Saturday, May 23, 2026 |  9:00 AM – 5:00 PM PDT

Location | Albrecht Auditorium
Claremont Graduate University

Join us in person for this year’s Mormon Studies Conference hosted by Claremont Graduate University

CGU will host a one-day Mormon studies conference, Negotiating Agency: Mormon Women in Art, History, and Narrative. Bringing together scholars, artists, and community members, the conference explores how Mormon women have expressed and experienced agency through lived experience, creative practice, and historical circumstances. The program is organized around three thematic conversations: women’s narrated life stories and oral histories; visual and artistic expressions of agency; and scholarship on Mormon women’s lives and choices across time. Presenters draw on interviews, archival research, and artistic interpretation to examine agency as shaped by power, identity, and constraint, rather than as a simple story of freedom or resistance.

The conference will be accompanied by a curated art exhibition, Becoming Sovereign: Agency, Art, and Mormon Women, which will be introduced during the program and remain open for viewing throughout the day and for the following week.

Attendees are invited to a free catered lunch, with time set aside to visit the exhibition, participate in an art workshop, and engage with an oral history booth.

The day will conclude with a keynote address by Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, who will reflect on Mormon women, agency, and moral development, bringing the conference’s creative and scholarly themes into conversation with contemporary questions of selfhood and ethical life.

For planning purposes. please register for this free conference. Registration link here.