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NERALLT Conference

The turnout was great and the quality of presentations exceptional at this year’s NERALLT Conference, hosted by the Geddes Language Center on October 11-12. Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible!

Translation Seminar 2001

We’ve updated the Seminar in Translation page to include the archive of lectures from 2001.  These include: Ron Jenkins – Laughing Hieroglyphs – Translating Dario Fo [01-26-2001] Will Waters – What is Lost There – Reading, Translating and Comparative Literature [02-02-2001] Zhu Hiong on Su Xiaokang’s Memoir of a Misfortune [02-09-2001] Michael Heim – Free […]

NERALLT Conference at BU – October 11-12, 2018

The Geddes Language Center will host the Annual Conference for NERALLT, the New England Regional Association for Language Learning Technology, on October 11-12, 2018. The Call for Proposals has been extended to July 15, 2018. More information is available on the NERALLT website. We are happy to have this organization back as a Geddes sponsored conference after many […]

Spring Faculty Showcase

Dear Faculty Colleagues: Happy Spring! We invite you to attend our main event for the semester, the Spring Faculty Showcase on Wednesday, April 18 at 1:15 PM in Geddes. This event features four projects in instructional design by faculty in languages as indicated on the attached flyer. It is a good opportunity to learn from […]

Fall 2017 Video Acquisitions

Here is a list of titles that were added to the Geddes catalog between September 1, 2017 and January 18, 2018. Chinese CH 8.568 Out of Phoenix Bridge CH 8.569 Last Train Home CH 8.570 Disorder CH 8.571 Three Sisters CH 8.572 Hooligan Sparrow CH 8.573 Petition, Crime and Punishment, Paper Airplane CH 8.574 Meishi […]

Website update

On January 3, 2018, we launched a minor update to the Geddes website. The new site is optimized to allow for phone and tablet users to navigate the site. While most of the content has not changed, some pages have been moved for better organization. Please check any links to the Geddes site that you […]

Announcing this year’s Geddes Mini-Grant Recipients

Once again this year, there was a broadly based show of interest in our Geddes Mini-Grants program. This year’s grant recipients include: Hongyun Sun (Lecturer in Chinese) – “Incorporating Topic-Oriented Videos into Business Chinese;” María Datel (Senior Lecturer in Spanish) – “The Madrid Summer Program Promotion Integrated to the Contents of LS 211 and LS […]