rW Po/ifia, January 1993; "Industrialization and its Manifold Discon-
tents: West, East, and South," World Development, September 1992; and "Does the
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