February 9, 2022 at 9:50 am
W. Robert Connor, a professor of classics emeritus at Princeton University and director emeritus of the National Humanities Center, found insight into our society’s future from a narrative of the pandemic in Athens. In his reading of Thucydides’sHistory of the Peloponnesian War,he found himself considering the full impact of COVID-19 beyond its tolls on our […]
February 3, 2022 at 4:06 pm
Check out this video de-bunking the myths around Homer! Who was our beloved “The Odyssey” actually written by? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et5pkMNFrxU
February 3, 2022 at 4:06 pm
Last spring, students in CC222 made TikTokson writers they read throughout the semester including Freud, Foucault, Butler, and others. A playlist of these videos can be found at the link below. Whoever said learning couldn’t be fun? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwmHaVvbCV6pLVSuJRFWOxuwTCS-PBpiM
February 1, 2022 at 1:32 pm
From the Instagram feed of our friends at BU’s Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, we see a great feature about one of our new first-year humanities instructors, Dr. Matthew Creighton. From the post: Introducing Matthew Creighton, the next feature of our#FacultyFridayseries.A Boston University graduate, Professor Creighton specializes in German literature, modern Jewish intellectual history, […]
December 9, 2021 at 10:49 am
Officials believe the artifact looted during the 1991 Gulf War was illegally imported into the U.S. in 2003, then sold and put on display in a Washington museum. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ancient-gilgamesh-tablet-showcasing-earliest-form-literature-returned-rcna8001
December 8, 2021 at 1:54 pm
Who knew chalk could talk? Amsterdam restorers certainly did, as they discovered Rembrandt’s original chalk outline of The Night Watch. “You may ask why is this so important? Well, it gives us the feeling we can peek over Rembrandts shoulder while he was working on The Night Watch.” Read it here:Hidden sketch revealed beneath Rembrandt’s […]
December 6, 2021 at 9:52 am
Check out this article from the Wall Street Journal on Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”, where the writer, Benjamin Shull, analyzes the poem’s timelessness and human truths. “So often in his poems, Whitman begins from particulars — individual people and the jobs they perform, fleeting impressions of nature — and then proceeds to meditate more […]
November 5, 2021 at 10:19 am
Looking for an interesting, yet calming playlist that you can listen to while doing work? Well, look no further, as the Core Curriculum’s Professor Hamill has found this 11 hour playlist of ambient songs to transport you as you study:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0ax76pg8w Students interested in learning more about empiricism can come to the Core Office, or contact […]
October 22, 2021 at 3:24 pm
Samus Bellamy writes on dig site evidence that can place the date on the Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland that was discovered six decades ago. To find out the details and see how he dissects a New York Times article on the story, check out this link.
