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Notes From A Celebration of Eliza R. Snow: The Complete Poetry with Jill Derr and Karen Davidson

By November 21, 2009


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Events Reminders + Final [?] BYU Women’s Research Institue Event: Women and Conversion with Rachel Cope

By November 15, 2009


Liz mentioned that this will be the final activity under the auspices of the Women’s Research Institute (barring any welcome changes). Here are the details from the organizer’s site:

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Mormon-Themed Presentations at the American Society of Church History 2010 Winter Conference

By November 11, 2009


In perusing the preliminary schedule for ASCH’s annual conference in San Diego, January 7-10, 2010, I came across a number of Mormon-themed presentations along with a host of other very interesting looking presentations:

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Salt Lake Mormon Studies Student Association–Opening Social Rescheduled

By November 10, 2009


Due to scheduling concerns, the opening social for the SLMSSA has been rescheduled to November 19, 6:30 pm on the third floor of the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building. See saltlakemormonstudies.wordpress.com for further info (building and parking) and please feel free to pass this notification along to interested students.

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Announcing the Salt Lake Mormon Studies Student Association

By November 7, 2009


Announcing the Salt Lake Mormon Studies Student Association.

Mission Statement:

The Salt Lake Mormon Studies Student Association was established to foster the academic study of Mormonism among graduate and undergraduate students in the Salt Lake City area. SLMSSA activities and events will help students network, keep abreast of developments in the academic study of Mormonism, facilitate interaction between students and established scholars of Mormonism, and generally promote academic development.

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Notes From the UVU Mormon Studies Conference: Day 1, Part 2–Armand Mauss

By November 6, 2009


This will probably be it. I was gonna go through and edit my Quinn notes on Clark, but it’s just rehash of his bio, so if you’ve read that, you’ve got it. If you haven’t read that, you’d be better off reading it than my crappy notes.  Unfortunately I was not able to go today, so I don’t know how it turned out and I will not have notes.

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Notes from the UVU Mormon Studies Conference, Day 1, part 1

By November 6, 2009


I’ll have some thoughts and reflections at the end. Armand Mauss’ presentation was definitely the best as it was basically the only one that actually sought to analyze the data presented.  Wesley Johnson also makes an effort in that direction, but I think that Mauss’ criticisms will bear out a lot of the same issues I took with his presentation. I’ll have Mauss’ stuff in the next part.

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Sunstone Event, November 17: Jan Shipps, “What Does Religious Studies Bring to the Study of Mormonism?

By November 5, 2009


From the Sunstone website:

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UVU Mormon Studies Conference: Brian Birch, Opening Remarks and Conference Overview

By November 5, 2009


Brian Birch Introductory Remarks

It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since we began having these annual Mormon Studies Conferences. Eugene England spearheaded Mormons studies here at UVU 11 years ago, we?re trying hared to perpetuate his legacy, and see his vision through. We?ve seen in the last decade dramatic changes in the academic study of Mormonism. As you know, a handful of institutions have recognized the academic study of Mormonism as something important in the academy and worthwhile to support.

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Call For Papers: BYU Studies 50th Anniversary Conference, March 12-13, 2010

By November 2, 2009


Get out your magnifying glass…or wait until information shows up on the BYU Studies site.

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