A Loud, but Noisy Signal: The Role of Public Opinion in Education Policy Making
Date: Thursday, April 12 Starts: 4:00 pm Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road (1st floor) URL: http://www.bu.edu/european/files/2018/02/Marius.pdf This talk presents research findings from the project “Investing in Education in Europe.” In this project, we collected original data from a survey of public opinion on education policy in eight Western European countries. […]
A Reading & Conversation with Luis Negrón & Jill Suzanne Levine
Strangeness from Within: A Talk by Patrick Autréaux
Persona Non Grata Screening – REVISED DATE/TIME
Conversation with Shenaz Patel
Shenaz Patel was born on Mauritius and writes in both French and Mauritian Creole. She has published multiple novels and short stories, including Sensitive (2003), which received the Prix du Roman Francophone. Her first play, La phobie du caméléon (2005), was awarded the Prix Beaumarchais des écritures dramatiques de l’Océan Indien. In addition to her own writings, Patel was also one […]
CANCELLED: Two Silent Film Classics: Assunta Spina & The Immigrant
Cancelled – Additional information coming soon.
Wellesley College: Achille Mbembe
Small Faculty/Fellows seminar with Achille Mbembe (Jordan Lecturer) Short readings, including excerpts from Critique of Black Reason Tuesday, March 20th from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. at NCH (dinner will be served) Professor Achille Mbembe was born in Cameroon and obtained his Ph.D in History at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989 and a D.E.A. in Political […]
Second Annual WLL Pedagogy Symposium
BU Center for Teaching & Learning: 8th Annual Educational Innovation Conference
Boston University’s Eighth Annual Educational Innovation Conference brings together faculty, staff, graduate students, and post-docs from across BU and beyond to showcase excellence in teaching and learning and to explore collaborative visions of our future. Thursday, May 3, 2018 Metcalf Trustee Center 1 Silber Way 9th Floor, Trustee Ballroom NOTIFY ME WHEN REGISTRATION OPENS
Rethinking Enlightenment: Conference on Forgotten Women Writers of Eighteenth Century France
Houghton Library Friday, March 23, 2-5pm Online registration: http://bit.ly/2CVXLFj The French Enlightenment is famous for its intellectual innovations, but it is remembered largely as a male endeavor. This conference delves deeper into the works of women showcased in the groundbreaking Houghton Library exhibition Rethinking Enlightenment: Forgotten Women Writers of Eighteenth Century France (on view through April 28), who […]