On the Edge: Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Sharing?
Please join us for our upcoming BU Center for the Study of Asia symposium at Boston University: Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 from 2:15-5:15 pm at 53 Bay State Road (near Kenmore Square), Boston University (Note the location, which is different from most BUCSA events) SPEAKERS: Ian Condry “Wamono” Boom: Japanese hip-hop DJs discover their roots in local […]
What is Democracy?: Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Members of the WLL Faculty
What is Democracy?: Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Astra Taylor (director) and BU Faculty (Lida Maxwell, Petrus Liu, Vivien Schmidt, Spencer Piston, Margaret Litvin) 10/24 at 5pm, Photonics 206 URL: https://www.bu.edu/cas/community/calendar/?eid=219235 BU will host one of the first American screenings of Astra Taylor’s new documentary, “What is Democracy?”, followed by a short panel discussion with the […]
Professor Petrus Liu Interviewed on NPR on a new English translation of Chinese martial arts classic
Click here to read the full interview with Professor Liu.
BUNITED Student-Led Diversity Conference 2.18.18
BUNITED Student Diversity Conference is a Boston-wide collegiate event. We welcome all students from all universities! The day will consist of various workshops that will cover topics stemming from oppressive systems such as mass incarceration, anti-blackness within non-black communities, misogyny, mental health, self-care and imperialism. Through our theme “Get to the Root: Unearthing Oppression and […]
Micallef Organizes Literary Talk
Professor Micallef was asked to organize a conversation on a literary topic by Erkut Gomulu, the organizer of the Boston Turkish Festival: The Colors of Anatolia.
Haiku as World Literature
BUCSA Asian Cultural Heritage Series Part I : The Art of Letters Haiku as World Literature A Celebration of the 150th Birthday of Haiku Poet Masaoka Shiki October 12 & 13, 2017 Haiku is perhaps the best travelled of all world literary genres. Since the seventeenth century, when Matsuo Bashō wrote his masterpiece, The Narrow […]
WLL Research Fellow, Dr. Sayed Hassan Hussaini, Invited to ECOTHEE 2017
Dr. Sayed Hassan Hussaini (Akhlaq), WLL Research Fellow, was invited to the 5th International Conference on Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics, ECOTHEE 2017, at the Orthodox Academy of Crete in Greece from October 23rd to 27th, 2017. This international conference was organized by the World Council of Churches and Orthodox Academic of Crete to engage […]
4/6 Is it the End of the Asian Century? A Discussion on the Future of the Asia-Pacific
The Asian Studies Initiative at Boston University (ASIABU) and the American Enterprise Institute at BU (AEI@BU) invite you to a panel discussion on AEI scholar Dr. Michael Auslin’s newest book “The End of the Asian Century.” The panel will discuss the current political, economic, and social climate of the Asia-Pacific, and whether these issues pose […]
Lectures in Criticism: Queer Transmission in Japan 4/13 at 6pm, Professor Keith Vincent
Queer Transmissions in Japan: A Haiku Hauntology J. Keith Vincent, WLL The close friendship between Natsume Sōseki, Japan’s greatest modern novelist, and Masaoka Shiki, the inventor of the modern haiku, is legendary in the annals of modern Japanese literature. Both born in 1867, the two men met in their early twenties and remained extremely close […]
Denecke on the Humanities Crisis and the Archiving of Global Human Memory. 2/27 at 12:30pm
You are invited to this month’s BUCSA Director’s Lunchtime Talk on Monday, February 27 12:30pm at 750 Comm. EPIC Room 204 (Opposite Marsh Plaza). Lunch will be provided. Professor Wiebke Denecke (BU, WLL) will speak on OVERSTEPPING THE “HUMANITIES” CRISIS: REFLECTIONS ON ARCHIVING AND CONCEPTUALIZING GLOBAL HUMAN MEMORY Talk Abstract: Models for studying cultural phenomena in […]