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 …

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; …

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 …

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 …

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 arches in the snow

Winter 2015

All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified.   January 22 Tony Brown (German and Russian), Jennifer Bown (German and Russian), and Bill Eggington (Linguistics and English Language) “Developing Global Proficiency through Debate.”   January 29 David Laraway (Spanish and Portuguese) “American Idiots: Outsider Music and the Philosophy of Incompetence” …

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 …

Winter 2014

All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. January 23 Travis Anderson, (Philosophy) What is an Author after Kierkegaard? The Significance of Pseudonymous Authorship for Textual Hermeneutics January 30 Tony Brown, (German & Russian) will lead the discussion among 20 professional & academic guests Humanities Plus: Advancing Global Dialogue and …