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