January 2014

Leslee Thorne-Murphy and Frank Christianson will discuss how the nineteenth-century culture of altruism raised fundamental concerns about the relationship between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors that continue to shape debates over the role of philanthropy in civil society. That conversation, in turn, has bearing on how we frame a public role for the Humanities …

Grant Lundberg (Germanic Studies and Slavic Languages) will speak on dialect leveling and the role of local identity in language use in Slovenia. Thursday, February 6th, 3:00pm, 4010 JFSB.

Symposium outcome Articulate a clear strategy for integrating the humanities in the professional world.   Thursday, 30 January   Introductory remarks, 9:00-10:45 (4010 JFSB) Tony Brown (Associate Professor of Russian, Brigham Young University) John Rosenberg (Dean of the College of Humanities, Brigham Young University) Matthew Wickman (Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University and …

“Have We Passed the Cultural Turn? Current Developments in Film and Cultural History”, panel discussion. Friday, January 17, 3:00-4:30 JFSB 4010.