By David G.May 25, 2009
After months of cajoling, Steve Fleming has finally agreed to join the Juvenile Instructor on a permanent basis. Here’s a short bio:
Stephen J. Fleming is a PhD. candidate at UC Santa Barbara in Religious Studies and a 2008 Bushman fellow. Steve received his B.A. in history from BYU and his M.A. from UC Stanislaus, also in history. He would like to write a dissertation on survivals of crypto-Catholicism and resistance to disenchantment from the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution. He has been published in Church History, Religion and American Culture, and Max Weber Studies, as well as various Mormon journals and he is currently revising his MA thesis, which treats Mormonism in the Delaware Valley (Philadelphia and surrounding regions) for publication.
Here are the links for Steve’s guest posts:
http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/what-is-our-obligation-the-2008-bushman-seminar/
http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/science-as-a-vocation/
Join us in welcoming Steve.
By Ben PMay 23, 2009
Award Recipients from the 2009 MHA Awards Banquet.
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By GuestApril 9, 2009
Kristine Haglund is a stay-in-the-minivan mother of three kids, and the current editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She blames her interest in Mormon history on her father, who gave her a copy of _Mormon Sisters_ when she was 9 years old, and then asked her to give a sacrament meeting talk about Ellis Shipp and Patty Sessions. She blogs full-time, of course, at By Common Consent. Kristine presented these remarks at the Mormonism in the Public Mind conference at UVU on Friday, April 3, 2009.
I am more than a little bit surprised to find myself on a panel with “new media” and “pop culture” in the session title-I grew up mostly without a TV and am inflicting the same deprivation on my children; I’m old enough to have taken a typewriter with me when I went to college; and I grew up in a home where “contemporary” music meant anything post-Mahler, like maybe Copland.
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By Jared TApril 5, 2009
Day two of the Mormonism in the Public Mind conference at UVU went very well. See my notes for Day 1 here.
The First Panel, “Political Discourse and the Latter-day Saints” has been reported in a number of places. The Mormon Times reported on Kirk Jowers’ presentation “Did Romeny’s Religion Cost Him the Presidency?” and Thursday’s Keynote speaker, Michael Paulson liveblogged portions of each of the three panel participants on his Boston Globe religion blog, Articles of Faith.
My notes are as follows:
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By Jared TApril 5, 2009
I attended both days of the Mormonism in the Public Mind Conference at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT. I took some lazy notes on the first day, so I will provide my notes and links to reports made in other venues. I took much more copious notes on the second day, which I am cleaning up now for posting, probably today. Here is the conference program.
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By Jared TApril 1, 2009
On March 5 of this year, UVU hosted a panel discussion on the Mountain Meadows Massacre featuring Rick Turley, Will Bagley, and Forrest Cuch and was moderated by Alex Caldiero. Brent Brizzi was on the scene and has provided a transcript of the proceedings. He consulted a recording and notes provided him by the participants. Thank you, Brent for you hard work putting this together for those of us who couldn’t make it.
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By Ben PMarch 25, 2009
Reading Nephi Reading Isaiah
Wednesday 15 April 2009
BYU HBLL Auditorium (1st floor)
9 Jenny Webb ?Slumbering Voices: Death and Textuality in 2 Nephi?
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By David G.March 17, 2009
I’m pleased to introduce JI readers to an old friend of mine from BYU, Brant E., who will be guesting with us for a couple of weeks. Here’s Brant’s bio:
I only recently discovered a deep-interest in Mormon history and have been frantically trying to learn as much as I can. I thank the contributors at the JI for keeping me current with some of the current thoughts in Mormon Studies. Currently, I am in the final semester of my MA in American Studies at Penn State. I received a BA also in American Studies from BYU in ’06. My thesis explores the motivation of Mormon soldiers who fought in the Civil War.
Let’s welcome Brant.
By David G.March 13, 2009
I recently put one of my profs on the spot. He was bragging to the class about how he’s such great friends with the early American historian Alan Taylor, but when I asked if he was friends with Taylor on Facebook, my prof turned red, lowered his head, and confessed that Taylor had rejected his friend request (ok, not really, my prof said he didn’t have a facebook account . . . yet). Anyway, check the JI out on Facebook and become our fan.
http://apps.new.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/the_juvenile_instructor_a_mormon_history_blog/
By Ben PMarch 4, 2009
Since Ryan T. did so well, we decided to try another advanced-beyond-their-age undergraduate. JI is pleased to announce our newest guestblogger, Ardis S; this is how Ardis introduces herself:
Hi Juvenile Instructor! My name is Ardis Smith, and I am an undergraduate student in History graduating this April. Social history is my favorite category of history. I recently completed and successfully defended an Honors thesis on eighteenth-century English kinship, something that I studied at both BYU and Cambridge. I also have researched for the past year the civil rights movement as portrayed in the BYU student newspaper The Daily Universe during the 1950s and 1960s. When I am not studying history, I enjoy music, photography, Model United Nations, and playing games with family and friends.
On a personal note, Ardis and I were fellow students at BYU’s (now ceased) Semester at Nauvoo Program, and I can attest to both her intellectual brilliance and pleasant nature.
Please join us in welcoming Ardis.
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