Sōseki’s Diversity: Thoughts on Canonicity in Japanese Literary Studies
Wednesday March 5, 2014- 5:30pm Room 202, Henry R. Luce Hall 34 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven, CT Keith Vincent- Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, Boston University; Toyota Visiting Professorship in Japanese Studies, University of Michigan Natsume Soseki’s portrait may have yielded its place on the ¥1000 bill, but as we approach the centenary […]
A Talk by Francesca Orsini: The Multilingual Local in World Literature
Join us on Thursday, March 6, 2014, 4-5:30 pm in STH 636 Speaker: Francesca Orsini, Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature, SOAS, University of London and Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University Current theorizations of world literature draw on either understandings of world literature as circulation beyond the area or language of origin, or on systemic […]
From Marilyn Monroe to Kim Jong Il: North Korean Cinema in the 1950s and 1960s
From Marilyn Monroe to Kim Jong Il: North Korean Cinema in the 1950s and 1960s By Dima Mironenko, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at Harvard University CAS 427, Tuesday February 18, 2-3:30 pm The talk focuses on the post-Korean War period until the late 1960s in the history […]
Writing Between Languages and Cultures: A Reading and Conversation with Yoko Tawada
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 6 PM – 7:30 PM (reception + book-signing to follow) Boston University Photonics Center, 8 St. Mary’s Street, 9th floor Join us for a reading and conversation with the internationally renowned writer Yoko Tawada. Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960 and moved to Hamburg when she was twenty-two, where […]
MLCL’s Keith Vincent Organizes Soseki’s Diversity Conference in MI
Professor J. Keith Vincent has organized a major conference on the Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki, to be held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he is currently in residence as the Toyota Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies. Our own professor Sarah Frederick will also be giving a paper at the conference, in which […]
Binding the Pages of the Heart: Metaphors of the Arts of the Book in the Poetry of Sa’eb Tabrizi
Join us at 3 PM Friday, January 17, 2014 Room 636, 745 Comm Ave (School of Theology) for Binding the Pages of the Heart. A Lecture on Metaphors in the poetry of Sa’eb Tabrizi.
MLCL Colloquium 12/4/14
On Wednesday, December 4, Robert Goree will be presenting his research to members our department as part of the new MLCL Colloquium. His talk is titled “Mapping Culture: Illustrated Gazetteers in Early Modern Japan.” Please join us from 4-6pm in Room 625 for the talk and a reception.
Shenggu Chen to Give Presentation in Washington DC
FLTA Shenggu Chen will make a presentation at the 4th Sino-U.S. Bilateral Consultation on People-to-People Exchanges to be held on November 21, 2013, in Washington DC.
Chasing ‘Empty Signifiers’? Egyptian Theatre Before and After the ‘Arab Spring’
Please join us on Tuesday October 22, 2013 at 232 Bay State Road, Room 505 from 4-5:30pm to talk about Egyptian theater before and after the “Arab Spring”. The lecture will be given by Hazem Azmy, who is the Visiting Assistant Professor at the department of Drama and Theatre Criticism of Ain Shams University and […]
Gil Hovav Lecture
Boston University’s Hebrew Program invites you to hear publisher, author, lecturer, journalist and restaurant critic Gil Hovav to give a lecture on his great-grandfather, who revived the Hebrew language. Presented in English. Friday, October 4, 2013 11am in CAS 233