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On Thursday, March 29. Caroline McCracken-Flesher (Wyoming) and Susan Oliver (Essex) will be visiting BYU’s campus, and the RVSG research group will hold two events that day: 1. At 1:30 p.m. in B192 JFSB, the EIZ Auditorium, Caroline will be giving a lecture called “Stories in Signatures: Visitors to Walter Scott’s Abbotsford and Jane …
The MARS faculty talk, “Our Lady of Grace at Cambrai: A Holy War for Devotional Hegemony,” will be presented by Elliott Wise of the Comparative Arts and Letters Department. It will be a 20-minute paper presentation followed by Q&A. Elliott is an art historian specializing in late medieval devotional imagery. When: Monday 26 March, 4-5 …
Noted composer, woodwind artist, and CalArts professor Vinny Golia will pay a special visit to our Jazz Blues for the Humanities group on March 21. We will have a working lunch with him from 12-2 up in the dean’s conference room (4010 JFSB). Vinny will teach us about “The History of Jazz in L.A.” Vinny Golia has been a featured performer with …
The Humanities Center welcomes Tony McEnery, Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science and Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, as our Annual Lecture guest speaker on Tuesday, March 20th at 3:00 PM in the EIZ Theater. Title: “Word Meaning on the Margins: Exploring marginalized groups in 17th century England” The …
John Durham Peters, María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies at Yale University, will join the Humanities Center for two events in March. Colloquium: Thursday, March 15 @ 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB On Thursday, March 15, Professor Peters will talk about the weather — seriously. He is undertaking a …
Heather Belnap, Comparative Arts & Letters, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, March, 8th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Title: “Representations of Violence Against Women in Restoration France” In this presentation, Dr. Belnap will introduce her book-length study of imagery related to the sexual …
Daryl Hague, Spanish & Portuguese, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, March 1st. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4101 JFSB. He will be discussing his recent translation studies project. “The Roles of Imagination and Empathy in Translation” Whether explicitly or implicitly, translation-competence models recognize translators’ ability …
The Humanities Center welcomes Milette Shamir, Department of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University, as our Colloquium speaker on Thursday, February 22nd at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Title: “Henry James and the Aesthetics of Dignity” “Human dignity” scholarship (a booming industry over the past fifteen years) has so far concerned itself but little …
Janis Nuckolls, Linguistics & English Language, will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, February 15th. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. “The Role of Onomatopoeia in Renaissance English, Radical Protestantism, and Ideas about Language and Nature” If you have ever read a picture book to a young …
The Humanities Center welcomes Julia Lupton, English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, as our Colloquium speaker on Thursday, January 25th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. “Trust in Theater: An Entry into Shakespeare’s Virtues” In his Letter 88, Seneca writes disparagingly of literary scholarship: The scholar busies himself with investigations into …