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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 […]

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 […]

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), […]