Faith and Imagination Lecture: Jennifer Frey

Jennifer Frey, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina will present the Faith and Imagination Lecture for Fall 2022.  It will be held in 4010 JFSB at 3 PM on Friday, December 2, 2022. Title: “Iris Murdoch and Flannery O’Connor: The Necessity of Vision in Life and Literature.” Professor Frey earned a …

Roundtable on Collaborative Research

Corry Cropper, Associate Dean and Professor of French and Italian, Daryl Lee, Department Chair of French and Italian and Heather Belnap, Associate Professor of Comparative Arts and Letters with discuss their experience working on a collaborative research project.  Their presentation will be on Thursday, November 17 at 3 PM in JFSB 4010.

College Lecture on Citizenship: Jon Ostenson

Jon Ostenson will give the College of Humanities Annual lecture on citizenship on Thursday, November 10 at 3 PM in JFSB 4010.  Jon Ostenson teaches and publishes in the fields of writing pedagogy and young adult literature; for the past five years, he’s served as the coordinator of University Writing. Title: Being a Citizen of …

HumGrant Symposium

Join our undergraduate HumGrant recipients for the annual HumGrant symposium.  Selected undergraduate students from across the College of Humanities will present their original research. If you are unable to attend in person, it will also be available via zoom.

Colloquium: Earl Brown

Earl Brown, Professor of Linguistics will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, October 13. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: “How Language Usage Likely Affects Language Structure”

APSA Genealogical Imagination Conference: Daryle Williams

Daryle Williams, Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland will be the keynote speaker for the APSA Genealogical Imagination Conference hosted at BYU.  His presentation will be Friday October 7th at 6:30 pm in the Reynolds Auditorium (1060 HBLL). Title: Enslaved.org: A Short (Digital) History Daryle Williams (he/him/his) serves as UC Riverside’s Dean …

Joy Symposium Lecture: Mary Moschella

On Friday, 7 October, at 3:00 pm, Dr. Mary Clark Moschella, Roger J. Squire Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Yale Divinity School will deliver a lecture in the Education in Zion auditorium. Title: The Joy of Teaching: An Embodied Pedagogy for Troubled Times    

Joy Symposium Workshop: Mary Moschella

Dr. Mary Moschella, Roger J. Squire Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Yale Divinity School will lead a workshop for faculty focusing on joy in relationships with our students and each other. The discussion will address such topics as: 1) deliberate attention to joy in the classroom as one approach to the ongoing student …

Colloquia: Dan Paul

Dan Paul, Assistant Professor of French and Italian will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, September 29. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: “Race, Genre, and Politics: Renewing Italian Netflix TV Serials” In the days following its debut on 21 April 2021, the Netflix original …

Colloquium: Makayla Steiner

Makayla Steiner, Assistant Professor of English will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, September 22. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: “I was not a soulless animal”: Identity and Personhood in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy Identity is one of contemporary secularism’s most revered values. Indeed, …