Call for Papers BYU Humanities Center Annual Symposium, Fall 2026 “Touch: Sensation, Embodiment, Relation” The sensation of touch is produced by one of the most complex systems in the human body. Current neuroscience research, for example, estimates that the human hand alone contains roughly 17,000 mechanoreceptors—bundles of cells, nerves, and sensory units—that relay myriad stimuli …
Winter 2026: Katie Kresser
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: …
Winter 2026
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 …
Health Humanities Curriculum Workshop
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 …
Undergraduate Research Symposium 2025
The Humanities Center will hold its annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on Friday, November 7 at 3:00 PM in the EIZ Theater (B192 JFSB). This symposium will highlight student research recently conducted as part of their Humanities Undergraduate Mentoring (HUM) Grant. This year’s presenters include: Hazel Mattson (Linguistics) — Stop speaking like you’re from the Mountains: …
Next Year’s Theme for the Annual Symposium
The Humanities Center invites proposals for next year’s annual symposium theme. This theme sets the intellectual tone for the college and provides a framework for convening meaningful conversations across disciplines. Faculty members interested in shaping this conversation are encouraged to submit a proposal by October 26. For questions or to discuss a potential idea, please …
CFP: “The Stories We Tell”
Storytelling, broadly defined, represents an effort to understand the world. It is, as Peter Brooks has written, “…one of the principal ways we organize our experience…” If story, as many scholars have argued, is little more than a sequence of events, storytelling is the process by which we give shape to those events, emphasizing what …
Undergraduate Fellow Nominations
We are currently looking for a new group of Humanities Center undergraduate fellows. Generous donors have made it possible for us to fund at least four student fellowships – the equivalent of a full scholarship – next year. As always, our pool of candidates will consist solely of nominations sent by you, our faculty. The …
Faculty Writing Retreat 2025
Call for Applications: BYU Humanities Center Summer Writing Retreat 2025 Deadline: 14 March 2025 Inspired by the productive example of the National Humanities Center, we are pleased to announce that the BYU Humanities Center will sponsor a Summer Writing Retreat this year from June 2 – 7 at the beautiful Zermatt Resort in Midway, UT. …
One Year Fellowships 2025-26
BYU’s Humanities Center sponsors two one-year faculty fellowships. Unlike the multi-year fellowships, these one-year fellowships will be awarded by application rather than appointment. The fellowship period will begin in the fall semester of 2025. Fellowships will come with a salary supplement of $2,500, a research stipend of an additional $2,500, and release from two courses …