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Fall 2016

All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. September 8 Delys Snyder (English), Phil Snyder (English), & Jeremy Browne (Digital Humanities) “McCarthy, McCorpus, and Medium Data:  Using Questions from Literary Analysis to Create and Research a Digital Corpus of One Author’s Collected Works” September 29 Ilona Klein (French & Italian) …

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Spring 2016

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 …

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Winter 2016

All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. January 14 Jeremy Browne (Digital Humanities) & Matt Wickman (Humanities Center Director, English) What are the public humanities? No, really, what are they? January 21 James Swensen (Art History) Place and the Photographic Medium February 4 Sergio Waisman (Spanish and International Affairs; …

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Colloquium: Mark Davies

Mark Davies will present at our weekly Colloquium on November 19th @ 3:00 in JFSB 4010. His presentation is titled: Looking at changes in American culture and society with large corpora. Many people are familiar with the ways that data from Google Books has been used to look at changes in culture and society, such …

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Annual Symposium: Caroline Levine

Caroline Levine will be our guest scholar at the Humanities Center’s Annual Symposium. Caroline is currently a professor in the English department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Book Discussion — 11:00 – 12:30 pm Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network in JFSB 4010 Symposium Lecture — 3 – 4:30 pm in the Education in Zion …

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2015

  Friday, October 16 from 3:00 – 5:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Cai Elisabeth Olsen —” Mergulhando nos Bastidores: The Translation Errors Surrounding Grande Sertão Veredas” Ash McMurray — “Korean Drama and Philosophy” Ash’s research focused on how South Korean historical dramas advance the arguments of classical Chinese philosophy. He examined three dramas as argumentative …

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Fall 2015

All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. November 19 Mark Davies (Linguistics) October 30 Mari Yoshihara (American Studies; University of Hawaii, Manoa October 15 Brian Price (Spanish & Portuguese) Mexico in the Key of Rock: Thoughts on Music, Literature, and Film October 8 Translation Studies Group October 1 Dee Gardner …

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Colloquium: Translation Studies

The  Translation Studies Research Group will present at our weekly Colloquium on October 8th @ 3:00 in JFSB 4010. The group will present on the state of the Translation Studies field as well as current research. Catering by Banana Leaf.