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Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning American poet and writer of Chicano and Apache descent. While serving a five-year sentence in a maximum-security prison, he learned to read and began to turn his life around, eventually emerging as a prolific artist of the spoken and written word. He is a winner of the prestigious International Award for his memoir, “A Place to …
Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning American poet and writer of Chicano and Apache descent. While serving a five-year sentence in a maximum-security prison, he learned to read and began to turn his life around, eventually emerging as a prolific artist of the spoken and written word. He is a winner of the prestigious International Award for his memoir, “A Place to …
Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning American poet and writer of Chicano and Apache descent. While serving a five-year sentence in a maximum-security prison, he learned to read and began to turn his life around, eventually emerging as a prolific artist of the spoken and written word. He is a winner of the prestigious International Award for his memoir, “A Place to …
Title: BYU’s Second Century: How Are We Doing? Guests Susan Rugh (dean of Undergraduate Education), Stephen Jones (Professor of Composition in the School of Music; former dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications), and Jim Faulconer (Senior Research Fellow in the Neal A. Maxwell Institute) will come together to discuss President Spencer W. …
Justin White, Assistant Professor of Philosophy 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: “Backsliding and Bad Faith: Aspiration, Disavowal, and (Residual) Practical Identities” Disavowals such as “That’s not …
Jarica Watts, Assistant Professor of English will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, December 2nd. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: “Virginia Woolf, Textual Mothers” Watts will discuss the research behind her manuscript-in-progress (a book of the same title), which will be the first book-length …
The Humanities Center and The Faculty Center are co-sponsoring a workshop on Friday, November 12th with Christina Bieber Lake, the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College. At 3:00 PM we will be hosting an informal discussion with her of her wonderful book Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of …
Faculty from the Office of Digital Humanities will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, November 4th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: Wrangle Your Data Before It Wrangles You! We don’t often think of humanities disciplines as data-driven. But peel back the layers of many …
Join our undergraduate HumGrant recipients for the annual HumGrant symposium. Selected undergraduate students from across the College of Humanities will present their original research. Disciplines include Art History, Philosophy, English and Spanish.
Marc Olivier, Professor of French & Italian, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, October 28th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: “Tools of the Trade: A Statistical Analysis of Slasher Hardware” I have conducted the first empirical study of slasher weapons, based on a …