Professor Margaret Litvin on the Refugee Crisis: Why There are No Chosen Peoples, Only People Making Choices
If you embrace neither religion nor nationalism, you aren’t left many holidays to celebrate. Your own birthdays; New Year’s Eve. (My Soviet immigrant family didn’t know about solstice gatherings yet.) But tough-minded and hypocrisy-averse though we tried to be, we made room for two: Passover in the spring, Thanksgiving in the fall. These occasions were […]
BU Students Give Speeches in Japanese
Boston University students Jiaxing Yan and Cao Mai presented wonderful speeches at Boston Area Japanese language Speech Event at Boston College on Saturday Nov. 14 2-5pm. Their speeches were very well received by the professors from eight universities in Boston area. From left: Emi Yamanaka, […]
Lectures in Criticisim: W.J.T Mitchell “Salvaging Israel/Palestine: Art, Collaboration and the Binational State”
The Hijacking of Algerian Identity
Read this article by MLCL’s Kheireddine Bekkai here!
MLCL Open House
Wednesday, October 21st from 4-6pm 745 Commonwealth Avenue- 6th Floor
Blind Owl Play Coming Soon to BU
October 9th-10th 2015, 7pm-Boston University (BU) Stone Science Auditorium (CAS B50) 675 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA (FREE ADMISSION, and NO LATE SITTING) based on a novel by Sadegh Hedayat adapted and directed by Vahdat Yeganeh cast: Jared Wright-Deniz Khateri-Rick Chason music by Bahar Royaee art director: Jared Wright dramaturge to the director: Dr. Robert Lublin Dramaturgy […]
Weijia Huang and Chi-Han Liang Present in the New England Chinese Language Teachers Association and the 4th Chinese Teaching International Annual Conference in Brown University of 2015
On Oct 3rd, 2015, five language faculty from MLCL, Weijia Huang, Huiying Ma, Chi-Han Liang, Huimin Li and Ying Su went to Brown University to attend the New England Chinese Language Teachers Association and the 4th Chinese Teaching International Annual Conference. In this conference, Professor Weijia Huang acted as the Chair in the last section […]
Read about the “Korean Wave” in BU Today!
Modern Language and Comparative Literature senior lecturer Jaemin Roh teaches a Korean language class. Photo by Cydney Scott In little more than a decade, South Korea has become a major exporter of pop culture, fueled by the popularity of Korean pop (K-pop) music and videos on YouTube and serialized TV K-dramas. Teenagers and college […]
Under the Algerian Sun Camus and Daoud
It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outsider (formerly translated as The Stranger). But Kamel Daoud, an Algerian journalist and writer, has done just that in his new novel, The Meursault Investigation, just released in English. […]
The 2015 Annual Chinese Speech Contest
4:30pm-6:30 pm, October 29th in CGS 511, 871 Commonwealth Ave. The Chinese program at Boston University is proud to announce the 2015 Chinese Speech Contest. We invite all students whose native language is not Chinese and who are taking Chinese classes at BU to display their language skills in this good-spirited competition. We also have […]