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The film (and media studies) research group is hosting Michael Baskett, associate professor of film and media studies at Kansas University whose research interests include East Asian film, Transnational and diasporic cinemas, early world cinema, and colonial film culture. Professor Baskett will be here to give a public lecture as well as participate in a …
The Genre Fiction and Modern Thought Research Group will meet with Professor Manina Jones from the University of Western Ontario, Friday, 4-5:30 pm, JFSB 4010.
Algee-Hewitt will offer a workshop on some digital tools that he has used in his most recent publications ,Nov. 15, 1:30-4:30, room by request
Mark Algee-Hewitt, Associate Director of the Stanford Literary Lab will present a lecture on a major digital humanities project he and his colleagues are undertaking entitled “The Taxonomy of Titles in the 18th-Century Literary Marketplace. Friday, Nov 15, 11am-12pm, JFSB B092
An international conference hosted by Brigham Young University. This interdisciplinary conference celebrates the bicentennial of Søren Kierkegaard’s birth by examining Kierkegaard’s significance for our current moment. The conference will be held at Brigham Young University in scenic Provo, Utah. The dates are November 14–16, 2013.
We will hold our first ORCA Symposium featuring the work of four students from the College who have received ORCA grants for their research. Four students will present their work, followed (at 4:00) by a keynote talk on the relationship between poetry and science from Bryce Christensen of Southern Utah University. Friday, Nov. 8th from 2:30-5:00 in JFSB …
Mark Canuel, Professor of English and a respected scholar of Romantic Literature, will workshop his essay-in-progress entitled “Romanticism’s Imperfect Perfectionism”. Those who are interested in participating in this discussion are encouraged to read Canuel’s paper ahead of time. Please email me or Nick Mason (nick_mason@byu.edu) if you would like a copy of that paper.Friday from 11-12:30 in JFSB …
Once or twice per year, the Center invites members of BYU’s faculty from another college to present on ways their work intersects with humanities disciplines. Nathan Furr, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Marriott School, will speak to us about his work on the subject of innovation. “Innovation and the Humanities” happens to be this …
Meeting for a prospective research group on media studies: Thursday from 10-11 in JFSB 4101 (and then, for those who can’t attend that hour, from 11-12, also in 4101), a few members of our college, along with some scholars in the College of Fine Arts, will meet to explore the possibility of organizing a research group around …
Yunah Hong visit and film screenings: the award-winning Korean filmmaker Yunah Hong will be visiting campus this week. Thursday at 12:00in JFSB B092 she will give a presentation entitled “Searching for Anna May Wong and Other Creative Asian-American Women.” Later that day she will screen two new films, “Anna May Wong” and “Between the Lines.” A reception for …