A Deep Approach to Foreign Language Teaching: Lecture by Dr. Francois Tochon
A Deep Approach to Foreign Language Teaching Dr. Francois Victor Tochon, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison WEDNESDAY MAY 2nd 1:00-3:00 pm CAS 132 SPONSORED BY MLCL and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations Organizer: Dr. Roberta Micallef Foreign Language Education is handicapped by paradoxes that prevent it from […]
January 24, 2012 Chinese Language Program Lecture
The Chinese Language Program hosted a lecture by Prof. Chih-ping Chou from Princeton University on Jan 24,2012. The topic was “Chao YuenRen and Chinese Pedagogy.” 55 Chinese-language educators from BU and other institutions in the area attended the lecture and the following reception.
Japanese Art Talk and Sushi with Professor Timon Screech
On Monday, March 26, join Professor of Art, Timon Screech, for his talk, “The Art of Casual Encounter: Looking Backwards and Brushing Sleeves in Edo-Period Japanese Art.” The talk will be held in room B19 in the School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, at 5pm. Sushi will be served. Timon Screech is Professor of Japanese Art […]
Dr. Xiaoyang Zhou Presents at Two International Conferences in 2011
On May 20-21, 2011, Dr. Xiaoyang Zhou presented her paper, “Discussing Teaching Materials of Advanced Chinese Courses at the American University Level,” at Columbia University’s 2011 International Conference on Chinese Textbook and New Teaching Resources. In November 2011, Dr. Zhou traveled to the California Language Teachers Association (CLTA) annual conference, where she acted as Chair of the […]
Beate Alhadeff Presents at 2011 ACTFL Annual Convention and World Languages Expo
In November, 2011, Beate Alhadeff presented her paper, “Teaching about the EU via Crisis Issues,” at the 2011 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention and World Languages Expo. Held in Denver, Colorado, the international convention hosted over 6000 attendees from a variety of language programs from around the world. The focus of the 2011 […]
Professor Abigail Gillman participates in University of Chicago Divinity School Web Forum
Professor Abigail Gillman recently wrote a short response in connection with Freud’s Moses and Monotheism for the Religion and Culture Web Forum published by the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Read Professor Gillman’s full response here. For more information about the Divinity School web forum at the University of Chicago, visit their website.
Professor Katherine O’Connor to moderate academic symposium, “Revival of Art and Culture After World War II”
The Rubin-Frankel Gallery at Boston University Hillel is proud to present an academic symposium: Revival of Art and Culture after World War II, featuring a panel of distinguished speakers from around the world who will examine topics related to the art exhibition Faces of Revival: Postwar Russia in the Art of Felix Lembersky, including the […]
Margaret Litvin to host talk with Sulayman Al-Bassam & Prof. Graham Holderness, The “Arab Shakespeare Trilogy”: Staging a Region in Tumult, 2002-2011
The “Arab Shakespeare Trilogy”: Staging a Region in Tumult, 2002-2011 A conversation with dramatic examples: Kuwaiti theatre director Sulayman Al-Bassam , Prof. Graham Holderness (University of Hertfordshire, UK) and Prof. Margaret Litvin (MLCL) Born in Kuwait and educated in Britain, Sulayman Al-Bassam founded the Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre (SABAB) in Kuwait in 2002. He has directed his […]
Professor Katherine O’Connor to give lecture at Princeton, “The Storm Behind the Calm: Translating Chekhov’s Prose”
On November 7, 2011, Professor Katherine O’Connor will lecture at Princeton University’s Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication Lunch Series. Her lecture, “The Storm Behind the Calm” will explore translating Chekhov’s prose. For more information, visit the PTIC website.
Professor William Waters co-organizes 35th conference of the International Rainer Maria Rilke Society, “Rainer Maria Rilke’s Uncollected Poems 1906-1911”
“The focus of the conference, supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and co-hosted with the International Rilke Society and Harvard University, is the ample but little-known body of poetry that the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote during one of his richest creative periods, 1906-1911, but that he never collected for book […]