From Marilyn Monroe to Kim Jong Il: North Korean Cinema in the 1950s and 1960s
From Marilyn Monroe to Kim Jong Il: North Korean Cinema in the 1950s and 1960s By Dima Mironenko, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at Harvard University CAS 427, Tuesday February 18, 2-3:30 pm The talk focuses on the post-Korean War period until the late 1960s in the history […]
Gillman Lunch Discussion
Please join MLCL’s Abigail Gillman for a Lunch Discussion on February 13th from 12:30-2:00pm. Discussion will be at 147 Bay State Road, Room 202, we hope to see you there!
2014 Literary Translation Seminar Schedule
Please join us for our 2014 Translation Seminar every Friday from 1-3pm in STH 625. Our Guest Speakers for Spring 2014 are: January 24, 2014: Sergio Chejfec & Heather Cleary The Art of Getting Lost (in translation) Sergio Chejfec was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He writes novels, short stories and essays. Some of […]
How to Market a Country
Sunday, January 26, 2014 7:00pm The Florence & Chafez Hillel House 213 Bay State Road Join us for a lecture by Ambassador Ido Aharoni, Consul General of Israel in New York on the emerging conversation about Israel and it’s part within the modern world.
Writing Between Languages and Cultures: A Reading and Conversation with Yoko Tawada
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 6 PM – 7:30 PM (reception + book-signing to follow) Boston University Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s Street, 9th floor Join us for a reading and conversation with the internationally renowned writer Yoko Tawada. Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960 and moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, where […]
MLCL’s Keith Vincent Organizes Soseki’s Diversity Conference in MI
Professor J. Keith Vincent has organized a major conference on the Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki, to be held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he is currently in residence as the Toyota Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies. Our own professor Sarah Frederick will also be giving a paper at the conference, in which […]