Calendar

All Topics (February 3 through April 30)

Wednesday, February 4

• 8:30 AM Teacher Workshop: Teaching Hard History for Elementary Learners with Primary Source
• 4:00 PM The AI Free Classroom

Friday, February 6

• 1:00 PM Community Voices: Building Stronger Partnerships Between Academia and Community
• 2:30 PM Translation as Problem-Solving

Saturday, February 7

• 1:30 PM WIP workshop for grad students

Monday, February 9

• All Day Teach East Africa Week 2026
• 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Series: “Rethinking Maternalism: Motherhood, Power, and Embodiment in Côte d’Ivoire” with Elizabeth Jacob

Thursday, February 12

• 9:00 AM 2026 Conference on the Jewish Left
• 4:00 PM Learning from Japan: Expos Past, Present and Future with Angus Lockyer
• 7:00 PM Global Read Webinar with award-wining author Jordan Ifueko

Friday, February 13

• 2:30 PM Cannibal Translation VS AI: A Historia Verdadera

Friday, February 20

• 2:30 PM The Art of Getting Nowhere: On Translating Kafka's Diaries

Wednesday, February 25

• 4:00 PM African Literature Book Group Discussion: Discussing Dream Count by Chimamanda Adichie

Monday, March 2

• 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Series: “Re-analysis of the BU/University of Naples Orientale Excavations at Bieta Giyorgis, Aksum, 1993-2003” with Kathryn Bard

Wednesday, March 4

• 11:00 AM The World According to Sound
• 1:30 PM The World According to Sound: An Audio Workshop

Friday, March 20

• 2:30 PM Prismatic Rilke: Translations, Versions, Multiples

Thursday, March 26

• All Day Pedestrian Space

Friday, March 27

• 2:30 PM Too Horny for Hexameter: Translating Elegiac Couplets

Friday, April 3

• 2:30 PM Translating Medea: The Poetry and the Drama of the Woman and the Play

Monday, April 6

• 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Series: “When Voters Exit Authoritarianism Survives” with Chipo Dendere

Friday, April 10

• 2:30 PM Ekphrasis as Cultural Translation and Method in Pamuk's My Name is Red

Friday, April 17

• 2:30 PM Translating Translation: Multilingual Texts in Taiwan's Literature

Monday, April 27

• 12:30 PM Walter Rodney Seminar Series: “The Placement of history: moving the eyes in lines and layers” with Gerald Rizzo