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Russian Voices Symposium and Philosophical Cabaret at Boston University

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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

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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!

Binding the Pages of the Heart, Talk on Metaphors and Art

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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)

Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe and Beyond

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  Interdisciplinary conference in medieval studies 28 February & 1 March 2013 Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 200 This 2-day international conference brings together scholars in literature, theology, law, art history, history, and musicology, to examine the practices and values attached to the human voice in medieval cultures. The topic of voice and voicelessness […]

Annual Humanities Lecture: David Harvey

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David Harvey will deliver the annual Humanities Lecture next week, on Thursday October 18 at 5 pm in Photonics 906.  The title of his talk is “The Urbanization of Anti-Capitalist Struggle.”  A reception will follow the lecture. Professor Harvey will also offer an open seminar to faculty and graduate students on Friday, October 19, at […]

Anna Elliott’s Talk on “IQ84” at Harvard

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Next TUESDAY, Oct. 2, MLCL’s own Anna Zielinska-Elliott will be speaking on a panel at Harvard on non-English translations of the novel “IQ84” by Murakami Haruki. For those of you who don’t know, Professor Elliott has been Murakami’s translator in Poland for many years. Most recently and miraculously, she managed to complete her translation of his massive […]