COLLEGE CENTERS AND SERVICES
BYU Humanities College Meeting 2014
HUMANITIES CENTER We have another exciting year taking shape, with virtually all of our considerable activity emerging from the work of our faculty. Highlights for the upcoming year include • a new annual theme, “Disappearance,” with K. David Harrison of Swarthmore College invited to give our Annual Lecture (Oct. 17th) and Eric Hayot of Penn State the featured guest for the Annual Symposium (Feb. 27th) • weekly colloquia – Thursdays at 3:00 in JFSB 4010 • “Conversations” meetings – on provocative, cross-disciplinary scholarship or pertinent topics of broad concern – scheduled for Sep. 12th and Oct. 31st • a distinguished lecturer associated with Black History month • special events involving scholars from a dozen institutions (e.g., a symposium on lyric poetry, another on Romantic literature), with other events in the planning stages (e.g., a multi-institution event on environmental studies) • the launch of new research groups (“African Worlds,” “Derrida and the Question of Religion”), with more planned or in discussion (on translation, the origins of critical theory, urban studies, and more) • guest lectures co-sponsored with the Office of Digital Humanities (e.g., Ted Underwood, University of Illinois) • several Humanities Lab DH projects • one-year research fellowships for faculty with CFS • ORCA Symposium Oct. 10th featuring excellent undergraduate research On the horizon, hopefully: • more resources for research groups, enabling greater student collaboration (in the form of research for course credit or paid assistantships) and a symposium for every group the middle year of a three-year funding cycle
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