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A Global Boston University
Boston University may be named for a city in Massachusetts, but BU lives all over the world. Discover BU as a global institution. To learn more about how the international community has made an impact through The Campaign for Boston University, visit [...]/campaign.
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A Global Boston University
Boston University may be named for a city in Massachusetts, but BU lives all over the world. Discover BU as a global institution. To learn more about how the international community has made an impact through The Campaign for Boston University, visit [...]/campaign.
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EURO-DENTITY: Webs of Language and Self
The lecture EURO-DENTITY: Webs of Language and Self features speakers Bernardo Atxaga and Ilan Stavans, who explore the evolution of languages spoken by a small number of the earth's inhabitants. Atxaga notes how the Basque language of Euskara [...]received little to no recognition of its existence until the cultural movement of Romanticism gave it value. Stavans speaks of how the Hebrew language has experienced a revival, increasing from a vocabulary of 8,000 words to one of approximately 100,000 today.
Hosted by Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University on May 4, 2009.
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Lost and Found: Ao Shen, China
Shen Ao from Zhengzhou, China moved to Texas for middle school education. After living almost half of her life in the United States, she identified an internal conflict every time she went back home. Not feeling like an American but either as a [...]Chinese person completely, she struggled to find an identity.
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