Think clearly. Act well. Appreciate life.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Doris Sommer from Harvard University will be joining us via Skype on Friday, October 23 at 12:00 pm in room 4010. She will be discussing Public Humanities and aspects of her book, The Work of Art in the World.
Brian Price will present Mexico in the Key of Rock: Thoughts on Music, Literature, and Film at our weekly Colloquium on October 15th @ 3:00 in JFSB 4010. Catering by El Gallo Giro Mexican Grill.
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 …
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.
The following post was written by Mark Davies, a professor of Linguistics and English Language and one of the Humanities Center’s Faculty Fellows. Corpora (large collections of highly-searchable texts) are obviously useful for linguistic analysis. But as I’ll try to show in this short blog post, they are also potentially very useful for research on …
Brian Russell Roberts is a Humanities Center Faculty Fellow and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Universitas Sebelas Maret in Central Java, Indonesia. With Keith Foulcher (Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney), he has written Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright, Modern Indonesia, and the Bandung Conference, forthcoming from Duke University Press, Spring 2016. …
The following post was written by Laura Catharine Smith, a professor of German and Slavic Languages and one of the Humanities Center’s Faculty Fellows. Each year, faculty in the humanities face the same question from students: Why should I get a degree in the German/French/Philosophy/Classics, etc.? The question is generally followed up with a remark stating …