Upcoming Events!
Free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated.
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
Monday, November 16, 2015
The Moral Case for Saving the Planet: Regional Perspectives
A Division of Regional and Thematic Studies Event
Please join us during International Education Week for this special event. Speakers include Henrik Selin, Associate Professor of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies, on European perspectives; Joanna Davidson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, on African perspectives; Adil Najam, Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies and Professor of International Relations and Earth & Environment, on Southern perspectives; Robert Weller, Professor of Anthropology, on Eastern perspectives. Chaired by Robert W. Hefner, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA). Sponsored by the Division of Regional & Thematic Studies at the Pardee School of Global Studies and BU Global Programs.
12 to 2 PM
Boston University Castle, 225 Bay State Road
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
Thursday, December 3, 2015
"Cada paso es un obstaculo"
Catalunya, Health Policy, and Abortion
Please join us for a presentation by Bayla Ostrach, MA, PhD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. Ostrach will discuss women's experiences navigating the Catalan health system to access abortion in the context of legal threats, La Crisis, and growing support for the independence movement.
This vivid ethnography of women navigating the Catalan health system to access publicly funded abortion care in the context of austerity-related cuts and threats to the abortion laws explores the impact of the current global economic crisis on health care-seeking behavior, the actual accessibility of national health systems, disparities that persist for immigrants even in a country that offers health coverage to undocumented residents, and women’s diverse approaches to overcoming obstacles to abortion care. Using the example of Catalunya as a case study in the larger global landscape of people’s experiences accessing publicly funded health care in a setting of policy changes and austerity, participants describe their efforts to use the Catalan health system to obtain abortion, which at the time of the fieldwork described had recently become more widely legal, discuss their awareness of shifting abortion laws and reproductive rights; and, for some, their vision of full Catalan independence as one avenue for preserving full access to abortion and other publicly funded health services despite La Crisis, austerity, and the increasing Euro-zone and Spanish pressures on Catalunya to cut services for immigrants. Through participants’ voices, a compelling portrait of perseverance in the face of, and resistance to, bureaucratic oppression and economic inequality emerges, accompanied by the author’s richly grounded analysis of what these stories reveal about health care systems amid the crisis of capitalism, reproductive governance, and women’s determination to do whatever they have to do get the health care they need.
Bayla Ostrach, MA, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine, where she is a member of the faculty and the Field Practicum Director for the Master’s program in Medical Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Practice. Bayla is also a Junior Fellow of the Society of Family Planning. She began working directly in the field of reproductive health and abortion care in 1999, and has since worked at multiple clinics in Oregon, Connecticut, and Catalunya. She is a member of the North American Catalan Society.
4 to 5:30PM
Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room)
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