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Aaron Eastley, Associate Professor of English, will present at this week’s Humanities Center colloquium, on Thursday, March 20th at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB. This presentation will explore how poets who move between countries use their experiences in different places and cultures to shape their writing. Refreshments will be served. Title: “All Distance Gone”: Leslie …
Gretchen Case, from the University of Utah, will join the Health Humanities research group on Friday, March 14th at 2:30 pm in 4010 JFSB. During this informal presentation, Gretchen will present her current research and discuss the new medical humanities curriculum she helped develop at the University of Utah. About our guest: Gretchen A. Case …
Please join us for a conversation on Thursday, March 13th at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB about the benefits of cultivating a professional, public-facing presence on social media. We will learn from Johnny Allred (English), Ben Crosby (English), Josh Perkey (Assistant Dean of Digital Media and Communications), and Kylie Brooks (BYU Social Media Manager) about …
George Handley, Professor of Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Humanities and Coordinator of Global Environmental Studies at Brigham Young University will join the Humanities Center this week on Thursday, March 6th at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB. His presentation will examine the current climate crisis and how literature in the Anthropocene offers valuable environmental insights that …
The Humanities Center is pleased to welcome Brandon Baird, associate professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies and Linguistics at Middlebury College, as our colloquium speaker on Thursday, February 27 at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. His presentation will explore how speaking English with a Spanish accent in the US can trigger negative stereotypes. We hope you will …
The Humanities Center welcomes Jennifer Banks, Yale University Press, as our colloquium speaker on Thursday, February 13th at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB. Her presentation will focus on the importance of birth and its relationship with language. We hope you will join us. Earlier in the day from 11:00 to 12:30 pm in 4010 JFSB, …
Our colloquium this week features the Foreign Language Housing Research Group on Thursday, January 30th at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB. They will sharing their research about balancing language development and belonging in a domestic language immersion program. Refreshments will be served. Title: Integrating Native Language and Meditation to Enhance Immersive Learning Assistant Professor Shinsuke Tsuchiya …
Matt Ancell, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, joins the Humanities Center as this week’s colloquium speaker on Thursday, January 23rd at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB. He will be discussing his recent research into Calderón’s works and the uncertainty and conflicts of the English Reformation as portrayed in Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Ambassadors. We …
The BYU Humanities Center’s first colloquium of the year will feature Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professor, Timothy Hampton, from UC Berkeley. His presentation will focus on the interplay between joy and cheerfulness in European Renaissance literature. We hope you will join us on Thursday, January 16th at 3:00 pm in 4010 JFSB. …
Come see our new art exhibit during an open house in the Humanities Center (4101 JFSB) on Thursday, December 12 from 3:00 – 4:00 pm. Refreshments will be served. Hanging on by a Thread: Strung Together through Faith and Fears There are two threads that run through our lives—the first, our fears, often holds us …