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Associate Professor Earl Brown, Linguistics, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, November 8th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. He will be discussing his corpus analysis of Twitter. Title: The Door Has Opened Wide: Social Media as Linguistic Data for Language Researchers The transition from webpages …
Margarida Vale de Gato, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, November 1st. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. She will be giving a personal/creative lecture on the relationship between poetry and translation from her own experience as …
The Humanities Center in coordination with BYU’s Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) will hold its annual ORCA Symposium on Friday, October 26th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. This year’s symposium will feature student research on a variety of topics of interest in the humanities. Blake Perry Smith – Open Source Consistency Evaluation for …
Friday, October 26th, Paul Keen, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, will join us for a “Conversations” meeting in 4010 JFSB. We will be discussing his new project “The Humanities in a Utilitarian Age,” which sheds some interesting light on the multi-century “crisis in the humanities.” Lunch will be served. Catering by …
BYU’s Romantic and Victorian Studies Group will host Paul Keen from Carleton U. in Ottawa as part of this semester’s Book History Seminar. The main meeting will be on Thursday, October 25, from 4-5:30 PM in 4188 JFSB. While we’ll likely discuss a wide range of issues related to the history of the book, our …
The Experiential Learning Research Group will be meeting Wednesday, October 17th from 4:00 – 5:00 in the Dean’s Conference Room (4010 JFSB). They will be workshopping a draft of Jamin Rowan’s essay, which is tentatively titled “Developing Civic Professionalism in the Humanities Classroom.” The article attempts to make the case for a competency-based, discipline-specific approach to the …
Associate Research Professor James Krause, Spanish and Portuguese, and Faith Blackhurst, Spanish Instructor and graduate student in Spanish & Portuguese will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, October 11th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. They will be discussing their current research on Portuguese translation. Title: “Moving …
MARS is pleased to help co-sponsor the visit of Daniel E. Christian, 2017 recipient of the Dante Society of America’s Durling Prize, who will speak to faculty and students on “Becoming Who We Are: Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Journey to Wholeness” [flyer attached]. In fact, Lingua Romana, BYU’s in-house academic journal of French, Italian and Romanian Studies …
Thursday, October 4th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB The use of technology in research has been gaining attraction steadily in recent years. Come hear from our own faculty who have successfully adopted this model on Thursday at 3pm. Charlotte Stanford, Comparative Arts & Letters, Jill Rudy, English, Chris Flood, French & Italian, & Jarica …
We are pleased to have Jonathan Nathan, a PhD candidate in Early Modern History at Cambridge and winner of the annual French Political Pamphlet Fellowship, on campus to do research in our world-class inventory of Wars of Religion tracts in HBLL Special Collections. MARS will be co-hosting a couple of events in conjunction with Jonathan’s …