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Explore new directors, cultures, and themes this semester with International Cinema.
Walking through the tunnel from the airplane to the airport, I read the words printed on the wall: “Welcome to Israel. Your life will never be the same.”
Would you find Galileo guilty of heresy? Would you put him to death? These are questions that students grappled with in their two-week mock trial for Philosophy 210 class.
As a second-generation American from a blue-collar family, whose parents never graduated high school, I found college to be emancipating. Thus I became a teacher to share the far-reaching world the arts and humanities offer. Our society, our country, might be better if we in the humanities would “shout, and . . . draw large and startling figures”1 as Flannery O’Connor said in her defense of the Christian vision. During a recent symposium in Rome to promote novelist Willa Cather in Europe, I was dismayed to find that the conference yielded little evidence of the author’s significance and was more or less limited to esoteric presentations by scholars devoted to their pet interests. There was little awareness of the need to shout, to describe Cather’s bold European immigrants, colonists, and missionaries.
Philosophy and the field of medicine have complementary roles in helping us ask difficult questions and propose workable solutions to today’s pressing concerns.
A lot changes in a department over time, and that has certainly been true in the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters at BYU. Today, the department includes comparative literature, classics, interdisciplinary humanities, art history, Scandinavian studies, and a master’s degree in comparative studies. To give you a sense of how the department has changed and its vision for the future, I interviewed Kerry Soper and Carl Sederholm, the incoming and outgoing chairs of the department, along with Julie Allen, the department graduate studies coordinator. Their responses are both intriguing and enlightening.
As women have increasingly contributed their time, talents, and mentorship to the humanities, the field has evolved to reflect the unique contributions women make. In the following stories, eight faculty members (one from each department in the College of Humanities) share their admiration for women who have helped redefine the humanities—and what it means to be human.
Truth. Noun. The quality or state of being true. Essayist Hasanthika Sirisena relates her journey toward discovering both eternal and personal truth in her new collection.
A message from Dean J. Scott Miller. This message appeared in the Fall 2021 Humanities alumni magazine.
Are you struggling with productivity and time management? Try these six suggestions to get focused.
Adjunct Professor Madeleine Dresden highlights common racist tropes and stereotypes in writing and offers solutions and alternatives for more diverse and inclusive writing for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) communities.