Gordon Hutner from the English Department of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will visit us and give this weeks colloquium. Friday, Oct. 1st, 11pm, 4186 JFSB.
“Conversations” Series meeting
Thursday, Oct. 24th from 2-3 in JFSB 4010 (the Dean’s Conference Room). 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 …
“Ecological Spectatorship”
Colloquium Series: Christopher Oscarson. Friday the 25th of October, 1:00-2:00 pm, JFSB 4010
Colloquium Series: Women’s Studies
“I believe in women, especially thinking women.” – Emmeline B. Wells Valerie Hegstrom, Amy Harris (BYU Department of History), and Connie Lamb (BYU’s Women’s Studies Librarian) will discuss what Women’s Studies has meant to BYU and current research by members of the Women’s Studies Research Group. October 16th at 3:00 in JFSB B099.
Fall 2013
September 12 @ 2:00PM (4188 JFSB) Nancy Christiansen, English Revisiting the Renaissance Humanists’ Defense of the Studia Humanitatis October 16 @ 3:00 PM (B099 JFSB) Valerie Hegstrom (Spanish & Portuguese), Amy Harris (History), & Connie Lamb (Women Studies Librarian) What Women’s Studies has meant to BYU and current WSTAR research October 25 @ 1:00 …
Telling Our Story, Part 2: Jennifer Bown, Affect, and the Thought of Feeling
Cognitive theories have long informed various aspects of study in the humanities, often emerging as a corrective to arguments that accord too great a role to environmental influences. The study of language acquisition was one of the first subjects to accommodate serious study of the brain. For example, when in the 1950s B. F. Skinner …
Humanities Center Winter Symposium: Media and Environment
Two hugely important words pertaining to humanities scholarship are “media” and “environment.” Hence, our 2013 Winter Symposium will focus on the digital and environmental humanities. We have an outstanding lineup of speakers—you are sure to find their talks stimulating—and we hope you will attend.
Telling Our Story, Part 1: Mark Davies, Billion-Word Databases, and “Big” History
That the present era of “big data” should be characterized by a spirit of pragmatism may seem surprising after so many decades of “big theory” about the impact of new technologies. Scholars have grown familiar with arguments concerning the effects of the information age on what it means to be human: Donna Haraway’s 1985 treatise …
Jazz and the Art of Civic Life
The Humanities Center and American Studies program welcomes Loren Schoenberg, tenor saxophonist and Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and Jonathan Batiste, rising jazz star, to BYU for a series of events organized around the theme of “Jazz and the Art of Civic Life.” Emphasizing the relationship of jazz to the subjects of …
Winter 2013
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 …