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The Dangerous Liaisons: pre-show lecture with Professor Jeffrey Mehlman

What’s this opera all about? We’ll tell you!Join us for coffee, pastry and a pre-show lecture onThe Dangerous Liaisonson Sunday, March 26 at 2 pm(before the 3 pm performance).BU Professor Jeffrey Mehlman will offer thoughts on The Contemporaneity of ‘The Dangerous Liaisons,’ the before-the-deluge novel that is the opera’s source and its relevance in an […]

Brown Bag Lunch Workshops: Nick Huckle

Title: Talking with the Coolsurfers: Corresponding with ESOL students in France When: Monday, April 24, 2017 at 1:30pm Where: 718 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 206 This presentation discusses a wiki page correspondence over several years between BU French students and classes of ESOL students at the École des Mines in Saint-Étienne, France.

Brown Bag Lunch Workshops: Emi Yamanaka and Kirby Chazal

Title: Using the IMAGE Model to Explore Cultural Perspectives in Communicative Contexts When: Monday, April 10, 2017 at 1:30pm Where: 718 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 206 This presentation focuses on how language instruction can be integrated with culture using the IMAGE Model (Glisan & Donato, 2016). This model, which uses images as a springboard to explore […]

Brown Bag Lunch Workshops: Mira Angrist and Luluah Mustafa

Title: Digital Social Reading When: Monday, April 3, 2017 at 1:30pm Where: 718 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 206 Digital Social Reading is a form of collaborative reading that takes place online. It allows students to connect around authentic texts of all genres and turns the reading process into a community experience. Students can annotate, analyze, summarize, […]