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Fulbright Association Invites Applications For 2008 Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund Lecture on Dance

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 13, 2008) -- The Fulbright Association has issued a call for applications to present the 2008 lecture under the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund for International Scholarship on Dance.  Applications must be received by Aug 31, 2008.

            The Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund enables a dance scholar to present a major paper on previously unpublished research at the Fulbright Association’s annual conference.  The 2008 lecture will be delivered on Oct. 20 as part of the Fulbright Association 31^st Annual Conference, “2008—The Interconnected World” in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.  The recipient of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund award will receive round-trip travel and associated expenses.

            The 2008 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.  Guidelines and application materials are posted at www.fulbright.org/cohenfund.

            Ron Jenkins, professor of theater at Wesleyan University and Fulbright alumnus to Indonesia, presented the 2007 Selma Jeanne Cohen Lecture in International Dance Scholarship entitled “Sacred Dance and Secular Law in Bali.” 

            Previous lecturers are:  Barbara Browning, associate professor of performance studies at New York University; 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.

            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 275,000 Fulbright alumni throughout the world. 

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