JFSB in the fall

Fall 2017

All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. September 14 Roundtable Discussion “Is Linguistics Part of the Humanities?” September 21 Steve Riep (Asian & Near Eastern Languages) “Rethinking War: Unofficial History, Missing Veterans, and “Concrete” Images of (Dis)ability” September 28          **4101 JFSB** Hester Oberman (University of …

an image of a person walking in the rain with an umbrella

Spring 2017

All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. May 18 Marie Orton (French & Italian) “Migration Literature and the Politics of Changing National Identity”

Spiral staircase in the JFSB

Winter 2017

All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. January 19 Dana Bourgerie (Asian & Near Eastern Languages) “Remembering Cambodia” January 26 Norman Wirzba (Duke University) “Agrarian Environmentalism?” February 16 Laura Zientek (Comparative Arts & Letters) “Questioning Lucan’s Nature: An examination of landscape in the Civil War” February 23 Paul Westover …

an image of a group of people walking around a building

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) …

JFSB courtyard

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 …

Tree berries next to the JFSB

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 …

JFSB rock fountain in the fall

Fall 2014

All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. September 11 David Grandy (Philosophy) The Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things’: The Philosophical and Poetic Depths of Science September 18 Dirk Elzinga (LEL) How do you say —– in Hopi? How the Deseret Alphabet was used to document an indigenous language of …

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 …

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 …