BUWA Bookbinding Workshop (02/23)
Join the BUWA meeting on Thursday, February 23 to learn more about book binding, and to make a small book of your own! Materials are provided at the meeting
Professor Sarah Frederick Invited to Conduct Workshop on GIS Digital Mapping
Sarah Frederick has been invited to the MARAAS (Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies) at Dickinson College https://maraas.org/maraas-conference to conduct a workshop for Asian studies scholars on basic tools for GIS digital mapping and exhibits. Her recent project using this tools includes a digital display of her translation of Natsume Soseki’s essay about Kyoto: https://arcg.is/1DGvWG
WLL co-hosts workshop at Waseda University in Tokyo on Global Classics and the Future of Humanities
The workshop focused on “The Humanities in the 21st Century: Classical Studies in and for the World” To read the full story, please click here.
Liling Huang Conducts Teacher Training Workshop at National Chinese Language Conference
Liling Huang, Lecturer of Chinese, conducted a technology-enhanced teaching workshop on behalf of CLTA-USA (Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA) with Chen-Hui Tsai, the leader of the Ed-Tech SIG, CLTA, at the 2018 National Chinese Language Conference on May 17th in Salt Lake City, UT. The conference, organized by Asia Society and the College Board, is the largest and most prominent annual convening […]
BU Workshop on Arab-Russian and Arab-Soviet Ties: Literature, History, and the Arts
This two-day research workshop in February 2017 brought together 13 participants from across history, literature, and the arts: specialists in different disciplines and periods who might not ordinarily engage with each other’s work. The program included presenters from universities on the East Coast as well as Minnesota, Utah, Israel, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates, […]
BU Arab-Russian Workshop February 17-18, 2017
Russia and the Arab World: History, Literature, Arts Pardee School, Boston University 121 Bay State Rd., Boston, MA 02215 Feb 17-18, 2017 Free and open to the public Visit the website here to view details of the event. Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, BU Middle […]
“Situating Lyric” conference June 7-11, 2017
A major international conference on lyric poetry will be co-hosted by WLL and the International Network for the Study of Lyric this June 7-11. BU with its rich traditions of literary study is an ideal place to inquire into the situation of both “lyric” and “poetry” in literary history, in world literature, and in other […]
WORKSHOP: “Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writers in the Modern Age”
May 14, 9am-5pm 745 Commonwealth Ave. Room 636 Please join this exciting workshop, the coronation of several meetings of the BU Travel Literature Group, and learn about travel in Asia, the Middle East, the Atlantic world, and the world of literary imagination. PROGRAM Panel 1: 10-11 am “Travel, Adventure, and Self-fashioning: A Frenchman’s Journey to […]
Workshop on Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature, co-edited by Professor Wiebke Denecke
On December 4 and 5 2014 two dozen scholars from the US, Europe, Taiwan, and Vietnam convened at the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at Harvard to discuss their drafts for an Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature 1000 BCE-900 CE. The workshop was generously sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Study […]
Out of the Haiku Pan and into the Sijo: Poetry Workshop and Reading with David McCann
Friday, November 22, 2013 4:00pm-6:00pm College of Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 200 The sijo is a three-line vernacular verse form, a counterpart to the Japanese haiku. The history of the sijo goes back to the 14th century and continues into the present, and like the haiku, it seems to be a […]