Calendar
Arts (March 26 through March 28)
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
- 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
- 6:00 PM Environmental Activist Group Potluck with Jaimes Mayhew
- 6:30 PM Iraq +10 Film Series: The List
- 7:00 PM Kathleen Spivack: Great Poets at Boston University
- The Tamer Tamed
- 8:00 PM Piano Duos
- Godspell
- 8:30 PM Mixed Meters in Rock, Pop, and Jazz
- BU Jazz Jam Session
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- BU at the Cannes Film FestivalBaz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby may have grabbed much of the attention at this year’s star-studded Cannes International Film Festival, which wraps up on Sunday. But the annual two-week event also features a roster of potential gems—features, short films, and documentaries from around the world. One of the festival’s lesser-known selections is Halfway Somewhe […]
- CAS’ Appavoo Nabs NSF CAREER AwardJonathan Appavoo has long been fascinated by computers. “They somehow seemed to mimic and reflect our own abilities,” he says. As he studied them in greater depth, he realized “that while they are fascinating machines, their ‘human’ qualities are largely achieved by smoke and mirrors. That being said, their ability to be programmed to do […]
- $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. […]
