Jacqueline Goldsby (English Department, Yale University), “The Art of Being Difficult: the Turn to Abstraction in African American Poetry and Painting during the 1940s and 1950s,” Friday, March 7th, 1:00-2:30 in JFSB B192 (Education in Zion Theater).
Colloquium Series: Leslee Thorne-Murphy and Frank Christianson
Leslee Thorne-Murphy and Frank Christianson will discuss how the nineteenth-century culture of altruism raised fundamental concerns about the relationship between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors that continue to shape debates over the role of philanthropy in civil society. That conversation, in turn, has bearing on how we frame a public role for the Humanities …
Colloquium Series: Grant Lundberg
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.
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 …