Fulbright Association Invites Applications For 2009 Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund Lecture On Dance

It's too late for me to join (don't have any research ready), but some of you might be interested. Hurry, though, deadline is the 22nd.

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The Fulbright Association has issued a call for applications to present the 2009 lecture under the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund for International Scholarship on Dance. Applications must be received by Sept. 22, 2009.

The Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund enables a dance scholar to present a major paper on previously unpublished research at the Fulbright Association’s annual conference.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 2009 lecture will be delivered on Oct. 31 as part of the Fulbright Association 32nd Annual Conference, “Mutual Understanding amid Global Economic Challenges,” in Washington, D.C. The recipient of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund award will receive round-trip travel and associated expenses.

The 2009 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.

Alison M Friedman, general manager of Parnassus Productions, Inc., presented the 2008 Selma Jeanne Cohen Lecture in International Dance Scholarship entitled “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Carving out Space for Chinese Modern Dance in an Interconnected World.”

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