Tres episodios y un incendio De Pilar González España y Alan Smith Soto
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Chacal: Forbidden to Write Poetry
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CANCELLED: 2016-2017 Lectures in Criticism: Efraín Kristal
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LUSOPHONE VOICES: readings & conversations with Rosa Alice Branco and Alexis Levitin
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The Dangerous Liaisons: pre-show lecture with Professor Jeffrey Mehlman
What’s this opera all about? We’ll tell you!Join us for coffee, pastry and a pre-show lecture onThe Dangerous Liaisonson Sunday, March 26 at 2 pm(before the 3 pm performance).BU Professor Jeffrey Mehlman will offer thoughts on The Contemporaneity of ‘The Dangerous Liaisons,’ the before-the-deluge novel that is the opera’s source and its relevance in an […]
Célia Bianconi granted an NSA grant
Congratulations to Célia Bianconi, who was just awarded a grant by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC), for her proposal, “STARTALK Portuguese Teacher Training,” which has been selected for funding as part of the STARTALK 2017 program.
Brown Bag Lunch Workshops: Nick Huckle
Title: Talking with the Coolsurfers: Corresponding with ESOL students in France When: Monday, April 24, 2017 at 1:30pm Where: 718 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 206 This presentation discusses a wiki page correspondence over several years between BU French students and classes of ESOL students at the École des Mines in Saint-Étienne, France.
Brown Bag Lunch Workshops: Emi Yamanaka and Kirby Chazal
Title: Using the IMAGE Model to Explore Cultural Perspectives in Communicative Contexts When: Monday, April 10, 2017 at 1:30pm Where: 718 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 206 This presentation focuses on how language instruction can be integrated with culture using the IMAGE Model (Glisan & Donato, 2016). This model, which uses images as a springboard to explore […]
Brown Bag Lunch Workshops: Mira Angrist and Luluah Mustafa
Title: Digital Social Reading When: Monday, April 3, 2017 at 1:30pm Where: 718 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 206 Digital Social Reading is a form of collaborative reading that takes place online. It allows students to connect around authentic texts of all genres and turns the reading process into a community experience. Students can annotate, analyze, summarize, […]
Brown Bag Lunch Workshops: Verónica Rodríguez Ballesteros
Title: Writing and Performing Poetry in the L2 Classroom: 1, 2, 3… SLAM! When: Monday, March 20, 2017 at 1:30pm Where: 718 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 206 In this workshop, we will focus on how writing and performing poetry can be used at all levels of language learning to boost vocabulary, improve pronunciation, and gain confidence […]