Women of Color in the Academy Conference
We are excited to announce that registration is open for the 2nd Annual Boston-Wide Women of Color in the Academy Conference: Concrete Steps to Career Success and Advancement! The conference will be in the Curry Student Center at Northeastern University on Friday, April 27, 2018 from 8:30 am – 6:30 pm. The overall conference goal is to facilitate […]
Les Classes Populaires en France aujourd’hui
Danzabierta
Friday, March 16 – Saturday, March 17 | Danzabierta Starts: Friday, 8:00 PM & Saturday, 8:00 PM The award-winning pioneer of contemporary dance in Cuba, DanzAbierta performs the Boston premiere of Malson, a sharp and melancholic love letter to Havana based in a virtual world of relationships and conflict. Cuba’s bustling streets, colorful cityscapes, and blue […]
The ’68 Years and the ‘Wind from the West’
Kristin Ross, NYU Thursday, March 8, 5 pm William James Hall 105 Harvard University In this talk, Kristin Ross will present a re-evaluation of the French and global 60s in the light of contemporary territorial and land-based struggles like the zad at Notre-Dame-des-Landes. She will argue that ’68 was a movement that began in the […]
David Shames: Bolaño, Baudelaire and Nietzsche at the Crossroads of Bohemia
David Shames, Graduate Student in Spanish specializing in Latin American Literature will deliver the paper “Bolaño, Baudelaire and Nietzsche at the Crossroads of Bohemia” at Wellesley College, as part of a conference dedicated to the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, one of the most significant writers of the twentieth and twentieth-one centuries. Keynote address will be […]
Soldiers and Kings: Violence, Representation, and Photo-ethnographic Practice in the Context of Human Smuggling Across Mexico
Tuesday, March 20 Starts: Tuesday, 12:00 PM Location: Kilachand Center, 610 Commonwealth Ave Since 2015 Jason DeLeón has been involved in an analog photoethnographic project focused on documenting the daily lives of Honduran smugglers who profit from transporting undocumented migrants across Mexico. In this talk he discusses the relationship between transnational gangs and the human smuggling industry […]
Brown Bag Seminars on the Teaching & Learning of Langauges
It is with great pleasure that we announce the spring 2018 program for the Brown Bag Seminars on the Teaching and Learning of Languages hosted by the Departments of Romance Studies and World Languages and Literatures (see program attached). We’ve got a great line-up of presentations this semester on the topics of technology (Zoom), digital storytelling, teacher training (STARTALK), […]
BU Literary Translation Seminar Series
The Boston University Literary Translation Seminar, offered every spring at BU for almost 40 years, was given shape and nurtured for its first three decades by the distinguished poet and translator Rosanna Warren. The Lecture Series in Literary Translation that accompanies this seminar gave rise to Warren’s anthology The Art of Translation: Voices From the Field (1989). Our guest lecturers […]