Colloquium: Marc Yamada

Marc Yamada, Associate Professor of Comparative Arts and Letters will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, January 13th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. For those who prefer to join via Zoom: https://byu.zoom.us/j/94078851742 Title: Shared Spaces of International Cinema BYU’s International Cinema screens around 100 films by …

Lecture with Barbara Newman

For those who prefer to join via Zoom: https://byu.zoom.us/j/94078851742 Professor Newman (Ph.D. Yale) is known for her work on medieval religious culture, comparative literature, and women’s spirituality. Her most recent books are a translation of Mechthild of Hackeborn’s The Book of Special Grace (2017) and Making Love in the Twelfth Century (2016).  She is also the editor/translator of Thomas of Cantimpréé: …

Colloquium: Will Carr

Will Carr, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, March 10th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. For those who prefer to join via Zoom: https://byu.zoom.us/j/94078851742 Title: Socrates, Freud, and Francisco Franco Walk into a Bar: How One Spanish Loser Joked Truth …

Colloquium: Kenton Rambsy

Kenton Rambsy is an Assistant Professor of African American literature at the University of Texas at Arlington. His areas of research include 20th and 21st century African American short fiction, Hip Hop, and book history. He is a 2018 recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship and author of two digital books #TheJayZMixtape and …

Colloquium: Humanities and Social Justice Student Competition

The Humanities, Belonging, and the Gospel: Student Essay & Creative Works Competition For those who prefer to join via Zoom: https://byu.zoom.us/j/94078851742 Students from within the College of Humanities have submitted essays and creative works on the prompt below.  The winners will present at this week’s colloquium.    In August 2021 BYU issued a “Statement on Belonging” that makes …

MARS Lecture: Walter Melion

Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, where he directs the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (Emory’s institute for advanced study in the humanities).  He is author of three monographs and over eighty articles, co-author of two exhibition catalogues, and editor or co-editor of more than twenty …

Colloquium: Walter Melion

Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, where he directs the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (Emory’s institute for advanced study in the humanities).  He is author of three monographs and over eighty articles, co-author of two exhibition catalogues, and editor or co-editor of more than twenty …

Lecture with Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist and an American Treasure. She will be giving a lecture via Zoom to interested BYU students and faculty on Thursday, February 3rd.  Students who want to meet together to hear the lecture are invited to do so in the HBLL Auditorium. For those who wish to attend, please …