On Thursday, May 23, the Center for the Study of Europe teamed up with the Bulgarian American Cultural Center Madara to present “Bulgarian Voices.” The event, which was dedicated to the Days of Bulgarian Education, Culture, and Slavonic Literature, featured stories from the living memory of Bulgarian crafts and traditions. The star of the evening […]
On Thursday, April 18, with Monday’s Boston marathon tragedy still weighing heavy on people’s minds, over 100 poetry lovers gathered for the penultimate event in our “Irish Voices” series: a reading and conversation with Paul Muldoon. Muldoon’s visit was funded in part by a grant to the Center for the Study of Europe from the […]
On April 8, 2013, continuing our “Irish Voices” series, we welcomed the Irish poet and novelist Ciarán Carson to Boston. Carson, who plays the tin whistle, was accompanied by his wife Deirdre Shannon, an accomplished fiddler. The event, which was funded largely by a grant from the European Commission Delegation in Washington to the Center […]
On Wednesday, March 27, we were thrilled to host Denmark’s “Chief Happiness Officer” Alexander Kjerulf. Almost 150 people turned out for the presentation on “Happiness at Work,” a phenomenon for which the Danes have coined a word. Alexander Kjerulf has introduced hundreds of thousands of people to the Danish word “abejdsglaede” through his popular blog, […]
On February 28 the Center for the Study of Europe hosted Irish writer Colm Toibin as part of a semester-long “Irish Voices” series in celebration of Ireland’s EU presidency. The “Irish Voices” series, which will include a visit by Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States and readings by poets Ciarán Carson and Paul Muldoon, is […]
On Saturday, May 12, the Center for the Study of Europe welcomed Nobel Laureate Herta Müller to Boston University. Nearly a hundred people gathered in BU’s Barrister’s Hall to hear the acclaimed author, who was in the United States to promote a new translation of her Nobel Prize winning book Atemschaukel (The Hunger Angel, translated […]
On Tuesday, March 27, we hosted a reading and conversation with two of our favorite poets: Don Paterson and Dan Chiasson. Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1963. He moved to London in 1984 to work as a jazz musician and has been writing poetry ever since. His first collection, Nil Nil (1993) won […]