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Professors Receive Awards for Translation of 16th Century Theatre and Poetry

Employing Scandal in Reformation Theology

BYU Humanities Faculty Win Awards at Annual Mormon History Association Conference

The Morals of Organ Donation

2018 Chair Reappointments

Linguistic Research Builds Academic Bridges

Endearing Underdogs of Early Film Comedy

A Swell of Voices: Contemporary Black Feminism

The Violence of Fake News

Wonder, Wildness, and the Will to Dream

The Quality of Mercy and the Sword of Justice

Weapons or Props? Performances of Gun Ownership

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

The Men Behind Machines: A Glimpse at India’s Textile Mills

Exploring the Progression from Nativity to Epiphany

Combining Test Tubes and Poetry

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

Witnessing the Chaos of the Gwangju Uprising

From Papeete to Phnom Penh

Immaterial Traces of Ethical Obligation in Sci-Fi Films

Beyond the Continent

Batter Up! Mormon Missionaries and Baseball in Argentina

The Rise of Stephen King

Seeing Eye to Eye: Differences in Grading by Composition and TESOL Teachers

Sami Blood: Can You Will Away Identity?

The Blessing of Babel

The Host—Society’s Modern Monster

Finding Meaning in the Stone: Form and Matter in Architecture

Recognizing Disruption—the Need for the Pause

Julieta: A Portrait of Life and Loving

Singer, Piano Man, and Fugue

The Rhythmic Writing of Rosellen Brown

Debunking “Period Brain”

The Maya and Eclipses—The End of a World?

Uniting Computer Coding and Humanities Thinking

Seeing Truth Through the Lens of Juan Rulfo

The Mormon Hemingway

Women Builders and the Savoy Hospital

Mark Twain’s Mormon Girlfriend

The Rules of Bad News

Finding Faith in the Empty Tomb

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Can You Be Danish But Not Lutheran?

Devotion Engraved on the Heart

Sometimes the Movie Really Is Better

Embracing the Other

Three Minutes of Fame – BYU Humanities’ 3MT Competition

Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking

“Huddling Together”: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich on the History of Early Mormon Women

Underneath the Surface: Kaqchikel Film Ixcanul

Mormonism in the French Imagination

Doctor Strangelove: A Cold War Satire

Arab-Muslim Influence on the Iberian Peninsula

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

English Symposium Keynote: Planning on Pursuing a PhD? Some Things to Consider

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

A Conversation with Hume and Kant

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

Hollywood Strikes Back: Film Adaptation of Novels in the 1950s

Guest Speaker Erin Harris on Working with a Literary Agent

Embracing African American Art

Rachel Teukolsky on Gendered War Journalism

Is There a Place for Spirituality in Literary Studies?

Poetry of the Wild West

Joni Mitchell and the Art of Attunement

In Memory of Rick Walton

A Voice to the Voiceless

A Mother’s Love in Words

Linguistics and Friendship: the Work of Janis Nuckolls with Luisa Cadena

Living with Nature

Central American Refugees: Helping Women and Children Seek Asylum 

A Geek in the Middle Kingdom

Holiday Choirs: Scandinavian

Adventsingen 2016

The Death of Feminism?

Noël en France

Ghosts in the Machines

BYU Team Places First in 2016 Business Language Case Competition

Spanish Dialects in the Caribbean

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

Behind Lock and Key

Alumni Profiles: Jamie Dunn

The Creation of the Mojave Desert Field Guide

Britsch Lecture: The Work of Ken Burns

Shakespeare and Cervantes

Is Moral Relativism Right?

God’s Kings: The Mémoir of Jean David

What Is Joy?

Fleeing on Seas of Fire

One Hundred Years of Chinese Feminism

The Poetic Experimentation of Michael Lavers

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

Dr. Victor Yuzefovich on Soviet Violinist David Oistrakh

Soldiers and Spies: Sarah Hawkes’ International American Dream

Colonial Literature and the Mystery of Ophir

Students Report on their ORCA Grant Projects

Consecrating Hemingway in the Red Square

Allen Christenson’s Modern Mayas

Student Darrell Day Placed Top 10 in the Chinese Bridge Competition

Perspectives on Sin Throughout Philosophy

Visual Representations of the Alluring Archipelago

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

Freedom from Purgatory through Music and Art

Students in Action

English Reading Series: Anne Perry’s Lessons in Literature

English Reading Series: Selections from the Poetry of Lisa Bickmore

Multilingual Mediterranean Women

Who’s Guilty for the Holocaust?

Marilynne Robinson: The Sacred, the Human

The New Localization Minor in the College of Humanities

BYU Writing Center Announces Changes for Upcoming Academic Year

A Meeting of Heaven and Earth

New American Studies Program Coordinator Announced

The Mathematics of Literature

Children of the Prophets

Revealing the Boxer Codex

Finding Japan in France

Performing the Function of Language

Exploring Chinese Linguistics

Washington Irving in Spain

Reading the Bandung Conference Through a Non-Western Lens

International Cinema: A New Humanities Minor

Set Apart to Serve

Words of Faith: McKay Essay Contest Winners

An Ancient Play Made Modern

IC Lecture: Pathfinder and the Indigenous Gaze

Augustine and Violence

Thinking Sideways

What is a Democracy?: Steven Riep on “Please Vote for Me”

Revisiting Chernobyl, 30 Years Later

Archival Philosophy through Film

Riley M. Lorimer: The Questions that Matter

A Sense of Now: Jeffrey Tucker’s Kill February

Sean Reyes: Prepared by the Humanities

Recuperating the Journalism of Ann Tizia Leitich

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

A Freedom Rider’s Testimony

Truth in Terms of Beauty

Learning from Zambian Oral Narrative

Words of Joy: The Key to Writing and Publishing

A Cook-Off of Cultures

Many Rivers to Cross: Experiencing the Civil Rights Movement

Present History: Excavating Ancient Europe at Café CSE

Political Cuisine: Early American Cookbooks

Ordinary Meanings: Using Corpus Linguistics in Law

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

Reassessing Constantine’s Tomb

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

Writing for Language

Cougar Hall on the Sexualization of Women in Music Lyrics

Four BYU Professors Receive the ACTFL-Modern Language Award

The Power of Words: Students Present at Africana Studies Symposium

Humanities Center Showcases Student Research Opportunities

What are Miracles?

The Christmas Spirit in the College of Humanities

Recognition for BYU’s Notable Essayists

Michael Naas on Derrida, Heidegger and Historicity

Christmas Eve: Morally Courageous Cinema

The Dual Meaning of Cinematic Voyeurism

Tony Brown Discusses Language Competency in the Barker Lecture

George Handley on Criticism, Compassion and Charity

The Unspoken in the Missionary Literature of Pearl Buck

Feminism in African Society

Understanding Print Media in 1960s America with Kristin Matthews

Christianity and Mormonism

Entering Pan’s Labyrinth

Teaching Students Where They Are

Playing with Storytelling in “Jogo de Cena”

Professors and Professionals Meet to Discuss Global Professional Competencies at BYU

Terry Tempest Williams’ Variations on Voice

Honored Alumni Lecture: Marguerite Gong Hancock on the Art of Questioning

Two New Publications by the Office of Christian Values in Literature

“Thou Wilt Remember the Poor”

Celebrating 50 Years in the Human Conversation

The LDS Sisterhood of Asia

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

A German Woman Writing from Africa

Ensuring Quality

Preparing for a Career with American Studies

Preserving Tradition on the Island of Women and Lace

Decoding China

Art History Fall Assembly: Caretakers of Identity

Muslims in Europe: Questioning Identity and Values in a Time of Change

Wolf Totem Premieres at International Cinema

A New ELC Scholarship Honors Optimism and Resilience

Dean Scott Miller: A Vision of and for the Humanities

Becoming Learners and Lifters at the 2015 University Conference

Lifelong Learning through Foreign Language Study

A Time of Ritual and Rejoicing

Video Games: A New Platform for Humanities Thinking

Poe Meets Borges

Taking It One Step Further: Blending Korean Culture and Language

Building Fraternity Between Young and Old 

German Linguistics: Teaching the Norm

Moving Past the Data: Further Down the Rabbit Hole

Bridging the Gap: Humanities Advisement and Careers

Writing More than Machines: Rosa Montero and the Modern Author

German and Russian Department to Host International Conference

New Student Fellows Announced for 2015

Humanities Grads Work in Diverse Fields

Inside the Civil Police Museum of Rio de Janeiro

Descent from the Cross

The Problem with Distant Reading: The Digital Romanticist

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

A Feast of Giving or of Poison?

Gandhi as Allegory

A Minor for Creative Writers

The Relationship Between Female Subordination and Political Order

Foreign Language Housing Symposium

Brazilian Graffiti: The People’s Art

College Faculty Excel in Contributions to Top Language Journal

The Land of Many Palaces

3-Iron: Silent Communication and the Sacredness of Space

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

Writing the War to End the War: Literary Modernism and WWI

Sexist Job Titles and the Influence of Language on Gender Stereotypes

Digging Up Evil

Law as Applied Philosophy

Dostoevsky’s Measure of Faith

Adventsingen: Celebrating 40 Years

BYU Foreign Language Christmas Choir Concerts

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

BYU’s Chinese Business Case Team Victorious Four Years Running