ORCA Symposium

On Friday, Nov. 8th from 2:30-5:00 in JFSB 4186/88 we will hold our first ORCA Symposium featuring the work of four students from the College who have received ORCA grants for their research. Four students will present their work, followed by a keynote talk on the relationship between poetry and science from Bryce Christensen of Southern Utah University.

“Conversations” Series meeting

Thursday, Oct. 24th from 2-3 in JFSB 4010 (the Dean’s Conference Room). Four members of the Department of Linguistics and English Language — Don Chapman, Janis Nuckolls, Wendy Smemoe, and Mark Davies — will discuss the residual prescriptivism of our language practices in the university and in society more generally. This includes the political arena, where …

Colloquium Series: Women’s Studies

“I believe in women, especially thinking women.” – Emmeline B. Wells   Valerie Hegstrom, Amy Harris (BYU Department of History), and Connie Lamb (BYU’s Women’s Studies Librarian) will discuss what Women’s Studies has meant to BYU and current research by members of the Women’s Studies Research Group. October 16th at 3:00 in JFSB B099.    

Plants outside the JFSB

Fall 2013

  September 12 @ 2:00PM (4188 JFSB) Nancy Christiansen, English Revisiting the Renaissance Humanists’ Defense of the Studia Humanitatis October 16 @ 3:00 PM (B099 JFSB) Valerie Hegstrom (Spanish & Portuguese), Amy Harris (History), & Connie Lamb (Women Studies Librarian) What Women’s Studies has meant to BYU and current WSTAR research October 25 @ 1:00 …

Museum of Art rainbow ceiling art

Winter 2013

  January 25 @ 2:00 PM (4010 JFSB) Wendy Baker Smeome and Dan Dewey (Linguistic and English Language), Jennifer Bown (Germanic and Slavic Languages), and Rob Martinsen (Spanish and Portuguese) Language Acquisition in Immersion Environments February 14 @ 3:00 PM (4188 JFSB) Dana Bourgerie (Asian & Near Eastern Languages) February 22 @ 11:00 AM (4010 …

Columns in the JFSB courtyard

Fall 2012

    November 5 @ 1:00 PM (B192 JFSB) Cynthia Buckingham (Executive Director of the Utah Humanities Council) The State of the Humanities in the State of Utah November 14 @ 1:00 PM (B192 JFSB) James Faulconer (Philosophy), & Brian Birch (Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, UVU) The Mormon Moment: What Just Happened? What’s …