We are excited for the upcoming AML conference. It’s looking like a stellar couple of days. Please spread the word. The conference begins on March 29th in the evening, and goes all day on March 30 (Saturday). It’s free and will be well worth your time. Schedule follows.
Friday March 29th:
UVU Library auditorium (Orem, UT)
5:30: Comments by playwright Eric Samuelsen
Performance of Scott Bronson’s _Tombs_
Q/A
Saturday March 29th, UVU Library
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Panel 1- Library auditorium
Intro: Karina Osgood
Tyler Chadwick: Performative Poesis and the (Un)Making of the World
Noel Carmack: Christ Correlated: ‘Approved’ Representations of Jesus in LDS Visual Resources, 1990-2013.
Panel 2- LI506 (Library instruction room)
Intro: Neil Longo
Mark Ellison: Work and Glory: Dynamics at Work in Early Christian and Latter-day Saint Art Depicting Jesus
Harlow Clark “Aesthetics as a reflection of ethics” starting with Simon Dewey’s painting ‘Behold the Man.’
KEYNOTE: Library Auditorium
Artist J. Kirk Richards 10:10-11:20
“Seek Ye The Face of Christ: Artists’ Considerations in Depicting the Savior”
11:30-12:45
Panel 3: LI506
Intro: Carter Bradshaw
James Goldberg: Jesus in Joanna Brooks’ Book of Mormon Girl
Christopher Cunningham: Messianic archetypes in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game
Lynne Larson: Our War with Hollywood: Let’s Call a Truce.
Mattathias Westwood: James Goldberg’s The Five Books of Jesus: Maschiach and son of God
Panel 4: LI505
Intro: Kristin Danner
Jacob Bender: The Hermeneutics of Silence: Low, Ben-Hur, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Jonathon Penny: Strange Saviors: Richards’ Pantocrator and Goldberg’s Jew
Corey Wozniak: Playing God: The Function of Drama in Mormon Pedagogy, with Case Studies of LDS Actors Portraying Christ.
Laura Allred Hurtado: Christian Jankowski’s Casting Jesus & the Mormon Response: A discussion between Two Scholars
Brown bag lunch and announcement of awards (1:00-2:15) Place TBA
2:30-3:45
Panel 5: LI505
Intro: Dr. John Bennion
Jack Harrell: “Toward a Mormon Literary Theory”
Blair Dee Hodges “I didn’t want an idiot: I’ve four already!” Intellectual Disability and Polygamy in 19th Century Novels about the Mormons
Jordan Harmer: How Mormons Read
David Rodrigues II: “In the midst of ‘approved’ pictures, how do we edify one another?”
Panel 6 Poetry readings from _Fire in the Pasture_: Library auditorium
Intro: Tyler Chadwick
4:00-5:15
Panel 7: LI506
Intro: Dr. Bruce Jorgensen
Danny Hastings: ‘The Search: A personal quest
for the perfect artistic portrayal of the Savior’
Mark Goodson: Personal experiences on painting Christ as a two-year-old in Egypt, oil on canvas
Glenn Gordon “The Religious Writer and the Bi-Cultural World: The Challenge of being In the world but not OF the world”
Carol Elaine Erekson: Though Mortal Fathers Play Santa, Christ—our Father—is Not Santa Claus
Panel 8: Poetry Readings (cont.): Library auditorium
Panel 9: LI505
Intro: James Goldberg
Readings by Erin Jackson, Emily Harris Adams, and James Goldberg: Depicting Christ in Fiction
This sounds excellent. I wish I could be there this year.
This all looks quite lovely, but I especially wish I could be there for Jacob Bender’s presentation. The title is quite intriguing.
Yeah, I’m looking forward to that one as well. You can get a sneak peak at the roots of what he’ll present here: http://www.shipsofhagoth.com/2012/01/lows-secret-name-2/
Interestingly, Wm, Low is playing in Provo that night. See here: http://www.24tix.com/event.html?show_id=T31966076763196607676317
The question (for me anyway!) is whether I can swing taking all day Saturday away from the family and not just the evening …
Please tell me about Low. Maybe the Velour would be a good place to meet for post-conference relaxation.
Low is the godfather/mother of the slowcore movement in indie rock. Comprised of the Mormon husband-wife duo of Alan Sparhawk (vocals, guitar) and Mimi Parker (vocals, drums) and a bassist (they’ve had 4 over the past 20 years), the band plays haunting, gorgeous, evocative, troubling music. BYUtv did an episode of Audio Files with Low, which would make for a good introduction.
I have seem them in concert. It was a quiet, harrowing, holy experience. I’d highly recommend seeing them perform.
Also: their vocal harmonies are beautiful. (this comment will make more sense once my previous one makes it out of moderation).
Why did you schedule it on the Saturday before
Easter? *sniff* I have too many mommy obligations that day to sneak away.
Oh, I didn’t even think of Easter! Sorry you’ll miss it, Emily, but I’m also thinking that the schedule is fortuitous. I feel that we ignore Good Friday. Seeing Scott Bronson’s _Tombs_ will be a good thing.
I do apologize to all those who have lots of Easter preps. I do Passover, and will have all of my needed supplies purchased by Thursday, March 28th.
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Man alive. So sad to be too far away.
If you start driving at 5 in the morning on Friday you could be here in time for the show on Friday night. Just sayin’ 🙂
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Yeah. . . . That’s not happening.
Really looking forward to this!
Two minor spelling errors in names:
It’s Mattathias Westwood and Jonathon Penny.
Corrected, James! And I’ve added room numbers.