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The 2014 NEH Summer Institute Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia: Literature, theArts, and Cinema since Independence will be held at Oregon StateUniversity from June 23 to July 11, 2014. Because to date no comprehensiveassessment has been attempted of post-colonial Algeria, Morocco andTunisia from the perspective of the region’s cultural artistic vitality,the intent of this institute is to shed light on the significance of NorthAfrican artistic expressions today. Expressions in the literary, visualand musical arts with origins in Berber, Arabic and European idioms;expressions that have adapted to modernity, postcolonialism, the realityof globalism and advances of social media. The institute will bringtogether leading scholars in North African studies and twenty-five collegeand university teachers wishing to expand their coursework or research oncontemporary North Africa.This proposal builds on a 2007 NEH Institute devoted to Berber NorthAfrica. Its purpose is to initiate college and university teachers to thetransformative periods that have marked Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia sincedecolonization. The institute intends to present the Maghreb’stransformative periods from the perspective of writers, painters,filmmakers and other artists. It will be organized around three themesuniting politics and the arts since the 1960s: Nationalism, Exile andRevival. Three themes corresponding in overlapping ways to three periods:the post-independence and cold war years (1960-1990); the years marked bythe political and economic instability of globalization (1990-2010); andthe recent changes since the Arab Spring. Bringing together six visitingscholars, the objective of the institute is to explain the relationbetween these themes and periods through the works of established andrecent artists who have contributed to social changes in North Africa.For more, please visit:http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/centers-and-initiatives/neh-summer-institute-2014-north-africa.Please note that NEH summer institutes include spaces for doctoralstudents, and are open to part-time and adjunct instructors as well.