The BYU Humanities Center welcomes Jennifer Frey as our Faith and Imagination lecturer on Thursday, March 23, 2023. Title: Poetics of Faith Sarah Bachelard is an Anglican priest and theologian based in Canberra, Australia. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University, with special interests in philosophy, ethics and spirituality. She is …
Fall 2022: Iris Murdoch and Flannery O’Connor: The Necessity of Vision in Life and Literature with Jennifer Frey
The BYU Humanities Center welcomes Jennifer Frey as our Faith and Imagination lecturer on Friday, December 2nd, 2022. Title: Iris Murdoch and Flannery O’Connor: The Necessity of Vision in Life and Literature Jennifer is currently an Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, where she is also a Peter and Bonnie McCausland faculty fellow in …
Paintings of Rocks
Rain drummed a steady symphony against our umbrella as my husband and I trekked through the sidewalk puddles in front of BYU’s Museum of Art. Couples and excited family home evening groups rushed past us, clutching donuts and flyers to their chests. Gold light streamed through the MOA’s glass doors. Dancing reflections rippled across the …
Home, Memories, and the Humanities
There is one simple question that I’ve grown to dread. People around me can answer it in the flash of a second, like a reflex. But I always have to pause. The question is so common and so fundamental to a person’s identity that to be left there stumbling over one’s words trying to come …
Why I’m not too worried about generative-AI making our students less skilled
In recent years, the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning has revolutionized the way we interact with technology. One of the most impressive developments in this field is the creation of language models such as ChatGPT, a tool that is changing the way students of computer programming learn and study. In this blog post, …
The Existential Crisis as Ensemble: Text, Context, and the Role of Choice in the Making of Meaning
I’m just out to find / the better part of me. —Five for Fighting, “Superman (It’s Not Easy)” I have an existential crisis about once a week. Upon writing that sentence, I’m realizing I don’t know precisely what an existential crisis is—that’s just what my wife and I call these episodes. Fortunately, the initial Google …