Tagged: alumni

Postcards to the Core: from Phnom Penh

August 16, 2012 at 5:46 pm

Postmarked August 1, from Cambodia — Phnom Penh is amazing! So much to see and do and Cambodians are incredibly friendly! I hope all is well at the Core office! – Abby Simon, Core ’06, CAS ’09

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Core Readers Series #1

July 9, 2012 at 9:54 am

Alumnus Michelle Kwock occupies a summer afternoon reading What’s Wrong With Democracy by Core Humanities lecturer, and chair of the Classics department, Prof. Jay Samons. Would you care to be a featured Core Reader here on the Core blog? Just send us a photo, by attachment to core@bu.edu, showing you reading a Core or Core-related […]

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Notes from the June EnCore Book Club

June 20, 2012 at 10:48 am

The EnCore Book Club met on June 6th to discuss the last book on its Ancient Greco-Roman cycle, Augustus, by John Williams. Thoughtfully munching on Chinese food while sipping beer and wine, attendees first pondered about the structure of the book. Augustus is a novel made up of the fictional letters and journal entries of […]

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Notes from the May EnCore Book Club

May 23, 2012 at 4:48 pm

An emphatic discussion was held last week Wednesday the 9th at the EnCore Book Club meeting. Professor Loren J. Samons kindly attended our discussion of his book What’s Wrong With Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship (University of California Press, 2004). We discussed ancient and contemporary politics, the business of government, and the interconnectedness of social, economic, and other issues. To learn more, read on!

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MFA Tag-Team Lectures

April 13, 2012 at 3:47 pm

Who says you can’t take lectures on two, completely unrelated topics? No one from the Core. Our community has, after all, seen its fair share of rock star physicists and pre-med actors, to name just two odd combinations. So why not learn about food trucks and Machiavelli simultaneously? The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is […]

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Help a Friend of the Core

April 5, 2012 at 9:59 am

On Tuesday, BU Today reported the frightening story of Will Lautzenheiser, a former BU student who lost his limbs to a terrible infection and has come back to Boston for rehabilitation. During his time at BU, Will was a devoted student of English and the Core. As a teaching and research assistant and as a […]

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2012 Alumni College

March 22, 2012 at 4:57 pm
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Notes from the March EnCore Book Club

March 8, 2012 at 4:39 pm

The EnCore book club meeting had its March Wednesday meeting yesterday, a gathering well-fueled by Noodle Street ambrosia and unspilled libations. The work in question was Robert Louis Stevenson’s very popular novella, the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Here were some of the talking points that came up in the discussion: The […]

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Tonight: Theater of War pre-show talk, after-show reception

December 7, 2011 at 1:21 pm

From Erin McDonagh (Core ’08, CAS ’10), member of the EnCore Steering Committee: As Core alums, we all know that no one understood war or tragedy like the ancient Greeks. In Theater of War, actors read excerpts from Sophocles’ tragedies Ajax and Philoctetes, with the aim of drawing attention to the challenges faced by veterans […]

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This Friday: Calliope Scene Festival

October 19, 2011 at 11:58 am

Come and enjoy various scenes from famous plays and works of literature performed and directed by the Core student and Core alumni members of Calliope Project theater troupe. The pieces at this Friday”s show are drawn from sources including Hamlet, Eurydice, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, and the poetry […]

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