Denecke Book Publication
MLCL’s own Wiebke Denecke has published a new book, named Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons. Read more about it here! Buy it here!
Out of the Haiku Pan and into the Sijo: Poetry Workshop and Reading with David McCann
Friday, November 22, 2013 4:00pm-6:00pm College of Arts & Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 200 The sijo is a three-line vernacular verse form, a counterpart to the Japanese haiku. The history of the sijo goes back to the 14th century and continues into the present, and like the haiku, it seems to be a […]
MLCL Open House Reminder
Shenggu Chen to Give Presentation in Washington DC
FLTA Shenggu Chen will make a presentation at the 4th Sino-U.S. Bilateral Consultation on People-to-People Exchanges to be held on November 21, 2013, in Washington DC.
Chasing ‘Empty Signifiers’? Egyptian Theatre Before and After the ‘Arab Spring’
Please join us on Tuesday October 22, 2013 at 232 Bay State Road, Room 505 from 4-5:30pm to talk about Egyptian theater before and after the “Arab Spring”. The lecture will be given by Hazem Azmy, who is the Visiting Assistant Professor at the department of Drama and Theatre Criticism of Ain Shams University and […]
The Indian Novel as an Agent of History
6pm Thursday, October 24, 2013 745 Commonwealth Avenue Room 625 What happened when the novel met Indian history? Soon after it arrived in India in the mid-nineteenth century, the novel soon opened out a productive new mode of thinking simultaneously about the small and large frames of history. Novelists began to exploit fiction’s freedoms to […]
New Major: BA in Middle East and North Africa Studies
The University Council on October 2 approved Boston University’s newest Bachelor of Arts program, the Interdisciplinary Major in Middle East and North Africa Studies. The result of a three-year planning effort by a group of faculty specialized in the region, the new major capitalizes on BU’s unusually strong existing offerings in four Middle Eastern languages […]
MLCL Open House
Do you have questions about what MLCL has to offer? Come learn about other cultures and languages through food and faculty. Come to the Modern Languages and Comparative Literature Open House! November 12, 2013 4:30-6:30pm in STH 625
Israel: The Soundtrack
Join us to explore over 65 years if Israeli music, which blends Jewish influences from the Middle East and around the world. Experience the unique sounds of the Jewish homeland through critical viewing of music videos and live dancing reflecting cultural norms as they have evolved. October 9, 2013 7pm 213 Bay State Road Hillel […]
Gil Hovav Lecture
Boston University’s Hebrew Program invites you to hear publisher, author, lecturer, journalist and restaurant critic Gil Hovav to give a lecture on his great-grandfather, who revived the Hebrew language. Presented in English. Friday, October 4, 2013 11am in CAS 233