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Dr. Heidi J Hornik is a Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art & Art History at Baylor University. She will select excerpts from her book The Art of Christian Reflection published by Baylor University Press and reflect upon the meaning and cultural significance of the art. Background pertaining to the …
Scott Alvord Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, Spanish & Portuguese will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, October 14th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB and via Zoom. In this presentation he will discuss some of the basic premises of sociolinguistics and illustrate how sociolinguistic and variationist …
This week’s colloquium will feature Jacob Rawlins, Associate Professor of Linguistics, on Thursday October 7th at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB. Title: Secret Presses and the Prostitute Press: The Colorful History of Welsh Publishing The Welsh people and the Welsh language have survived invasion, migration, oppression, revolt, resistance, religious and social upheaval, and economic depression. The books of Wales …
This week’s colloquium will feature Nate Kramer, Associate Professor of Comparative Arts & Letters. The presentation will begin at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB on Thursday, September 30th. It will also be available to view on Zoom via this link https://byu.zoom.us/j/94078851742. Professor Kramer will be discussing his current research on the national memorializing process and …
The BYU Humanities Center’s Annual Symposium will be held Friday, September 24th on BYU’s campus and Saturday, September 25th at Sundance Resort. The symposium will feature guests from around the world and will focus on belief, what it is and what it means today. We hope you’ll join us. Please register for this event here: …
James Clifton, Director of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will join the MARS research group on Monday, September 20 in 4010 JFSB at 4:00 pm. Please make plans to join us (with a mask) and invite your MA students, as well …
Mary Eyring, Associate Professor of English and American Studies will be our first colloquium speaker of the semester on Thursday, September 9th at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB or via Zoom: https://byu.zoom.us/j/91071986631. We hope you’ll join us. Refreshments will be served. Title: “Early American Disability at Sea” To be injured at sea was so common …
Finding Christ in the Humanities 11:10 AM — 12:05 PM (222 MARB) Wednesday: “Caravaggio’s Art: Finding Christ in the World” – Dr. Matt Ancell This class is an introduction to the painting of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). By focusing on some of his religious scenes, we will discuss how Christ interacts with humanity, and …
Our colloquium this week will feature Dr. Teresa Bell, Associate Professor of German & Russian. She will present her current debate textbook which focuses on task-based language study that can expand a learners’ ability to create and invent with the language and to receive feedback to improve their target language. Mark your calendars and plan …
Please join us on Thursday, March 25th at 3:00 pm via Zoom for this week’s colloquium. Emron Esplin, Associate Professor of English will begin to share the untold history of competition and collaboration that surrounds the several (re)translations of the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges into English between 1962 and the late 1990s. He will …