UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE
The Utah Humanities Council offers two fellowships—one for undergraduate students and one for graduate students—each year to support student research in the humanities. The maximum student fellowship award in $500. Fellowship funds may be used to pay the costs of equipment, supplies, software, technical support, or travel to do research or to report on the results of research at a professional conference. Contact Maria Torres <mailto:torres@utahhumanities.org> . Application deadline: March 1. More

 

The Dean's Distinguished Alumni Speakers Series will continue on Friday, February 26, at 11:30 in the Haight Alumni House. The speaker is Glade Myler, who will present a talk titled “Mama Don't Let Your Sons Grow Up to Be Lawyers.” More

 

 

UCONOCLASTS: SUITE ONE—LITERARY UTAH
Ken Sanders Rare Books is pleased to announce the premier of a new exhibit titled Uconoclasts: Suite One – Literary Utah on Friday, February 19th from 5:00-9:00 PM at The Rose Wagner (138 West 300 South, SLC, UT). Uconoclasts, a collaboration between bookman Ken Sanders and artist Trent Call, is a portrayalin words and pictures of a dozen literary mavericks from Utah's past. Those featured include Wallace Thurman, Wallace Stegner, Neal Cassady, Edward Abbey,May Swenson, Bernard DeVoto and half a dozen more iconoclastic authors; all in one way or another connected to Utah. More

 

Helicon West will host poet Shanan Ballam as featured reader on Thursday, February 11, 2010, 7 PM, at True Aggie Cafe´, 117 North Main, Logan. An open microphone session will follow the reading. Potential readers are encouraged to arrive twenty minutes early to sign up, as space is limited. More

 

 

The “Life, the Universe & Everything” writer's conference is coming up and all are invited to attend. It is a conference geared toward genre writers, mostly fantasy and science fiction, but also focuses on young adult fiction and epic poetry. Guests of honor for the 2010 LTUE are authors Brandon Sanderson, Marty Brenneis, and James C. Christensen. Comic writer Jack Black will also be in attendance. The dates are February 11-13 at the BYU student center, and the cost is free. For more information, click here www.ltue.orghttp://www.ltue.org/.

 

Western American Literature's winter 2010 issue is now available. In addition to Keri Holt's lead essay described above, this issue contains Matthew Wynn Sivils's “Doctor Bat's Ass: Buffon, American Degeneracy, and Cooper's The Prairie” interprets Cooper's novel as an argument against George-Louis Leclerc, Count de Buffon's theory that American climate and vegetation results in an environment that caused all animals, including humans, to lose vitality. More

 

On February 10, at noon, the Provost's Lecture Series will present “Coping with Seven Disruptive Personality Types in the Classrom,” a pre-recorded workshop from The Teaching Professor. The presentation will take place in Library 101. More

 

 

DECEMBER GRADS – WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS?

What's next for you? We'd like to know what your plans are for work, grad school and anything else you are up to. Please send your information to marina.hall@usu.edu.