Translators Read! A Reading with Professor J. Keith Vincent
September 27th, 6-8pm Cambridge Public Library Translators read from their English-language translations of poetry and prose from Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and Japanese. Professor Vincent read an excerpt of his English translation from Japanese of “Devils in Daylight” by Junichiro Tanizaki, which has been shortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize by the […]
Seeking a Future for East Asia’s Past: A Workshop on Sinographic Sphere Studies
Wiebke Denecke “In the early twentieth century, East Asia’s traditional Sinographic Sphere broke apart. What is the future of its legacy in the early twenty-first century? This workshop presents a day of visionary brainstorming with students and scholars articulating the future of their mission to recapture the region’s shared past in a divisive present.” On April […]
Reflections on Zainab al-Ghazali’s “Return of the Pharaoh”
by Sayed Hassan Akhlaq Click here to download a PDF version of this book review Introduction The empire of misconceptions and stereotypes about the status of women in Islam misleads most research about revivalist and fundamentalist groups in Islam. The very effective participation of women in many Islamist groups is mostly neglected and their leadership […]
WLL Visiting Scholar Invited to International Conference at Queens College
Dr. Sayed Hassan Hussaini (Akhlaq), WLL Research Fellow, was invited to the International Conference on “Revisiting Mamre: The Stranger in the Three Abrahamic Faiths,” at the Queens College of CUNY in New York from December 4rd to 5th, 2017. This international conference was organized by the Department of Philosophy of Queens College to show how […]
Global House Info Sessions
Starting in Fall 2018, Global House will be replacing the existing language specialty houses and bringing together more than 12 languages under one roof. We are currently accepting applications from students at the 112-level or higher in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, and African Languages. Global House Info Sessions Monday, Jan. […]
Elie Wiesel’s legacy honored in day of learning, Daily Free Press
Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace and humanitarian activist, was also Professor in the Humanities at Boston University where he taught and lectured every fall for almost forty years. Working together with the University administration, Abigail Gillman, as interim director of the Wiesel Center in 2016-17, was responsible for planning a day-long […]
New Sanskrit Course Offering
**This is a Directed Study but will be conducted as a normal course for Fall 2017** Sanskrit is an ancient Indo-European language, related to classical Greek, Latin, and Persian, and the original language of several Asian religions and literatures. It continues to influence world languages. Discover the fascinating roots of yoga, Indian philosophy, and South […]
Monkey Business Event
Monkey Business is an annual literary journal featuring contemporary Japanese literature in English translation. The editors make an annual trip to the US to bring Japanese and American writers into dialogue and this year, Professor Anna Elliott brought invited them to bring the event to BU. Over 100 student, faculty members and other in the […]
Liling Huang and Svitlana Malykhina present innovative projects in Geddes Digital Showcase Content
Liling Huang, lecturer in WLL’s Chinese Language Program, and Svitlana Malykhina, Head of the Russian Language Program, displayed their innovation projects in the Geddes Language Center’s Spring 2017 Digital Faculty Showcase. Liling Huang gave the third presentation “Mooc: Chinese Pragmatics” telling how she developed an interactive online course to teach learners real life communication skills […]
Situating Lyric Conference at BU
WLL hosted a major international conference at BU from June 7-11, 2017 on the study of poetry, called “Situating Lyric.” The five-day conference was an unprecedented gathering of many leading lights of poetry studies today, including Jonathan Culler, Virginia Jackson, Jahan Ramazani, Richard Eldridge, Charles Altieri, Stephen Burt, Haun Saussy, Elizabeth Helsinger, Robert von Hallberg, […]