A Fulbright Workshop for faculty and professionals took place on Friday, March 28, 2008 from 1 - 3:30 p.m. in 155 Jennings Hall. This free workshop highlighted lecturing and research opportunities available in 150 countries for all interested academics and professionals. Workshop participants heard advice on which country to apply for, met other successful Ohio State Faculty Fulbright recipients, and learned how to prepare the Fulbright application. Council for International Exchange of Scholars Assistant Director Muriel Joffe will delivered a special Fulbright presentation. Ohio State Fulbright recipients Kirk Denton and Karl Danneberger each discussed their Fulbright application experience and offered advice. Dieter Wanner spoke to personnel policies and leave options available to faculty members.

Streaming video from the workshop is now available in Real Player and Windows Media Player formats.

Real Player

1. Fulbright Workshop - Part 1 (Real Player)
   
2. Fulbright Workshop - Part 2 (Real Player)
   

Windows Media Players 

1. Fulbright Workshop - Part 1 (Windows Media Player)
   
2. Fulbright Workshop - Part 2 (Windows Media Player)
   
   

Fulbright Workshop Schedule

Special Fulbright Presentation 

Muriel Joffe (Assistant Director, North and East Europe Unit, Council for International Exchange of Scholars) will give a presentation on faculty and administrator exchange opportunities available through the Fulbright Scholar Program at The Ohio State University. She will also explain the possibilities of Fulbright lecturing, research and seminar opportunities abroad as well as programs to host visiting foreign scholars on campus:

• Fulbright Traditional Scholar Program
• Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program
  
• Fulbright International Education Administrator Programs
  
• Fulbright Senior Specialists Program
  
• Fulbright New Century Scholars
• Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
• Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence Program
• Fulbright Occasional Lecturers Program
• Fulbright Visiting Specialists Program: Direct Access to the Muslim World

Panel Discussion - Fulbright Recipients and Ohio State Policies

Kirk Denton, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Karl Danneberger, Professor, Dept. of Horticulture and Crop Science

Ohio State Fulbright recipients will share their experiences, discuss the application process and offer advice. Also, learn about leave options for faculty members when awarded a Fulbright.

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The Office of International Affairs is the representative for the Fulbright Scholar Program on the Ohio State campus.

Muriel Joffe is Assistant Director for North and East Europe at the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. She joined CIES in 1988 and has managed both U.S. and Foreign Scholar Programs in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Her current portfolio includes multiple countries in the former Soviet Union and Central Europe. Dr. Joffe earned a doctorate in history, with specializations in Soviet and east European history, at the University of Pennsylvania. Before working at CIES, she taught history at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Dr. Joffe has had several grants to the USSR and Russia, most recently in 1996, and continues to publish in the field. Her current work is on Central Asia.

Dr. Kirk Denton specializes in the fiction and literary criticism of the Republican period (1911-49). He regularly teaches undergraduate courses in modern Chinese literature in translation, Asian American film, and Chinese film, as well as graduate courses and seminars on modern Chinese fiction, the writer Lu Xun, popular culture, and Chinese film. He is especially interested in the inception and formation of a discourse of modernity in the May Fourth period and how that discourse was to some degree informed and shaped by traditional concerns. Dr. Denton has published two collections, Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature. 1893-1945 and The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling.

Dr. Karl Danneberger a professor in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science was selected as a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Senior Specialist in Agriculture award at the University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) in Portugal. His Fulbright Award was from September 9 – 22, 2007. An internationally renowned turfgrass science specialist, Dr. Danneberger keeps golf course superintendents abreast of current topics important in daily management of golf course turf through his online TurfNotes blog. A faculty member at Ohio State since 1983, Dr. Danneberger teaches turf management courses and earned the Fred V. Grau Turfgrass Science Award from the Crop Science Society of America in 2004.