Professor Abigail Gillman participates in University of Chicago Divinity School Web Forum
Professor Abigail Gillman recently wrote a short response in connection with Freud’s Moses and Monotheism for the Religion and Culture Web Forum published by the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Read Professor Gillman’s full response here. For more information about the Divinity School web forum at the University of Chicago, visit their website.
Professor William Waters appointed Associate Director of Center for the Study of Europe
Professor William Waters, Associate Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, has been appointed Associate Director of Center for the Study of Europe effective January 1, 2012. Professor Waters’ role will be to oversee humanities-related events (in collaboration with other humanities faculty) as well as to help develop programs, grants, and events that will deepen […]
Sassan Tabatabai publishes collection of poetry, “Uzunburun”
Sassan Tabatabai publishes a collection of poetry entitled “Uzunburun.” Rosanna Warren writes, “Sassan Tabatabai has composed a book of delicate mourning, exile, and love. Ancient Persia and modern Iran harmonize in his vision, as do the ancient poems of Rudaki and Rumi and the contemporary poems of Kadkani in Tabatabai’s translations. Sensuous, rueful and clear, these […]
Sassan Tabatabai’s poem “Qazal” featured in Clarion 15
Sassan Tabatabai’s poem “Qazal” — from his forthcoming poetry collection “Uzunburun” — will be featured in the Fall 2011 issue of Clarion literary magazine. Read “Qazal” here.
Professor Katherine O’Connor to moderate academic symposium, “Revival of Art and Culture After World War II”
The Rubin-Frankel Gallery at Boston University Hillel is proud to present an academic symposium: Revival of Art and Culture after World War II, featuring a panel of distinguished speakers from around the world who will examine topics related to the art exhibition Faces of Revival: Postwar Russia in the Art of Felix Lembersky, including the […]
Professor Margaret Litvin publishes book, “Hamlet’s Arab Journey: Shakespeare’s Prince and Nasser’s Ghost”
For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: their times “out of joint,” their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet’s Arab Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare’s play developed into a musical with a happy ending in […]
“Gender Representation and Identity in the Middle East” workshop, organized by Roberta Micallef, held at Boston University on September 24, 2011.
On September 24th, 2011, an international workshop on gender identity and representation in the Middle East was held at Boston University. “Gender Representation and Identity in the Middle East” was organized by Roberta Micallef. Participants included scholars from U.S. and Middle East and featured talks by Shahla Haeri, Persis Karim, Sylvia Önder, Roberta Micallef, Kecia Ali, Betty […]
Margaret Litvin to host talk with Sulayman Al-Bassam & Prof. Graham Holderness, The “Arab Shakespeare Trilogy”: Staging a Region in Tumult, 2002-2011
The “Arab Shakespeare Trilogy”: Staging a Region in Tumult, 2002-2011 A conversation with dramatic examples: Kuwaiti theatre director Sulayman Al-Bassam , Prof. Graham Holderness (University of Hertfordshire, UK) and Prof. Margaret Litvin (MLCL) Born in Kuwait and educated in Britain, Sulayman Al-Bassam founded the Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre (SABAB) in Kuwait in 2002. He has directed his […]
Professor Katherine O’Connor to give lecture at Princeton, “The Storm Behind the Calm: Translating Chekhov’s Prose”
On November 7, 2011, Professor Katherine O’Connor will lecture at Princeton University’s Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication Lunch Series. Her lecture, “The Storm Behind the Calm” will explore translating Chekhov’s prose. For more information, visit the PTIC website.
Professor Keith Vincent’s translation of Shiro Hamao’s “The Devil’s Disciple” published
While Shimaura Eizo sits in jail awaiting trial for the murder of a beautiful young woman, his erstwhile lover and initiator into a sinister, restless existence has risen in the ranks of the legal profession and is now the prosecutor on the case. Spinning a complex web of events and influences in this chilling murder […]