Conversation with the Mayor of Dusseldorf
Leading Cities From The Left The Initiative on Cities (IOC) is partnering with the Center for the Study of Europe at the Pardee School of Global Studies to host Leading Cities From The Left, a conversation with Mayor Thomas Geisel of Dusseldorf, Germany, on the challenges of leading a city from the political left. The event […]
Pitoti. Digital Humanities at the Barbarian Rock-face: Proto-cinema and tribal modernism in the classical art of the ancient Alps
Dr. Frederick Baker (Cambridge University) Friday, September 18, 4-6pm 745 Commonwealth Avenue, School of Theology, Rm. 625 The Boston University Myth and Religion Study Group presents Dr. Frederick Baker of Cambridge University. He will present on his Pitoti project, Paleolithic rock carvings that he and his colleagues have studied with cameras under different lighting conditions. […]
Sarah Frederick Speaks at Anime Boston
Sarah Frederick organized a panel in the “Foundations of Anime” series of scholarly panels at the Anime Boston convention. She was joined by two Japanese studies graduate students from Harvard, Andrew Campana and Caitlin Casiello, and BU undergraduate Claire Pozniak (Political Science, 2015), to talk about various aspects of Japanese girls’ culture and same-sex love […]
Join us for Revolutionary Voices: Victory over the Sun (04/23/15)
Victory over the Sun Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 7:30 PM Boston University Photonics Center 8 St. Mary’s Street, Room 206 (MBTA Green Line “B” to BU Central or “C” to St. Mary’s St.) Free and open to the public | Reception & book-signing to follow Few theatrical creations of the 20th century are as […]
Join us on April 9th at 5pm for Our 2015 “Sushi Lecture” “Howard Zinn in Japan: Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, and Solidarity in Hiroshima”
Ann Sherif, Professor, East Asian Studies Program, Oberlin College April 9, 5pm 745 Commonwealth Avenue STH B19 Sushi Reception to Follow In 1966, historian Howard Zinn and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee member Ralph Featherstone were invited to participate in anti-Vietnam War teach-ins in cities all over Japan by Tsurumi Shunsuke, Oda Makoto and other antiwar […]
Join us on Thursday March 19th for “Dissidence in Turkey; Elections and the Struggle for Political Legitimacy”
Thursday, March 19, 2015 from 3:30-5:00pm 121 Bay State Road, First Floor Sinan Ciddi is an expert on Turkish domestic politics and foreign policy. He obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2007 in the field of Political Science. Dr. Ciddi is also a teacher and researcher […]
“Moral Injury and Muhammed’s Cartoons” Thinking Reparatively with Eve Sedgwick on March 5
Fifth Annual Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies with Saba Mahmood University of California, Berkeley March 5, 2015, 5:30 PM Reception to Follow in The Photonics Building, 8 St. Mary’s Street Room 206. Taking its cue from Eve Sedgwick, this talk offers a “reparative reading” of the ongoing struggle over the […]
Join Us For Wiebke Denecke’s Talk “Do We Still Need Literary History? A View From Eastern Eurasia” on March 4th
Moral Injury and Muhammed’s Cartoons: Thinking Reparatively with Eve Sedgwick on March 5th
Taking its cue from Eve Sedgwick, this talk offers a “reparative reading” of recent controversies over the proper meaning of cultural objects (cartoons, novels) in Europe and the Middle East. Rather than read these debates as a standoff between religious taboos and secular freedoms, Mahmood unpacks the distinct epistemological and interpretive stakes at the heart […]