Russian Voices Film Series
During the fall of 2013, our focus at the Center for the Study of Europe is on Russia. The Russian Voices Film Series is intended to complement the forthcoming Russian Voices Symposium and Philosophical Cabaret. The poets, musicians, and filmmakers featured in the series are each, in their own way, engaged in re-thinking oppositions such […]
Russian Voices Symposium and Philosophical Cabaret at Boston University
Join us on Wednesday, November 20, for Russian Voices: Readings and Conversations with contemporary Russian poets Polina Barskova, Anna Glazova, and Maria Stepanova. This event celebrates the release by Zephyr Press of Relocations, a new anthology of Russian poetry, and brings together the three poets whose works are collected in the book and two of […]
Oh, God by Anat Gov comes to BU
In this witty, poignant and touching play, a psychotherapist named Ella, single mother of an autistic child, gets a visit from a new, desperate patient, God. September 30, 7pm 213 Bay State Road, 4th Floor
Fall Study Abroad Expo
Come to Marsh Plaza on Friday September 13th, 2013 to learn about the exciting Study Abroad opportunities offered at BU!
MLCL Students Win East Asian Studies Essay Prizes
At Commencement in May 2013, BU’s East Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Program granted for the first time three essay prizes for the best undergraduate term papers on East Asia submitted in 2012-13. Read about the students who won here!
BU Hosts BU India Symposium
On May 10th 2013, BU hosted a Symposium on India. Learn more about the symposium, and see what you missed here!
On the Wonders of Land and Sea
Sunil Sharma and Roberta Micallef, both of Boston University’s MLCL Department have released a comparative study of non-European travel writers in the eastern Islamic or Persianate world from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. Pick up your copy of On the Wonders of Land and Sea here!
Rethinking World Literature with Wiebke Denecke
MLCL’s own Professor Wiebke Denecke recently sat down for an interview discussing her recent publication of the Norton Anthology of World Literature. Learn about the process and read about one of BU’s own renowned experts in East Asian literature here!
Prof. Wiebke Denecke Publishes Volume on the Long History of the Concept of “Literature” in Japan
Conference volume on the changing faces of the concept of “literature” in East Asia and Japan, edited by Wiebke Denecke (BU, MLCL) and Kimiko Kono (Waseda University, Director of the Institute of Japanese Classics, Tokyo). This volume is the first attempt to recapture the adventurous history and future critical potential of the Chinese concept of […]
Music, Media & the Creative Destruction of Japanoise
April 3, 2013 5-7pm 725 Commonwealth Ave. Room 116