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”
Fall 2016
Matthew Mutter, Bard College Title: “‘What is Joy?’: Yeats, Paganism, and the Passions” November 3, 2016 W.B. Yeats claimed that the governing tension of his poetic imagination could be characterized as a competition between the “swordsman” and the “saint.” His writing figures this tension in multiple ways—Oedipus v. Christ, Homer v. von Hügel, Michael Angelo …
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 …
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) …
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 …
Conversations: Doris Sommer
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.
Colloquium: Brian Price
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.