Tag: England

Event Highlights: Break Up of Britain? BU Professors Discuss the Scottish Referendum

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  On Monday, September 22, following the historic referendum on independence in Scotland that brought record numbers of Scottish voters – including large numbers of 16-and 17-year-olds – to the polls, we hosted a panel discussion on the campaign that brought Britain to the brink of break up. Participating in the discussion of the referendum […]

Tags: England, Erik Goldstein, Graham Wilson, James Winn, Scotland, United Kingdom

Event Highlights: European Voices – A Reading and Conversation with British Poet Alice Oswald

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On Thursday, February 20, 2014, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with the BU Poetry Series and the literary journal AGNI, hosted British poet Alice Oswald. The “meditative, musical, propulsive, mystical, atmospheric, bioregional, projective, deceptively casual, responsive, rhetorically confident, protoecopoetic, sonic, topographic, unsentimental, multifocal” poet was introduced by the poet Mary Pinard, […]

Tags: Alice Oswald, England, European Voices