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This post was written by Julie Allen, HC Faculty Fellow, Department of Comparative Arts and Letters I spent a weekend in Chicago recently at a conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Danish American Heritage Society. The society was founded in a living room in Oregon in 1977 as a response to the cultural heritage …

This blog post was written by Hannah Leavitt, Humanities Center Student Fellow This month, 100 years will have passed since the October Revolution of 1917, the uprising that shook Europe and demolished the Russian Empire and its monarchy. During the ensuing civil war, the rise of communist power, and the changes and chaos that Bolshevik …

This post was written by Holly Boud, Humanities Center Intern On Thursday, the Humanities Center was pleased to host Dr. Hester Oberman of the Arizona State University. She gave an incredible talk about the new and emerging field of medical humanities and its place in the medical field, especially in terms of healing. She emphasized …

This post was written by Matt Wickman, Director of the BYU Humanities Center My initial motive for writing the blog post this week was to bring some attention to an event our BYU Humanities Center is hosting this Thursday, September 28th. Hester Oberman, of the University of Arizona’s Department of Religious Studies and Classics, is …

This post was written by Elisabeth Loveland, Humanities Center Student Fellow Humanities scholars are more or less challenged to cope, on an existential level, with an infinite volume of factoids and interpretations-on-said-factoids, all of which cannot be neatly jammed into your term paper’s bibliography, let alone your personal knowledge. You don’t have infinite years, you …

This past weekend I celebrated a milestone birthday: I’m 80. Alright, shave three decades off that number, though in some ways I feel 80. Years ago, when a department colleague turned 50, his friends – or, perhaps, sworn enemies – taped a picture on his door of him lying in a coffin, smiling. I believe …

This post was written by Mark Davies, HC Fellow, Linguistics Department Why do languages change? The answers that some linguists tended to give 100-150 years ago strike us as being quite absurd nowadays. For example, they sometimes looked to the physical environment as a motivation for language change, such as the fact that the Germanic …

This post was written by Holly Boud, Humanities Center Intern Have you ever noticed how many water metaphors we use in our language? Brainstorming. Surfing the web. Glass half-full (or empty). First/second/third wave feminism, etc. Our language is saturated … (no wait) … overflowing … (argh) … dripping … (see what I mean?) with water …

This post was written by Charlotte Stanford, HC Fellow, Department of Comparative Arts & Letters When I say I am a medievalist and that I am interested in the study of medicine, I often encounter skepticism—if not a frisson of actual horror. Wasn’t that an age that practiced bloodletting? That didn’t believe in bathing? That …

This post was written by Janis Nuckolls, HC Faculty Fellow As this is my last official post as a member of the first Humanities Center executive committee, I want to publicly thank (even though thanking seems paltry and inadequate) our founding director Matt Wickman, whose vision, wit, energy, eloquence, and excitement for ALL THINGS has …