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. […]
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 […]