Eighteenth Annual UVU Mormon Studies Conference
Multicultural Mormonism
Religious Cohesion in a New Era of Diversity
Schedule of Events
| Wednesday, March 29th | |
| UVU Classroom Building Fifth Floor (CB-511) | |
| 7:00 p.m. | |
| Keynote address | |
| “Latinos in Utah:Theology, Ethnicity, and Religion” | |
| Armando Solorzano Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies & Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah |
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| Author of We Remember, We Celebrate, We Believe, Recuerdo, Celbracion, Y Esperanza: Latinos in Utah
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| Thursday, March 30th | |
| Classroom Building Fifth Floor (CB-511) | |
| 8:30 – 8:45 a.m. | |
| Welcome | |
| 8:45 – 9:45 a.m. | |
| “Decolonizing the Blossoming: Indigenous People’s Faith in a Colonizing Church” | |
| Moroni Benally | |
| Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Relations, Diné College | |
| Former Executive Director for the Navajo Nation Division of Natural Resources | |
| “Don’t You Know You Can’t Go Home Again?: Shifting Contexts and Competing Authenticity among Indians and Mormons” |
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| Matthew Garrett | |
| Professor of History, Bakersfield College Author of Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program 1947-2000 |
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10:00 – 11:00 a.m. |
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| Keynote Address | |
| “There?s No Such Thing as ?A? Gospel Culture” | |
| Gina Colvin | |
| School of Educational Studies & Leadership, University of Canterbury, New Zealand | |
| Host of A Thoughtful Faith podcast; author of KiwiMormon blog | |
| 11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | |
| Panel Discussion | |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | |
| Lunch | |
| 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. | |
| The Black 14 film screening | |
| 2:00 – 2:50 p.m. | |
| “Finishing the Business of Civil Rights: Black Athletes in the Age of Social Unrest” | |
| Darron Smith | |
| Assistant Professor of Public Health Services, Wichita State University Co-editor of Black and Mormon and White Parents, Black Children |
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| 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. | |
| Panel Discussion | |
| Friday, March 31st | |
| UVU Classroom Building Fifth Floor (CB-511) | |
| 9:00 – 9:50 a.m. | |
| “A Balm In Gilead: Reconciling Black Bodies within a Mormon Imagination |
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| Janan Graham-Russell | |
| Writer and Womanist scholar; contributor to The Atlantic and Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings, and A Book of Mormons | |
| ?Mormons, Immigration, and Whitness? | |
| Paul Reeve | |
| Professor of History, University of Utah Author of Religion of a Different Color: Race & the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness |
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| 10:00 – 10:50 a.m. | |
| Keynote Address | |
| “Thoughts on Latinos, the Mormon Afterlife & the Need for a New Historical Paradigm” | |
| Ignacio Garcia | |
| Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor of Western & Latino History, Brigham Young University Author of Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith |
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| 11:00 – 12:00 a.m. | |
| Panel Discussion | |
| 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | |
| Lunch | |
| 1:00 – 1:50 p.m. | |
| “To Be Young, Mormon, and Tongan” | |
| Anapesi Ka’ili | |
| Instructor, Department of Education Culture and Society, University of Utah | |
| Specializes in Pacific Island history, native languages and cultural identities. | |
| Moana Ulave Hafoka | |
| Community Liaison, Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office | |
| Gates Millennium Scholar | |
| 2:00 – 2:50 p.m. | |
| “The Lamanite Dialogue: Further Discussion on Latin Communities and Indigenous Identities in Mormonism” |
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| Agustin “Tino” Diaz | |
| Program Director, Educational Opportunity Center, Utah Valley University | |
| The Lamanite Dialogue: A Contemporary Conversation Regarding Indigeneity, Oceania, and Borderlands in Mormonism | |
| Daniel Hernandez | |
| Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, New Zealand | |
| 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. | |
| Panel Discussion
the conference is free and open to the public for more information, contact Boyd Petersen at boyd.petersen@uvu.edu or Brian Birch at brian.birch@uvu.edu |
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