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
Russian Voices Symposium and Philosophical Cabaret at Boston University
Join us on Wednesday, November 20, for Russian Voices: Readings and Conversations with contemporary Russian poets Polina Barskova, Anna Glazova, and Maria Stepanova. This event celebrates the release by Zephyr Press of Relocations, a new anthology of Russian poetry, and brings together the three poets whose works are collected in the book and two of […]
Rethinking World Literature with Wiebke Denecke
MLCL’s own Professor Wiebke Denecke recently sat down for an interview discussing her recent publication of the Norton Anthology of World Literature. Learn about the process and read about one of BU’s own renowned experts in East Asian literature here!
Music, Media & the Creative Destruction of Japanoise
April 3, 2013 5-7pm 725 Commonwealth Ave. Room 116
Misora Hibari & The Popular Music of Cold War Japan
April 11, 2013 5-7pm 565 Commonwealth Avenue Room 101 Sushi Reception to Follow!
Binding the Pages of the Heart, Talk on Metaphors and Art
Binding the Pages of the Heart: Metaphors of the Arts of the Book in the Poetry of Sa’eb Tabrizi Talk by Paul Losensky (Indiana University) April 8, 2013, 5 pm 725 Commonwealth Ave, CAS 303A (Sponsors: Dept. of MLCL, Dept. of History of Art & Architecture, Comparative Premodern Initiative, BUCH, SMSC)