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The winter semester kicks off its Colloquiua series with a presentation by Brian Croxall, in the Office of Digital Humanities. The event will be held on Thursday, January 18th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Title: “Test Tubes, Book Spines, and Broken Contracts” In this presentation, Dr. Croxall will discuss two of his long-running research …
We are excited to inform you that the Jazz-Blues research group’s “Music and the Written Word” one-day conference will be held on BYU campus on Friday, December 8th. Our keynote speaker that day will be Todd Williams, formerly the saxophonist and clarinetist of the Wynton Marsalis Quintet, Septet, and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and currently Assistant Professor of …
Philip Barlow, Neal A. Maxwell Fellow at the Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU and the Leonard J. Arrington Professor of Mormon History & Culture at Utah State University, will present at the final colloquium of the semester. Please join us, Thursday, Dec. 7th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Title: “Shards of Combat: …
Katya Jordan will present for the Humanities Center’s Colloquium on Thursday, Nov. 16th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Title: “Turgenev’s Fatherless Children and the Rise of Populism.” In the 1870s Russia, the battle cry “To the People!” inspired hundreds of university students to abandon their studies in large cities and head to the countryside in …
Monday, Nov. 13: our guest speaker, Masha Gessen, a Russian and American author and activist, will give two presentations related to her latest book, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Riverhead Books, 2017). The presentations will take place at 10:00 a.m. (251 TNRB) and at 3:00 p.m. (1170 TMCB). The 10 am will …
The Humanities Center welcomes Romana Huk, English professor and editor-in-chief of Religion & Literature at Notre Dame University, as this semester’s Faith and Imagination speaker on Friday, Nov. 10th with two events held during the day. 11:00 AM in 4101 JFSB — A discussion about publishing in the field of religion (or “belief”). Lunch will be served. …
Dawan Coombs, will present for the Humanities Center’s Colloquium on Thursday, November 2nd at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Title: “Ideological Becoming: The Possibilities of Dialogical Pedagogy” Russian literary critic and philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin explored the dialogic aspects of language and the role of dialogism in literary works. But the implications of his philosophies extend beyond …
Cecily Raynor, Assistant Professor of Languages, Literature, & Culture at McGill University will join the Humanities Center on Thursday, October 26th at 3:00 PM for a Colloquium. Title: Using Digital Methods to Approach Contemporary Writing: Case Studies from Latin America How might digital tools such as text mining, web analytics and web archiving help scholars …
Anahid Nersessian professor of English at UCLA, and Jonathan Kramnick, Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University will join the Humanities Center via Skype for a “Conversations” meeting on Friday, Oct. 20th at 12:00 PM in 4101 JFSB. We will be discussing their recent research collaboration on literary criticism and what form actually explains. Title: …
The Humanities Center in coordination with BYU’s Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) will hold its annual ORCA Symposium on Friday, October 13th 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. Allen Kendall – Antiochus IV and the Origin …