Guest speaker, Simon Critchley, will give a lecture entitled, “Tragedy’s Philosophy”. Feb. 21st, 3-5, JFSB B192 (Education in Zion Theater)
Annual Lecture: Simon Critchley
Guest speaker, Simon Critchley, will give a lecture.
WSTAR Faculty Workshop
WSTAR Faculty Workshop Feb. 18, 2014 4:15-5:15 PM 2114 JFSB Dr. Amy Harris, Associate Professor of History will present her work, “Leaving a Legacy” from A Single View: Family Life and the Unmarried in Georgian England In this chapter Harris explores how unmarried and childless people thought about genealogy, lineage, and posterity in 18th century England. The …
Colloquium Series: Kerry Soper
Kerry Soper (Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature), “It’s a MAD (magazine) world: Ideological ambivalence in the journals’s back-page, ‘fold-in’ parodies”. He will explore the ideological complexities of parody and satire in MAD magazine, with a focus on the long-running, back page “fold-ins” by Al Jaffee. February 13, JFSB 2010, 3:00-4:00pm.
Reading Group: Film and Media Studies Research Group
The Film and Media Studies Research Group will be meeting to discuss the first few chapters of Jussi Parikka’s book “What Is Media Archaeology?” Friday, Feb 7, 12:00 in JFSB 4010.
Colloquium Series: Grant Lundberg
Grant Lundberg (Department of German Studies and Slavic Languages), “Language Use and Identity”.–February 6, 3:00-4:00pm, JFSB 4010.
Conference: Humanities Plus
Symposium outcome Articulate a clear strategy for integrating the humanities in the professional world. Thursday, 30 January Introductory remarks, 9:00-10:45 (4010 JFSB) Tony Brown (Associate Professor of Russian, Brigham Young University) John Rosenberg (Dean of the College of Humanities, Brigham Young University) Matthew Wickman (Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University and …
Colloquium Series: Travis Anderson
Travis Anderson (Philosophy), “What is an Author after Kierkegaard? The Significance of Pseudonymous Authorship for Textual Hermeneutics” — January 23, 3:00-4:00, in JFSB 4010.
Public Humanities
The Public Humanities group will hold a meeting discussing the latest developments in our public humanities efforts and planning ways to make BYU more visible on the public humanities fronts. Everybody is welcome to attend this meeting. Friday, from 1-2 in JFSB 4101
The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology
The first of our seminars planned in conjunction with the visit of Simon Critchley’s visit to BYU in February. The subject of the seminar is Critchley’s 2012 book The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology. This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding; special thanks to …