Tiffany Bailey Presents at 2024 NeMLA Conference
PhD student Tiffany Bailey recently presented at the 2024 Northeast Modern Languages Association conference. She tells us about her presentation: “For the NeMLA panel, “If I’m Too Much Go Find Less: Beauty in Excess,” I presented a paper titled “Knot So Bad: Black Girls Loving Their Natural Hair in Children’s and Illustrated Literature.” My presentation […]
Cazenave Presents in Rwanda
In late February, Odile Cazenave, Professor of French, was invited to be part of “Rencontres Nyirarumaga des littératures africaines,” a three-day literary event with writers and poets in Kigali, Rwanda, discussing testimonies/testimonial narratives and resilience with writers and survivors. Also discussed was the duty of memory and genocide prevention and what literature can do in […]
Romance Studies Hosts Conference on Disabilities & Second Language Learning
This past weekend, the Romance Studies Department hosted the 6th Annual Second-Language Learning & Disabilities Conference, organized by María Datel (Master Lecturer in Spanish at BU) and Elena Carrión Guerrero (Tufts University). Edgardo Tormos, a lecturer in Spanish at BU Romance Studies, presented at the conference and had this to say about the experience: “I […]
NYU Graduate Student Conference
The NYU French Literature, Thought & Culture Graduate students’ conference will be held at the university’s La Maison Française on Saturday, April 6, 2024. We are excited to share that Amber Musser of CUNY Graduate Center will be keynoting the event, and that there will also be a hybrid option available for virtual participation. Submissions […]
Instituto Cervantes Symposium – Call for Papers
Call for Papers The Observatorio of the Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University invites researchers, lecturers and professionals in the field of translation, interested in the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures, to present their work to the academic community. This year’s Symposium, to be held on May 30th-31st in a hybrid format (both remote and in person), aims to delve into translation between English and Spanish in […]
Burgon Presents at Symposium
Haleigh Burgon recently presented a paper at the “2024 Manuscript (HE)ART Symposium,” a conference initiated by organizers from Princeton and the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence to honor Dr. Jesse Hurlbut, one of her past professors and mentors. Haleigh tells us: “My paper was entitled, “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow? : […]
Saar Gives Paper Colloquium
On Saturday, February 24, Kara Saar presented a paper at the 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, held in Philadelphia. Her presentation was titled “Faire la meuf: Girlhood and Liberation in Emmanuelle Nicot’s Dalva.” Dalva (2022) is the first feature film by director Emmanuelle Nicot, and tells the story of a […]
6th Annual 2nd Language Learning & Disabilities Conference Next Week!
Next week, BU Romance Studies will host our 6th Annual Second-Language Learning and Disabilities Conference. The conference, taking place in-person on March 1st and online on March 2nd, “aims to provide language educators with tools and strategies for creating inclusive curricula and a classroom climate of tolerance and respect”, according to its organizers. Conference organizer […]
RS Graduate Students Conference
REMEMBERED & FORGOTTEN APRIL 13, 2024 Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. 1984, George Orwell Whom do we remember as time passes by? Whom have we forgotten? Boston University’s Department of Romance Studies invites graduate students to submit proposals that challenge the traditional interpretation of literary works […]
Mathieu Publishes Book Review
Lionel Mathieu, Senior Lecturer in French, has published a review of an introductory book on the scientific study of writing in the history of language, in Linguist List. Introducing Historical Orthography (Condorelli, 2022) is the first comprehensive introduction to a burgeoning field of scientific inquiry, focused on the genesis, development, and evolution of humanity’s singular […]