Selma Jean Cohen Fund for International Scholarship on Dance

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Jane L. Anderson

(202) 347-5543

FULBRIGHT ASSOCIATION INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR
SELMA JEANNE COHEN FUND LECTURE ON DANCE

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 2, 2004) -- The Fulbright Association has issued a call for applications to present the 2004 lecture under the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund for International Scholarship on Dance. Applications must be received by April 30, 2004.

The Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund enables a dance scholar to present a major paper at the Fulbright Association’s annual conference. The 2004 lecture will be delivered on Thursday, October 7, during the Fulbright Association’s 27^th Annual Conference in Athens, Greece. The conference will be held in conjunction with an international meeting on Oct. 8 through 10 organized by the Association of Fulbright Scholars in Greece. The recipient of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund award will receive round-trip travel and associated expenses.

The 2004 lecturer will be chosen according to guidelines developed with the founder of the fund, Dr. Selma Jeanne Cohen, preeminent dance historian and founding editor of the International Encyclopedia of Dance. The competition is open to all dance scholars. Proposal guidelines are available from the Fulbright Association and are posted on its web site at www.fulbright.org/cohenfund.

Fulbright alumnus Wayne B. Kraft, researcher, choreographer, and performer of Transylvanian village dancing, presented the 2003 Selma Jeanne Cohen Lecture on Nov. 1 in Washington, D.C. Dr. Kraft, professor of German at Eastern Washington University and director of the Erdély Ensemble, spoke on “Transylvanian Dancing in the Final Hour.”

In 2002 Gretchen Ward Warren, professor in the School of Theater and Dance at the University of South Florida, presented “Dancing with the Wheel of Ever Returning: A Theatrical Adventure with Australian Aborigines and Native Americans,” a project that grew out of her Fulbright award to Australia in 1997.

In 2001 Robin Marshall Grove, senior lecturer in the Department of English with Cultural Studies of the University of Melbourne, Australia, delivered the lecture “Unspoken Knowledges,” about the project of the same name, which attracted from the Australian Research Council the largest grant ever awarded for performing arts research in Australia.

Fulbright alumna Leslie Friedman, artistic director of The Lively Foundation in San Francisco, presented the inaugural lecture, “Expression in Dance,” concerning research done during her Fulbright award to India on Indian dance and aesthetics.

The Fulbright Association is a private, non-profit organization that supports and promotes the Fulbright Program, an international educational and cultural exchange initiative created in 1946 by legislation sponsored by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. There are now over 250,000 Fulbright alumni throughout the world.

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Fulbright Association 27^th Annual Conference

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