The Fulbright Program, now in its
65th year, has amassed an alumni body of almost 300,000 participants,
representing nearly every nation of the world. The Program awards approximately
8,000 grants annually. Roughly 1,700 U.S.
students, 4,000 foreign students, 1,200 U.S. scholars, and 900 visiting
scholars receive awards, in addition to several hundred teachers and
professionals. Approximately 318,000 "Fulbrighters" have participated
in the Program since its inception in 1946.
Join us Saturday, March 9th as we
discuss the "Fulbright Experience " with a roundtable of Fulbright
Scholars from area universities.
Details: Saturday, March 9th
Reception 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Panel Discussion 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Speakers Include:
Dr. Paul Hoyt-Connor
Center for Undergraduate Fellowships
and Research
George Washington University
Dr. Hoyt-O'Connor has held
appointments as an associate professor of Philosophy and Chair of Humanities at
Spalding University
in Louisville, Kentucky
and as a Lilly Fellow at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
In his position at GW, he enjoys inviting students to reflect upon the
trajectories of their lives and upon their deepest commitments so that we may
together discern more clearly who we are and where we are going.
James B. Gilbert
Distinguished University Professor
Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin,
1966
US History, Cultural History
Professor Gilbert has held several
fellowships, including an NEH and Fulbrights to Australia
and Sweden.
He has also been a Fellow of the Woodrow
Wilson Center,
the Rutgers University
Center for Historical Analysis, and
the Rockefeller Center
at Bellagio, Italy. He has been Visiting
Lecturer at Columbia Teachers College, the University
of Paris, and Sydney
University and has held the Walt
Whitman Chair at Amsterdam
University. In 1997 he
was named Hooker Distinguished Professor by McMaster
University in Ontario. He has held office in the AHA and
OAH and has acted as consultant and reviewer for the NEH, National Public Radio
American Writers' Series, the National Geographic Society, and the Library of
Congress. He has also served as Acting Chair of the Departments of Art and Art
History and the Department of History. He is founder of the Center for
Historical Studies at the University
of Maryland.
Harris Mylonas
Assistant Professor of Political
Science and International Affairs
George Washing University
Harris Mylonas is the author of The
Politics of Nation-Building. His research focuses on the processes of nation-
and state-building, the politicization of cultural differences, immigration
policy, and political development. Mylonas completed his Ph.D. at Yale University
in 2008 and then joined the Political Science department at George Washington
University as an
Assistant Professor in the fall of 2009. He is also an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area
Studies where he conducted research in 2008-2009 and 2011-2012 academic years.
His work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Ethnopolitics,
European Journal of Political Research, and various edited volumes. He is currently working on his second book
project analyzing the policies that states develop either to attract and/or
to incorporate people returning to their country of origin, allegiance, or citizenship.
The Fulbright roundtable discussion is part of the events that make up the International Glass and Clay 2013 exhibit held at the Pepco Edison Gallery @ 702 Eighth Street, NW, Washington, DC.
Click HERE to RSVP to the free event.
