A “Eurospectives” reading and discussion, Boston University welcomed Tomaž Šalamun with David Rivard on November 5th, 2009. Viewed as one of the great Central European poets of the postwar period, Tomaž Šalamun is admired by countless American poets for his singular, style of surrealism. Šalamun’s work has been translated into over 12 different languages. He […]
On December 10th, 2006, Boston University held a community-wide Public Event in Observance of International Human Rights Day. Keynote speaker at this panel discussion was Jack Matlock, who was the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union under the Ronald Reagan administration. During this discussion, the topic of priority was human rights in the former Soviet […]
On October 5th, 2009, Saskia Hamilton, Kieron Winn, and Christopher Ricks joined us at Boston University for a discussion entitled There Lives, the Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things. Author of As for Dream, Saskia Hamilton is also the editor of The Letters of Robert Lowell. She lives in New York and teaches at Barnard College. […]
Boston University welcomed Simon Armitage and Mark Feeney on September 21st, 2009, for a lecture entitled Out of the Blue – Order from Chaos. Born in 1963 in West Yorkshire, England, Simon Armitage published his first book Zoom! in 1989. Since then, Armitage has received numerous prestigious awards in poetry in the United Kingdom – […]
On December 1st, 2008, Boston University presented a panel discussion entitled Europe Confronts Its Past, featuring Honorary Consul of the Republic of Slovakia in Boston Peter Muzila, Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University Igor Lukes, and Editor-in-Chief of Respekt Martin Simecka. At the time, Igor Lukes was also the Honorary Consul of […]
Bernardo Atxaga and Ilan Stavans joined us at Boston University on May 4th, 2009 for a discussion entitled Euro-Density: Webs of Language and Self. Bernardo Atxaga, whose real name is José Irazu Garmendia, was born in Asteasu, Basque County, in 1951. Atxaga studied Philosophy at the University of Barcelona between 1981 and 1984, after having […]
On March 26th, 2009, Boston University presented “Translating a Moving Target – Poetry of a New Romania”. The discussion featured internationally acclaimed Romanian poet Liliana Ursu, Romanian translator Sean Cotter, and Askold Melnyczuk as moderator. Apart from being a Romanian poet, Liliana Ursu is also a prose writer and translator. She was born in Sibiu, […]
Boston University welcomed Zafer Senocak, Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright, and Askold Melnyczuk for a discussion entitled Poetics Between Languages: The Turkish-German Experience, which took place on March 19th, 2009. Zafer Senocak was born in 1961 in Ankara but moved to Germany and has lived there since 1970. Senocak’s works have been highly praised and translated into […]
Professor of law at Humbold University of Berlin, Bernhard Schlink joined us at Boston University on February 2nd, 2009 for a lecture entitled The Presence of the Past. Born in Germany in 1944, Schlink served on the Constitutional Law court for the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Munster, from 1988 to 2006. He has also lectured at […]
On November 2nd, 2008, Boston University welcomed former president of the Republic of Poland (1995-2005), Aleksander Kwasniewski, for a lecture entitled The US Election – What is at Stake for Europe and the World? Stephen Walt, Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, joined Kwasniewski as respondent. […]