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Historical objectivity

October 8, 2013 at 11:25 am

Per the question of objectivity vs subjectivity in the reporting of history, relevant to cc203’s lecture on Thucydides’ “History”, check out this satirical piece by the Onion, titled World War II Documentary Suffused With Anti-Nazi Undertones. (courtesy alumna Jenna Dee)

By mdimov | Posted in Curriculum, Great Questions, Uncategorized | Also tagged CC203, Nazi, objectivity, Onion, subjectivity, Thucydides | Comments (0)

Fourth of July on the Esplanade

July 4, 2013 at 9:00 am

The Core wishes a happy Fourth of July to all students – especially those lucky enough to be there at the Esplanade for the celebration! Kara Baskin of The Boston Globe writes: July Fourth commemorates the Declaration of Independence. It is hard to feel independent when cheek-to-jowl with someone in a foam Statue of Liberty […]

By mdimov | Posted in Activities, Announcements, Community, Core in the City, Events, Great Photograph | Also tagged celebration, Charles, Declaration, Esplanade, fireworks, gathering, Independence, July, people, River | Comments (0)

Salvador Dali Show on View at Hillel

May 7, 2013 at 1:10 pm

Relating to the Core’s study of the Old and New Testaments, is a fascinating series of lithographs from later in Salvador Dali’s career, titled Aliyah: The Rebirth of Israel, depicting the history of the Jewish people’s return to Israel. Here is an extract from BU Today’s article on the topic: While 250 copies of the Aliyahlithographs were […]

By mdimov | Posted in Academics, Art, Community, Curriculum, Great Ideas, Great Personalities | Also tagged Art, commemoration, exhibition, Israel, jewish, paintings, Salvador Dali | Comments (0)

Boston: Forever Changed

April 22, 2013 at 2:47 pm

Former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, who teaches here at BU, shares his reaction to the Boston Marathon bombings: Out of town, watching the horror on a screen, in a familiar place on a familiar occasion, I thought first of my daughter, who works at Mass. General, and my daughter-in-law, who was in Copley Square […]

By mdimov | Posted in Announcements, Community, Great Questions, In the News | Also tagged Boston, grief, poem, poetry, tragedy, tragic | Comments (0)

When Dickens met Dostoevsky

April 18, 2013 at 11:39 am

Relating to the studies of CC202 is an article by Eric Naiman discussing a supposed encounter between Dostoevsky and Dickens. Here is an extract: I have been teaching courses on Dostoevsky for over two decades, but I had never come across any mention of this encounter. Although Dostoevsky is known to have visited London for […]

By mdimov | Posted in Academics, Community, Core Authors, Great Personalities, Great Questions | Also tagged account, authors, Charles Dickens, Dostoevsky, encounter, evidence, false, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, literature, meet | Comments (0)

A Review of Eric Hobsbawm’s Posthumous Essays

March 28, 2013 at 2:13 pm

In his article for the Guardian, Richard Evans discusses the late Eric Hobsbawm’s posthumous collection of essays, and how they reflect the changes in the historian’s views over time. Here is an extract: What Hobsbawm’s Marxism also did, however, was to turn him from a lifelong optimist – while it was still possible for some to think, […]

By mdimov | Posted in Community, Future of the Book, Great Personalities | Also tagged article, culture, decline, Eric Hobsbawm, essay, historian, review, Richard Evans | Comments (0)

MassMoca Trip in March

February 12, 2013 at 5:23 pm

The Core encourages students to join the BU Art History Association on a trip to MassMoca on Saturday March 2nd. MassMoca is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual and performing arts in the country (for their official site, visit http://bit.ly/XwXaBv). The cost of the trip is $10 and includes transportation, guided tour, and box […]

By mdimov | Posted in Activities, Announcements, Art, Community, Core in the City, Events | Also tagged arts, contemporary, exciting, experience, museum, new, travel, trip | Comments (0)

Paula Byrne: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and politics

January 25, 2013 at 4:35 pm

The class of CC202 delves into Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Here the Core presents an article looks at that work from another perspective- politics. Here is an excerpt: The Victorians fostered the idea of Austen as the retiring spinster who confined her novels to the small canvas of village life. In more recent times she […]

By mdimov | Posted in Academics, Curriculum, Great Ideas, Great Questions | Also tagged article, CC202, context, interesting, Jane Austen, militia, novel, politics, poverty, prejudice, pride, romantic | Comments (0)

Summer Program in Athens, Greece

December 14, 2012 at 11:52 am

The Core Curriculum and the Department of Classical Studies invite you to consider studying with us this summer in Athens, Greece. The program will consist of two courses to be taught on the beautiful campus of Deree: The American College of Greece, situated in the Agia Paraskevi suburb of Athens. Students will study the Greek […]

By mdimov | Posted in Academics, Activities, Announcements, Community, Curriculum, General Announcements, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2013, abroad, courses, culture, Deree, Greece, Greek, language, new, program, Summer | Comments (0)

The lingering effects of slavery in America

February 15, 2011 at 9:20 am

Prof. Thornton Lockwood writes… In my CC204 lecture on race earlier this month, I raised the issue of the Historian’s fallacy, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (Latin for “after this, therefore because of this”), which consists in attributing a causal sequence between two events based on the fact that one event follows another. My lecture […]

By CAS Core Curriculum | Posted in Great Questions | Also tagged CC204, demographics, Du Bois, Inequality, race, statistics, war | Comments (0)

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