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Celia Bianconi Leads STARTALK Teacher Training

Celia Bianconi, Senior Lecturer in Portuguese, led a STARTALK funded Portuguese Teacher Training program during summer 2018. The program, which lasted for 5 weeks, successfully trained 15 K-12 Portuguese teachers from all over the United States. STARTALK is a U.S. government funded program with the mission of increasing the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, […]

Translation Now Conference

“Translation Now” will mark the fortieth anniversary of BU’s Literary Translation Seminar, and will feature a really extraordinary group of participants discussing key issues in literary translation today.  Rather than formal papers, the participants will deliver short remarks, followed by what we hope will be spirited conversations on a series of key issues in literary […]

Mexican Literature, Culture, & Film Across Borders

“Mexican Literature, Culture, and Film across Borders: Translation, Migration and Frontiers,” a two-day conference organized by the Center of Latin American Studies at Boston University, will take place on October 26 and 27, 2018, from 9 AM- to 6 pm at the Pardee School of Global Studies.  The central aim of the conference is to […]

Voices from Latin America : A Reading & Conversation with Héctor Abad

Date:  Monday, September 17, 6 to 7:30 PM Location:  Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering (CILSE), 610 Commonwealth Avenue  — Join us for a reading & conversation with Colombian author Hector Abad, author of The Farm (Archipelago Books, 2018).  Pilar, Eva, and Antonio Ángel are the last heirs of La Oculta, a farm hidden in the […]