First ‘French Consulate in Boston Excellence Award’ Presented to Saiful Saleem of B.U.
We congratulate Saiful Saleem on the the first ‘French Consulate in Boston Excellence Award’!
Professor Rodrigo Lopes de Barros to give a talk at the University of the South of Santa Catarina (UNISUL)
T. Jefferson Kline publishes new book: A COMPANION TO JEAN-LUC GODARD
A Companion to Jean-Luc GodardTom Conley, T. Jefferson KlineISBN: 978-0-470-65926-7576 pagesJune 2014, Wiley-Blackwell Description This compendium of original essays offers invaluable insights into the life and works of one of the most important and influential directors in the history of cinema, exploring his major films, philosophy, politics, and connections to other critics and directors. Presents […]
TINO VILLANUEVA: FROM ITHACA TO MADRID: Así Habló Penélope
Poet and Senior Lecturer Tino Villanueva was in Madrid in May for a reading from his most recent book, So Spoke Penélope which has now been published bilingually–Así habló Penélope—at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. The reading, at the Centro de Art Moderno, with an introduction by Rafael Cabañas Alamán, may be seen here. […]
Brazil Week at Harvard
The Portuguese Program at Harvard is organizing their “Brazil Week.” They will bring the poet Chacal, one of the main figures in the marginal poetry phenomenon. Our own Rodrigo Lopes de Barros will be participating. Download flyer.
Book talk and reception at The French Cultural Center
There will be a book talk and reception at The French Cultural Center on Thursday, March 6, 2014. More information can be found at this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1410520989206000
Poetry Reading at Schoenhofs Foreign Books with Tino Villanueva, Pedro Granados, and Alan Smith Soto
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Video recording from Professor Sasha Nikolaev’s presentation
The video recording from Prof. Nikolaev’s presentation on “The Story of Writing” is now available to the BU community (along with other recent linguistics presentations) from this page: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/UG/lectures.html
Agnès Varda: Interviews by T. Jefferson Kline
“I could have told you the same things that are in the filmby just talking to you for six hours. but instead I found shapes.” Learn more about Professor Kline’s recent publication.
So Spoke Penelope by Tino Villanueva (A book review)
TINO VILLANUEVA: SO SPOKE PENELOPELecturer Tino Villanueva began the semester with not only with a new language course based on the short story (LS307), but also with a new book of poems, reviewed in the current issue of Bostonia by Susan Seligson:In her review of So Spoke Penelope, published by Grolier Poetry, Seligson quotes from […]