Fulbright Scholars Social Impact Series:
Fulbright-Hays at Sixty: The Legacy of America’s Premiere Exchange Program
A conversation with Dr. Lonnie R. Johnson
October 1, 2021
The Fulbright Exchange Program is celebrating two anniversaries in 2021. It is the 75th anniversary of the program’s founding, and also the 60th anniversary of the Fulbright-Hays Act, which dramatically expanded the program in 1961.
Join us as we discuss the impact of the Fulbright-Hays legislation on America’s leading educational and cultural exchange program and consider how the legacy of the last six decades is shaping the future of the Fulbright program.
- Dr. Lonnie Johnson, a native of Minnesota, has lived and worked in Vienna, Austria in international education for over forty years and served as the executive director of the Austrian Fulbright Commission from 1997 until his retirement in 2019. The author of numerous books and articles on Central European history, his work in recent years has focused on the history of the Fulbright Program for a book with the working title Remembering and Forgetting Fulbright: The Remarkable History of the Fulbright Program, 1946-1971 (University of Arkansas Press). He has done research numerous times in the University of Arkansas Library’s special collections.
- Moderated by: Dr. J. Laurence Hare, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History.
Navigate to this link to register for this Zoom event: https://sponsored-students.uark.edu/events/fulbright-hays.php.
