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The Humanities Center’s Annual Symposium will take a new format this year and will feature nine distinguished guests from around the world and three of our own faculty. The first of two days being held on Friday, September 21st on BYU campus in the JFSB, and the second on Saturday September 22nd at Sundance Resort. All …
BYU Humanities Center welcomes Marianne Hirsch, William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference, as the first guest in our fall colloquium series on Thursday, September 13 at 3:00 PM …
The RVSG’s Book History Seminar (BHS) will kick off on Thursday, September 6, with two events featuring Dr. Tom Mole, Director of the Centre for the History of the Book (U. of Edinburgh) and co-author of The Broadview Introduction to Book History. 3-4 PM: Tom Mole “House of Learning” lecture in the HBLL auditorium on …
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. Humanities in the Digital Age 9:50 AM — 10:45 AM (222 MARB) Monday: Video Games and the LDS Family – Dr. Michael Call …
Sara Phenix, French & Italian, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, May 31st. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: Bodice Politic: Fashion, Fiction, and Physiology in Nineteenth-Century France Description: Most scholarship about nineteenth-century French fashion focuses on either its role as social currency or …
Roger Macfarlane, Comparative Arts & Letters, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, May 17th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: “Eurydices Deserve Better: Another Look at Adaptations of a Classical Myth” Roger Macfarlane has enjoyed support from the Humanities Center Fellowship in pursuing adaptations of …
The Humanities Center welcomes Andrew Prevot, Associate Professor of Theology at Boston College, as this semester’s Faith and Imagination speaker on Friday, April 13th with two events held during the day. Book Discussion: 11:00 AM in 4010 JFSB We will be discussing Prevot’s book, Thinking Prayer. Faith & Imagination Lecture: 3:00 PM in B192 JFSB (EIZ …
Nearly two years ago, the Humanities Center launched its Faith and Imagination series. Its aim is to engage and learn from scholars whose work blazes creative and important pathways between secular and religious ways of understanding the world. One of our guests, for example, had written an award-winning book about the resurgent investment in religious wonder …
MARS co-hosts, with the Maxwell Institute, the campus visit of John Rogers, a Miltonist from Yale. On Friday 30 March, at 3 pm, John will be giving a lecture on Orson Pratt and Milton’s materialism, in the Education in Zion theater B192 JFSB. Did John Milton’s seventeenth-century epic poem Paradise Lost play a role in the early development of …
On Thursday, March 29th the Humanities Center welcomes Mark Sandberg and Steven Sondrup for a colloquium presentation. They will be discussing a major volume of literary history: Nordic Literature: A Comparative History, vol. 1. Please join us at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Title: “The Spatial Turn in Literary Historiography: A Celebration of the Publication of Nordic …