Conversation with the Mayor of Dusseldorf
Leading Cities From The Left The Initiative on Cities (IOC) is partnering with the Center for the Study of Europe at the Pardee School of Global Studies to host Leading Cities From The Left, a conversation with Mayor Thomas Geisel of Dusseldorf, Germany, on the challenges of leading a city from the political left. The event […]
Pitoti. Digital Humanities at the Barbarian Rock-face: Proto-cinema and tribal modernism in the classical art of the ancient Alps
Dr. Frederick Baker (Cambridge University) Friday, September 18, 4-6pm 745 Commonwealth Avenue, School of Theology, Rm. 625 The Boston University Myth and Religion Study Group presents Dr. Frederick Baker of Cambridge University. He will present on his Pitoti project, Paleolithic rock carvings that he and his colleagues have studied with cameras under different lighting conditions. […]
NEW: Language Learning at BU website
Check out the new one-stop shopping site for information about language study here at BU. Find all the majors and minors that require language study, a list of all 28 languages taught at Boston University and so much more! Bookmark it now: http://www.bu.edu/cas/academics/undergraduate-education/language-learning-at-cas/
MLCL Students Place in National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest
Heartiest congratulations to Victoria Cummings and Weronika Pasciak, who placed in the National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest! Weronika received the Bronze Medal and Victoria placed as an Honorable Mention. Both students competed in the category of students who speak a Slavic language other than Russian. The Russian program is proud of Vika and Weronika’s accomplishments in our […]
First Korean Minors
MLCL is proud to present the first batch of Korean minors. Andy Eui-Hyung Lee (CAS), Deepa Patel (SAR), Kristina Woolf (CAS), and Yichen Liu (COM), Congratulations! Photo: (Left to right) Jungsoo Kim (Korean lecturer), Deepa Patel, Kristina Woolf, and Yoon Sun Yang (Assistant Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature).
WORKSHOP: “Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writers in the Modern Age”
May 14, 9am-5pm 745 Commonwealth Ave. Room 636 Please join this exciting workshop, the coronation of several meetings of the BU Travel Literature Group, and learn about travel in Asia, the Middle East, the Atlantic world, and the world of literary imagination. PROGRAM Panel 1: 10-11 am “Travel, Adventure, and Self-fashioning: A Frenchman’s Journey to […]
Sarah Frederick Speaks at Anime Boston
Sarah Frederick organized a panel in the “Foundations of Anime” series of scholarly panels at the Anime Boston convention. She was joined by two Japanese studies graduate students from Harvard, Andrew Campana and Caitlin Casiello, and BU undergraduate Claire Pozniak (Political Science, 2015), to talk about various aspects of Japanese girls’ culture and same-sex love […]
MLCL Open House Today!
Please join us on Monday April 13 for our Spring Open House! Learn about our Fall 2015 course offerings, along with how to major or minor in one of our exciting departments! Faculty will be on hand to answer questions too! The Open House is from 3-5pm in 745 Commonwealth Avenue room 611. Bring your […]
Margaret Litvin wins ALCS-Burkhardt Fellowship
Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Margaret Litvin, has just won one of the most competitive annual fellowships, the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). She will be spending the 2015-16 academic year at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study researching the history of Arab-Russian […]
MLCL Spring Open House 4/13
Please join us on Monday April 13 for our Spring Open House! Learn about our Fall 2015 course offerings, along with how to major or minor in one of our exciting departments! Faculty will be on hand to answer questions too! The Open House is from 3-5pm in 745 Commonwealth Avenue room 611. Bring your […]