Think clearly. Act well. Appreciate life.
This post was written by Ryan Hill, Assistant Academic Director of the BYU Humanities Center. A few months ago, as I listened to a song by Trueno, one of my favorite musicians, I was struck by the lyrics of one of the verses. In his song, “Sangría,” released in 2019, the young Argentine hip-hop/rap …
The world of ancient Christianity can be daunting, complex, and easily misunderstood. In fact, unless you hold multiple PhDs in archaeology, art history, ancient near eastern studies, patristics, classics, and theology—not to mention the ability to read Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac—then you may be at a loss for where to even begin learning about …
January 25 @ 2:00 PM (4010 JFSB) Wendy Baker Smeome and Dan Dewey (Linguistic and English Language), Jennifer Bown (Germanic and Slavic Languages), and Rob Martinsen (Spanish and Portuguese) Language Acquisition in Immersion Environments February 14 @ 3:00 PM (4188 JFSB) Dana Bourgerie (Asian & Near Eastern Languages) February 22 @ 11:00 AM (4010 …
All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. January 23 Travis Anderson, (Philosophy) What is an Author after Kierkegaard? The Significance of Pseudonymous Authorship for Textual Hermeneutics January 30 Tony Brown, (German & Russian) will lead the discussion among 20 professional & academic guests Humanities Plus: Advancing Global Dialogue and …
All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. January 22 Tony Brown (German and Russian), Jennifer Bown (German and Russian), and Bill Eggington (Linguistics and English Language) “Developing Global Proficiency through Debate.” January 29 David Laraway (Spanish and Portuguese) “American Idiots: Outsider Music and the Philosophy of Incompetence” …
This essay was written by Justin F. White, a BYU Humanities Center faculty fellow. In “A Theory of Jerks,” Eric Schwitzgebel describes the jerk as someone who “culpably fails to appreciate the perspectives of others around him, treating them as tools to be manipulated or fools to be dealt with rather than as moral and …
All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. May 17 Roger Macfarlane (Comparative Arts & Letters) “Eurydices Deserve Better: Another Look at Adaptations of a Classical Myth” May 31 Sara Phenix (French & Italian) “Bodice Politic: Fashion, Fiction, and Physiology in Nineteenth-Century France”
When I was eighteen and a freshman at UC Irvine, I was deeply unsure of what I wanted for my short- and long-term future. Of one thing I was certain: I did not wish to be a college student. Symptomatic of that wish to be elsewhere and otherwise, I made a weekly trip up to …
This is the third installment of a three-part series on spiritual exercises in humanistic registers. The impetus for this series derives from my interest in the nature, meanings, and forms of spiritual experience in secular as well as religious contexts. As one aspect of that wider interest, I’ve been struck by a particular appeal to …
All Colloquia will take place in JFSB 4010 at 3:00pm unless otherwise specified. January 18 Brian Croxall (Digital Humanities) “Test Tubes, Book Spines, and Broken Contracts” January 25 Julia Lupton (UC Irvine) “Trust in Theater: An Entry into Shakespeare’s Virtues” February 15 Janis Nuckolls (Linguistics) “The Role of Onomatopoeia in Renaissance English, Radical Protestantism, …
