{"id":5431,"date":"2017-03-24T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5431"},"modified":"2017-03-23T21:44:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T01:44:18","slug":"weekly-round-up-3-24-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/03\/24\/weekly-round-up-3-24-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 3-24-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s shakin&#8217;, scholars? This week is jam-packed with news and articles on Gilgamesh, St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, and more. Read on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A cylinder clay seal hailing from the Akkadian period (2000 BC) of Mesopotamia and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/lifestyle\/report-mesopotamia-to-modern-art-2358287\">depicting a scene from the <em>Epic of Gilgamesh<\/em><\/a>, along with 40 other antiquities from Iraq, will find its way to the 57th Venice Biennale this May to November.<\/li>\n<li>Suzanne M. Wolfe concocts a tale <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/arts-culture\/2017\/03\/22\/st-augustines-love-life-fleshed-out-confessions-x\">based on the love life of St. Augustine<\/a> in her novel <em>The Confessions of X<\/em>. Meanwhile, we are extremely concerned that the image in the corresponding article features St. Monica, Augustine&#8217;s mother.<\/li>\n<li>Soprano Julia Bullock appears as the soloist in the New York premiere of &#8220;Rime Sparse&#8221; (Scattered Rhymes), a soprano, violin, cello, and piano piece by Jonathan Berger in a program called &#8220;Love Sonnets&#8221;. A &#8220;mysterious and hazy 22-minute work,&#8221; &#8220;Rime Sparse&#8221; is composed of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/13\/arts\/music\/review-the-hazy-mysteries-of-love-at-lincoln-center.html?_r=0\">seven poems by Petrarch<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2017\/03\/14\/arts\/14LINCOLN2\/14LINCOLN2-master675.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"246\" alt=\"Soprano Julia Bullock with pianist Wu Han.  (Credit: Emon Hassan for The New York Times)\" class=\"\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soprano Julia Bullock with pianist Wu Han. (Credit: Emon Hassan for The New York Times)<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, <em>The New Yorker<\/em> has been publishing articles on Walt Whitman, which includes articles on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/lessons-on-male-insecurity-and-indigestion-from-walt-whitmans-mens-health-column\">the poet&#8217;s men&#8217;s-health column<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-claustrophobic-paranoia-of-walt-whitmans-lost-novel\">his lost novel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/jia-tolentino\/reciting-walt-whitman-at-a-drug-court-in-alabama?intcid=mod-latest\">a recitation of &#8220;Song of Myself&#8221; at a drug-court session<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-sea-salt-in-walt-whitmans-poetry\">the theme of the sea in Whitman&#8217;s poetry<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Chekhov two ways: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/dctheatrescene.com\/2017\/03\/22\/chekhov-like-youve-never-seen-three-sisters-studio-theatre-review\/\">Three Sisters<\/a><\/em> and Aaron Posner&#8217;s addendum-play <a href=\"https:\/\/dctheatrescene.com\/2017\/03\/22\/no-sisters-posners-real-time-riff-chekhovs-three-sisters-studio-theatre-review\/\"><em>No Sisters<\/em><\/a> at Studio Theatre&#8230; in tandem. As in, you can sneak a peak of a live performance of Three Sisters on video monitors on the set of No Sisters. DC Theatre Scene recommends viewing the original play first before diving into <em>No Sisters<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/dctheatrescene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nosisters4.jpg?w=700\" width=\"365\" height=\"243\" alt=\"Biko Eisen-Martin in No Sisters, video monitor visible in the background. (Credit: Teresa Wood)\" class=\"\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biko Eisen-Martin in <em>No Sisters<\/em>, video monitor visible in the background. (Credit: Teresa Wood)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well, that should tide you overfor one week. Come back soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s shakin&#8217;, scholars? This week is jam-packed with news and articles on Gilgamesh, St. Augustine, Walt Whitman, and more. Read on: A cylinder clay seal hailing from the Akkadian period (2000 BC) of Mesopotamia and depicting a scene from the Epic of Gilgamesh, along with 40 other antiquities from Iraq, will find its way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6590,2671],"tags":[48685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5432,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions\/5432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}