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P. A. Christensen Lectures

The P.A. Christensen Humanities Lecture honors the memory of Parley A. Christensen, a BYU English professor from 1927 to 1965. He was known as both a teacher and scholar as well as a lecturer and writer, and was chair of the BYU English Department for 20 years.

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Heather Belnap

Making Mischief: Women in the Museums of Napoleonic Europe



2025

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Marc Yamada

Life in More Abundance: Cinematic Images of Community in Organizational Life


2024
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Marc Olivier

Unrest in All Things: An Insomniac's Guide to the Humanities



2023

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Kristin L. Matthews

A Poetics of Witnessing: Black Women's Poetry in Contemporary America

2022
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Michelle James

Winning the Fight for Peace



2021
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Francesca Lawson

The Mystery of Musicality: Revealing Relationships Between Music and Language in Chinese Xiangsheng

2020
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Valerie Hegstrom

Translating Maria do Céus's Enganos do bosque, desenganos de no: Domestication, Misreading, and Gender

2019

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Corry Cropper

Mormons and Cannibals The [19th Century French] Musical



2018
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