As part of Dixie State College of Utah’s annual “D-Week” celebration, DSC’s humanities faculty will present the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) community lecture, “Dixie State College Humanities Seminars at Cambridge University: An Enduring Academic Legacy or Minding and Closing the Gap,” featuring Cambridge University Professor Charles Moseley, MA, Ph.D., FSA, FRSA. The lecture will take place at the St. George Tabernacle on Friday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to all DSC students, faculty and staff, and the community.
“The Dixie State College seminars at Cambridge University have been mind-expanding experiences for our humanities faculty,” said DSC Professor of English Dr. Tim Bywater. “We are honored to welcome Professor Charles Moseley and his wife, Jenny, to our campus and to St. George.”
Dr. Moseley’s lecture will examine the significant role that humanities study should play in students’ lives, as provided by DSC’s humanities faculty, thanks in part to their participation in humanities seminars at Cambridge University. As part of his lecture, Moseley will report on the highlights of each of the last three DSC/Cambridge seminars held in 2002, 2006 and 2008.
These seminars, sponsored by the NEH and DSC, provided Dixie State faculty from every academic discipline the opportunity to participate. The two-week seminars included a week at Cambridge, hosted by Moseley, and included lectures, seminars and field trips to important libraries (the Wren and Clare College), museums (the Fitzwilliam and the Whipple), and galleries (the Trumpington), presented by many of Cambridge University’s finest professors.
The lecture will also feature a violin and piano performance by DSC director of string studies Dr. Paul Abegg and pianist and fellow DSC faculty member Dr. Nancy Allred.
“Now the broader college community, as well as the St. George community, will have the opportunity to learn what the excitement has been about,” Bywater added. “Professor Moseley, a key participant in all of the Cambridge seminars, will share his experiences as our teacher and colleague.”
Professor Moseley is a Fellow and Tutor, and Director of Studies in English, Hughes Hall and St. Edmund’s College, and has taught Classics and English Literature at the University of Cambridge for many years. He has published extensively and lectured world-wide on topics as diverse as Shakespeare, the history of travel literature, the Norsemen, Medieval art, and his own travels to the Arctic, Baltic and Antarctic.
For more information on the lecture, please contact DSC English professor Dr. Tim Bywater at 435-652-7808 or at bywater@dixie.edu.
