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Ed Cutler from the English department, will be the colloquium presenter on Thursday, October 13th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Recent discoveries from the Paleolithic world have unsettled conventional accounts of human development, with cave paintings in Europe, Asia, and Indonesia dating up to 30,000 years earlier than anthropologists would have expected. The findings …
The Jazz-Blues for the Humanities research group will welcome Elijah Wald, an American folk-blues musician and author. He will give a public lecture on Wednesday, October 12th at 4:00 PM in the EIZ Theater (B192 JFSB), and will discuss his new book Dylan Goes Electric. Title: “Dylan Goes Electric!: Music, Myth, and History” Read a write-up …
In partnership with Asian Studies, Women’s studies, and Asian & Near Eastern Languages the Humanities Center will sponsor a guest lecture by Tani Barlow. Dr. Barlow is a distinguished scholar of Asian History and founding director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. She will give a public lecture on Monday, October 10th …
The Archipelagoes, Oceans, Americas research group will host a 2-day symposium on October 6-7, 2016. Events will take place throughout the day on both Thursday and Friday in various locations. This symposium offers a critical opportunity to reflect on contemporary currents in archipelagic and oceanic thought within the humanities, inviting participants to imagine a variety …
Charlotte Stanford will present for the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, October 6, 2016. The presentation will be held at 3:00 PM in room 4101 JFSB. Title: “Tracking Henry VIII’s Construction Crews: Job Security and Mobility for the Building Trades in 1530s London” Henry VIII was probably the most prolific builder of any English monarch. …
The Archipelagoes, Oceans, Americas research group will host a 2-day symposium on October 6-7, 2016. Events will take place throughout the day on both Thursday and Friday in various locations. This symposium offers a critical opportunity to reflect on contemporary currents in archipelagic and oceanic thought within the humanities, inviting participants to imagine a variety …
Drs. Ilona Klein, French & Italian, and Steven Wood, Chemistry, will present at the Humanities Center’s weekly colloquium on Thursday, September 29 at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. This colloquium will discuss why humanists need chemists and why chemists need humanists to decode our own life’s symbols, quandaries, and questions. Mendeleev’s periodic table is as amazing …
The Medieval and Renaissance Studies research group welcomes Jane Hatter, University of Utah, on Thursday, September 29 at 11:00 AM in B-190 JFSB. Please join us as she discusses music and art in the fifteenth-century. Title: “Memento Mei: The Living and the Dead in Fifteenth-century Music and Art” In the fifteenth century, a large body …
The BYU Humanities Center’s welcomes Dr. Gregg Lambert from Syracuse University, as our Annual Lecturer which will be held on Friday September 23, 2016. Dr. Lambert is Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and director of the Central New York Humanities Corridor. The title of his presentation will be: “Philosophical Fundamentalism Today” In this lecture Professor Lambert will …
Marilynne Robinson will join faculty for a special Question & Answer session on Friday, September 16th at 2:00 PM in the EIZ Theater (B192 JFSB). This event is for faculty only, but if you have graduate students whom you feel would especially benefit from being at this event, please contact George Handley and he will …