February 14, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Prof. David Roochnik, Core seminar leader, lecturer, and professor in the Department of Philosophy, wrote in to the Core blog to share this thoughts about the production of Ajax Core students and faculty attended this weekend. Interesting production. Brilliant idea to use the video screens for the chorus. But the disconnected speeches they uttered were, […]
February 14, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Professor Steve Esposito, a longtime member of the Core Humanities faculty and associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Classics, writes about a recent Core excursion to a new theatrical version of Ajax… This weekend, 85 Core students and 10 members of the Core faculty attended the very successful production of Sophocles’ […]
February 11, 2011 at 1:51 pm
What Is Asia? A panel discussion, hosted by the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. Featuring Professor David Eckel, Boston University Religion (and director of the Core Curriculum) Professor Robert Hefner, Boston University Anthropology Professor Eugenio Menegon, Boston University History Moderated by Professor Adil Najam, Director of Pardee Center Monday, February 14, […]
November 30, 2010 at 4:39 pm
The Times Literary Supplement recently addressed how people are often mislead into thinking Jonathan Swift presents a negative view of human nature in Gulliver’s Travels, a book read in the second year of the Core Humanities: Yet what readers tend also to be told is that the moral system of Houyhnhnms, according to which no […]
November 17, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Prof. Kyna Hamill, whose area of scholarly focus is the early Italian commedia dell’arte, has published a paper in a special issue of Theatre Symposium focusing on stage props. In her paper, titled “A Cannonade of Weapons: Signs of Transgression in the Early Commedia dell’arte,” Prof. Hamill explores the dramatic and symbolic role of weapons […]
November 16, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Professor Roye Wates is a long-time guest lecturer in the Core Humanities, where she speaks to sophomores about the method and meaning of Mozart’s operas. Core students are not the only beneficiaries of her knowledge—she is frequently called upon to give pre-concert talks in the Boston area, and has lectured on various aspects of Mozart’s […]
November 16, 2010 at 10:32 am
Denn obwohl der moderne Mensch im ganzen selbst beim besten Willen nicht imstande zu sein pflegt, sich die Bedeutung, welche religiöse Bewußtseinsinhalte auf die Lebensführung, die Kultur und die Volkscharaktere gehabt haben, so groß vorzustellen, wie sie tatsächlich gewesen ist For sure, even with the best will, the modern person seems generally unable to imagine […]
November 11, 2010 at 11:21 am
This summer, Core student Erik Nagamatsu (Core ’11, CAS ‘13) released Foods of the Kingdom of Bhutan. This book, which Erik co-authored with his father, is the first cookbook ever devoted to the cuisine the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Core student employees John McCargar and Tom Farndon sat down with Erik to talk about the […]
October 6, 2010 at 3:29 pm
David Green is a professor in the Core Curriculum in Boston University. He provides inspiration not only for Core students, but for students in the CAS Writing Program as well. He is also the faculty advisor for the Core theatre group, Calliope. Just this past spring, Boston-based Pen & Anvil Press published David Green’s most […]
September 29, 2010 at 10:34 am
Prof. Elie Wiesel has always played a central role in our fall series of lectures for CC101 students, as a scholar, certainly, but also as a representative of a tradition of conscience and wisdom that we are fortunate to benefit from in our community and our world. As I was listening to him speak once […]
