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Daryl Lee Announced as New Chair of French and Italian Department

2018 Chair Reappointments

Scraps of Paper: The Oppressive and Liberating Power of a Documented Life

Endearing Underdogs of Early Film Comedy

The Golden Door to the American Dream

The Violence of Fake News

Sanderson’s Army

The Quality of Mercy and the Sword of Justice

Orpheus and Tropical Multiculturalism

Mormons and Cannibals: The [19th-century French] Musical

Why Amélie?

Exploring the Progression from Nativity to Epiphany

The Production and Consumption of Anime

David Hitchcock and Alfred Selznick: Will the Real Director of Rebecca Please Stand Up?

Wounded Knee Revisited

From Papeete to Phnom Penh

Adam Miller and Moral Creativity

Beyond the Continent

The Good in Cities

The Rise of Stephen King

Leading the Charge Against Sexism

Sami Blood: Can You Will Away Identity?

Perceiving God

The Host—Society’s Modern Monster

Giving Voice to Cambodia’s Silent Past

Recognizing Disruption—the Need for the Pause

Donating Voices to the Voiceless

Singer, Piano Man, and Fugue

The Wounds of Trethewey

Debunking “Period Brain”

ORCA Symposium 2017

Uniting Computer Coding and Humanities Thinking

Philosophers and Eclipses

The Mormon Hemingway

A Different Kind of Summer School

Mark Twain’s Mormon Girlfriend

The Heroic Housewives of the Dutch Republic

Finding Faith in the Empty Tomb

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Education for the Eternities

Devotion Engraved on the Heart

Jeffrey Kosky: Disenchanting Secular Disenchantment

Embracing the Other

The Long Road to Silence

Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking

Deidre Lynch: Jane Austen Quotation Books and the Forgotten Heroine

Underneath the Surface: Kaqchikel Film Ixcanul

What the Act of Translation Reveals

Doctor Strangelove: A Cold War Satire

Humanities Symposium 2017

The Book of Mormon in French: Conjectures and the Genius of Louis Bertrand

What Did It Feel Like to Be a Christian in Late Antiquity?

Miss Ida’s Girls: The Writings of Denise Lewis Patrick

Catholic Women in 17th-century China

Following in My Father’s Footsteps: Two Generations of Master’s Degrees in Spanish

Creating a Revolutionary State of Mind

Guest Speaker Erin Harris on Working with a Literary Agent

Staving off the Beasts: Humans and the Environment

Rachel Teukolsky on Gendered War Journalism

Pushing Artistic Boundaries in the Soviet Union

Poetry of the Wild West

Mormonism as a Nihilism

In Memory of Rick Walton

Are Mormons Funny?

A Mother’s Love in Words

Thinking Inside the Box: Reshaping the Human Earth Narrative

Living with Nature

Eighteen and Stateless

A Geek in the Middle Kingdom

Building Heiðrún – The Swedish Yule Goat

Adventsingen 2016

Hopis and Missionaries: The Use of the Deseret Alphabet to Document the Hopi Language

Noël en France

IC Lecture: Heather Jensen on Francofonia

BYU Team Places First in 2016 Business Language Case Competition

#AfroGraffiteiras: Female Graffiti Movement in Brazil

Louisa’s Embassy: A Noblewoman in London’s Spanish Embassy

Bringing Back Rhyming Poetry: The Work of A.E. Stallings

Alumni Profiles: Jamie Dunn

25 Years of Breaking Stereotypes: Jennifer Finlayson-Fife on LDS Female Sexuality

Britsch Lecture: The Work of Ken Burns

Why Personal Essays?

Is Moral Relativism Right?

Selling Modernity

What Is Joy?

Professor, Mentor, Friend: Doctor Williams’ Translation of Jorge de Sena

One Hundred Years of Chinese Feminism

German and Russian Department Celebrates Deutschfest

Honored Alumni Lecture: Paul Allen on Reading from “the Best Books”

The Miraculous Revival and Exoneration of Anne Green

Soldiers and Spies: Sarah Hawkes’ International American Dream

Margaret Cavendish and the Poetry of Animal Cognition

Students Report on their ORCA Grant Projects

When Dylan Went Electric

Allen Christenson’s Modern Mayas

One Earth, One People: The Poetry of Craig Santos Perez

Perspectives on Sin Throughout Philosophy

The Orpheus Myth in Modern Cinema

For the Love of Real Life – The Work of Ira Sukrungruang

Philosophical Fundamentalism and Christianity

Students in Action

A Linguist’s Recipe for Success

English Reading Series: Selections from the Poetry of Lisa Bickmore

The Fall Moon Festival

Who’s Guilty for the Holocaust?

Preserving Latin America: The Linguistic Work of Chris Rogers

The New Localization Minor in the College of Humanities

Biopic Martyrdom: the Legacy of Simon Bolívar in South America

A Meeting of Heaven and Earth

In Lovecraft’s Shadow

The Mathematics of Literature

New Leadership for Department of Philosophy

Revealing the Boxer Codex

New Chair Announced for the Department of German and Russian

Performing the Function of Language

BYU Students Top National Chinese Competition

Washington Irving in Spain

Windows to a Collective Past

International Cinema: A New Humanities Minor

Immersive Learning

Words of Faith: McKay Essay Contest Winners

“Bad Grammar” and the Book of Mormon

IC Lecture: Pathfinder and the Indigenous Gaze

The Real Gladiators

Thinking Sideways

Allyson Hobbs on the Chosen Exile of Racial Passing

Revisiting Chernobyl, 30 Years Later

Editors of “The First Fifty Years of Relief Society” Speak at a Women’s History Month Event

Riley M. Lorimer: The Questions that Matter

Pages of Brick and Stone

Sean Reyes: Prepared by the Humanities

Annual Humanities Center Lecture: Nicholas Mirzoeff on #BlackLivesMatter

Hermanas in Zion: Sujey Vega on the Sisterhood of Latina LDS Women

A Battle of Words

Truth in Terms of Beauty

Celebrating Africa

Words of Joy: The Key to Writing and Publishing

A Firsthand Account of Life in German-occupied France

Many Rivers to Cross: Experiencing the Civil Rights Movement

Rethinking What Women Read in 18th Century Portugal

Political Cuisine: Early American Cookbooks

Italians Take Back Their Title at the Fourth Annual French and Italian Culinary Battle

Women in the Congo: Margaret Young Speaks at a Women’s Studies Honor Society Fireside

Students and Faculty Celebrate the Year of the Monkey

Thawing Cranes: Emerging Freedom for Russian Filmmaking in the 1950s

Cross-Cultural Connections: Jordan Study Abroad Students Share Their Stories

Cougar Hall on the Sexualization of Women in Music Lyrics

Implicit Morphology

The Power of Words: Students Present at Africana Studies Symposium

Finding Jane: Transatlantic Austen in the Archives

What are Miracles?

Nancy Watson: Leaving a Legacy

Recognition for BYU’s Notable Essayists

A Life Among the Basque

Christmas Eve: Morally Courageous Cinema

Recognizing Patterns: Appreciating the Ordinary in Literature

Tony Brown Discusses Language Competency in the Barker Lecture

A Secret World of Beauty and Belief

The Unspoken in the Missionary Literature of Pearl Buck

Teaching Children Peace through Music

Understanding Print Media in 1960s America with Kristin Matthews

Take 5: Jamin Rowan and Charlotte Stanford on “No Place Like Home”

Entering Pan’s Labyrinth

Britsch Lecture: Parrots of the Caribbean

Playing with Storytelling in “Jogo de Cena”

Oscarson Explains the Search for Identity Amongst Absurdity in 1001 Grams

Terry Tempest Williams’ Variations on Voice

Carl Dreyer Questions Christianity in “Ordet”

Two New Publications by the Office of Christian Values in Literature

Getting Involved in Linguistics

Celebrating 50 Years in the Human Conversation

David Delbar: Discovering the Ancient with Modern Researching Techniques

The Cultural Importance of Kurosawa’s Film “Shadow Warrior”

Learning the Law to Continue a Humanistic Education

Ensuring Quality

The Lost Heritage of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Cambodia

Preserving Tradition on the Island of Women and Lace

Adding a “+” to the English Experience

Art History Fall Assembly: Caretakers of Identity

Experiencing Humanity in Two Days, One Night

Wolf Totem Premieres at International Cinema

Continuing the Pursuit of Language

Dean Scott Miller: A Vision of and for the Humanities

Improving Lifelong Reading

Lifelong Learning through Foreign Language Study

Bryce Nobles: Using the Humanities as a Catalyst for Innovation

Video Games: A New Platform for Humanities Thinking

Anchor Yourself and Soar

Taking It One Step Further: Blending Korean Culture and Language

Moving On from One Legacy to the Next

German Linguistics: Teaching the Norm

Discovering Derrida

Bridging the Gap: Humanities Advisement and Careers

Great European Films Since 2010

German and Russian Department to Host International Conference

Going Forth to Serve

Humanities Grads Work in Diverse Fields

J. Reuben Clark III Lecture: Did Caesar Cross the Rubicon?

Descent from the Cross

“Lore”: Confronting the Horrors of the Holocaust

The Passion of Joan of Arc: Alienation and Games of Perception

Is Philosophy Religion for Atheists?

Gandhi as Allegory

Moods like Clouds

The Relationship Between Female Subordination and Political Order

The Black Soul Movement in Brazil

Brazilian Graffiti: The People’s Art

Studying Humanities Creates Successful Democracy

The Land of Many Palaces

The King of Masks

La Noire de… : Sembène’s Black Girl and Postcolonial Senegal

Café CSE: Literary Translation and the 3 percent Problem

Sexist Job Titles and the Influence of Language on Gender Stereotypes

By Study, By Faith: Extending the Vision of Women’s Education

Law as Applied Philosophy

Getting Involved in a Student Journal

Adventsingen: Celebrating 40 Years

A Horror Film Starring Santa

Joseph Sebarenzi Shares his Perspective on the Genocide in Rwanda in Two Lectures