Archives, Ports, Museums: A Talk with Lisa Lowe. March 1, 2017 at 4pm
The Society, Politics & Culture Workshop in Sociology and the Department of English at Boston University are pleased to present: Archives, Ports, Museums: A Talk with Lisa Lowe Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 4:00pm CAS Room 200 Lisa Lowe is a distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Center for Humanities at Tufts University. […]
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 […]
“Situating Lyric” conference June 7-11, 2017
A major international conference on lyric poetry will be co-hosted by WLL and the International Network for the Study of Lyric this June 7-11. BU with its rich traditions of literary study is an ideal place to inquire into the situation of both “lyric” and “poetry” in literary history, in world literature, and in other […]
Mexican Voices, a Reading and Conversation with the Author
Join us for a reading and conversation with Mexican Author Yuri Herrera and Translator Lisa Dillma on Thursday, February 2nd at 6pm at 121 Bay State Road. **Yuri and Lisa will also be speaking at the Literary Translation Seminar on Friday, Feb. 3rd from 1-3pm in STH 625. Please click here to view the full […]
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 […]