Lunch Discussion Series: Trauma and Narrative from Turkish Prisons to American HIV Populations
October 22, 2014 from 12-1:30pm WGS Sitting Room, 704 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 101
‘Power and Magic in the Planning of Edo: The Shogun’s City’ Talk by Timon Screech
Join us on Thursday, October 23 at 5pm in the Pardee Seminar Room at 121 Bay State Rd.
Sayed Kashua Talks about his Hit Israeli Sitcom “Arab Labor”
Join Us! Screening and Discussion of ‘Touch of Sin’
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival with David Pilling
Time: 6:00 pm on Friday, March 21, 2014 Location: The BU Castle, 225 Bay State Road In Bending Adversity, Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister […]
Creating and Crafting Muslim Women’s Autobiographical Writing in South Asia
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 […]