Humanities News
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The English Symposium: 2025 Edition
Missed this year’s English Symposium? Here’s a recap of a few of the panels, featuring everything from best teaching practices to women’s writing legacies.
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Pursuing a Passion for Global Healthcare: Zach Valentine, 2025 Schwarzman Scholar
“My main focus is helping provide medical care to underserved communities,” Zach Valentine, 2025 Schwarzman Scholarship recipient, explained.
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Mindful Mistakes
Mindfulness techniques have been shown to improve mental health, but they can do much more when used in the classroom.
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The Business of Language
When the humanities and business worlds collide, business courses take on a deeper meaning—one rooted in global communication.
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A Calamitous Misinterpretation
Misconstruing the meaning of a word can have devastating results—as evidenced by what happened to Chris Rogers and his lost Fulbright Fellowship.
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Letting God Coach Your Life
Needing some hope? BYU football coach Kalani Sitake’s recent devotional reminds us that—thanks to God—there are brighter days ahead.
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The Art of Saying Impossible Things
Ellen Wayland-Smith connected cancer treatment, the nature of the universe, and more in her essay reading at the English Reading Series.
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Able-Bodied Redefined
Meet Dafne: A woman who holds her family together despite the loss of her mother, all while rewriting the narrative for disabled characters in film.
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Minor Chords and Major Feuds
Popular media has a lot to say about the Drake—Kendrick Lamar feud, but according to one undergrad, philosophy will help you understand it best.
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Good Grief: The Language of Charlie Brown
Seventy-five years after the Peanuts comic’s initial release, Charles Schulz’s daughter offers insight on the linguistics behind the characters’ humor.
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Living the Stories of Others
For those often overlooked by society, books can be a powerful way to be heard. For Professor Steven Bickmore, books have made him a powerful advocate.
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Rate My Rant
Students from across campus joined together to share their passion for their studies through short rants on anything and everything linguistics.
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Maidens of Mischief
In her P. A. Christensen Lecture, Professor Belnap looked to the influential women in 19th-century France to explain how disruption can cause social reform.
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Culture You Can Taste
Regardless of where you travel in the world, one thing will stay the same: food’s ability to bring people together.
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An Ode to Anything BUT a Person
This Valentine’s Day, Inscape Journal celebrated with odes about their favorite things from SpaghettiOs to lotion.
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Carriers of Joy
What do Shakespeare’s tragedies and the book of Proverbs have in common? Timothy Hampton says they can teach us about joy.
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So, Why Humanities?
The German & Russian Department’s 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Award lecturer shared how you can expand your world, one adventure at a time.
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The Missing Works of Victorian England
Periodicals were a hot commodity in the Victorian era. Now, thanks to two BYU professors, we can read them once again.
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