Fulbright Association Invites Applications For Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund Lecture on Dance

            WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 4, 2007) – The Fulbright Association has issued a call for applications to present the 2007 lecture under the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund for International Scholarship on Dance.  Applications must be received by July 31, 2007.

            The Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund enables a dance scholar to present a major paper at the Fulbright Association’s annual conference.  The 2007 lecture will be delivered on Nov. 3 as part of the Fulbright Association 30^th Anniversary Conference:  People and the Planet, in Washington, D.C.  The recipient of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund award will receive round-trip travel and associated expenses.

            The 2007 lecturer will be chosen according to guidelines that were developed with the late Dr. Selma Jeanne Cohen, dance historian and founding editor of the International Encyclopedia of Dance.  The competition is open to all dance scholars.  Proposal guidelines are posted at www.fulbright.org/cohenfund.

            Barbara Browning, associate professor of performance studies at New York University and Fulbright alumna to Brazil, presented the 2006 Selma Jeanne Cohen Lecture entitled “Where My Dancing Had Saved Me from Disgrace.”

            Previous lecturers are:  Richard Semmens, associate professor of music at the University of Western Ontario, Canada; dance historian and choreographer Millicent Hodson of Ballets Old & New in London; Wayne B. Kraft, professor of German at Eastern Washington University and director of the Erdély Ensemble; Gretchen Ward Warren, professor in the School of Theater and Dance at the University of South Florida; Robin Marshall Grove, senior lecturer in the Department of English with Cultural Studies of the University of Melbourne, Australia; and Leslie Friedman, artistic director of The Lively Foundation in San Francisco.  For more detailed information about the lecturers and their presentations, please visit www.fulbright.org/cohenfund.

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