Think clearly. Act well. Appreciate life.
This post was written by Courtney Bulsiewicz, Assistant Academic Director of the BYU Humanities Center. When I was a child and would have to ride in the car for any amount of time, I would look in the cars next to ours and imagine the lives of those that passed us, slipped behind us, or …
The Humanities Center welcomes Dr. Katie Kresser, Seattle Pacific University as our Faith & Imagination Lecturer, Thursday, March 19, at 3:30pm in 4010 JFSB. Her presentation will explore why art matters and considers how taking art seriously can unlock fundamental truths and shape cultural formation. We hope you’ll join us. Refreshments will be served. Title: …
The BYU Humanities Center welcomed Leonard McMahon, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care at Pacific School of Religion, as this semester’s Faith & Imagination lecturer. Title: “Democratic Dispositions: Learning to Live together in a Post-Election World” About our guest: Leonard McMahon has a Doctorate in Theology at the Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley, working in spirituality, …
All Colloquia will take place in 4010 JFSB at 3:30 PM unless otherwise specified. Please visit the event page for more details. January 15 Damien Pollard (Northumbria University) “Voices in Stories and Stories in Voices: What Film Sound Can Tell Us about Social Change” January 22 Scott Muir (National Humanities Alliance) “Attracting Students …
This post was written by Cherice Montgomery, a BYU Humanities Center faculty fellow. Come, Follow Me The scriptures are replete with invitations from the Savior to “…come, follow me” (Luke 18:22). I thought I knew what that meant—until I attended the Genesis Writing Retreat in Oxford, England. While there, I had the privilege of lingering …
This post was written by Rex P. Nielson, Director of the BYU Humanities Center. The constant barrage of distressing news stories took a toll on me last summer. Perhaps you can relate. Headlines of crisis impacting nearly every dimension of my personal, social, professional, and political life seemed to reach a fever pitch around the …
This post was written by Sawyer Wood, BYU Humanities Center intern and student fellow. For most of my life, I thought I wasn’t a museum person. I’d been to plenty of galleries, but I didn’t see what I was supposed to do there. I would stumble through room after room, trying to match pace with …
The BYU Humanities Center is pleased to announce a new innovative curriculum development workshop intended to expand, strengthen, and give coherence to health humanities curricular offerings in the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University. We invite all faculty in the College of Humanities to apply to participate in the workshop and join us in …
This post was written by Sawyer Wood, BYU Humanities Center intern and student fellow. In fourth or fifth grade, my class made posters of our dream jobs and how we planned to get there. I’d loved writing from a young age and had always wanted to be an author, so I found an oversized poster …
This post was written by Nieves Knapp, a BYU Humanities Center faculty fellow. In his most recent General Conference address, President Oaks spoke about the 30th anniversary of The Family Proclamation and encouraged family activities, including learning languages together [1]. His comments made me think about my own life because in 1995, precisely when the …
