This week, we have a discussion presented by Boston University’s Institute for Human Sciences, and, Center for International Relations, in cooperation with the literary journal AGNI.  The discussion is titled “Poetics Between Languages: The Turkish-German Experience,” and features german turkish poet Zafer Senocak, and translator Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright.
Introducing our speakers is the discussion’s moderator, AGNI [...]

Our lecture this week is presented by the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences African American Studies Program.  Speaking is Mark Auslander, Director of the Masters Program in Cultural Production and Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University.  Professor Auslander’s lecture is titled “Welcome Back to Life: Regeneration and Traumatic Memory in a Multiracial Lynching [...]

Our lecture this week is presented by the Boston University Woman’s Studies Program, and the Humanities Foundation.  Speaking is Associate Professor Hilary Neroni, Director of the Film and Television Studies Program at the University of Vermont.  Her lecture is titled “Terror, Torture, and Feminine Masquerade: The Case of ‘Alias’ vs ‘24.’
Introducing our speaker is by [...]

Our lecture this week is presented by the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences African American Studies Program.  Speaking is civil rights historian, Philip Dray.  His lecture is titled “Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen.”
Professor Linda Heywood, Director of the African American Studies Program, introduces [...]

Our lecture this week is presented by the Boston University College of Fine Arts, as part of its Contemporary Perspectives lecture series. Speaking is Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts.
Dean Becker is introduced by Lynne Allen, Director of Boston University’s School of Visual Arts.