The Russians Are Coming. The Russians Are Coming. No, It’s a French Robot! – Patrice Flynn – Russia 2019
My Russian Fulbright took an advantageous turn that demonstrates how the Fulbright Program brings scholars together in unexpected and meaningful ways, this time through robots. To teach global capitalism in the U.S., I am constantly on the look-out for ways to move beyond old teaching techniques to ones that meet the changing needs of new […]
Terima Kasih, Malaysia – Sean O’Carroll – Malaysia 2019
2019 Fulbright Malaysia ETAs Sean O’Carroll, Zak Gordon, and Carter Sanders present “Terima Kasih, Malaysia”, a poetic homage to their experience teaching English in the country. During their year, Sean and Zak lived on the eastern side of the Malay peninsula while Carter lived on the island of Borneo. A majority of the footage shown […]
Shared Wonder – Mark Liang – Macau 2019
Macau is a city of contradictions. It’s both a glittery casino hub across the bay from Hong Kong and an old colonial peninsula crammed with Portuguese churches. French Michelin-star restaurants sit side by side with cafes selling $1 milk teas brewed in pantyhose. Busses announce stops in four languages. It’s a vibrant city of immigrants […]
Secluded in Orangeburg – Vijay Prakash Singh – USA 2019
The time of the early pandemic was one of safe seclusion for me, far away from the dance of death taking place in the bigger cities like Chicago or New York. I had a 60s ranch house with a magnolia tree and a cypress in the front and several pines and a maple in the […]
Sleep Can Wait – Christine Powell – Singapore 2019
I’ve always been a runner, so shortly after arriving in Singapore (Jan.2019), I joined a local running group. They were training together to run a marathon- a 26.2 mile race across beautiful Singapore at night. The shared experience with my team was a great way to get to know the island nation, connect to others […]
Just the One – Daniel A Kelin, II – India 2019
I served as guest faculty for the National School of Drama, Theatre-in-Education wing, Tripura. Their first Fulbright-Nehru fellow. During my fellowship, an accomplished actor (Vijay) visited to teach Voice and Speech in between stints on a national TV program. One evening, he presented a one man show, which he’d been performing for 25 years with […]
Coming Home – Kimberly Reyes – Ireland 2019
Kimberly Reyes – Fulbright to Ireland 2019
The Hydrogen House That Could – David Blekhman – Sweden 2019
This 15 min video documents a case study of green technologies by a Swedish inventor and entrepreneur Hans-Olof Nilsson. The documentary presents his vision to live off-grid in a net-zero house. And if that can be accomplished in Sweden, it can be applied everywhere. The house contains all of the elements of hydrogen economy collected […]