Sunstone just put up their Preliminary Program for this summer's Symposium. The Symposium runs from August 12 to 15, and is held at the Salt Lake City Sheraton Hotel. The program this year looks just as loaded with fascinating presentations as it is every year, so you'll definitely want to start buying tickets and making reservations! The only downside is that sometimes there are so many great papers being given concurrently that you'll have to make the agonizing choice between them.
You'll find my paper listed as session #222 on the program. I have to compete with George D. Smith, Ron Romig, and Scott Kenney during my timeslot. Ugh. At least my paper's in a different genre. Maybe that will help draw some literary types who don't really like history.
Here are some of the other sessions I'll be attending:
112 - James MacLachlan - MEDITATIONS ON WILLIAM H. CHAMBERLIN AND WHY ONE SHOULD REMAIN MORMON
123 - Trevor Luke - THE SCANDAL IN THE PRACTICE: JOSEPH SMITH AS RELIGIOUS PERFORMER
132 - Panel - MORMONS AND MEDIUMS: LDS WOMEN’S PURSUIT OF MEDIATED AND NONMEDIATED COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD
154 - Jeffrey Needle - IMMERSED IN ALL THINGS MORMON EXCEPT THE FONT
161 - Steve Warren - DRAT! MYTHED AGAIN: THE STRANGE PERSISTENCE OF CERTAIN QUESTIONABLE TEACHINGS IN TODAY’S MORMONISM
171 - Panel - AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: NAUVOO POLYGAMY
191 - Panel - THE DYNAMICS OF POWER AND AUTHORITY IN THE LDS CHURCH
213 - Loren Franck - ‘YOUR BOSOM SHALL BURN WITHIN YOU’: AN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN EXAMINATION OF THE LDS TESTIMONY
234 - Panel - DIVINE MALFEASANCE
251 - Don Bradley - MAPPING MORMON ISSUES: CONSPIRACY, DELUSION, OR REVELATION? THE 180-YEAR CONTROVERSY OVER THE BOOK OF MORMON WITNESSES
264 - Michael Reed - CROSS AT THE CROSS: LDS CONTEMPT FOR THE CHRISTIAN SYMBOL
272 - Panel - PREVIEW OF A FORTHCOMING BOOK: MORMON POLYGAMY: NEW PERSPECTIVES—FROM JOSEPH SMITH TO WARREN JEFFS
315 - Brian Hales - GENDER-SPECIFIC ROLES AND THE ETERNAL PATRIARCHAL ORDER: A THEOLOGICAL LOOK AT JOSEPH SMITH’S POLYGAMY
323 - Panel - WHY GAY MORMONS ARE SO OFTEN TEMPTED TO BLOW THEIR STINKIN’ HEADS OFF (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)
355 - Peter and Mary Danzig - “IT’S EITHER TRUE OR FALSE . . . ” DICHOTOMOUS THINKING IN MORMON CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON THE INDIVIDUAL
361 - Dale E. Luffman - MAKING A CASE FOR A NINETEENTH CENTURY READING OF THE BOOK OF MORMON
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4 comments:
What??? You're planning to attend someone else's panel instead of mine? (#275)
Hmph. Well, I have to say that paper #221 is looking awfully interesting...
;^)
lol, Carol! I actually looked for your name on the list, but didn't see you there. I was surprised, but figured maybe you were attending but not presenting. The problem was that I was looking for you in the alphabetical presenter listing under the name "Hanson". I didn't realize your last name is really Hamer!
It will mean missing both Don Bradley and Jan Shipps, but I'll come to your panel. ;) I'll see Don give a talk earlier that day anyway. And I wouldn't miss a chance to meet the infamous chanson!
I use a pen name for my Mormon-related stuff because I use my real name professionally. I don't want my personal writings to be competing with my Java books (and vice-versa) when people google me.
So I'm opposite Jan Shipps? Great, now my own brother probably won't attend my panel...
I'm looking forward to meeting you!!
It's a pleasure to find you. I received the Sunstone catalog and circled your session as one to pick up on CD after the conference.
I'd be interested in discussing your thoughts on this some time. I have an MA in intercultural studies which I apply in part to my research and writing on Mormonism. You can find my thoughts at my blog at http://johnwmorehead.blogspot.com. I also have an avid interest in the fantastic in pop culture, including sci fi. I discuss this at www.theofantastique.com.
Last year I presented a paper at the Life, the University, and Everything symposium suggesting that sci fi films and television might be a good medium for interreligious dialogue between Mormons and evangelicals. I've since revised the paper and have submitted it to the Journal of Religion and Film for peer review and publication consideration. If you'd like to see it let me know. I can be reached at johnwmorehead@msn.com.
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