The Geddes Language Center presents its updated renovated relocated Faculty Workspace for 2013. You can find the new workspace at the far left-hand end of the main language lab. The space is equipped with three computing stations, a new scanner and printer, assorted office supplies, comfortable chairs, more room, robust vegetation and a hospitable ambience. […]
Boston University Asia Film Week 2012 “Young Asia: Conversation between Generations” October 22-26, 2012 Oct. 22 Monday Opening Event 4 – 6 pm: Student Symposium: “Young Asia: The Past and the Future” 6 – 7:30 pm: Reception Location: Pardee House | 67 Bay State Road Oct. 23 Tuesday 12:30 – 2 pm Sushi lunch Talk […]
The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute has made it possible (through a grant to NETPAC/USA-Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema/USA – and AsiaPacific Films) for Boston University to stream the films in the “Understanding Persian Culture Through Film” project. This grant made it possible to add films that examine the theme “Love and Devotion in Persian […]
Boston University students (with BU student ID), $8 Members and other students, $10 Non-members, $15 21+ only (government-issued photo ID required) RSVP Recommended: 617.912.0400 The French Cultural Center invites Boston University students to join in the fun of our September Apéro at a special, reduced price. L’Apéro is a great way for Francophiles and Francophones […]
On Friday, 2/24, IS&T activated the language packs in Blackboard. The language packs allow an instructor to change the user interface language to French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Japanese or Arabic. All of the menus, messages, and buttons for a course will automatically appear in the target language instead of English. Changing the language is easy […]
Audio from the long running lecture series “The Theory and Practice of Literary Translation” from the Spring 2010 semester is now available online: https://www.bu.edu/geddes/events/translation/ Forrest Gander – Translating poetry from Spain and Latin America Yehudi Wyner – Words and Music Michael Hofmann – Translating German Arthur Sze – Translating Chinese poetry Donald Keene – Translating […]
Today we launched a new version of the Geddes website. We hope you find it easier to navigate and enjoy having a cleaner page layout. Almost everything that was here before still is, just perhaps in a different place. Take a moment to look around and if you can’t find anything then contact us using […]
The 200 word project which illustrates two hundred words in six African languages using text, images and video, launched today at http://www.bu.edu/200word. The site was developed by Fallou Ngom and Zoliswa Mali, African Studies Center. The videos were shot and edited by Geddes engineer, Frank Antonelli with the content was assembled in Adobe Flash by Shawn Provencal, Systems […]