This evening, Professor Peter Hawkins of Yale University will speak on “America’s Underworld: Sandow Birk’s Divine Comedy.” Birk is a painter who illustrated Dante’s Divine Comedy by depicting decadent urban spaces in LA, NY, and San Francisco. 5:30 PM at The Castle, 225 Bay State Road. Refreshments will follow.
February 25, 2011 at 5:54 pm
(featuring the voice of Prof. Daniel Hudon) The Ecolympics are coming: April 1-15, 2011 Help mobilize for Planet Earth.
February 25, 2011 at 3:22 pm
The second-ever Ecolympics, April 1-15, is going to be bigger and better than last year’s, and you can help: by contributing to the Core Eco-quotes Project. As you know, Core is about tackling the big questions in life and certainly one of the biggest these days is how can humans best live with and within […]
February 15, 2011 at 3:52 pm
A reminder: The Spring Career Expo will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, February 16, 12-3:30pm in Metcalf Hall in the George Sherman Union. Here you can meet recruiters to help you find internships and jobs.It is open to BU undergrads, graduate students, as well as alumni. Don’t forget to dress professionally and bring your resume! Sponsored […]
February 15, 2011 at 12:55 pm
On Friday, February 11th, a crew of Core congregants convened on Boston Common with a few of the faculty, for an evening of frivolity and physical fitness: skating on that iciest of seasonal attractions, the Frog Pond rink. Cocoa was had, our sources report. Happiness levels were uniformly elevated in all participants. Photo courtesy Prof. […]
January 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm
The current exhibition “Fresh Ink” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston combines the old and the new in Chinese ink paintings. In this dialogue between the contemporary and the classical, leading artists from China were invited to create new works inspired by the MFA’s classical collection. The new works and the masterpieces they […]
November 16, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Each fall for the past few years, students in CC101 have been trekking over to the Museum of Fine Arts to see works of art associated with the texts we read in Core. This year, the tour guide devised by the faculty directs students to the themes of power and grief as visual points of […]
November 15, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Several Core students traveled to the artsy Fan Pier / Seaport neighborhood this weekend, to take in a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1. Tickets to the play, which was put up the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, were made available by Prof. Diana Wylie and the Distinguished Teaching Professorship fund for humanities programming. According to […]
October 5, 2010 at 9:42 am
Our own Prof. Sassan Tabatabai will be reading works from the Persian canon as well as his own poetry, at a celebration of Mehregan, a Persian harvest celebration, to be held this Thursday, October 7th. As many Core folks may already know, Prof. Tabatabai is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in a […]
September 17, 2010 at 10:30 am
The Museum of Science is offering a free admission night for college students that present a valid student ID on Monday, September 20: This exclusive evening features Omni and 3-D Digital Cinema shows, Theater of Electricity demonstrations, stargazing at the Gilliland Observatory, hot and cold experiments in the Suit / Cabot Lab, and live presentations. […]
