On Thursday, April 16th, the Center for the Study of Europe in coordination with the BU Center for Humanities, the BU Translation Seminar, the Interdisciplinary Center in Italian Studies, and the College of General Studies hosted Tim Parks to speak on the topic of Italian character. Tim Parks is an author and translator, and has […]
European Voices in Translation: László Krasznahorkai and George Szirtes (with James Wood) On May 10, 2014, we hosted our first ever European Voices Festival with a focus on European Voices in translation. Funded by a grant from the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC, the festival was organized as a celebration of “Europe Day.” Headlining […]
On April 23 and 24, 2014, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with the Department of Romance Studies, hosted the Spanish-Argentine writer Andrès Neuman. On Wednesday, April 23, Neuman took part in a workshop for graduate students – Globalization and Latin American Literature – with Gustavo Guerrero, Visiting Professor of Spanish Literature […]
On Thursday, April 3, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Boston, hosted German author Jenny Erpenbeck. One of Germany’s rising literary stars, Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. Her grandfather, grandmother, and father were all published writers in a variety of genres, while her mother was […]
The Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Boston and the literary journal AGNI, announces the first annual European Voices Festival: European Voices in Translation. Join us for a day of poems, prose, theater, and music in celebration of “Europe Day.” Schedule of Events 1 PM – A Reading and […]
On Monday, March 17, 2014, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with Brandeis University’s Center for German and European Studies and the Goethe Institut Boston, hosted German sociologist and climate activist Harald Welzer as part of its ongoing “European Voices” series. Welzer’s talk, focussed around changes in his thinking since the publication […]
On February 25, 2014, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Asia and BU’s Undergraduate Economics Association, hosted Costas Lapavitsas, Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a frequent commentator on recent economic crises. Lapavitsas’ lecture – moderated […]
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, […]
Join us for two upcoming events with Spanish writer Andrés Neuman. On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 23, Neuman will take part in a seminar with the poet, scholar, and writer Gustavo Guerrero. The seminar, which will be conducted in Spanish, is geared to graduate students and faculty. On the evening of Thursday, April 24, […]
Join us for a reading and conversation with Jenny Erpenbeck. One of Germany’s rising literary stars, Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. Her grandfather, grandmother, and father were all published writers in a variety of genres, while her mother was a translator. She has worked on opera and musical productions in Berlin and […]