Upcoming Events!
Free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated.
Center for the Study of Europe Events
Thursday, October 29 | European Studies Lunch Talk: Brodsky in Italy
Thursday, October 29 | The Crime and the Silence: A Reading & Conversation with Anna Bikont, Alissa Valles, and Irena Grudzinska Gross
Monday, November 2 | Frontiers of Fear: Europe's Refugee Crisis and Its Implications
Saturday, November 7 | Romanticism in the Atlantic World Conference
Wednesday, November 18 | Russian Voices: Poetry in an Age of Totalitarianism
Other European Events at BU
Tuesday, October 27 | Where Thought Belongs: Peter Abelard and Forms of Biotopy
Tuesday, October 27 | The Sense of an Ending: Reflections on the Death of Don Quixote
Wednesday, October 28 | Fall Foreign Language Fair
Wednesday, October 28 | Roy Foster: Making and Remembering the Revolution in Ireland
Sunday, November 1 | Quill of the Soul: A Musical Tribute to Elie Wiesel
Tuesday, November 3 | Center for Beethoven Research presents Benefit Concert featuring Joseph Silverstein
European Events Off-Campus
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Brodsky in Italy
European Lunch Studies Talk
Please join us for a lunch talk by Zakhar Ishov on Joseph Brodsky and Italy. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Ishov received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University. His research interests include 18th - 20th century Russian literature, the concept of "world culture" and its Russian dimensions, Brodsky's art and translations, and more.
Event takes place as part of the Educational Bridge Project's 28th Russian-American Festival.
Lunch provided. Open to BU community and others with research interest. RSVP to Elizabeth Amrien
12:30 to 1:50 PM
Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room)
Thursday, October 29, 2015
The Crime and the Silence
A Reading & Conversation with Anna Bikont, Alissa Valles, and Irena Grudzinska Gross
Join us for a conversation with Polish-Jewish journalist Anna Bikont, author of The Crime and the Silence (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, September 2015), Alissa Valles, poet, translator, and PhD student at the Editorial Institute, and Irena Grudzinska Gross, Resident Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.
Part history, part memoir, The Crime and the Silence is the journalist's account of these events: both the story of the massacre told through oral histories of survivors and witnesses, and a portrait of a Polish town coming to terms with its dark past. Including the perspectives of both heroes and perpetrators, Bikont chronicles the sources of the hatred that exploded against Jews and asks what myths grow on hidden memories, what destruction they cause, and what happens to a society that refuses to accept a horrific truth.
Free and open to the public. Reception and book-signing to follow.
6 to 7:30 PM
Boston University Castle, 225 Bay State Road
Monday, November 2, 2015
Frontiers of Fear
A Panel Discussion with Ariane Chebel D'Appollonia and Thomas Volk
Please join us for a panel discussion on the migrant crisis in Europe: Frontiers of Fear. frontiers of fear. Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia will give a presentation titled “The Refugee Crisis in the EU and Its Implications.” Thomas Volk will speak about “Islam and Muslim Life in Germany: Current Developments and Future Challenges.” The presentations will be followed by a discussion.
Ariane Chebel D’Appollonia is Professor at the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers–State University of New Jersey. Her research focusses on politics of immigration and anti-discrimination, security issues, racism and xenophobia, extreme right wing movements, immigrant integration, urban racism and European Politics. She is author of Frontiers of Fear: Immigration and Insecurity in the United States and Europe and How Does It Feel to Be a Threat? Migrant Mobilization and Securitization in the United States and Europe.
Thomas Volk is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Basel and Coordinator for Islam and Dialogue Between Religions at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Fluent in Turkish, he has in-depth knowledge of Islam and the Muslim community in Germany.
Co-sponsored by the American Council on Germany and the Center for the Study of Europe, the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University. Free and open to the public. Refreshments available.
5 to 7 PM
Pardee School of Global Studies, 121 Bay State Road (1st floor)
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Romanticism in the Atlantic World
A One-Day Symposium at Boston University
Please join us for an exciting one-day symposium on Romanticism in the Atlantic World. Featuring lectures by leading scholars whose work on the post-Revolutionary period engages an Atlantic perspective, broadly defined. Registration is free, and lunch will be provided. Register by November 1.
Schedule of papers:
9:30am Jared Hickman (Johns Hopkins) “Back to the American Romance, Forward to a Transatlantic History of Secularity”
11:00 Elizabeth Bohls (University of Oregon) “Romantic Exploration and Atlantic Slavery: Mungo Park’s Coffle”
1 :30pm Denise Gigante (Stanford) “On Borrowing Books”
3:00 Virginia Jackson (UC-Irvine) “American Romanticism Five Ways”
4 :30 Jennifer Baker (NYU) “Hawthorne, Romantic Ruins, and the Civil War”
Brought to you by the Boston Area Romanticist Colloquium and sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Humanities, Studies in Romanticism, Boston University’s Center for the Study of Europe, and the Departments of English, African American Studies, History, and Modern Languages and Comparative Literature.
9:30 to 6 PM
The Castle, Boston University 225 Bay State Road, Boston MA 02215
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Russian Voices
Poetry in an age of Totalitarianism
Join us for a reading and conversation with Russian poets Sergey Gandlevsky and Katia Kapovich. Moderated by Daria Khitrova, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University.
An integral member of the ’70s generation, Sergey Gandlevsky (born in 1952) was one of the underground Russian poets who began by writing only for themselves and their circles of friends during the Brezhnev era. Despite their relative cultural obscurity—or perhaps, precisely because of their situation as internal émigrés-- Gandlevsky and the Seventies Generation forged new directions in Russian poetry, unfettered by the pressures that burdened Russian writers both prior to, and during, the Soviet period. Gandlevsky, like many of the underground, chose unprestigious careers, or even odd jobs both to avoid participating in what he saw as a morally bankrupt society, while freeing up time for writing and travel. Gandlevsky has since become one of the most important contemporary Russian poets, winning both the Little Booker Prize and the Anti-Booker Prize in 1996 for his poetry and prose.
Katia Kapovich is a bilingual writer of poetry and short fiction. She is the author of eight Russian collections and of two volumes of English verse, Gogol in Rome (Salt, 2004, shortlisted for England’s 2005 Jerwood Alderburgh Prize) and Cossacks and Bandits (Salt, 2008). Kapovich hails from Soviet Moldova where her membership in a samizdat dissident group precluded publication of her writing in the USSR. Upon settling down in the USA in 1992, Kapovich began writing in English as well. Her English language poetry has appeared in the London Review of Books, Poetry, The New Republic, Harvard Review, The Independent, Jacket, and numerous other periodicals, as well as in several anthologies including Best American Poetry 2007 and Poetry 180 (Random House).
A reception with live music will follow the event. Free and open to the public.
6:30 to 8 PM
Boston University Castle, 225 Bay State Road
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