Heat: An Excerpt from OY PIONEER!: A NOVEL – Marleen S. Barr – Germany 1983, 1989, 2008
Heat: An Excerpt from Oy Pioneer!: A Novel by Marleen S. Barr (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003) Although I knew that Germany has many elaborate pools replete with squirting fountains and bubbling hot and cold water, I was not prepared for the particular organic contraptions I would encounter at this pool. I could easily accept […]
Russian Friends – Larry R Foulke – Norway 1961
The Fulbright Spirit was reinforced by making the acquaintance of so many students from other nations. One acquaintance that stands out was the friendship with a Russian student, Tolya. We had many discussions about the merits of our respective governments. Neither convinced the other. But we became friends and exchanged books. Here is a picture […]
Lasting Friendships – Diane Quantic – Bulgaria 1986
Maria Mitreva, daughter of my colleague in Bulgaria, came to live with us when she was 16. She graduated from Friends University where my husband Bruce was a professor. She stayed in Wichita, married and began a career with CCH, a company that writes tax software. Her mother joins her a part of each year. […]
Fieldwork in the Colombian Amazonia – Rafael O. de Sa – Colombia 2016
A Fulbright award allowed me to travel to Bogota, Colombia to pursue biodiversity research with colleagues at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the SINCHI Amazonic Institute of Scientific Research. During that period, SINCHI colleagues invited me to participate in a field expedition to an area poorly studied along the Vaupes River. The team consisted […]
Sacred Space – Gita V. Pai – India 2016
Participating on an Arte France documentary about humankind and faith as I filmed on location at the Minaksi-Sundareshvara temple in Madurai, south India would enable me to share my knowledge about the sacred space and its goddess to a broad (and global) audience in ways that my upcoming scholarly monograph about the religious site cannot. […]
Cultural Connections Across the Years – Richard C. Hoffman IV – Estonia 2013
My Fulbright was spent in Estonia during the spring semester of 2013 at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Tartu. I chose Estonia and Tartu for both professional and personal reasons. My wife and I have strong roots in Europe. My mother was a war bride from France, as a […]
International Bonds – Nancy Kuechelmann – Germany 1989
My husband and I enjoyed attending local festivals while we were in Germany (1988-89). Among our favorite events were axe throwing competitions and chain saw demonstrations. Of course, we enjoyed the food and local beer, too! As we were sitting across from a German couple at a long table, we started talking. Hearing that we […]
Bartok’s room – Istvan Peter B’RAcz – Hungary 1989
In 1989, I was studying piano at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest Hungary with Balázs Szokolay and Péter Nagy, and was preparing some auditions for Grad School. I was working on Bartok’s Piano Sonata (1926), and I was in the Bartokterem (Bartok’s room) which has a bust of Béla B staring right at […]