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Dana Bourgerie will present for the Humanities Center’s first colloquium of the semester on Thursday, January 19th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Dana will discuss the current state of the Cambodian Family History project, part of our Applied Humanities research group. Title: “Remembering Cambodia” For more information about the project please visit http://cambodianoralhistories.byu.edu
Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds, will be joining the Humanities Center via Skype for a “Conversations” meeting on Friday, Dec. 2 in 4010 JFSB. She will be discussing her recent work, “Is Feminism a Trauma, a Bad Memory, or a Virtual Future?” differences 27:2 (2016): 27-61. Once we conclude that portion of the discussion — Q&A with …
Matt Bernico, from Greenville College, will be visiting BYU and speaking to faculty and students on Wednesday, November 30th in B037 JFSB. Title: “The Gesture of Belief: Mediating Presence Through Apocryphal Technology” Technology is somehow caught up in our systems of belief––we sometimes stumble upon technology that has no functional purpose, but yet it sets into …
The Humanities Center welcomes Paul Moulton, an Associate Professor of Musicology at the College of Idaho, as our colloquium speaker on Thursday, November 10th at 3:00 PM in 4101 JFSB. Musical genius seems mysterious and at times super-human. Although these musicians do indeed exhibit something exceptional, the construct of a musical genius really doesn’t appear until Beethoven. …
The Humanities Center welcomes Matthew Mutter, assistant professor of English at Bard College. He will meet with faculty to discuss the a pre-circulated chapter of his forthcoming book, Restless Secularism: Modernism and the Religious Inheritance (Yale University Press, 2017). His lecture, open to all interested faculty, students, and friends, will be held on Thursday, November …
In the commemorative year of both Shakespeare and Cervantes deaths, Dr. Brean Hammond, University of Nottingham, and Dr. Carlos Alvar, University of Alcala de Henares, will give a lecture for Humanities faculty and students on Thursday, October 27th at 3:00 PM in the EIZ Theater (B192 JFSB). Brean Hammond: “Shakespeare and Cervantes: Encounters and Dis-encounters” …
Please join the FTTV research group for a Fairy Tale Salon on October 20th from 5:00 – 6:00 PM in 4101 JFSB. Details from the FTTV blog: The group started this idea because of a blog post about the end of [CW’s] second Beauty and the Beast series where a blogger wondered if this was “the beginning of …
Doug Weatherford will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, October 20th @ 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Juan Rulfo (Mexico, 1917-86) is best known for a collection of short stories (El Llano en llamas, 1953) and a novel (Pedro Páramo, 1955) that would help usher in the so-called “Boom” of Latin American narrative. In …
MARS is combining with English and Women’s Studies to host Marina Leslie, Northeastern University, on Thursday October 20 and Friday October 21. Thursday, October 20th 12:00 – 12:50 PM in B092 JFSB Combined Women’s Studies symposium and MARS talk: “The Impossible Exemplarity of Anne Green” Friday, October 21st: ”Proxies and Doxies”: MARS research group discussion (faculty and graduate …
The Humanities Center in coordination with BYU’s Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) will hold its annual ORCA Symposium on Friday, October 14th at 3:00 PM. This year’s symposium will feature student research on a variety of topics of interest in the humanities. Tamara Thomson — “The Intersection of Truth, Memory, and Fiction in …