Against Powerlessness: A Talk with Luisa Neubauer
Please join the BU German program on Friday, September 13th for a talk with German climate activist Luisa Neubauer! Luisa Neubauer is a youth climate justice activist and lead organizer of the German “Fridays for Future” climate movement. For over five years now, Luisa and Fridays for Future have brought hundreds of thousands of people […]
Meet the Author: Shilpi Suneja (4/25)
Join us to meet Shilpi Suneja, a BU Alumna and debut novelist. Her novel, House of Caravans, will be discussed by her in conversation with Sunil Sharma and Shilpa Parnami. This event will take place April 25th from 5-6pm in the Riverside Room at 121 Bay State Road.
2024 Korean Language Speaking Contest for Foreigners (3/4-4/28)
The Korea Times is organizing a meaningful event aimed at globalizing the Korean language on the occasion of its 74th anniversary. With the support of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and in collaboration with Korea Cyber University, we are hosting the “2024 Korean Language Speaking Contest for Foreigners.” This contest […]
The Dmitriev Affair with Filmmaker Jessica Gorter (4/5)
6th Annual Big Fat Books Symposium: The Thousand and One Nights (4/5)
Join us for the 6th Annual Big Fat Books Symposium, showcasing “The Thousand and One Nights.” It will take place on Friday, April 5th from 9:30am-6:00pm in STH 625 (745 Comm Ave, 6th floor). “The Thousand and One Nights” is a seminal text for world literature. Its authorless collage premodern Islamicate literary genres (prophets’ lives, […]
Spring Symposium on Attachment to Place (3/14-3/15)
Call for Submissions and Editors for Alexandria
Alexandria, WLL’s student led journal, is accepting submissions and applications for editors! Submissions are open to all students and faculty and will be accepted until May 1st. You can submit anything from academic essays to artwork. Use the QR code on the post below to submit! Applications for editors can be accessed using the QR […]
Dreams of the East, Shadows of the West: Orientalism vs Authenticity in Western Art Music – A Senior Recital (3/23)
Join us for Dreams of the West, Shadows of the West: Orientalism vs Authenticity in Western Art Music – A Senior Recital. Japanese and Voice dual degree student Christopher Ellars will be performing several pieces, accompanied on piano by Esther Garcia Moreno. This recital will feature languages and musical influences from all over the world, […]
Global Asian Literary Studies Lecture Series: Warchives (3/7)
“War” and “archive” are both necropolitical regimes prone to bleeding. What happens when they bleed into each other? Using the conceit of “warchives,” my talk asks: how have the temporalities, scales, and intensities of ongoing and incessant warfare reshaped the sensory habits and evidentiary norms through which we study it? That is, how have the […]
Lectures in Criticism: The Episodic Reception of Medieval Persian Women Poets (2/22)
The participation of women poets in medieval courtly or Sufi Persian literary cultures was acknowledged but did not result in their inclusion in literary histories. The lives and poems of figures such as Mahsati, Rabia, and Jahan, were memorialized in anecdotes and romantic narratives at certain critical junctures that led to the creation of phantom […]