Humanities Center

Grant Lundberg (Germanic Studies and Slavic Languages) will speak on dialect leveling and the role of local identity in language use in Slovenia. Thursday, February 6th, 3:00pm, 4010 JFSB.

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 …

“Have We Passed the Cultural Turn? Current Developments in Film and Cultural History”, panel discussion. Friday, January 17, 3:00-4:30 JFSB 4010.

Travis Anderson of the Philosophy Department will give his colloquium, “What is an Author after Kierkegaard? The Significance of Pseudonymous Authorship for Textual Hermeneutics”, January 23 at 3pm in room 4010 of the JFSB.

Dear Students,   Now that we’re nearing the end of the semester, I’d like to take the time to meet with you, explain what the Humanities Center is about, explain what involvement with it can do for you and answer your questions and get your feedback. We plan to hold this meeting next Friday, December 13th, …

2013-14   Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research   Title: “Tragedy’s Philosophy”   February 21, 2014, 3:00-5:00, JFSB B192 (Education in Zion Theatre)   Also, on February 20th, Critchley will discuss his book The Faith of the Faithless in JFSB 4010 at 3:00.

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 …