Word: fulbright
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After Harvard, Rogers studied in England for two years on a Fulbright scholarship, where he learned about cultural studies from one of its founders, Stuart Hall. This was a different approach for Rogers given the Harvard English department’s emphasis at the time on New Criticism, which focuses strictly on the text...
...years, the U.S. and China resumed their dialogue over human rights last October, and the Bush Administration has handed lists of political prisoners to Beijing it wants released. The pressure has seemed to pay off. In the weeks before Bush's arrival, China freed three prisoners: Tibetan musicologist and Fulbright scholar Ngawang Choephel, Wang Ce of the banned China Democracy Party and a Hong Kong man, Lai Kwong-keung, who had been sentenced to two years in jail for smuggling unauthorized versions of the Bible into the mainland...
RELEASED. NGAWANG CHOEPHEL, 34, Tibetan music scholar who served six years of an 18-year prison term on charges of spying and opposing Chinese rule over Tibet; in Sichuan province. The Fulbright scholar, who was imprisoned following his return to Tibet to videotape traditional music and dance, received wide media attention before his unexpected reprieve...
...work, Wagner was given two cultural awards by the Korean government and was often consulted by Koreans looking for information on their ancestors. He was also the recipient of numerous fellowships, including a Fulbright...
Harvey, who had been exposed to French cinema at the Cinematheque while studying at the Sorbonne as a Fulbright scholar, brought a distinctly international flavor to the Brattle during a time when most Americans had seen very few non-Hollywood films. Harvey and Haliday helped rekindle interest in American classics that had long been forgotten. They also established the important Janus Films, Inc., the main distributor of avant-garde films in the U.S. until 1966, when it was forced to close after too many directors were snatched up by Hollywood. Harvey and Haliday brilliantly juxtaposed old Hollywood classics...