Positioning Mormonism in Religious Studies and American History

October 24-26, 2004

Featured Speakers:

• Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University
• Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University
• Terryl Givens, University of Richmond
• Philip Barlow, Hanover College
• Kathryn Daynes, Brigham Young University
• Ann Taves, Claremont Graduate University
• Zayn Kassam, Oona Eisenstadt, Ivan Strenski

Discussants:

• Vincent Wimbush
• Marvin Sweeney
• Robert DeChaine
• Catherine L. Albanese
• Robert Elwood
• Gaston Espinoza
• Roberto Lint Sagarena
• Janet Brodie
• Sara Patterson

Sponsored by:
Claremont Graduate School of Religion in conjunction with Claremont School of Theology and Pomona College

Sunday, October 24, 2004 7:00 p.m.   [Public forum, Seaver Auditorium, 300 E. Bonita Ave.]

Public Lecture – “Is this safe?  Mormon history and the Secular Academy,”  

Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University.  [Seaver Auditorium, 300 Bonita]

Monday, October 25, 2004  9:00 a.m.   [All sessions at Abrecht Auditorium, 10th & Dartmouth]

Welcome: Karen J. Torjesen, Dean, School of Religion, CGU.

Session I: “Positioning Mormonism in Religious Studies”

Lecture: Kathleen Flake, Vanderbilt University.

Discussants: Zayn Kassam (Pomona College); Oona Eisenstadt (Pomona College); Ivan Strenski (UC Riverside).

Monday, October 25, 2004 2:00 p.m.

Session II: “The Book of Mormon in Literary and Cultural Studies”

Lecture: Terryl Givens, University of Richmond.  

Discussants: Vincent Wimbush (Claremont Graduate University); Marvin Sweeney (Claremont Graduate University and Claremont School of Theology); Robert DeChaine (Claremont Graduate University).

Monday October 25, 2004 7:30 p.m.

Session III: “Studying the Saints: Resources for Mormon history at the Huntington Library,” 

Peter J. Blodgett, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:00 a.m.

Session IV: “Positioning Mormonism in American Religious History”

Lecture: Philip Barlow, Hanover College.  

Discussants: Catherine L. Albanese (UC Santa Barbara); Gaston Espinoza (Claremont McKenna College); Robert Ellwood (Emeritus, USC).

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 2:00 p.m.

Session V: “Positioning Mormonism in Women’s Studies & Western History”

Lecture: Kathryn Daynes, History, Brigham Young University.  

Discussants: Janet Brodie (Claremont Graduate University); Sara Patterson (Claremont Graduate University), Roberto Lint Sagarena (USC).

Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 7:00 p.m. 

Closing Comments: “New Directions for Mormon Studies in the Secular University,” Ann Taves (Claremont Graduate University & Claremont School of Theology).