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The Adaptation Studies research group will be hosting film scholar and translator Claudia Gorman (UW Tacoma) 4-5 February who will be leading a two-day discussion about voice in film. Gorbman has translated been the translator for French film theorist Michel Chion and is also an important scholar in film studies dealing specifically with questions of …
A Conversations meeting will be held on Thursday, January 28th at 3:00 PM in room 4010 JFSB. Gregg Roberts, World Language and Dual Language Immersion Specialist from the Utah State Office of Education, will briefly discuss the history of Utah’s dual language immersion (DLI) program, including recent growth in enrollments, schools, and languages offered. He …
Following turns to the transnational and hemispheric, early Americanists are now extending their view of America to attend to global oceanic and terrestrial contexts. Our mini-conference at BYU on January 23rd will interrogate the possibilities this global turn opens and the challenges it presents. In order to promote true interdisciplinarity, each panel features both a historian and a literary …
James Swensen will be presenting at our weekly Colloquium on Thursday, January 21 at 3:00 PM. His topic is: Place and the Photographic Medium. He will be discussing his more recent scholarship on the ways in which American photography and art are rooted in the notion of place and the American West. Catering by Malawi’s Pizza
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Juliette Wells, Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at Goucher College, will visit the Romantic and Victorian Research Group on Thursday, January 14th at 4:30 PM in room 4186 JFSB. More information will follow.
Jeremy Browne & Matt Wickman will present at our weekly Colloquium on Thursday, January 14th at 3:00 PM in 4010 JFSB. Their presentation is titled What are the Public Humanities? No, really, what are they? They will be discussing a survey they created and distributed to several dozen humanities centers worldwide to try to ascertain …
Willis Jenkins, from the University of Virginia, will join the Environmental Humanities group to discuss his book, The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice and Religious Creativity. There will also be a conversation, led by George Handley, (BYU) on the subject of religion in higher education. Please see the complete schedule below. December 7, 2015 …
Willis Jenkins, from the University of Virginia, will join the Environmental Humanities group to discuss his book, The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice and Religious Creativity. There will also be a conversation, led by George Handley, (BYU) on the subject of religion in higher education. Please see the complete schedule below. December 7, 2015 …
Seth Koven, Professor of History, Rutgers University will be visiting the Romantic and Victorian Research Group in December. Seth recently won the NAVSA Best Book of the Year prize for The Match Girl and the Heiress, a study of the radical reform collaboration of two women who came from opposite ends of the economic …