CURRENT GRANTEES
The grantees walked into Chiharu Shiota’s Tracing Boundaries, an installation consisting of tangled webs of crisscrossing red string. The grantees' visit to explore the exhibitions at Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA was courtesy of the Saastamoinen Foundation.
Getting Together for Thanksgiving Text MAIJA KETTUNEN
T
he last week in November is
The activities also included
reserved for Thanksgiving events
a presentation and discussion
in Helsinki to allow the U.S.
with the Finnish Innovation
grantees and the Foundation team to get
Fund Sitra. Specialists Emma
together as days shorten and snow looms.
Hietaniemi
and Dushyant
The grantees were invited to Espoo
Manchandia from Sitra’s Sus-
Museum of Modern Art EMMA by the
tainable Everyday Life Team
Foundation’s long-time partner Saas-
introduced the grantees to the
tamoinen Foundation. The grantees were
Shift 1.5 approach in empow-
treated to a guided tour through the exhi-
ering people to live a good life
bitions at EMMA. Later in the evening,
within Earth’s carrying capac-
Fulbright Bicentennial Chair Mark Hersey
ity and shared some lessons
and his family hosted the traditional pot-
learned on scaling the best
luck dinner for all Fulbrighters.
practices.
M Black Belt Sketches 8 | www.fulbright.fi
PHOTO: TERHI MÖLSÄ POLAROIDS: JESSICA STARGARDTER
ark D. Hersey, 2021-22 Fulbright
The Fulbright Bicentennial Chair in
Bicentennial Chair in Ameri-
American Studies is the oldest Distin-
can Studies, gave his inaugural
guished Chair in the global Fulbright
lecture on November 5, 2021 titled “Black
Program; it was established in 1976 to insti-
Belt Sketches: Ecology and Identity in the
tutionalize the teaching of American his-
American South.” The lecture explored
tory, culture, and language at the University
the often-surprising junctures of land use,
of Helsinki. Since 1976, nearly 50 U.S. Schol-
race, and poverty in the Black Belt.
ars have held this prestigious Award.