The Lego Inferno

May 14, 2012 at 10:53 am

With final papers done and turned in, exams finished, and the semester turning over into the start of the summer break, CC102 students might be feeling a bit like they’ve emerged from the final level of the Inferno — “Procrastinators”?, skipping Purgatory altogether to end up directly in the Paradiso-like environs of summer break. So here’s a bit of Dantean lightness to speed the transition along. Via io9.com: “Sculptor Mihai Mihu has built this fantastic and creepy nine-part collection of LEGO dioramas based on Dante Alighieri’s Inferno. Witness the Divine Comedy depicted in tiny plastic bricks, from the River Styx to the frozen head of Satan.”

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“Shakespeare’s Songs” on May 1st

April 30, 2012 at 3:43 pm

shakespeare-may-2012We are pleased to announce this lecture / recital on “Shakespeare’s Songs”, featuring Christopher Ricks as lecturer; Dana Whiteside, baritone; and James Johnson, piano. The program features songs set to texts by William Shakespeare. Composers include Peter Warlock, Robert Schumann, Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc, Roger Quilter, and Erich Korngold. The event is TOMORROW, Tuesday, May 1 at 8:00 p.m. at the Ruggles Church. The church is near Boston University’s South Campus residential area, across from the Elephant Walk restaurant on the corner of Park Drive and Beacon Street. For directions, see http://home.rugglesbaptistchurch.org/get-directions. Admission is free; a reception will follow.

About the participants:
Christopher RICKS is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford 2004-2009. Professor Ricks has written and edited more than twenty books spanning a fifty-year period. His subjects have included T. S. Eliot, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan. W.H. Auden described him as “exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding.”

Dana WHITESIDE is a soloist and chorister with Boston’s Emmanuel Music. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, Mr. Whiteside has performed as soloist with the Cantata Singers, Vox Humana, and the Florestan Recital Project in such works as Carmina Burana, Brahms’ German Requiem, and Bach’s St. John Passion. Mr. Whiteside is Deputy Director for Community Economic Development in the Boston Redevelopment Authority.

James JOHNSON is Associate Professor of History at Boston University. He is the author of two award-winning books and numerous articles and reviews. As pianist, Professor Johnson delivers regular lecture/recitals on music in its cultural, social, and political contexts. During his 15-year collaboration with Dana Whiteside, the pair have explored themes touching German romanticism, American composers in Paris, European music between the two world wars, and the French fin-de-siècle.

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Today: Goldstein on Food

April 24, 2012 at 12:02 pm

Goldstein- BU-talk.pdf“WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FOOD”

A lecture on food & writing, by Darra Goldstein, Editor of Gastronomica & Professor of Russian, Williams College

24 April 2012, 7 pm, Barristers’ Hall, in the BU School of Law
Free and Open to the Public

Sponsored by the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship

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Reminder: ARISTOPHANES TONIGHT!

April 13, 2012 at 3:57 pm

Aristophanes-poster-2012A final reminder to all the folks in the Core community, about tonight’s performance of “The Assemblywomen” by Aristophanes.

Why should you go? For the free pizza and marshmallow Peeps, at 5 PM; to hear live music from the famous faculty blue band, Fish Worship, at 5:15 (especially a new original song written by Prof. Jorgensen specifically for this show); and to watch the “women” of BU/Athens take over, when the play starts at 6 PM, in a comical coup of phallic proportions.

The annual spring Aristophanes performance is a chance for the faculty and students of Classics and Core to let out some manic energy in high spirits before the last weeks of the semester. There’s music, food, goofiness, cross-dressing, and much humor, bawdy, linguistic and otherwise. Definitely stop by if you’re on campus tonight, to be part of a very fun happening.

THE ASSEMBLYWOMEN, tonight in CAS B:50: Food at 5 PM; Music at 5:15; the Play at 6 PM.

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MFA Tag-Team Lectures

April 13, 2012 at 3:47 pm

Who says you can’t take lectures on two, completely unrelated topics? No one from the Core. Our community has, after all, seen its fair share of rock star physicists and pre-med actors, to name just two odd combinations.

So why not learn about food trucks and Machiavelli simultaneously? The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is hosting such an event:

Mixed Taste: Tag-team Lectures on Unrelated Topics: Machiavelli & Food Trucks

Wednesday, April 18th, at 7pm. Tickets available online ($15 for students). Food truck samples to be had after the event. See if you can prove whether or not dispensing food on wheels can help you be loved, rather than feared.

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Announcing Ecofest 2012

April 9, 2012 at 10:46 am

This year’s Ecofest (formerly the Ecolympics) is about to begin!

Ecofest is a week-long series of events to raise awareness about the human footprint on the environment and the consequent species loss. Here are five reasons why you should sign up and participate:

  1. You will have a chance to save our corner of the living universe.
  2. If you don’t, we will all die.
  3. You will have a chance to win an awesomely cool Ecosphere; copies of the Planet Earth DVD set; artistic prints of endangered and extinct species; and other great eco-prizes.
  4. If you don’t, the biosphere will collapse and we will all die.
  5. You will have a chance to set a shining example for the rest of the world.

Events include personal challenges for faculty and students from April 15-22, and public events such as:

  • 4/8 and 4/9, 7pm: “Call of Life,” a film about present mass extinction with discussion and pizza @Rich Hall (4/8) and the Core House (4/9).
  • 4/16, 7pm: “Eco-Slam,” an environmentally themed poetry slam and open mic with former national slam champion Regie Gibson @BU Central.
  • 4/18, noon: “What is Ethology?,” a lunchtime seminar presented by BU Biology faculty member Fred Wasserman @STH 406 (Classics Library, 745 Commonwealth Avenue), RSVP to core@bu.edu to reserve a box lunch!
  • 4/19, 6pm: “Saving the Elephants, Saving Ourselves,” a multimedia lecture presented by artist/musician Miranda Loud from Naturestage @KCB 101 (565 Commonwealth Ave).
  • 4/24, 7pm: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Food,” a seminar by Williams College faculty and founding editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Darra Goldstein, @ Barrister’s Hall, BU Law School (765 Commonwealth Avenue).

Sign up beginning Monday April 9 @ http://bu.edu/ecofest, and tune into http://econowblog.blogspot.com for ongoing news.

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Medea! This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday

April 5, 2012 at 3:51 pm

medeaposter1The Calliope Project invites members of the Core community to come out tonight to see their production of Euripides’ Medea. This adaptation, translated by Ian Johnston and directed by Ryan Collins and A. Harry Gustafson, sets the tragic events of Euripides’ masterpiece in a vaguely post-apocalyptic setting. All performances — Thursday the 5th, Friday 4/6, and Saturday 4/7 — will take place in Boston University’s School of Education, room 130, and will cost $5. To reserve tickets, email medea.calliope@gmail.com. This is going to be a very intense production, so viewer discretion is advised.

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Help a Friend of the Core

April 5, 2012 at 9:59 am

On Tuesday, BU Today reported the frightening story of Will Lautzenheiser, a former BU student who lost his limbs to a terrible infection and has come back to Boston for rehabilitation.

During his time at BU, Will was a devoted student of English and the Core. As a teaching and research assistant and as a graduate student in film studies, Will earned the friendship and esteem of many faculty, staff, and alumni. Over the years, he has remained a great friend of the Core. Now, as he struggles to recover from his difficult illness, I know that he would be grateful for any support or sympathy that we as a community can provide.

A fund-raiser for Will has been scheduled in the GSU on Friday evening. The event, “An Evening with Michael Tully,” starts at 7 p.m. and includes a screening of director Michael Tully’s film Septien, followed by a conversation with Tully. The event is free and open to the public. Donations to benefit Will can be made at the door.

We also will be sending Will a message of sympathy from the Core community, along with a contribution to his support. If you would like to join us by signing that message, or if you would like to make a contribution (any amount will be gratefully accepted), please contact Zachary Bos in the Core office, by calling 617-353-5404 or emailing core@bu.edu.

Information about a fund to support Will will be posted as it becomes available at http://lautzenheiserfund.wordpress.com/donate/.

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Pre-reg advising for Core students

March 29, 2012 at 12:18 pm

Pre-reg advising sessions are available for undeclared students in Core courses who would like to talk over requirements, degree concentrations, and other questions with a Core faculty member before they meet their CAS staff advisor and receive a registration code.

Although each faculty member has an academic specialization — and you’re welcome to come to speak with someone whose particular interest is of interest to you — all faculty are available for general advising, in terms of Core, requirements for majors, and general CAS requirements.  If none of these times fit your schedule feel free to make an appointment for another time by speaking with the staff in the Core Office, CAS 119, or by email core@bu.edu. Advising sessions will be in CAS 119.  You may reserve a space if you’d like, or come in  simply as a walk-in. As always, don’t hesitate to contact any one of us with any questions you might have.

Spring 2012 Pre-reg Core Advising Hours

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2012 Alumni College

March 22, 2012 at 4:57 pm

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