Harvard – Film Screening of Asmarina
Thursday, March 29. 2018 at 6.00 pm, Harvard Art Museum. Menschel Hall, Lower Level Film -screening of ASMARINA Introduction by Dr. Angela Davis, UC Santa Cruz Followed by conversation with film Director Medhin Paolos and Dr. Angela Davis (Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway). Doors will open at 5:30pm. This program is free […]
Instituto Cervantes at Harvard: Conversaciones en el Observatorio – Traduccion y Sociedad
Date: March 29, 2018 Time: 5:30 – 7:00 pm Location: Observatorio. 2 Arrow St. 4th floor, Cambridge PLEASE RSVP: info-observatory@fas.harvard.edu Translation is ubiquitous, and invisible when it is done properly (in fact, we only take notice of it when it is not there and we need it, or when it is a defective translation). Society does […]
The Struggle over Global Higher Education: European Perspectives
Friday, April 13 Starts: 12:00 pm Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road (1st floor) This talk will focus on the major changes in the European higher education landscape since the beginning of the 2000s. These transformations include a stratification of national higher education systems and increasingly powerful supranational public policies in […]
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 […]