By Jared TFebruary 26, 2010
As always, this is not a transcript, but my own notes, typed as fast as I can, edited, and reformulated for clarity. I will have notes forthcoming this weekend from five other presentations: Casey Griffiths, “Joseph F. Merrill and the Transformation of the Church Educational System”; John P. Livingston on “N. Eldon Tanner and LDS Church Administration”; Matthew Heiss, “The Annual History: The Origins of Local Unit Record Keeping”; William G. Hartley & Theodore Moore, “Our Churches and Hoes Shall Be Beautiful: The LDS Church’s beautification movement, 1938-47”; and Mark L. Grover, “The Beginning of the Church Construction Program in South America.” In addition, BHodges will have notes from a number of the presentations he attended (different from mine–we tired to coordinate on this) at his blog, Life on Gold Plates.
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By Jared TFebruary 23, 2010
Here is the program for the BYU Studies Conference, March 12-13, 2010.
Also, don’t forget to join the Salt Lake Mormon Studies Student Association as it welcomes Brian Cannon to speak on “Historians’ Treatment of Divine Influence in LDS History” this Thursday, February 25, 2010.
Full details can be found here including information about dinner at 5:15 p at Moochie’s.
By Jared TFebruary 10, 2010
The Salt Lake Mormon Studies Student Association will host Brian Cannon, Professor of History at BYU, on February 25, 2010 at 7 pm for a public lecture entitled: ?Many Refractions of Light: Historians? Treatment of Divine Influence in LDS History.? The lecture will be held on the University of Utah Campus in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building, room 101 (main floor).
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By Jared TFebruary 5, 2010
Update: See end of list for Signature Book’s 2010 list of forthcoming titles.
Last year I put together, with help from a number of publishers, a list of forthcoming and recently published books on Mormon History. Most of those books highlighted last November have indeed found a place on bookshelves, so it’s about time to do it again. There are some exciting books that have recently come off the press and which are still forthcoming. I wasn’t able to be as comprehensive as last time, but there are still some neat things on the horizon that I was able to find, and maybe I’ll be able to do a follow up post. For now, I’m sure I missed some titles, so if you know of others, please leave a comment and I’ll add it to the list.
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By Jared TJanuary 31, 2010
Let’s give a round of applause to my friend Brent Brizzi for taking the time and effort to transcribe the proceedings and make it available here. I have made only a few cursory edits from the version he sent me.
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By Jared TJanuary 29, 2010
We had a great crowd tonight. Somewhere between 50 and 60 were in attendance. The SLMSSA would like to thank the Mormon Times for putting up a notice about the event beforehand which likely drew a number of attendees. We were pleased to have Steve Harper, professor of religion at BYU presenting on what insights memory studies can shed on the First Vision. Stay tuned to the SLMSSA website for details about future lectures and events.
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By Jared TJanuary 27, 2010
Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday at 7 pm for Steve Harper’s lecture in room 101 of the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building at the University of Utah. There is a bit of construction in the area, so I’m putting up this map to show where to go to get to the building and parking area. This is the unaltered map. [See the SLMSSA website at this link for a marked map showing where to go]:
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By Jared TJanuary 20, 2010
2009 was also a fruitful year for evaluating scholarship at the JI.
Jordan W.’s review of Matt Grow’s book was later published in the International Journal of Mormon Studies: Book Review: Liberty to the Downtrodden
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By Jared TJanuary 19, 2010
Yea, we had current events posts too. See, we don’t just live in the past!
David G. wrote on: Larry EchoHawk?s Mormonism, Casinos, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Christopher posted some interesting material about Glenn Beck, and that long before a Salon.com article took those themes to a national audience. A Boston Phoenix article on Beck cited Chris’s blogs here at the JI (and in the process, finally got credit for being on the cutting edge of this analysis):
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By Jared TJanuary 19, 2010
See also PYMHM, 2009: Historical Posts, Part 1.
In bringing you conference coverage, aside from the efforts of various JI permas, we often benefited from friends such as Brent Brizzi and Trevor Holyoak who were kind enough to share their notes for posting on the JI. I’m proud to say that we often posted fuller notes than any competing reports, often posted them more quickly, and covered more events than just about anyone. One reporter, upon meeting me at one of these events said, playfully, “Oh, I hate you guys, you’ll probably have your stuff up tonight, won’t you?” I answered, “Probably.”
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