Blackboard Language Support
On Friday, 2/24, IS&T activated the language packs in Blackboard. The language packs allow an instructor to change the user interface language to French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Japanese or Arabic. All of the menus, messages, and buttons for a course will automatically appear in the target language instead of English. ... More
New Video Acquisitions – February 2012
In Chinese: Morning Sun (documentary) In Japanese: Funeral Parade of Roses Bunraku In Korean: Kimjongilia The Red Chapel The Juche Idea In Spanish: Secrets of the Heart Vida Y Color Todo lo que, tu quieras In English: The Spanish Civil War (6 part documentary) Avatar Volpone Doctor Faustus The Duchess of Malfi The School for Scandal The Tempest (w. Helen Mirren) The Pianist The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Sarah’s Key In Hindi: Zindagi Na... More
Video Catalog – Winter 2012
We've just published our Winter 2012 video catalog. It is an a-z list of the the films permanently housed at the Geddes Language Center. Click here to download a PDF copy of the catalog
Seminar in Translation 2010
Audio from the long running lecture series “The Theory and Practice of Literary Translation” from the Spring 2010 semester is now available online: http://www.bu.edu/geddes/catalog/seminar/ Forrest Gander – Translating poetry from Spain and Latin America Yehudi Wyner – Words and Music Michael Hofmann – Translating German Arthur Sze – Translating Chinese poetry Donald Keene –... More
New Video Acquisitions, Fall 2011
In English: Lawrence of Arabia In Korean: The Housemaid Into the Fire The President’s Barber Under the Sky of Seoul Ball Shot by a Midget Vegetarian In French: Farewell 35 Shots of Rum Coco Avant Channel Mademoiselle Chambon The Grocer’s Son La Rafle Les Vamps Florence Foresti & friends Ils s’aiment Louvre City In Spanish: Maldeamores Modernismo Pan negro La teta asustada El baile de la Victoria In Portuguese: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
Iranian film/Persian culture site
Recommended by Professor Sunil Sharma: View contemporary Iranian cinema, selected to illuminate aspects of Persian culture, http://bostonu.asiapacificfilms.com. Note - the passcode is bostonu.
New Video Acquisitions – Summer, 2011
In Hebrew: 5 Films of Ram Loevy Lemon Tree Amos Oz – the nature of dreams In Arabic: Dunia Under the Bombs Ali Zaoua Bab ‘Aziz Beirut, the last home movie In French: Micmacs The Son Welcome Seraphine Heartbreaker Lancelot In Hindi: Guide In Korean: Our Twisted Hero In Japanese: Porco Rosso Only Yesterday Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald Whisper of the Heart The Most Beautiful Sanshiro Sugata, part 2 Scandal One Wonderful Sunday I Live in Fear In English: The Spanish Civil... More
iPad 2 available
We now have an iPad 2 available for instructors to borrow for in-class use or for training sessions. The iPad has Quick Office installed for display of Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Safari, iTunes, and YouTube are available, as well as any movie in the Geddes catalog (with advanced notice)... More
New Paired Recording Stations
Over the last week we have added more tabletop microphones in the lab for recording conversations in pairs. There are now nine stations available, 5 PC and 4 Mac. Groups of three or four can be accomodated with enough notice.
Welcome to Geddes 4.0
Today we launched a new version of the Geddes website. We hope you find it easier to navigate and enjoy having a cleaner page layout. Almost everything that was here before still is, just perhaps in a different place. Take a moment to look around and if... More