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The AOA research group will be hosting Sarah DeMott (Digital Research Specialist, NYU) who was part of the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis’s year-long Archipelagoes Seminar on Tuesday, February 28, 3:00-4:30pm (4186 JFSB). We’ll be workshopping an essay she’s writing for an in-progress essay collection called Archipelagic Thinking (eds. Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel and Michelle Stephens). In the …
“Networks, Nodes, and New Approaches to Adaptation Studies” is a conference sponsored by the Brigham Young University Humanities Center that will be held on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah 24-25 February 2017. The conference will explore innovative approaches to the question of adaptation especially as it connects to different forms of …
Paul Westover will present for the Humanities Center’s Colloquium on Thursday, February 23rd at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Dr. Westover will share some of the principal ideas behind his recent edited collection, Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century (2016). These include arguments for the importance of recovering (a) readers’ emotional engagements with books …
Laura Zientek will present for the Humanities Center’s Colloquia series on February 16th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Refreshments will be served. In his first century CE poem, Civil War, Lucan narrated the conflict between political factions at the end of the Roman Republic and illustrated the moral, political, and physical consequences of the …
Bernard Geoghegan, visiting Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies at Yale University as well as a Senior Lecturer in Media & Communications at Coventry University, will join the Humanities Center via Skype for a Conversations meeting on Friday, February 10th at 12:00 PM in 4101 JFSB. Recently, Geoghegan edited a special dossier of essays …
The Humanities Center, in partnership with the University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center, the University of Utah English Department, and the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, is sponsoring the second annual Digital Humanities Conference (DHU2) held at the University of Utah on February 10 – 11th. The symposium will feature a keynote address …
The Romantic and Victorian (RVSG) research group will welcome Rachel Teukolsky, an Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, on Thursday, February 9th at 4:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. She will be discussing her current research, “the ways that new forms of visual culture worked to shape key Victorian aesthetic concepts.” http://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/rachel-teukolsky If you are interested in …
A write-up for this lecture can be read here.
The Humanities Center welcomes Rita Felski, University of Virginia, as our Annual Symposium guest speaker on Friday, February 3rd at 3:00 PM in the EIZ Theater. This talk will consider how the language of attunement can capture certain aspects of aesthetic experience. Is it possible to talk about the agency and the presence of art works–yet …
Norman Wirzba, Duke University, will present for the Humanities Center’s colloquium on Thursday, January 26th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. He will be talking with us about “the nature of the world” — a big picture approach to an upcoming book about eco-theology. A write-up of his presentation can be read here. Catering by El …