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May 21-28, 2008
 Films of Chantal Ackerman. The MFA presents four works by the Belgian filmmaker including Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. In conjunction with "Moving Through Time and Space" at MIT's List Visual Arts Center. Human Sciences. Event information>>

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May 2 - July 6, 2008
 Chantal Akerman: Moving Throught Space and Time. MIT List Visual Arts Center (LVAC) presents the first museum survey exhibition of the works of filmmaker and video artist Chantal Akerman. Event information>>

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June 27 - July 3, 2008
 The Edge of Heavan - film by Turkish-German Fatih Akin (Head-On, Crossing the Bridge) at Kendall Square Cinema. Winner, Best Screenplay, 2007 Cannes Film Festival and European Film Awards. Film description>>


 

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During the spring of 2008, the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University organized five events: The Tyranny of Choice: How We Become Who We Are with Slovenian philosopher Renata Salecl; The Legacy of 1968: A European Perspective with the European parliamentarian and Green party leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit; Our Innocence, Foreign Perversions: Gender and Sexuality in Nationalist Discourse with Polish feminist Agnieszka Graff; The Ethics of Atheism with Italian philospher Paolo Flores D'Arcais and Director of the Boise Center for Religion and Public Life at Boston College; and, in cooperation with the literary journal AGNI, Fiction and Possibility with Polish novelist Magdalena Tulli and American writer Lawrence Weschler. Daniel Cohn-Bednit's lecture, in which he discussed the elusive legacy of the student protest movements of 40 years ago, was generously supported by the Max Kade Foundation in New York City.

We also launchd our EU for YOU podcast, in which we air current events as well as events from our archive. Tune in for European perspectives on politics, literature and culture and be sure to visit our archive for links to WBUR's recordings of our events since 2002, as well as links to our flickr photo albums.

We are also pleased to announce our third call for applications for the Milena Jesenská Fellowships for North American Journalists. The program was established in 2005 by the Institute for Human Sciences (IHS) at Boston University. It offers North American journalists working in print, broadcast, and electronic media an opportunity to pursue in-depth research on a European topic of their choice. Fellows to spend up to three months (minimum of two weeks) at the Vienna-based Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM), an independent, interdisciplinary center for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences. Recipients of the fellowships are eligible for a stipend of up to $12,500 and are provided with office space, a PC with broadband Internet access, and the use of the IWM’s in-house research facilities as well as other relevant resources in Vienna. The deadline for applications is August 31, 2008. More information>>

Photo essay by Tereza Novotna, PhD candidate, Boston University; Junior Visiting Fellow, IWM, Vienna