All members of the campus community—students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends—are invited to join us for any of the excursions, cultural events, lectures, film screenings, and social gatherings we have scheduled as part of the year-long celebration of the Core tradition at Boston University. Events with more available information or particular RSVP requirements are listed below as links to Facebook or Eventbrite pages. For more information about any of these events, email our staff at core@bu.edu.
2019-2020 Events
September
- 14th. The 2019 All-Core Fall Welcome Picnic. 12-3 PM, on the BU Beach. RSVP on Facebook.
- 18th. Lecture: Susan Sauvé Meyer on Becoming a Better Person: Aristotelian Reflections
- 20th. An EnCore Reception during Alumni Weekend
- 27th. Excursion: Museum of Science College Night with the Core Peer Tutors
October
- 1st. Throwback Film Screening Series: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989); 5 PM in CAS B-36
- 3rd. Lecture: Thomas Meyer on Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss and the War of Ideas
- 5th. Excursion: Geologic Wonders of Boston
- 8th. Throwback Film Screening Series: Glory (1989)
- 17th. Lecture: Erith Jaffe-Berg on Jews and Theatre in Early-Modern Northern Italy (RSVP on Facebook)
- 22nd. Martha Graham Dance Performance and Greek Tragedy Lecture. (Core has tickets on reserve; to sign up for one of these, email core@bu.edu)
- 24th. Excursion: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- 28th. Lecture: Sharon Portnoff on Primo Levi
- 29th. Gorefest! A live reading of classical horror
- 30th. Lecture: Robert Boyers on Appropriation and the Creative Imagination
- 31st. Concert: Early Modern Music performed by Cappella Pratensis
November
- 1st. Film Screening: Young Marx
- 21st. Excursion: An Iliad at Arts Emerson
- 22nd. Marathon Reading of Paradise Lost
December
- 4th & 7th. Excursion: Quixote Nuevo at the Huntington Theatre
- 5th. Mathias Enard: Reading and Conversation
January
February
- 9th. Excursion: Harvard Museum of Natural History with the Core Peer Tutors
21st. Concert: Raga & Tala – Experiencing the Melodies and Rhythms of South Asia- 22nd. Excursion: JFK Museum
March
- 28th. “Spring Awakening”: High Tea with Core
April
- 1st. Staged Reading of Mankind
- 4th. Excursion: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- 8th. “Roots”: The Spring Core Poetry Reading, 7 PM at the Howard Thurman Center
- 13th. Teju Cole lectures at the Tsai Center, 7 PM
- 14th. Teju Cole discussion with students, 11 AM
- 14th. Lecture: Cornel West on W. E. B. Du Bois
- 27th. The 30th Annual Core Banquet
NB: If you’re a Core alum, you’re likely on our mailing list. If you want to send us your contact information to make sure you’re getting an invitation to all the anniversary year goings-on, or if you want to request that we not send you information about Boston-area events, send us an email or submit updated contact information via our alumni contact form.