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A compilation of major past events hosted by WLL. Check out our WLL Events Calendar for an interactive view of Culture Pass and other World Languages & Literatures events.<\/em><\/p>\n

2022 – 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 28-29. Big Fat Books Symposium: Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber).<\/h4>
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Details of the conference can be viewed here<\/a><\/p>\n

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March-June. Korean Heritage Symposium.<\/h4>
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The Korean Cultural Society of Boston hosted the 2023 Korean Heritage Symposium via Zoom every first Thursday from 7:30-8:30PM. View their website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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2021 – 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 18. Boston Area Pedagogy Conference.<\/h4>
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Theme for 2022: Envisioning the Future of Learning and Teaching Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Cinema<\/strong><\/p>\n

Details of the conference can be viewed here<\/a><\/p>\n

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April 30. Big Fat Books Symposium: Death in Venice.<\/h4>
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A multi-departmental conversation regarding Thomas Mann’s novella and its continuance. and the fifth in the Department of World Languages & Literatures\u2019 BIG FAT BOOKS series on major works of world literature.<\/p>\n

Information for the event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n

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January - April. WLL Lecture Series: New Books in East Asian Literature.<\/h4>
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Theme for 2022: New Directions in East Asian Literary Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lectures were held both in person and on Zoom<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to view the details of each lecture<\/p>\n

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2020-2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

November-April. WLL Lecture Series: New Books in East Asian Literature.<\/h4>
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Theme for 2021: Kinship, Sexuality, and Emotions<\/strong><\/p>\n

All lectures took place virtually on Zoom.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to view the details of each lecture.<\/p>\n

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February 26-27. Second Language Learning & Disabilities Conference.<\/h4>
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Arabic Lectureres, Salima Slimane and Luluah Mustafa presented at the third “Second Language Learning & Disabilities Conference, hosted by Geddes Language Center. Click here<\/a> to view the public recordings from this event.<\/p>\n

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2019-2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

October 5th. 8th Annual New England Chinese Language Teachers Association Conference<\/span><\/h4>
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The Chinese program hosted The 8th<\/sup> New England Chinese Language Teachers Association\u2019s Annual Conference on October 5th<\/sup>, 2019. The conference was a big success, with more than 60 presentations and over 150 participants. <\/span>Click here<\/a> to view more information about this event.<\/p>\n

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July 15-19. International Dostoevsky Conference.<\/h4>
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WLL Russian Program at Boston University will host the Annual International Dostoevsky Symposium in Boston with the support of universities in the surrounding area. The Symposium will celebrate 150 years of The Idiot<\/em>, with a focus on new and multidisciplinary approaches to the novel. <\/a><\/p>\n

Please click here<\/a> to view more information about the event.<\/p>\n

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June 24-26. National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) Conference<\/h4>
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WLL Hebrew Program will host The National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) Conference. Click here to be directed to the official NAPH conference site. Click here<\/a> to see some images from the conference.<\/p>\n

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2018-2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 5. 33rd annual conference of the Japanese Language Teachers\u2019 Association of New England<\/h4>
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The Japanese Language Program hosted the 33rd annual conference of the Japanese Language Teachers\u2019 Association of New England here at Boston University. Many Japanese language educators from all over North America got together to exchange innovative pedagogical ideas. The keynote speaker was Professor Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor of Linguistics and Online Education Specialist at MIT. <\/span><\/p>\n

View the JLTANE website<\/a> for more information about this past conference.<\/p>\n

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April 27. Seeking a Future for East Asia\u2019s Past: A Workshop on Sinographic Sphere Studies.<\/span><\/h4>
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Co-sponsored\u00a0by the Boston University\u2019s Center for the Humanities, the Center for the Study of Asia, Department of World Languages and Literatures, and the College of Arts and Sciences.\u00a0This workshop presented a\u00a0day of visionary brainstorming with students and scholars articulating the future of their mission to recapture the region\u2019s shared past in a divisive present.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to be brought to the main conference webpage.<\/p>\n

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April 13. Big Fat Books Symposium: Faust.<\/h4>
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Click here<\/a> to the view the conference page.<\/p>\n

ON SELLING ONE\u2019S SOUL, a day of cross-disciplinary conversation on the vicissitudes of the Faust legend and the third in the Department of World Languages & Literatures\u2019 BIG FAT BOOKS series on major works of world literature.<\/p>\n

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March 22. Boston Area Pedagogy Conference.<\/h4>
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Click here<\/a> to view the full conference page.<\/p>\n

The Department of World Languages & Literatures (WLL) at Boston University, with support from BU Center for Humanities and the Geddes Language Center, Institute for the Study of Muslim Cultures and Civilizations, and Center for Teaching and Learning, hosted the Boston Area Pedagogy Conference held on Friday, March 22, 2019,<\/p>\n

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September 28-29. Translation NOW.<\/h4>
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Click here<\/a> to view the full conference page.<\/p>\n

Translation Now<\/em>\u00a0celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the Seminar by bringing to Boston some of the most distinguished translators and scholars in the field today. \u00a0The conference began with a keynote address by Rosanna Warren, who gave the Seminar its current shape and taught it until 2012. Professor Warren\u2019s keynote was followed by a series of moderated conversations on key issues in literary translation.<\/p>\n

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2017-2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 7, 2018. The Brothers Karamazov.<\/h4>
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WLL read The Brothers Karamazov together as a department. Click here<\/a> for information about this conference.<\/p>\n

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June 7-11, 2017. Situating Lyric Conference.<\/h4>
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This conference is co-organized by Boston University and the International Network for the Study of Lyric (INSL)<\/a>, a nonprofit association of scholars interested in the theory of poetry. The purpose of the INSL is to promote and encourage the interdisciplinary study of poetry, lyric and verse in various languages, forms, media, and functions.<\/p>\n

For more information about the conference, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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September 28-29, 2017. Comparative Persianate Aesthetics Symposium.<\/h4>
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Free and open to the public!<\/p>\n

Our symposium focused on the changing relationship that literary and historical texts and paintings had to\u00a0<\/span>Persian<\/span>\u00a0cosmopolitan models in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and how they themselves became starting points for distinctive traditions that drew inspiration from local and regionally-specific cultural practices, including the non-courtly. We also examined the ways in which vernacular production in turn transformed\u00a0<\/span>Persian<\/span>\u00a0culture<\/span><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

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October 12, 2017. Haiku as World Literature Symposium: Celebrating Masaoka Shiki's 150th Birthday<\/h4>
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Haiku is perhaps the best travelled of all world literary genres. Since the seventeenth century, when Matsuo Bash\u014d wrote his masterpiece,\u00a0The Narrow Road to the Deep North,<\/em>\u00a0haiku poets have embarked on countless figural and literal journeys, and they have taken the\u00a0genre with them. By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, dense social networks of haiku poets crisscrossed the whole\u00a0of Japan, and by the early twentieth century, haiku in its modern form had spread across the globe through the work of poets including Ezra Pound, Rabindrath Tagore, Frederico Garcia Lorca, and Yu Ping Bo. Today millions of people write haiku in Japanese and dozens of other languages.<\/span><\/p>\n

This symposium marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the haiku poet\u00a0Masaoka Shiki<\/a>\u00a0(1867-1902). Despite spending the last seven years of his life immobilized by tuberculosis, Shiki contributed more than any other poet to the genre\u2019s emergence as a globe-trotting\u00a0literary form. Scholars and poets working on haiku in Japanese, English, Persian, Chinese, and Spanish shared their work on Shiki and on the poetics of haiku in its global dimensions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Click here <\/a>for more information.<\/p>\n

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October 27-28, 2017. In Search of New Horizons: One Hundred Years of Modern Korean Literature. 8:40am-6:00pm. PHO Colloquium Room.<\/h4>
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Photonics Center
\nColloquium Room
\n8 St. Mary’s Street
\nBoston, MA 02215<\/p>\n

\"2017-KOREAN-POSTER-4A-4B-412x636\"<\/p>\n

Click Here<\/a> to view the event schedule and more information about the conference.<\/p>\n

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2016-2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

October 10, 2016. Inaugural WLL Symposium: Research<\/h4>
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WLL faculty members shared their research in progress with students and fellow colleagues. The full event agenda and abstracts can be found on the event’s main page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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November 5, 2016. Tale of Genji Symposium<\/h4>
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BU faculty from WLL, Art History, English, and Romance Studies joined together on November 5th, 2016 for an interdisciplinary symposium celebrating a new translation of on the world\u2019s first novel written by a woman: Lady Murasaki\u2019s 11th century Tale of Genj.<\/em><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to see more information about this event.<\/p>\n

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March 24, 2017. WLL Symposium: Pedagogy<\/h4>
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WLL faculty members shared their pedagogical methods with students and fellow colleagues. The event video, agenda and abstracts can be found on the event’s main page. <\/a><\/p>\n

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