Huckle Publishes 2 Translations
Nicolas Huckle, Master Lecturer in French, has published two translations: “Picasso’s Mooch” by Yve-Alain Bois. This is an essay in the English version of the French contemporary artist Sophie Calle’s book, Picalso. Published by Atelier EXB, the book accompanies her current exhibition “À toi de faire, ma mignonne (Over to you, sweetie)” at the Musée Picasso […]
Alarcon Bustos Conducts Workshop at Conference
Poliana Alarcon Bustos, a doctoral student in our Hispanic Language & Literatures program, co-conducted a workshop at the recent Third Annual Achieving Change Together conference on November 7, 2023. The theme of the conference was “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Cultivating Educational Excellence in Education.” There were over 75 workshops, over 95 presenters, and 2800 participants. For the workshop, […]
Albertine Cinémathèque Film Festival at BU
The Albertine Cinémathèque Film Festival at BU recently concluded another successful season! The theme for this year was reel/real life, and each of the 7 Francophone films screened this year centered on quests for truth, authenticity, and identity. Co-organizers Tiffany Bailey, Eleonora Mancuso, and Kara Saar were pleased to see many people from inside and outside […]
Global House Hosts Azorean Chef
PBS Television’s very own Azorean Greenbean, Maria Lawton, star and producer of the show Maria’s Portuguese Table visited Boston University’s Global House at Myles Standish Hall as a guest of the Portuguese program. Maria presented on her Azorean heritage, Portuguese culture and cuisine, and the Capelinhos volcanic eruption that led to the Azorean Refugee Act […]
Jennifer Cazenave Quoted in Le Monde
Assistant Professor of French Jennifer Cazenave has been quoted in the prestigious French newspaper Le Monde, in an article about Claude Lanzmann’s magnum opus, the film Shoah. Cazenave’s book (An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah) is mentioned, and Cazenave is quoted discussing the outtakes from Shoah.
Jennifer Cazenave Publishes Article on Shoah
Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French, recently published an article about the outtakes from Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah for Balises, which is the magazine of the Bibliothèque publique d’information (BPI) housed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris: https://www.bpi.fr/balises-11/.
Jennifer Cazenave Interviewed
Jennifer Cazenave, Assistant Professor of French, was recently interviewed on a French Youtube show about Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and the outtakes from it, which was the subject of her first book. Cazenave will also be featured in an upcoming retrospective of Claude Lanzmann’s films to mark his centennial, organized by the Bibliothèque publique d’information (BPI) […]
Datel Publishes Article on Her LS 307 Class
Maria Datel, one of our Master Lecturers in Spanish, recently published a paper (in Spanish) in the new issue (#87) of Estudios del Observatorio/Observatorio Studies, published by the Instituto Cervantes at Harvard. She presented the piece at the Observatorio Instituto Cervantes Symposium 2023. The article discusses Datel’s LS307 class on Darwin, and is titled, “Hacia un […]
Huercanos Esparza Publishes Article
Íñigo Huércanos Esparza, one of our doctoral students in Hispanic Language & Literatures, has published an article in the journal Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo. Inigo’s article is titled, “Dinero, poder, puestos: los incentivos perversos del liberal en el Peñadura (1823) de Luis Arias de León” – in English, “Money, Power, Positions: The Liberal’s Perverse […]
Filmmaker Sharon Arteaga Screens Film at BU
Writer/director Sharon Arteaga, a first generation Mexican-American, recently showed her newest film here at BU. Molly Monet-Viera, who helped organize Arteaga’s visit to BU, describes the event: “Sharon did a screening of her new short film In Tow about a mother and daughter whose mobile home gets repossessed by the bank and towed away with […]