Professor Tabatabai at Boston Poetics Workshop- 3.28.2025
WLL’s own Professor Tabatabai will be presenting “The Double-Edged Sword of Literary Translation: Translating Persian to English and English to Persian” at this year’s Boston Poetics Workshop! You can attend his talk on March 28th in the Kilachand Hall first-floor common room- please RSVP at the QR code below.
Ukrainian Egg Dyeing Workshop- 4.2.2025
Join the WLL Russian program to make pysanky, traditional Ukrainian easter eggs! You can register using the QR code below- please register in advance to guarantee supplies.
BUWA Bookbinding Workshop (02/23)
Join the BUWA meeting on Thursday, February 23 to learn more about book binding, and to make a small book of your own! Materials are provided at the meeting
Professor Sarah Frederick Invited to Conduct Workshop on GIS Digital Mapping
Sarah Frederick has been invited to the MARAAS (Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies) at Dickinson College https://maraas.org/maraas-conference to conduct a workshop for Asian studies scholars on basic tools for GIS digital mapping and exhibits. Her recent project using this tools includes a digital display of her translation of Natsume Soseki’s essay about Kyoto: https://arcg.is/1DGvWG
WLL co-hosts workshop at Waseda University in Tokyo on Global Classics and the Future of Humanities
The workshop focused on “The Humanities in the 21st Century: Classical Studies in and for the World” To read the full story, please click here.
Liling Huang Conducts Teacher Training Workshop at National Chinese Language Conference
Liling Huang, Lecturer of Chinese, conducted a technology-enhanced teaching workshop on behalf of CLTA-USA (Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA) with Chen-Hui Tsai, the leader of the Ed-Tech SIG, CLTA, at the 2018 National Chinese Language Conference on May 17th in Salt Lake City, UT. The conference, organized by Asia Society and the College Board, is the largest and most prominent annual convening […]
BU Workshop on Arab-Russian and Arab-Soviet Ties: Literature, History, and the Arts
This two-day research workshop in February 2017 brought together 13 participants from across history, literature, and the arts: specialists in different disciplines and periods who might not ordinarily engage with each other’s work. The program included presenters from universities on the East Coast as well as Minnesota, Utah, Israel, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates, […]
BU Arab-Russian Workshop February 17-18, 2017
Russia and the Arab World: History, Literature, Arts Pardee School, Boston University 121 Bay State Rd., Boston, MA 02215 Feb 17-18, 2017 Free and open to the public Visit the website here to view details of the event. Sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, BU Middle […]
“Situating Lyric” conference June 7-11, 2017
A major international conference on lyric poetry will be co-hosted by WLL and the International Network for the Study of Lyric this June 7-11. BU with its rich traditions of literary study is an ideal place to inquire into the situation of both “lyric” and “poetry” in literary history, in world literature, and in other […]
WORKSHOP: “Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writers in the Modern Age”
May 14, 9am-5pm 745 Commonwealth Ave. Room 636 Please join this exciting workshop, the coronation of several meetings of the BU Travel Literature Group, and learn about travel in Asia, the Middle East, the Atlantic world, and the world of literary imagination. PROGRAM Panel 1: 10-11 am “Travel, Adventure, and Self-fashioning: A Frenchman’s Journey to […]