Calendar
Arts (March 24 through March 28)
Sunday, March 24
- All Day Alternative Visions/Sustainable Futures
- 1:00 PM Exhibition: Simultaneity
- Exhibition: Teaching the Body
- Carnaval
- 3:00 PM Boston Musica Viva "Role-Play"
Monday, March 25
- All Day Alternative Visions/Sustainable Futures
- 9:00 AM The American Civil War: Treasures from the Vault
- 6:00 PM Boston Theatre Showcase 2013
- Vision and Voice: Master Class with Lisa Kessler
Tuesday, March 26
- All Day Alternative Visions/Sustainable Futures
- 9:00 AM The American Civil War: Treasures from the Vault
- 10:00 AM Exhibition: Teaching the Body
- 11:00 AM Exhibition: Simultaneity
- 12:30 PM A music lecture by Salvatore Sciarrino
- 4:00 PM Teaching the Body: Guided Tour with Curator Naomi Slipp
- 6:30 PM Contemporary Perspectives Lecture - Amy Franceschini
- 8:00 PM The Spirit of Verdi: Bel Canto Songs and Arias
Wednesday, March 27
- All Day Alternative Visions/Sustainable Futures
- 9:00 AM The American Civil War: Treasures from the Vault
- 10:00 AM Exhibition: Teaching the Body
- 11:00 AM Exhibition: Simultaneity
- 6:30 PM Neal Rantoul: New Works and New Shows
Thursday, March 28
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- $2.5 Million Gift Creates Maria Stata ProfessorshipThe culture of ancient Greece is alive and well and living conspicuously, for those who pay attention, in the sciences, arts, architecture, politics, and philosophy of our everyday world. Now, thanks to a gift from Maria Stata (CAS’62), that enduring influence will be even more greatly appreciated by students and scholars in the College of […]
- Vanishing from an Archive Near You: History?Arrested in 2010 for a minuscule possession of pot, Connecticut nurse Lorraine Martin had her bust expunged from the court record after agreeing to drug classes. To her chagrin, however, she found employers rejecting her for jobs, for a reason she discovered after googling herself: archived news stories of her arrest, online for all to […]
- Commencement 2013: Before, During, and AfterWatch the setup, celebration, and breakdown of Boston University’s 140th Commencement in time-lapse. […]
- SPH Convocation Speaker: Become “Dauntless Doers”Julie Gerberding inhabits a world of long-winded conference calls and consensus-building meetings. “Ladies and gentlemen,” the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been known to interject, “people are dying. Let’s step up. Let’s get the decision made. Let’s move on.” But in offering advice to School of Public Health […]
- Chinese Students Adjust to American EducationLili Gu recalls his initial trepidation at the flood of white faces in his Massachusetts high school when he came to America for 10th grade. There was the hulking football player who noticed that Gu was lost one day and said—here, Gu speaks in a guttural half-grunt—“‘Hey, you want to go to the gym?’ And […]
