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The Medieval and Renaissance Studies research group welcomes Amy Hollywood, Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School. She will give the group’s annual keynote lecture on Wednesday, February 20th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. More details forthcoming. Title: “Medieval Mystical Christologies”
The Humanities Center welcomes Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University. She will give our annual lecture on Friday, February 15th at 11:00 AM in 4010 JFSB. If you are interested in joining this discussion, contact Matt Wickman for a copy of Kathleen’s book, Generous Thinking. Title: “Generous …
Professor Julie Allen, Comparative Arts & Letters, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, February 7th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. She will be discussing her current research on cinema in Australia and New Zealand. Title: “Mapping Cinema Ghosts: Film, Culture, and Settler Colonialism in …
Professor Kirk Belnap, Asian & Near Eastern Languages, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, January 31st. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: “Reflections on a 30-Year Experiment with Experiential Learning and Cognitive Dissonance” The aims of a liberal arts education were clearly spelled out …
The Humanities Center welcomes Rico Vitz, professor and chair of the department of Philosophy at Azusa Pacific University. He will give our colloquium presentation on Thursday, January 24th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. More details forthcoming. Title: “Mencius, Hume, and the Virtue of Humanity: A Comparative Analysis of Benevolent Moral Development”
The Humanities Center will kick off the winter semester colloquium series with a roundtable discussion centered on the topic of scholarship & activism on Thursday, January 17th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. We hope you’ll join us. One of the questions perennially confronting scholars in the humanities is the degree to which their work empowers …
Please join us for the final colloquium of the semester given by Assistant Professor Elliott Wise, Comparative Arts & Letters, on Thursday, December 6th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. He will be discussing his current research on the history of religious art. Title: “Amber, Blood, and the Holy Face of Jesus: The Materiality of …
Assistant Professor, Mark Purves will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, October 18th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: Facing Unpleasant Facts: The Insolubility of Disillusionment in Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov. For Anton Chekhov, disillusionment is the consequence of an overly committed worldview. The more rigid …
Psychoanalysis Reading group, in conjunction with the department of Spanish and Portuguese, is hosting the renowned scholar, theorist and practicing psychoanalyst Manuel Asensi November 27-29. The group will have two in-depth discussion sessions on various essays with Asensi while he is here. These discussions will take place Tuesday & Thursday at 11:00 AM in 4101 JFSB. On Wednesday, November …
The big symposium our Humanities Center hosted in September introduced a range of perspectives pertaining to the theme of vulnerability. This follow-up event will attend primarily to what vulnerability means relative to our teaching practices, especially regarding the interplay of faith and intellect. Our guest, Bo Karen Lee (of the Princeton Theological Seminary), will give a brief …