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Associate Professor, Greg Thompson will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, September 26. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: “How foreign are the Advanced Placement world language exams? The case of ethnicity, bilinguality, and heritage learner candidates” This presentation discusses the evolution of Advanced Placement …
In 2018, the BYU Humanities Center held a symposium titled “On Being Vulnerable: ‘Crisis’ and Transformation.” BYU faculty and distinguished invited speakers reflected together on how retrenchment has become a dominant reflex of the humanities during vulnerable times, and how such a response only exacerbates the state of “crisis” from which the impulse toward retrenchment, …
The Humanities Center will once again offer a variety of classes during BYU’s Education Week. Classes will be held throughout the week and taught by faculty from the College of Humanities. Lifelong Language Learning 9:50 AM – 10:45 AM (1102 JKB) Monday: “Becoming Bilingual: Language-Learning Tips, Tricks, & Motivation for all Ages” — Dr. Rob …
The Humanities Center is pleased to welcome Mark Eaton and Matthew Smith from Azusa Pacific University. Mark is the editor of Christianity and Literature and Matthew is one of his associate editors. They will be talking with BYU’s Kimberly Johnson (English Department) about a special issue of that journal Kim has recently edited (titled “Poetics/Praxis”). …
The Humanities Center welcomes Dr. Peter Howarth, Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature and National Teaching Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, as our Faith & Imagination guest lecturer on Friday, April 12th. There will be two events held during the day, the first being a book discussion and the second, a lecture open to …
The Humanities Center welcomes Mark McGurl, Albert Guérard Professor of Literature at Stanford University. He will give our colloquium presentation on Friday, April 5th at 11:00 AM in 4010 JFSB. Title: “Wastelands” The genre of post-apocalyptic fiction sits near the center of the contemporary U.S. literary field, with instances appearing everywhere on the spectrum from …
Professor Marc Olivier, French & Italian, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, March 28th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. He will be discussing his current research in applying OOO to cinema and media studies. We hope you’ll join us. Title: “Cinematic Fear and the …
The Humanities Center welcomes Ifeoma Nwankwo, Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt. She will give our colloquium presentation on Thursday, March 21st at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Title: “Blackness in Public: Reading and Righting Vulnerability across Generations, Geographies, and Genres” “Necessity is the mother of invention.” — English language proverb “And the mind that …
Professor Bill Eggington, Linguistics, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, February 28th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. More details forthcoming. Title: “Corpus Linguistic Applications to the Law: An Overview” Refreshments will be served.
Experiential Humanities Over the past two semesters, the Experiential Humanities Research Group has pursued the following questions: How does a humanities education provide unique (and uniquely valuable) training for students regardless of career choice? How can our curriculum and programming better prepare students for post-college life? What makes experiential learning distinct from classroom learning and …