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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]