The BU Undergraduate World Languages & Literatures Association (BUWA) aims to bridge the gap between students spread out across the department, as well as to facilitate the communication between undergraduates and faculty. Being a resource for students looking to further their academic and/or career-oriented goals is also one of our priorities. We like to think of our group as a meeting point for all students passionate about good books, foreign languages, and discovering a global community.

Come to our meetings every Wednesday at 7:45 pm in STH 319 to learn more about what we do. We decide each meeting’s topic or activity as a group at the end of the previous meeting- previous topics include “Global Music,” “Lost in Translation,” “Haiku Workshop,” “Babel Book Club,” and “Idioms Around the World.”

For our first movie night of the Fall 2024 semester, we showed the 1977 Japanese movie “House” and donated ticket sales to Gardner Pilot Academy, a K-12 school in Allston, to help fund their underserved library. While many of our movie nights have shown movies related to and in support of a cause our members feel passionate about (last semester our sales went to the Sudanese American Physicians Association’s “Hope for Sudan” Fund), please let us know of any movies you want our club to enjoy together just for fun too!

We also have a student publication related to the department, Alexandria, which you can find more about here.

If you would like to stay updated with BUWA’s future meetings and activities, join our mailing list here. You can also find us through our Whatsapp chat or on Instagram @bu.wll!

All BU Students are welcome – having a WLL major or minor is not required!

Students interested in joining BUWA, or those with questions may reach out to the club’s 2024-25 Executive Board:

John Osmond (josmond@bu.edu)

Simone Moise (smoise@bu.edu)

Gisele Sanchez (giseleoa@bu.edu)

Emma Hardy (hardyeb@bu.edu)

Thang Ly (thang1@bu.edu)

Lily Truong (truong03@bu.edu)