House of Learning Lectures
House of Learning Lectures highlight current research of campus faculty
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Adapting Frankenstein in Literature and Film
Dennis Cutchines & Dennis Perry
October 26, 2018
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The Legacy of the Golden Spike: Railroad Service in Utah
Daniel Kuhn
October 16, 2018
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Calvin S. Smith -- Utah's "Fighting Chaplain" in the Great War
Dr. Kenneth L. Alford
October 10, 2018
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Bloodletting- And a Little Bit More
Dr. K Codell Carter
March 9, 2017
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Window on the World or Home Theater? Television and the Evolution of Recording Technology in Europe and the United States
Stewart Anderson
September 8, 2016
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Post-Bubble Samurai: Remaking the Samuari Legend for the Twenty-First Century Japan
Dr. Mark Ravina
October 8, 2015
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The Ecology and Agriculture of the Book of Mormon
Kent Crookston
October 7, 2015
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Samurai Arms and Armor
Dr. Thomas Conlan
September 17, 2015
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Writing the War to End War: Literary Modernism and World War 1
Janice Watts
February 12, 2015
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Guns, Paper, and Swords: Constructing Samurai Identity in Modern Japan
Dr. Paul Hyer, Dr. Aaron Skabelund, and Dr. Jack Stoneman
November 6, 2014
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Strange Nostalgia: Looking Back On The War That Didn't End
Robert Means
October 16, 2014
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Trilby's Treatment: Conserving an Iconic Illustration from George Du Maurier's Novel
Maggie Kopp, Kohleen Reeder
April 9, 2014
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Have We Not Had a Prophet Among Us? : Joseph Smith's "Civil War" Prophecy
Dr. Scott C. Esplin
April 4, 2013
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Inspiring Profiles of Civil War Soldier Saints
Dr. Robert Freeman
March 15, 2013
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My Heart is Filled with Pain: The American Civil War and Changing Mormon Attitudes
Dr. Richard E. Bennett
March 1, 2013
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Utah and the Civil War
Dr. Kenneth L. Alford
February 1, 2013
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The Un-Civil War and the American West
Jay Buckley
November 15, 2012
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The Civil War and Blueprint for Modern America
Matthew Mason
November 1, 2012
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Pop-up Books: A Brief History
Robert Sabuda
September 26, 2012
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Mormon Migration to and Through Utah during the Civil War
Fred E. Woods
September 13, 2012
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Glory and Power: The Battles Within the King James Translation of the Bible
Richard Duerden
October 27, 2011
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The Arabs and the World on the Eve of Napolenoic Invasion
Nabil Matar
October 20, 2011
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The Sail Before the Trail or Have We Missed the Boat? The Other Half of the Story of the Gathering
Fred E. Woods
October 13, 2011
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The King James Bible: Cast of Characters
Kent P. Jackson
September 22, 2011
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Illuminating BYU: Uncovering the Treasures of the University Archives
Gordon Daines
September 14, 2011
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The Way We Were: 50 Years in the BYU Library
H. Julene Butler
February 3, 2011
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From Sparkling To Flame: The Conditions of Literary Creation
John Bennion
September 30, 2010
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How Firm a Foundation: Pursuing the Possibility of a Book of Mormon Psychology
Ed Gantt
April 1, 2010
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Three Theories of Phonological Knowledge and the Sound Patterns of Shoshoni
Professor Dirk Elzinga
March 25, 2010
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The Royal Road Revisited: Working With Dreams
Rachel E. Crook Lyon
March 18, 2010
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Atoms, Genes, and Other Useful Fictions
Allen Buskirk
March 11, 2010
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"Be There For Them" : The Influence of Fathers
Professor Renata Forste
March 4, 2010
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Transforming Our Community to Sustain Success
Salome Thomas-El
March 1, 2010
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Can Democracy Be Exported? A Network Approach
Darren Hawkins
February 18, 2010
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How The Abrahamic Faiths Bless all the Families of the Earth
David C. Dollahite
February 11, 2010
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Lloyd Alexander: The High King Of Fantasy
Professor Michael O. Tunnell; Professor James S. Jacobs
January 28, 2010
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Florence Nightingale: One Woman's Vision
Beth Cole
January 25, 2010
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Robert Burns And The Inhuman: Mice, Lice...Numbers...Networks
Matthew Wickman
November 19, 2009
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Ancient Egyptian Obsession with Eternity
Andrew C. Skinner
October 22, 2009
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Ancient Egyptian Obsession with Eternity Q&A
Andrew C. Skinner
October 22, 2009
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Search For A Cure
Heidi R. Vollmer-Snarr
October 8, 2009
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The Evaluation of Photographic Vision: Photography's Love/Hate Relationship With Sharpness
John Telford
September 17, 2009
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Creating a Compelling You
Paul Brockbank
April 2, 2009
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Thomas L. Kane and Nineteenth-Century America
Professor Matthew J. Grow
March 12, 2009
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Story and Authentic Messengers: Meditations on Film, Originality, and Poisonous Art
Professor Jeffrey Parkin
February 26, 2009
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Renaissance Annunciation Paintings, or When Angels Don't Bother Knocking Before Entering
Joseph Parry
January 29, 2009
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Language as Cultural Behavior: Context, Culture, and Communication
Professor Paul Warnick
January 15, 2009
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Sports and European Lecture Corry Cropper
Corry Cropper
January 1, 2009
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Contemporary Jerusalem: Between Confrontation and Conciliation
Daniel Seidemann
January 1, 2009
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Jose Goni
Kennedy Center
January 1, 2009
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Into The Imagined Forest
Dr. Richard Hacken
November 20, 2008
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Case Studies In Genetics: Adventures in Science
Peter Jeff Maughan
October 9, 2008
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LDS Church Growth in South America
Mark Grover, Elder A. Theodore Tuttle
October 9, 2008
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Elder A. Theodore Tuttle and LDS Church Growth in South America
Dr. Mark Grover
October 9, 2008
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Spiritualized Recreation: Church Ball and Dance Festivals 1908-1971
Jessie Embry
October 2, 2008
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Communicating as a Leader: Designing Messages That Move People at Work and at Home
Curtis Lebaron
September 18, 2008
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"My Dear Friend"
Dr. David Whittaker
September 11, 2008
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Training Teachers and Learning to Lead: BYU, BYU Hawaii, and the Role of Higher Education in the LDS Church.
Gordon Daines
March 27, 2008
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A Hole in the Dream: The Ghost Dance and the Making of Modern America
Lewis S. Warren
March 25, 2008
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A Bright Future: Strengthening American Indian Fragile Families
Gordon Limb
February 28, 2008
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From Artisan to Icon: The Amazing Evolution of Shakespeare
Brandie Siegfried
January 17, 2008
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Redeeming The Past
Terrance D. Olsen
January 1, 2008
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Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age
Martha Peacock
November 29, 2007
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The Berlin Airlift and the Projection of American Military Power
Mark Choate
November 15, 2007
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Crumbling Concrete: Salt and Safety on Utah Bridges
W. Spencer Guthrie
October 25, 2007
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2-D Dreams and 3-D Realities
Brad Westwood
October 11, 2007
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Taking Root: The Growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Indonesia
Professor Chad Emmett
September 27, 2007
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I Just Make This Stuff Up: How Seriously Should a Fiction Writer Take His Own Work?
Orson Scott Card
September 13, 2007
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Redefining Cultural Identities
Tony Brown
March 15, 2007
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Solomon's Temple: Myth and History
William Hamblin and David Rolph Seely
February 22, 2007
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Rethinking Theology: The Shadow of the Apocalypse
James Faulconer
January 25, 2007
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The Stories Behind the Two Roman Bronze Plates
John Welch
January 1, 2007
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Biotechnology and Stewardship
Craig Coleman
January 1, 2007
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Biofuels In The 21st Century
Randy S. Lewis
January 1, 2007
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How To Think About The First Great American: Hawthorne's Suggestion
Matthew Holland
January 1, 2007
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Creating a Good Life: The Case for Seeking Challenge and Adversity
Professor Mark Widmer
January 1, 2007
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CSI Moab: Dinosaur Death Assemblage
Brooks Britt
January 1, 2007
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LDS Church Crisis in Czechoslovakia
Professor David Boone
November 30, 2006
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This Is That - Or Is It? Hellenistic Poets Address the Problem of Imitation
Michael Tueller
November 2, 2006
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New Discoveries in Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible
Kent Jackson
October 26, 2006
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The Legacy of Latter-day Saint Service in World War II
Robert Freeman
September 14, 2006
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The Moral Universe of Martial Arts Cinema
Steven Riep
March 9, 2006
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A Civilized Account of Savage Thought: How do 'Natives' Think?
David Crandall
March 2, 2006
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Atom Interferometry: Splitting and Recombining Atom Waves
Dallin Durfee
January 26, 2006
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Huge Windy Nebula: The Unique Scholarship of Hugh Winder Nibly
Gary Gillum
January 12, 2006
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Ecology and Theology: Christian Perspectives on Environmental Stewardship
Gary Bryner
January 1, 2006
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Of Cell Phones, Blogs, and Books: Social Interactions and Our Sense of Being Literate
Janet Young
January 1, 2006
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Remembering Joseph Smith, Jr.: 1805-2005
David Whittaker
December 8, 2005
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An Enduring Legacy: Richard L. Evans and "The Spoken Word"
Lloyd Newell
November 10, 2005
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What's BYU Doing Making Cartoons?: A Brief History of Computer Generated Animation at BYU
Brent Adams
November 3, 2005
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The Arsonist as Revolutionary: "John the Painter" and the War of American Independence
Neil York
October 13, 2005
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Life on a Tricycle: Social Challenges of Children with Language Impairment
Bonnie Brinton
October 6, 2005
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Wheels, Windmills &; Webs: Don Quixote's Library and the History of Reading
Dale Pratt
September 8, 2005
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Inventing Politics: How The Earliest Puritans Created Grassroots Activism
Richard Duerden
April 6, 2005
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Why Lewis and Clark Mattered Then and Why They Matter Now
Dr. Jay Buckley
Feburary 1, 2005
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"Seek Ye Out of the Best Liberte"
Alan Keele
January 1, 2005
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Christianity, Islam, and Mormonism in Ghana
Emmanuel Kissi
January 1, 2005
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Peregrine Falcons
Clayton White
January 1, 2004
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Hugh Nibley at BYU
Boyd Peterson
March 13, 2003
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Folklore as National Treasure
Peggy Bulger
January 1, 2003
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Intelligence Gathering After 9/11
Stan Taylor
January 1, 2003
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Camelids
Todd Robinson
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