Promotional poster for past Lectures in Criticism events. The speakers are T. Jefferson Kilne from Boston University giving a talk titled “Exotic and Endotic in Tavernier’s Adaptation of La Princesse de Montpensier,” on Friday November 10, 2017, at 5pm in Barrister’s Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue; Efrain Kristal from UCLA giving a talk titled “Jorge Luis Borges and the Two World Wars” on Thursday January 25, 2018, at 5pm in Barrister’s Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue; and Hoyt Long and Richard So from the University of Chicago giving a talk titled “Models of Racial Difference: Between Close and Distant Reading,” on Friday February 23, 2018, at 5pm in Location TBD. The events are sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities.

Fall 2017

“Exotic and Endotic in Tavernier’s Adaptation of La Princesse de Montpensier”

T. Jefferson Kline, Professor of French, Boston University

Friday, November 10, 2017

Lecture at 5pm.

Barrister’s Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue

Spring 2018

“Jorge Luis Borges and the Two World Wars”

Efraín Kristal, Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, UCLA

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Lecture at 5pm

Barrister’s Hall, 765 Commonwealth Avenue

“Models of Racial Difference: Between Close and Distant Reading”

Hoyt Long, Professor of Japanese Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago and Richard So, Assistant Professor of English, McGill University

Friday, February 23, 2018

Lecture at 5pm