AMRG will visit with Gorton Hutner of the English Department at the University of Illinois, Erbona Chamapgne about Hutner’s new research on the twenty-first-century novel. Friday, 4 – 5:30pm
Colloquium Series: Gordon Hutner
Gordon Hutner from the English Department of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will talk about the state of academic publishing Friday, Nov. 1st, 11am, JFSB 4186.
Colloquium Series: Christopher Oscarson, “Ecological Spectatorship”
Friday the 25th of October, 1:00-2:00 pm, JFSB 4010
Humanities Lab: Literature Group
The next meeting of our Hum Lab — Lit Group will be this Friday, Oct. 25th from 10-11 in JFSB 4010 (the Dean’s Conference Room). We will be visiting with Ted Underwood of the English Department of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (For more information about Underwood’s excellent digital humanities blog “The Stone and the Shell” see …
Conversations Series Meeting
Four members of the Department of Linguistics and English Language — Don Chapman, Janis Nuckolls, Wendy Smemoe, and Mark Davies — will discuss the residual prescriptivism of our language practices in the university and in society more generally. This includes the political arena, where prescriptivism has been a touchy subject for supporters of Bush and …
Digital Humanities Colloquium Series
Bruce Schaalje (from Statistics) will discuss the outcomes of an experiment in which a computer “read” several decades worth of General Conference addresses to determine whether a correlation exists between the mood of talks and particular global events, like the state of the economy. This event features a really fascinating, increasingly important exercise in the …
Colloquium Series: Women’s Studies and the Humanities
– Valerie Hegstrom, Amy Harris (BYU Department of History) and Connie Lamb (BYU’s Women’s Studies Librarian) will discuss the history of women’s studies at BYU and current work by core members of the Women’s Studies Research Group.
Humanities Lab
Our Humanities Lab has two groups: a “literature” group and an “impact” group, with the latter exploring the impact of the humanities on other fields. The “impact” group will meet to discuss a plan for formulating its projects. Tuesday from 1-2 in JFSB 4010
Conversations Series
“Publicly Engaged Scholarship and Teaching” The next in the series of Humanities Center “Conversations Series” meetings.The purpose of this series, you recall, is to raise awareness about issues of current significance (or widely perceived urgency) in the humanities.
Colloquium discussion
Colloquium discussion with Saree Makdisi, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, room and time TBA