On the ‘Rez’ – Nafeesa Fathima Moinuddin – USA 2002
The award of the Fulbright Pre-doctoral Fellowship in 2001 supported my research on Native American literature and gave me the opportunity to experience the tribal lifestyles that I had read about in novels by authors such as Momaday, Welch, and Silko. The principal theme of these works is the deep-rooted attachment between the narrator and […]
A Better View of the Moon – RoseAnna Mueller – Venezuela 2002
My husband and I had taken a trip on the Rio Cauro in Venezuela. We were camped at a campsite that was owned and maintained by the local Yakuona tribe. They brought food and water to the campsite along the river, but mostly stayed out of sight. One evening I followed a path into the […]
A visit to the studio of Uzbek artist Sergei Alibekov – Laurence Jarvik – Uzbekistan 2002
While I was in Tashkent, I visited the Uzbekfilm Studios and met director Sergei Alibekov, who asked me to do some very brief English-language voiceovers for his animated film “Echogram,” about the collapse of the USSR. Following the recording session, for which he insisted paying me the prevailing wage–$5 US–he invited me to see his […]
The Power of Forgiveness – Dr. Kimberly Battle-Walters Denu – South Africa 2002 & Ethiopia 2018-2019
During my Fulbright experience in South Africa I was engaged in research focused on the intersection of race, class, and gender. While there, in an effort to better understand the ability of Black South Africans to forgive the atrocities done to them, I began reading Bishop Desmond Tutu’s book No Future Without Forgiveness. Part way […]
Storytelling in Borneo – Eric Trules – Malaysia 2002
Storytelling goes back to the dawn of mankind. One of the things that distinguishes humans from the “lower” species is their ability to think, conceptualize, remember, write, collect and organize information, and consequently remember, create, and tell stories. My field of expertise, both as an artist and as an academic, is as an autobiographic storyteller. […]
Teaching the History of U.S. Foreign Relations During the Invasion of Iraq – Joseph Michael Henning – Japan 2002-03
At Japan’s Tohoku University in 2002-2003, I taught courses on the history of U.S. foreign relations to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. During the break between the fall and spring semesters in March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. I initially had planned to address the 9/11 attacks and U.S. responses to them in the […]
My Inauspicious Fulbright Lecture Debut – Dan Fellner – Latvia 2001-2002
It was the first day of the semester at the University of Latvia in Riga when I arrived promptly for my opening lecture in a class called “Public Relations Principles.” I had been rehearsing my introductory comments for days and was pleased to see that a large group of students were in the room as […]
Tim Perry – South Africa 2002
An Ordinary Country? When we close the books on 2020, it will be measured not just in tragic loss of life to covid-19, but by a summer of Black Lives Matter protests, and the continued decline of democracy worldwide. Amid these trends, my thoughts have turned to the late Dr. Neville Alexander, the anti-Apartheid activist […]