Greetings, Corelings! We hope you’re filling up on pumpkin pie and turkey/non-meat turkey substitute! And what would it be without an installment of weekly links?
- The Ashmolean, the University of Oxfords museum of art and archaeology, is currently hosting Sensation: Rembrandt’s First Paintings, an exhibition featuring early works of Rembrandt on the five senses. It closes this Sunday, November 27.
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Spectacle Pedlar, c. 1624-25, oil on panel. An allegory on the sense of sight.
- Theater/dance company Lost Dog’s one-man performance of Milton’s Paradise Lost is coming to University of Kent on December 1.
- The National Changgeuk Company of Korea (NCCK) presented Euripides’ Trojan Women in the form of changgeuk, or traditional Korean opera. It closed last Sunday, November 20.
- Turns out that Karl Marx’s life is prime drama material. A TV adaptation of Mary Gabriel’s Love and Capital, a book on Marx, Friedrich Engels, and their families, is in the works.
- And in honor of Thanksgiving: Prof. Tobin Miller Shearer of the University of Montana explores the tradition of the “Turkey Pardoning Ritual” through the lens of religion and, among others, Emile Durkheim.
President Obama pardons a bored-looking Abe on November 15, 2015. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
That’s all for now. Enjoy the rest of Thanksgiving break, and be sure to send your articles of interest to core@bu.edu.
