Stories about "Japanese"
Seeking lessons — and hope — in the depths of disaster

Friday, April 17, 2020 10:32 am

Meet members of the Bates faculty who are watching COVID-19 and wondering what it has to teach us in terms of the human experience.

Goldwater Scholarship recipient Joanna Moody '14.
A future railroad systems engineer receives Goldwater Scholarship

Friday, April 13, 2012 3:18 pm

Triple major in physics, math and Japanese receives a prestigious award.

Open to the World: Spain, ‘down the Plains’ come to Maine as poetry fest begins

Monday, October 31, 2011 6:23 pm

It had to be said: Sometimes, “something gets found in translation, too.”…

Open to the World: Foreign becomes familiar in Roger Williams Hall

Monday, October 31, 2011 6:03 pm

Bates’ global reach has been a driving theme behind Open to the…

Bates presents second annual Translations international poetry festival and conference

Friday, October 7, 2011 1:41 pm

During the first "Translations" poetry festival at Bates College, in 2010, conference organizer Claudia Aburto Guzmán had an encounter that seemed to crystallize the event for her. This innovative festival presented international poets reading their work in the original language, with English translations prepared by Bates faculty and students. Working with Somali poet Omar Ahmed, "it struck me that I was involved in the true practice of communication," says Aburto Guzmán, associate professor of Spanish.

U.S. Sen. George Mitchell among speakers for weeklong ‘Unbounded Learning’

Friday, October 7, 2011 10:56 am

George Mitchell, the former U.S. senator delivers the keynote address during a weeklong celebration of international and interdisciplinary education at Bates

Japanese scholar compares ghosts from East and West

Monday, October 13, 2003 10:14 am

Ghosts from Japan and England will share the podium at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College, when an associate professor of English literature at the University of Kyoto contrasts traditional Japanese ghosts with the spirits in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.