Posts by: zakbos

Analects of the Core: The Old Testament on Cain’s conception

September 12, 2011 at 12:26 pm

Today’s visual Analect is taken from Robert Crumb’s sumptuous Illustrated Book of Genesis (Norton, 2009). Click on the thumbnail above to view Genesis 4:1-15.

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E-bulletin for week of 9/11/2011

September 12, 2011 at 10:17 am

LECTURES THIS WEEK CC101: Michael Zank on Genesis (9/13) CC105, Tuesday: Scott Whitaker on “Motions in the Earth” (9/13) CC105, Thursday: Alan Marscher on “Motions in the Sky” (9/15) CC201: Michael Corgan on Machiavelli (9/13) CC203: Thornton Lockwood on “The Ancient World & Social Science” (9/15) A reminder to alumni — if you will be […]

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Analects of the Core: Malinowski on the ephemeral material of ethnology

September 9, 2011 at 1:30 pm

Ethnology is in the sadly ludicrous, not to say tragic, position, that at the every moment when it begins to put its workshop in order, to forge its proper tools, to start ready for work on its appointed task, the material of its study melts away with hopeless rapidity. – Malinowski, Argonauts of the Pacific, […]

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Prof. Phillips tracking gas leaks in Boston

September 8, 2011 at 11:19 am

Professor Nathan Phillips, of BU’s Department of Geography and Environment, coordinator in Spring 2012 of CC106, has earned a reputation as a passionate advocate for sustainability. In 2007, BU Today recognized him for maintaining a zero-emissions office, powered by a bicycle generator. This summer, he made headlines in the Boston Globe for using a personal […]

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