November 6, 2018 at 11:37 am
Our Core alumna, Kat Monahan, sent us a postcard all the way from Greece! Here’s what she reflects on during her time in Rethymno:
Sept. 12, 2018
Γεία σου, Κωρ! Hi Core!
Wishing everyone an auspicious start to the 2018-2019 school year. I’d like to propose a Classics alumni trip to Crete so I can return here sans toddler; drinks on me! (raki is complementary after meals 🙂 )
με αγάπη,
Kat Monahan, Core ’10, CAS ’11, Questrom ’18
* Corelovespostcards. Whether you’re at home or abroad now, wed love to get one from you. Our address is easy: Core Curriculum, Boston University, Boston MA 02215.
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October 31, 2018 at 9:30 am
What masterpiece would be complete without an authentic curatorial text? Luckily, Core alumni Jonathan Han and Kassandra Round refused to lettheir viewers confront their pumpkin art alone, and provided us with insights into their imaginations.
"Anguish"- A Self Portrait by Jonathan Han, 2019
"Like all pains, this was unintended, but still pretty funky"
Perhaps best known for his other pumpkin-related work, namely "Cream Of..." and "Latte," Jonathan Han takes pumpkin art to the next level. The emotional turmoil is best encapsulated by the taped-up cap/root, suggesting a mind not only unhinged, but broken. The crudeness of this work, in extreme contrast of his other portraits and sculptures, is considered a representative of the new movement Jonathan Han found: Pumpkin Brutalism.
"Unicorn Love"- by Kassandra Round, 2018
"The Unicorn is a Picasso Unicorn. The heart is French."
Done at the same time as Jonathan Han's seminal work, "Anguish," Kassandra Round tries to capture the remnants of her childhood imagination, only to find a hollow caricature. The unicorn, so illegible that it has to be labeled, perhaps demonstrates perfectly the bastardized innocence, innocence now lost.
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October 22, 2018 at 11:07 am
This upcoming week, our CC 201 students will take on the seemingly daunting novelwritten by Miguel de Cervantes:Don Quixote. This door stopper of a book details the adventures of haphazard knight and his bumbling squire as they traverse a Spain that has moved on from the world of knights and chivalry.
Though this book is centuries old, it continues to influence our modern scholars including members of the Herald Sun who have recently released a podcast about the famous Spanish Epic. Andrew Bolt calls it, "as fresh and innovative as a post-modernist work, and much funnier." Listen to the podcast here.
As always, our lectures are open to all! They are formatted much like a TED talk, with experts in the field giving an in depth discussion on this week's topic. Come join us this week to learn more about Don Quixote.
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October 15, 2018 at 9:45 am
The Core Curriculum invites you to fly your Core flag this Friday for #IheartCore Day. Since folks will be visiting BU for Friends & Family Weekend, we want them to see how large and fashionable the BU Core community is.
Here's how to participate. Wear your Core teeshirt this Friday, October 19th, and make sure you're photographed in it. Then, get your photo to us!
We'll be doing a drawing of all photo submissions, and one winner will receive a $25 gift certicate to Whole Foods. (That's a lot of pumpkin! Or, a lot of kale if that's more your jam. It's also a lot of jam, which is another product Whole Foods carries.)
To submit your photo, email it to core@bu.edu; or tag it on social media with the #iheartcore hashtag, making sure we can see it on one of our Core social media accounts. Find us on Facebook at https://facebook.com/buCore, with username Core Curriculum; on Twitter, as https://twitter.com/corecurriculum; and on Instagram as @bucore.
All current and former students of Core classes are eligible to win. Please note that faculty and staff are not eligible to win the Whole Foods gift certificate. However, all members of the Core community are encouraged to recognize and celebrate Core faculty and staff that show their Core Pride by wearing a Core Shirt this Core Friday.
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October 12, 2018 at 4:19 pm
Depending on your idea of a good time, he could be your angel or your devil, but the original sexy bad boy is back. (And this time, he's a woman!) Ellen Lauren is Dionysus in the Getty Villa's newest production of Euripides'Bacchae.
To refresh your memory, the boys are back in town. Well, Dionysus is back, at least, in Thebes, and he's stirring up some trouble in the forest and driving the ladies wild. The drama is, shall we say,wild,and the final speech of this Ancient Greek play is given in, surprise,Japanese.
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September 6, 2018 at 4:46 pm
A postcard from Hydra, Greece, written to Prof. Murphy from Core sophomore William Denton, marking the start of the semester. How coincidental considering this fall we'll be going back to Ancient Greece in CC101 and 211!
* Core loves postcards. Whether youre at home or abroad now, wed love to get one from you. Our address is easy: Core Curriculum, Boston University, Boston MA 02215.
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August 21, 2018 at 11:26 am
Oh boy, more mail! We've just heard from BU and Core alum Peter Michelli, currently doing research in southern Italy.
Dear Stephanie, Cliff, Rose and Zach,
Sending Regards from Bari where I'm on my first (!) archival trip! (And they let me in!)
Sincerely,
Peter Michelli
*Core loves postcards. Whether you're at home or abroad now, wed love to get one from you. Our address is easy: Core Curriculum, Boston University, Boston MA 02215.
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July 19, 2018 at 2:47 pm
We are delighted to receive our first postcard of the summer! This one comes from Core alum and rising junior Hannah Jew, currently interning in Washington, D.C.
Hello Core,
Everything is beautiful at the ballet... and everything is swampy in D.C. My internship is going nicely, but I'm afraid the Core office has spoiled me for good conversation and tea selection. Hugs to all, from Hamill to Gilligan. September can't come soon enough.
-Hannah Jew
* Core loves postcards. Whether you're at home or abroad now, we'd love to get one from you. Our address is easy: Core Curriculum, Boston University, Boston MA 02215.
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July 19, 2018 at 12:08 pm
In her 1925 essay "On Not Knowing Greek," Virginia Woolf laments our weak understanding of Greek language, and how even the best translations leave behind critical inflections and allow misconceptions of Greek culture to overshadow the truth. Leave it to Woolf to understand the importance of the smallest details- just as she shows the reader the trivialities and magnitude of any given day in Mrs. Dalloway, she seems to yearn for the smallest details in these Greek plays that could betray the greatest meanings. Almost insistent on chasing the Greek language, Woolf claims that "In spite of the labour and the difficulty it is this that draws us back and back to the Greeks; the stable, the permanent, the original human being is to be found there."
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July 13, 2018 at 1:54 pm
Looks like a far cry from the nice paperbacks we use now!
Before editions of the Odyssey could be printed, bound, and tossed into a backpack, and before the story was first recorded on tablets, it was passed as an oral tradition that changed slightly with each retelling. After Homer recorded the story in writing in the 8th century BCE, the story could endure retelling, and that versionbecame the one we know today. Now,BBC reports that archaeologists may have discovered the oldest recording of Homer's Odyssey on a tabletdating back to Roman times, still centuries after Homer's lifetime.
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