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Julie Damron, Asian Near Eastern Languages, and Jennifer Quinlan, MTC Language Curriculum Manager, will present this week’s colloquium on Thursday, March 18th at 3:00 pm via Zoom. They will be discussing their recent research centered around online language teaching. Title: “Student Motivation and Stress in Language Classrooms Amid Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning” About ten …
This week’s Humanities Center Colloquium will be co-sponsored with our Translation Studies research group and will be held on Thursday, March 4 at 4pm (an hour later than usual) via Zoom. We will be joined by Sergio Waisman, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literatures at The George Washington University. His monograph Borges and Translation: The …
The Humanities Center will host a colloquium on February 25th at 3:00 to feature the winners of the Center’s Humanities & Social Justice Student Contest. The winners of the contest are as follows: See the Essay Winners here. See the Creative Arts Winners here. Essay Winners: 1st Place – Anonymous Honorable Mention – Abby Thatcher …
Our colloquium this week will be given by Juliana Chapman, Assistant Professor of English and a member of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS) research group. She will be presenting on her recent research focusing on music and sound in Chaucer’s poetry. Please join us on Thursday, February 18th at 3:00 pm via Zoom. Title: …
This week’s colloquium will be held on Thursday, February 11th at 3:00 pm via Zoom. Peter Leman, Associate Professor of English, will discuss his effort to locate the missing skull of his ancestor, the great 19th-century Apache leader Mangas Coloradas. Mangas, or “Red Sleeves,” was considered the most important figure in Apacheria in his day, fighting tirelessly …
BYU’s 4th Annual World Interfaith Harmony Week (WIHW) Lecture will take place on Thursday, February 11, 2021. Renowned Duke Divinity School scholar, Grant Wacker, will speak to the topic “Errand to the World: Billy Graham’s Vision for a Global Gospel.” For more than five decades Billy Graham (1918-2018) ranked as one of the most influential …
In December Willie James Jennings of Yale Divinity School paid a virtual visit to campus to discuss his books The Christian Imagination and After Whiteness. It was a very illuminating visit, but the format did not allow for BYU faculty to discuss the implications of his ideas among ourselves. This colloquium will be an opportunity to …
Last year, ODH teamed up with Digital Matters at the U to extend an invitation to Julia Flanders (Northeastern) to speak. That co-sponsored event is finally happening on 4 February, from 2:30-4:00pm via Zoom. Flanders is, among other things, the director of the Digital Scholarship Group in the Northeastern University Library, the director of the Women …
The Humanities Center is pleased to welcome Kathryn Greene-McCreight for our Faith & Imagination Lecture Series. Greene-McCreight is associate chaplain at the Episcopal Church at Yale, priest affiliate at Christ Church in New Haven, and author of the powerful book Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness. She will be discussing …