Call for Papers: Faith and Knowledge Conference 2025

By November 18, 2024


Ninth Biennial Faith and Knowledge Conference

University of Utah, Salt Lake City

May 16-18, 2025

The Faith and Knowledge Conference was established in 2007 by Latter-day Saint scholar Richard Bushman. Its mission is to bring together graduate students and early career scholars from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Community of Christ, and other faith traditions that follow Joseph Smith. The conference aims to explore the interactions between religious faith and scholarship for members of restoration movements. During the past eight meetings, students have shared their experiences as Mormon scholars in the academy with an eye toward the challenges and insights resulting from the intersection of faith and scholarship. These papers and conversations have provided thought-provoking historical, exegetical, and theoretical perspectives, as well as compelling models for locating discipleship through scholarly disciplines. 

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Help a Friend: Keepapitchinin

By November 18, 2024


Hi Friends,

If you are in a place to be able to help keep Keepapitchinin’s software and domain up and running, please send a donation through the “donate” link on the left side of the page on Keepa’s front page:

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MHA Article Awards (Due February 1, 2025)

By November 7, 2024


Submit your work (or a colleague’s work) for an MHA Award! Publishers: submit your author’s work!

Here are the awards for this year’s cycle:

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The 1984 Young Women’s Encampment in Nauvoo, Illinois (Info and Request for Info)

By October 21, 2024


 On August 9, 1984, three thousand Young Women from 30 Stakes and Districts across eight Midwestern states arrived in Nauvoo, Illinois for a week-long regional encampment. The camp, themed “Rejoice in Womanhood,” centered around the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during its Nauvoo period from 1839 to 1846, with a focus on over a dozen significant women.  Unprecedented in its scope, planning, and logistics, the Nauvoo Encampment was a milestone of the Church’s organized regional encampments for youth. 

Planning for the Encampment had begun one year prior, during the last months of General Young Women’s President Elaine Cannon’s tenure. By the summer of 1984, under the leadership of newly-called general Young Women’s President Ardeth Kapp and her counselors, Sister Patricia Holland and Sister Maurine Johnson Turley, the Encampment included formal direction by Salt Lake leadership, even while it also enjoyed the planning and volunteerism of regional, stake, and ward Young Women’s presidencies and camp leadership.  

I will be presenting this topic at the Church History Symposium, to be held Thursday, October 24 at Brigham Young University, and Fri., October 25 at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. The conference program can be found at the link as a PDF document.

 Although this is a late call, I am looking for any of my fellow Encampment attendees and/or Young Women’s leaders from any of the following stakes or districts (See below.)  Please comment if you have memories, photographs, mementoes, or connections to those involved in attending or planning. Or, you may reach out to me directly at RadkeA@byui.edu I would love to hear from you! 

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Site Manager Positions (4) with the LDS Church History Library

By October 17, 2024


Palmyra, NY Position

Kirtland, OH Position

Independence, MO Position

Nauvoo, IL Position

The job ads seem prettyty similar; here’s the full text for the Palmyra position

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John Whitmer Historical Association CFP: September 18-21, 2025 in Independence, MO

By October 14, 2024


Politics and Religion:
The Impact of Governance and Government on the Restoration Movements from 1830 to the Present

September 18-21, 2025

Independence, Missouri

Our conference in 2025 falls on the centennial anniversary of debates about supreme directional control in the RLDS church and the “Scopes Monkey Trial” on the national level. We will also be meeting at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri, at the heart of a landscape where tensions between politics and religion have had a lasting impact on the community. Papers might include church leaders’ interactions with US presidents, reactions to Supreme Court rulings, social justice issues, attitudes towards scientific developments, the role of religion in education, political demographics of Restoration religions, institutional statements of party advocacy or neutrality, and more. With politics on everyone’s mind these days, there will be plenty to debate!

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CFP: Mormon History Association in Ogden, UT (June 5-8, 2025) [Deadline November 1, 2024]

By October 8, 2024


APPLY AT MHA’S SITE!

The Mormon History Association invites you to Ogden, Utah for its sixtieth annual conference to be held June 5-8, 2025. Situated on the Ogden and Weber Rivers near where they join the Great Salt Lake, and nicknamed “Junction City” when it became the connecting point between numerous railroad lines, Ogden has long been a site of junctions. Long before Latter-day Saints dreamed of an American Zion in the Great Basin, ancestors of Shoshone and other indigenous peoples criss-crossed the region, establishing trade networks and sharing languages, settlements, and cultures.

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Brooks Conference Keynote Speaker

By October 1, 2024


The keynote speaker for the Juanita Brooks Conference on Utah History will be Dr. Matthew J. Grow! Grow is Managing Director of the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In that capacity, he leads a team of history professionals who collect documents and artifacts, preserve them, and promote understanding of the Church’s past through a publishing program, a research library, a museum, and many historic sites. Grow also serves as a general editor of the Joseph Smith Papers and Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. He has published widely on Latter-day Saint history and American religious history. Grow received his PhD in American history from the University of Notre Dame.

You can read more about the Brooks Conference below:

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Book Launch: A Documentary History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico, 1875-1946

By September 30, 2024


We hope to see some of y’all in Provo!

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CFP: Third Annual Juanita Brooks Utah History Conference

By September 9, 2024


Third Annual Juanita Brooks Conference

Utah State University

April 25-26, 2025

The Third Annual Juanita Brooks Conference will be held on April 25-26, 2025. Juanita Brooks wrote extensively about her family and other family relationships, biographies, as well as about southern Utah, most famously about the Mountain Meadows Massacre. We welcome papers related to Juanita Brooks’ work in southern Utah and its surrounding Mormon communities. The program committee invites scholars young and old, local and global, to investigate all aspects of these themes:

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