Global House Applications Open!
GH Application Open! Are you interested in joining Global House as a member? Do you have at least intermediate-low proficiency in a Global House language (equivalent to completing 2nd semester language course)? Are you an advanced, native, or heritage speaker? Please join us! Our applications for Spring 2025 and Academic Year 2025-2026 are now open! Spring deadline […]
New BA to MFA in Literary Translation!
Beginning in spring 2025, undergraduate students will be able to apply for a BA to MFA in Literary Translation! Accepted students will be able to count two classes towards both degrees in their senior year, getting a head start on the master’s program. There are currently eight areas of study for the new program, including […]
Global Asian Literary Studies Lecture: Distant Listening
Join Professor Matthew Fraleigh from Brandeis and WLL’s own Professor Dennis Wuerthner in a talk on Japanese sinitic poetry! Sound is fundamental to most definitions of poetry, a mode of expression often distinguished by the combined emphasis it places upon both sound and sense. But what about poetry written in a language by those who […]
Upcoming Events at Global House
The Chinese, Japanese, and Korean clusters at Global House have some wonderful events in the next few weeks! Please register at http://www.linktr.ee/globalhousebu and remember to bring your BU ID to access the building.
Nihongo Social
Interested in practicing Japanese outside of the classroom? Join the Japanese program for their Nihongo Socials in October and November! Sign up through the QR code in the poster.
Japanese Coffee Hour – Fall 2024
Are you taking a Japanese course? Please join the Japanese program throughout the fall at the Japanese Coffee Hour!
Get to Know Noh with Chris Ellars
Get to know Noh through a presentation by Japanese major Chris Ellars on Friday, October 4th!
Japanese Author Fujino Kaori: Reading and Translation Q & A (4/22)
Author and Translator Reading and Translation Discussion: “Nails and Eyes” Kaori Fujino (Author) & Kendall Heitzman (Translator) Akutagawa Prize Winning Author Fujino Kaori and her translator Kendall Heitzman will read from her novella and answer questions. This event will take place Monday, April 22 from 5:30 PM-7 PM in the Riverside Room at 121 Bay State Road. Please […]
Literature and Thought in Transwar Japan(04/18)
How do we read an idea when it appears in the literary form of a novel, poem, or translation, rather than in the expository form of philosophy per se? My 2022 book Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought thinks through this question by tracing the connections between the realms of literature and […]