CALL FOR PAPERS
For a conference on
“Mormonism in Cultural Context?
The friends and former students of Professor Richard Lyman Bushman invite submissions for a conference, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, to be held June 18, 2011, at the Springville Art Museum in Springville, Utah.
The summer seminars led by Professor Bushman beginning in 1997 pursued the theme of ?Joseph Smith and His Times.? Participants were asked to connect the Mormon prophet to the religions, philosophies, and cultural formations of his period. More recently the seminars have posed the same question for Mormonism as a whole. How is Mormon thought to be situated in its broad cultural environment?
For the conference, participants are invited to make comparisons to large cultural systems such as democracy, capitalism, evangelism, or science, or to specific thinkers and movements. The aim is to highlight aspects of Mormon thought or praxis that emerge more sharply when juxtaposed against other cultural formations or intellectual perspectives.
Brief analytical reflections of about twenty minutes duration will be most suitable for the conference format. Friends and students of Professor Bushman are invited to submit.
Send a short (1-2 pp) abstract of the proposed paper, along with a short (1 p) C.V., to Spencer Fluhman at fluhman@gmail.com by November 1, 2010.
80? That can’t be right. He and Claudia seem much much younger.
Comment by the narrator — October 5, 2010 @ 12:11 am
It does seem hard to believe, though it’s been 42 years since he won the Bancroft for From Puritan to Yankee.
Comment by Christopher — October 5, 2010 @ 12:52 pm
Very cool idea. I have to figure out a way to be there. Just a month for getting a proposal together seems a bit tight, IMO, given the scope of the proposals sought.
Comment by Kent Larsen — October 6, 2010 @ 10:08 am
Thought you guys might like to know about this event happening at the University of Chicago Divinity School
http://www.latentdesign.com/clients/ISAE/UC_Poster/UCD%20ISAE%20poster3c.pdf
Comment by andy — October 7, 2010 @ 11:11 am
Folks: send this call to anyone you think would be interested. We need your help getting this out … we really want this to be a great event. The deadline is a little tight, yes, but get something in and we’ll consider it.
Comment by Spencer Fluhman — October 7, 2010 @ 1:05 pm
Widest distribution? I’m not so sure that I want any bozos who don’t read the JI to show up at the event! 🙂
Comment by Steve Fleming — October 7, 2010 @ 2:34 pm
You likely do not want all the bozos who do read the JI to show up.
Comment by Chris H. — October 11, 2010 @ 10:34 am
So, is the idea for this mainly to be a gathering of people Richard already knows well, or is it just that such people are especially encouraged to step up to the plate and contribute?
Comment by Ben H — October 23, 2010 @ 10:37 pm