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The following post was written by Jill Rudy, a Faculty Fellow for the Center. As a folklorist, I recognize this year’s Humanities Center theme, The Work of Art, resonates with issues of memorable and mundane learning. Is art something we must travel to see and to admire? Is it unique, costly, and rare? Does it …
The following post was written by Mark Davies, a Faculty Fellow for the Center. It’s always nice to find that our research and projects have some importance and relevance beyond the handful of people who might read a journal article that we’ve written, or the even smaller number of people who will be impacted in …
Writers in a variety of fields sometimes want to create wordplays and do it fast. This can be vital, for example, in preparing advertising, marketing slogans, company names, greeting cards, bumper stickers, and catchy newspaper headlines. Professor Dallin D. Oaks of the Linguistics and English Language department teamed up with Thad Gillespie and David Healey …
All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. May 19 Chip Oscarson (Comparative Arts & Letters) & Daryl Lee (French & Italian) International Film Studies and the new International Cinema Minor at BYU June 9 Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University) Asian Takeout: The Commercialization of Eastern Art in Late Nineteenth-Century …