Worlds of the Tale of Genji Symposium, November 5
Please join BU faculty from WLL, Art History, English, and Romance Studies for an interdisciplinary symposium celebrating a new translation of on the world’s first novel written by a woman: Lady Murasaki’s 11th century Tale of Genji. The day will begin with a keynote by the translator, Professor Dennis Washburn, and will include guest […]
10.25.16 Sedgwick Lecture: From Combahee to Black Lives Matter
5pm in Kenmore Classroom Building 101 Cathy Cohen Delivers 7th Annual Sedgwick Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies on October 25 In a history of black queer politics from the Combahee Collective to the contemporary Black Lives movement, Cohen identifies a new form of activism supported by a network of groups, many of which are led […]
2016-2017 Lectures in Criticism
“Tolstoy, Bresson, and the Ground of the Ethical” will be about the relation between the sight of death and ethical understanding in Leo Tolstoy’s writing and in Robert Bresson’s film L’argent, a filmic adaptation of Tolstoy’s late short story “The Forged Coupon.” Sharon Cameron, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Johns Hopkins. Sharon Cameron teaches nineteenth-century American literature and twentieth-century […]
Professor Margaret Litvin on Arab-Russian Cultural Ties and What’s Unusual about WLL
Professor Margaret Litvin returns to BU this fall from a year as a Frederick S. Burkhardt Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden. She’ll be serving as Associate Chair of WLL this year, after which she will be off again to Germany to take up an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. In a […]
Freedom for Ahmed Naji
Worldwide Reading on May 12, 2016 from 12-1:30pm GSU Art Gallery In February 2016, Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison. The sentence, for “violating public modesty,” stems from the publication of an excerpt from his 2014 novel Istikhdam al-Hayah (Using Life) in Akhbar al-Adab magazine. This both violates Ahmed’s right […]
Japan Under Abe: The End of Civil Discourse
Join us on April 14th at 5pm in 745 Commonwealth Avenue room B19 for a lecture by Yuji Kitamaru!Yuji Kitamaru lives in New York where he works as a Freelance Journalist, Columnist, and Radio Commentator for various Japanese Media. He is a former Tokyo Shimbun NY Bureau Chief (1996) and from 1981-1993 he served as […]
‘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
Lectures in Criticisim: W.J.T Mitchell “Salvaging Israel/Palestine: Art, Collaboration and the Binational State”
Weijia Huang and Chi-Han Liang Present in the New England Chinese Language Teachers Association and the 4th Chinese Teaching International Annual Conference in Brown University of 2015
On Oct 3rd, 2015, five language faculty from MLCL, Weijia Huang, Huiying Ma, Chi-Han Liang, Huimin Li and Ying Su went to Brown University to attend the New England Chinese Language Teachers Association and the 4th Chinese Teaching International Annual Conference. In this conference, Professor Weijia Huang acted as the Chair in the last section […]
Under the Algerian Sun Camus and Daoud
It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outsider (formerly translated as The Stranger). But Kamel Daoud, an Algerian journalist and writer, has done just that in his new novel, The Meursault Investigation, just released in English. […]