Political Talk and “Reward” – David Hammer – United Kingdom 1964
I was at the University of Leeds as an MSc Physics student. The Fulbright office in London contacted me about giving a talk in the Sheffield area about the American Presidential Election that was soon to come in 1964. I accepted the opportunity and was invited to spend the night at the home of the […]
Giving the Fulbright Talk – Alexa Alice Joubin – United Kingdom 2014-2015
I have shared my research findings on cultural globalization during my Fulbright year to London in the 2019 Fulbright Talk at the Fulbright National Conference. The arts can lead to positive global changes in many areas. The Fulbright Spirit of mutual understanding is enhanced by theatre. When history is held hostage by politics and when […]
Close Encounters – Dianne Morrison-Beedy – United Kingdom 2016
A close. In Scotland you see these enclosed spaces or alleyways throughout the City of Edinburgh – Mary’s King Close, Advocate Close, World’s End Close, the list goes on and on. To be close, to come together, to unite. One word – two meanings. For me, these definitions became so intertwined as I experienced my […]
East and West Berlin – Kenneth Whetstone – United Kingdom 1978
In 1978-1979, a Fulbright award provided me the opportunity to research the Jurassic toothed bird Archaeopteryx in various museums of Europe. This included a short period of study at the GDR Museum of Natural History located in what was then, Soviet East Berlin. Each day, I would travel through the Berlin wall from West to […]
Digging for Camelot – Mike Morrissey – United Kingdom 1966
Hearing that Professor Leslie Alcock, University of Glasgow, was about to begin his search for the site of Camelot near Glastonbury, Somerset, I determined that it was something that the lads and I might like to experience. We phoned Alcock and asked if we might visit. He indicated that they were just starting the digs, […]
Gennady Filimonov – England 1986
My Fulbright journey began in the summer of 1985, a year before I received my grant, when I was a scholarship student at Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau where I met the eminent Prof. Neaman. He was an enormous inspiration. The summer experience of private lessons, solo performances as well as chamber music performances with great […]
Jonathan Goodman Levitt – United Kingdom 1999
“The idea that ‘film is an empathy machine,’ while somewhat cliched, is true. It’s the closest we can come to meeting people in real life and experiencing them in-person,” says award-winning documentary filmmaker Jonathan Goodman Levitt. Levitt received a Fulbright grant in 1999, and went to the UK’s National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, […]