Professor Katherine O’Connor to moderate academic symposium, “Revival of Art and Culture After World War II”
The Rubin-Frankel Gallery at Boston University Hillel is proud to present an academic symposium: Revival of Art and Culture after World War II, featuring a panel of distinguished speakers from around the world who will examine topics related to the art exhibition Faces of Revival: Postwar Russia in the Art of Felix Lembersky, including the […]
Margaret Litvin to host talk with Sulayman Al-Bassam & Prof. Graham Holderness, The “Arab Shakespeare Trilogy”: Staging a Region in Tumult, 2002-2011
The “Arab Shakespeare Trilogy”: Staging a Region in Tumult, 2002-2011 A conversation with dramatic examples: Kuwaiti theatre director Sulayman Al-Bassam , Prof. Graham Holderness (University of Hertfordshire, UK) and Prof. Margaret Litvin (MLCL) Born in Kuwait and educated in Britain, Sulayman Al-Bassam founded the Sulayman Al-Bassam Theatre (SABAB) in Kuwait in 2002. He has directed his […]
Professor Katherine O’Connor to give lecture at Princeton, “The Storm Behind the Calm: Translating Chekhov’s Prose”
On November 7, 2011, Professor Katherine O’Connor will lecture at Princeton University’s Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication Lunch Series. Her lecture, “The Storm Behind the Calm” will explore translating Chekhov’s prose. For more information, visit the PTIC website.
Professor William Waters co-organizes 35th conference of the International Rainer Maria Rilke Society, “Rainer Maria Rilke’s Uncollected Poems 1906-1911”
“The focus of the conference, supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities and co-hosted with the International Rilke Society and Harvard University, is the ample but little-known body of poetry that the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote during one of his richest creative periods, 1906-1911, but that he never collected for book […]
Assistant Professor Margaret Litvin talks to Bostonia
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