Thanks to friend of JI Matthew Grow for reaching out to us regarding this announcement! Further information can be found at the Communcal Studies Association website.

Sessions will begin at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time and end at 6:00 p.m. Eastern. Each session will be 90 minutes in length, generally with three presenters speaking for 25 minutes with time for questions. Viewers will be able to query speakers in real time via the Q & A tab. There will be 15 minutes between sessions. Our business meeting, election and awards ceremony will occur on Friday evening.

Registration will be on our website at conference registration. Cost for registration will be just $50 for members, $60 for non-members and $10 for students and current communitarians. We hope this low price will encourage many to attend who might not otherwise be able to afford the transportation and lodging expense of an in-person conference. So please spread the word!

Conference theme: The foundational knowledge of intentional communities shapes the formation and futures of those communities, as well as shaping outsiders’ and scholars’ views of them. The 2020 conference invites attendees studying, working at or living in communal societies to consider the foundational information known about intentional communities. The conference also challenges participants to reexamine past histories in light of new research and changing interpretations. How might foundational knowledge continue to operate within communities long after their founding? How might foundational knowledge shape scholars’ views of communities? How might foundational knowledge about a community be challenged or critiqued by outsiders, scholars, or by the community itself? How might foundational scholarship about a community influence or be critiqued by later scholars? How might foundational knowledge be reinterpreted over time?

LATTER-DAY SAINT HISTORY SESSION

Saturday, October 3, 2020

3:15-4:45, Mormon History

Moderator: Warner Woodworth

The Mormon International: Transnational Communitarian Politics and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints, 1830-1890
Erik Freeman, The University of Connecticut / Choate Rosemary Hall

Dynamics of Ecclesiastic Leadership in Mormon Communal Colonization; the San Juan Mission’s Dance Hall Rock
Decision
Doug Major, Independent Historian

Intentional Communities and Historic Sites: A Latter-day Saint Perspective
Steven Olsen, LDS Church History Department

You can read the rest of the program HERE.