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Weekly Round-Up, 11-18-16

November 18, 2016 at 12:01 pm

Happy Friday! This week’s links take a look at a festival, Jane Austen, McDonald’s in Florence, and more. Remember Ecce Homo (“Behold the Man”), the fresco of Jesus that was, uh, renovated a few years back? You know what the best way to preserve this memory in the seas of time? A comedic opera, that’s […]

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Weekly Round-Up, 11-11-16

November 11, 2016 at 10:55 am

This week we take a look at the earliest settlement in Australia, degenerate art, “Inferno” (and not the one you’re thinking about), and more. If you’ve been following our Twitter lately, you’ll see that we reported on the reception of Ron Howard’s Dante-inspired “Inferno”. Turns out this movie was the straw that broke the camel’s […]

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Scenes from Euripides’ Hecuba, November 2016

November 8, 2016 at 6:54 pm

The 2016 performance of scenes from Euripides’ Hecuba from today’s CC101 lecture has been uploaded to the Core Youtube channel for your viewing pleasure. Many thanks go out to Prof. Kyna Hamill and the 2016-17 Hecuba Players. The 2016-17 Players are: Giselle Boustani-Fontenele, co-director with Kyna Hamill Flannery Gallagher Priest Gooding Seyedeh Hosseini Hannah Jew […]

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How Homer Matters

November 7, 2016 at 10:47 am

“The core of what is valuable about those epics is that they are intensely human. … It is an absolutely down-the-barrel look at the realities of who we are.” In his lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, author Adam Nicholson argues the importance of Homer thousands of years after he wrote the Iliad and […]

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Weekly Round-Up, 11-4-16

November 4, 2016 at 11:57 am

This week’s collection of links explores Don Quixote, Big Foot, William Shakespeare and Jane Austen (at the same time), and more! The Boston Public Library is celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death with two art exhibitions. The first, entitled “Shakespeare’s Here and Everywhere,” (open until Feb. 26 in the Leventhal Map Center) highlights […]

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Weekly Round-Up, Halloweekend Edition, 10-28-16

October 28, 2016 at 11:29 am

Welcome to the second installment of the Core Weekly Round-Up! There’s a reason for Bob Dylan’s recent Nobel Prize for Literature; the singer-songwriter and poet has “surpassed Whitman as the American Poet,” according to Bloomberg View writer Cass R. Sunstein. They’ve both certainly caused a bit of controversy. The William Blake Gallery in San Francisco, […]

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Friday Weekly Round-Up, 10-21-16

October 21, 2016 at 1:35 pm

Presenting the inaugural weekly round-up of links! In this newest addition to the Core blog, we gather the latest in Core-related news, events, and insights from around the Internet. Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016. Prof. Christopher Ricks, Dylan expert as well as Core professor, must be thrilled. Satan in a jumpsuit: […]

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Autumn in Full Color

October 20, 2016 at 1:51 pm
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“That’s Gilgamesh’d Up”: Recreating the Music of Ancient Sumer

October 19, 2016 at 12:26 pm

We know what you’re thinking. Gilgamesh… sung? No, it’s not the newest historical musical, hoping to capitalize on the hysteria for history-themed performances catalyzed by Hamilton. We’re talked here aboutthe opening lines of the Epic of Gilgamesh performed by musician Peter Pringle. The piece is not only played on a Sumerian lute called a “gish-gu-di” […]

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Postcards to the Core: from Amherst, Sept. 2016

September 15, 2016 at 11:54 am

We have just received word back from recent Core/BU alum Justin Lievano (CAS ’16). He sends us his regards from the Dickinson house in Amherst, to which he made a pilgrimage. He writes: 16 Sept. 2016 Dear Core, Good news! I have secured a position with a florist in Greenwich, CT. (McArdle’s if you’re curious) […]

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