{"id":5285,"date":"2017-02-03T11:30:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2017-02-02T19:58:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:58:33","slug":"weekly-round-up-2-2-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/02\/03\/weekly-round-up-2-2-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 2-2-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky you, there are two link compilations this week! (Find the special <em>Epic Times<\/em> edition <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/02\/01\/weekly-round-up-epic-times-edition-2-1-17\/\" title=\"Weekly Round-Up: Epic Times Edition, 2-1-17\">here<\/a>.) The world of literature and the arts are simply <em>booming<\/em> lately. Read on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Director Phyllida Lloyd presents the conclusion to a trilogy of Shakespearean plays with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/goings-on-about-town\/theatre\/the-tempest-9\">her retelling of <em>The Tempest<\/em><\/a>. Set in a women&#8217;s prison, it explores themes of reverie and reality with clever interpretations of classic scenes from the play.<\/li>\n<li>Clmence Boulouque reviews Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg&#8217;s work <em>Moses: A Human Life<\/em> for the <em>New York Times<\/em>. Zornberg studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/01\/books\/review\/moses-human-life-biography-avivah-gottlieb-zornberg.html?_r=0&amp;module=ArrowsNav&amp;contentCollection=Book%20Review&amp;action=keypress&amp;region=FixedLeft&amp;pgtype=article\">Moses and his humanity<\/a>, drawing in references &#8220;spanning Hasidic masters, George Eliot, Zizek and Beckett, among others.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Accomplished Italian skier Sofia Goggia, besides taking the World Cup circuit by storm, has an affinity for Latin and poetry and is said to have <a href=\"http:\/\/wtop.com\/news\/2017\/01\/poetry-in-motion-goggia-skis-with-a-literary-soul\/\">taken a pilgrimage to John Keats&#8217; gravesite in Rome<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/87\/John_Keats_Tombstone_in_Rome_01.jpg\" class=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"326\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here lies One \/ Whose Name was writ in Water. The grave of John Keats by Piero Montesacro via Wikimedia Commons. [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0]<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The Jane Austen Society of Pakistan (JASP) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khaleejtimes.com\/keeping-jane-austen-alive-in-pakistan\">plans on publishing a collection of short stories<\/a> entitled <em>Austenistan<\/em>, comprising of stories set in Pakistan as a tribute to Austen on the 200th anniversary of her death.<\/li>\n<li>Zarathustra the cat, owned by Russian artist Svetlana Petrova, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/fat-cats-posed-in-botticelli-klimt-and-other-classical-paintings-go-viral-243553\">&#8220;improves&#8221; famous works of art<\/a>, including but not limited to: the <em>Mona Lisa<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/01\/28\/florence-italy-comes-to-boston-botticelli-at-the-mfa\/\" title=\"Florence, Italy, Comes to Boston: Botticelli at the MFA\"><em>The Birth of Venus<\/em><\/a>, and <em>The Creation of Adam<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 361px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2015\/02\/article-2663752-1EF6D74300000578-951_638x404.jpg\" class=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"222\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Born this way. Via Fat Cat Art.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That should do it! We hope all this Core-related news provides good fodder for conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky you, there are two link compilations this week! (Find the special Epic Times edition here.) The world of literature and the arts are simply booming lately. Read on: Director Phyllida Lloyd presents the conclusion to a trilogy of Shakespearean plays with her retelling of The Tempest. 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