WLL Chinese Program Hosts Peking Mask Painting Night
On October 26, the Chinese program held the Second Cultural Workshop with the theme of Peking Opera Masks Painting. Song Qi, an FLTA from China shared with students the art of Chinese Peking Opera. The event began with an introduction of the history of Peking Opera and its integration and combination during the past centuries. […]
WLL Chinese Program Hosts Chinese Calligraphy Workshop
On September 29, the Chinese program held a cultural workshop on the Art of Chinese Calligraphy. Chang Laoshi came and taught students the basic techniques of writing with a writing brush and ink. To practice calligraphy requires the basic tools of ‘four treasures of the study’ – brush, ink, paper, and ink stone. Therefore, Chang […]
Hindi-Urdu Story Telling Event, Dastangoi
Dastangoi is the art of traditional Urdu storytelling around the adventures of an Arab hero, Amir Hamza. These stories and the art form were very popular in the 19th century North India and have been revived in recent times. In this lecturedemonstration, India’s leading Dastangoi practitioner, Ankit Chadha, will discuss the journey of the art […]
Chinese Spring Festival Celebration and the Lunar New Year
On Feb 17th, the Chinese language program, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Asia and BU Study Abroad, hosted the Spring Festival celebration. The Spring Festival is the celebration of Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year. It is the most important holiday of the year – a time for family […]
BU Russian Program Faculty and Students Attend Olympiada of Spoken Russian
On April 2, four students and three faculty members of BU’s Russian program ventured to Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies University to take part in the Olympiada of Spoken Russian for the New England Region. The Olympiada traces its origins to the 1960s, when the American Council for Teachers of Russian, inspired […]
Students Enjoy Cafe St. Petersburg in Newton, MA
On November 20th, Russian FLTA, MAria Komarova, was joined by a group of students (pictured above) for a lunch outing at Cafe St. Petersburg in Newton, MA. The students, enrolled in LR 211 had lunch together, they ordered their meals in Russian and had a great time together. They ate borsch, pastry puff pirozhki and […]
Diwali Festival, November 4, 2016
WLL Students and Faculty enjoy an evening celebrating Diwali together on November 4, 2016 The Hindi-Urdu Program, with support from WLL and the Center for Study of Asia, hosted a Diwali event on November 4 at the Pardee School for Global Studies. Diwali, also known as the festival of lights, is one of the biggest […]
3/21 “The Depths” Film Screening and Sushi Lecture, 5pm
5pm in CAS B12 Film followed by Q&A with Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Sushi Reception to Follow. This event is free and open to the public. A famous Korean fashion photographer on assignment in Japan discovers a new kind of friendship with a mysterious male escort in Hamaguchi’s delicate character study. Anticipating his masterful epic of […]
BU Arab-Russian Workshop February 17-18, 2017
Russia and the Arab World: History, Literature, Arts Pardee School, Boston University 121 Bay State Rd., Boston, MA 02215 Feb 17-18, 2017 Free and open to the public Visit the website here to view details of the event. Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, BU Middle […]
‘No One Like Us Here’: A Century of Latin American Travel to India
Join us on April 20th from 3-5pm in STH 636 for an exciting talk by Professor Roanne Kantor of Brandeis University’s Department of English