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It’s a Journey…Neighbors in Memory

A screening and discussion event for the launch of “It’s a Journey”, a documentary project exploring the honest dialogue between a group of Armenian and Turkish women on the subject of the Armenian Genocide, took place on December 8th at the Pardee School of Global Studies. Filmmaker Gonca Sonmez-Poole screen parts of her work-in-progress and […]

Luluah Mustafa received the 2016 Merlin Swartz Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Research in Islam, from Muslim Studies at Boston University. Firdawsii Millennium Indicum: Proceedings of the Shahnama Millenary Seminar, edited by Sunil Sharma and Burzine Waghmar (Mumbai: K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, 2016). Shilpa Parnami received the Dr. Fumiko Tamura Graduate Fellowship in […]

WLL Introduces Gateway Course

XL 100: Leaving Home, Explorations in World Literature “Growing up. Moving to the big city. Wisdom quest. Immigration. Tourism. How have the world’s great literatures portrayed and shaped these experiences? How have literary works themselves found new worlds through translation and adaptation?” The pilot course had a successful first semester, co-taught by Professor Margaret Litvin […]

CAS Dean Ann Cudd on the Value of the Humanities

CAS Dean Ann Cudd writes eloquently on the Humanities as a force of innovation, using Simone de Beauvoir’s invention of the sex/gender distinction as an example, and including a shout out to WLL’s recent symposium on the Tale of Genji.

XL 100 Explorations in World Literature: Leaving Home

Fall 2017 CAS XL 100 Explorations in World Literature: Leaving Home Growing up Wisdom quest Migration Sightseeing Escape The theme of leaving home shapes many of the most memorable characters and narratives in world literature, from Sindbad to the Shining Prince Genji, from Snow White to Monkey’s Journey to the West, all the way to […]

Spring Languages and Career Fair, Thur. 3/30 4-6pm

The Spring Languages and Careers Fair will take place on Thurs. 3/30 from 4-6 PM in the Center for Career Development — 100 Bay State Road, 5th floor. The Fair is designed to give students an opportunity to learn about our language programs in Boston and abroad, to meet representatives from organizations who are interested […]