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The Humanities Center will sponsor three tracks at BYU’s Education Week this year. The classes will feature BYU faculty from the College of Humanities and highlight various topics. Please join us August 21 – 25, 2017 at 11:10 AM in W-112 Benson Building (BNSN) Lifelong Reading: 5 Best… Wednesday — Dennis Cutchins; “Five Movies That …
The Humanities Center will sponsor three tracks at BYU’s Education Week this year. The classes will feature BYU faculty from the College of Humanities and highlight various topics. Please join us August 21 – 25, 2017 at 9:50 AM in W-112 Benson Building (BNSN). Finding Christ in the Humanities Tuesday — Cynthia Hallen; …
Marie Orton will present for the Humanities Center’s Colloquium on Thursday, May 18th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Title: “Migration Literature and the Politics of Changing National Identity” In Italy, migration literature, like the social reality from which it springs, is highly contested. Beginning with a handful of texts in the early 1990s, migration …
The Humanities Center welcomes Jeff Kosky, professor of Religion at Washington and Lee University, as this semester’s Faith and Imagination speaker on Friday, April 7th with two events held during the day. 11:00 AM in 4101 JFSB, we will be discussing Kosky’s book “Arts of Wonder: Enchanting Secularity”. Lunch will be served. 3:00 PM in 4010 …
The Humanities Center, in coordination with the Office of Digital Humanities, welcomes Harry Diakoff as the Colloquium speaker on Thursday, April 6th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. He will be discussing practical applications for faculty to incorporate digital humanities into their research. Title: “Online Reading Environments for Historical Languages: Their Relevance for Language Learning …
The Humanities Center will host Jeff McCarthy, Director of Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah, as our Colloquium speaker on Thursday, March 23rd at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. McCarthy will present his current research in this field. The ocean–the actual physical thing of tides and waves Melville’s Ishmael called “the watery part of …
Billy Hall will be present for the Humanities Center’s Colloquium on Thursday, March 16th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. He will be discussing his current research about redefining the genre of 18th Century women poets. Title: “Visualizing the Daring Muse and Other Macroanalytical Adventures in Eighteenth-Century Poetry” What does the literary history of eighteenth-century …
The Translation Studies Research Group will be holding a symposium on literary translation and translation studies on March 9-10, 2017. While translation is an ancient practice, the study and theorization of translation is a relatively new field that has gained increasing momentum in recent decades. This symposium will approach both the practice and the study …
The Humanities Center welcomes Deidre Lynch, Harvard University, as our colloquium speaker on Thursday, March 2nd at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Dr. Lynch will be speaking with us about a special issue of PMLA she is co-editing for 2018. That issue title, and the title of her colloquium, will be “Cultures of Reading.” Lynch will …