Category: Announcements

LANDMARKS SERIES: Machiavelli’s The Prince After 500 Years

January 26, 2013 at 2:38 pm

On February 6th, there will be a lecture on Machiavelli’s The Prince, by the great Michael Ignatieff, Edward Muir, and James Johnson. It will be located in the Photonics Building, Room 206, 8 St. Mary’s Street, and will last from 7:00pm – 9:00pm. The Core encourages students to attend this event, as these inspiring speakers will undoubtedly shed [...]

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Brahms, Sibelius and Beethoven

January 23, 2013 at 2:54 pm

The Core is offering 15 free tickets for the Boston Symphony Orchestra performance on Thursday February 7th, at 8:00 PM, in the Boston Symphony Hall. From http://bit.ly/VWRVKL: The eminent German conductor Christoph von Dohnányi leads three masterpieces from the heart of the orchestral repertoire. The program begins with Brahms’s earliest orchestral masterpiece, his Variations on [...]

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Festina Lente: ‘Conserving Antiquity’ Exhibition

January 23, 2013 at 2:39 pm

  From January 30 – July 7, 2013, the upcoming Festina Lente exhibition will offer an unconventional behind-the-scenes opportunity to survey the Greek and Roman holdings in the Davis Museum’s permanent collections. Featuring vases and vessels of all sorts and designs, relief portraits and standing figures, mosaics, coins and jewelry, human and animal forms, the scope of [...]

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Core House/Floor RA application deadline!

January 16, 2013 at 1:24 pm

This is just a reminder that we’re very interested in helping out anyone from Core who might like to apply for the position of RA for the Core House (especially), 141 Carlton S. in South Campus (5 minutes from CAS) or the Core Floor in Warren Towers. The catch is that the last, mandatory info [...]

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Join the Aristophanes cast & crew!

January 16, 2013 at 11:48 am

Professor Stephanie Nelson writes: The time has come to start thinking about our annual Core and Classics Aristophanes extravaganza. The play this year will be on Thursday, March 28 in the Conference Auditorium at the GSU. We’ll hold an organizing meeting on January 24, a week from Thursday, at 5:00 in STH 413 for anyone [...]

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Summer Program in Athens, Greece

December 14, 2012 at 11:52 am

The Core Curriculum and the Department of Classical Studies invite you to consider studying with us this summer in Athens, Greece. The program will consist of two courses to be taught on the beautiful campus of Deree: The American College of Greece, situated in the Agia Paraskevi suburb of Athens.  Students will study the Greek [...]

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The Nutcracker performance in Harvard Square

November 27, 2012 at 4:43 pm

The Core didn’t have enough tickets for all current students to go see the Boston Ballet production of The Nutcracker this year, but ’tis the season for holiday ballet, so students of the Core are strongly encouraged to pursue the alternate routes to an audience seat. 1. Look into getting student rush tickets to the BB production, [...]

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Gilgamesh unveiling at Harvard

September 12, 2012 at 9:15 am

Core students may be interested in attending the installation of the “Gilgamesh” sculpture at Harvard’s Museum of Natural History this Thursday, September 13th starting at 5:30 pm. The unveiling will be accompanied by a reading from translator David Ferry. Visit http://www.geomus.fas.harvard.edu for more information regarding the event.

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Core e-bulletin, Fall 2012: Week 2

September 10, 2012 at 3:40 pm

For the week of September 9, 2012 CC101: Professor Gillman: “Genesis: God in Search of Man” 9/11 (Tsai Auditorium) CC105: Professor Marsher: “Motions on the Earth” 9/11 (CAS 522) CC105: Professor Marsher: “Motions in the Sky” 9/13 (CAS 522) CC201: Professor Nelson: Machiavelli’s The Prince 9/11 (CAS 522) CC203: Professor Barfield: “The Desert and the [...]

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Core to see Pride & Prejudice on stage

March 8, 2012 at 1:42 pm

On March 20th, the second-year Core Humanities students will hear a lecture on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by the novelist Allegra Goodman.  Dr. Goodman’s most recent book The Cookbook Collector has been described as a “Sense and Sensibility for the digital age.” We are fortunate that a theatrical version of Pride and Prejudice is [...]

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