AML Conference Program 2011

AML Conference Program 2011

MSH/AML 2011 Conference Schedule

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Thurs. March 24

2:00 to 3:30 p.m.

BYU, Education in Zion Theater, B 192 Joseph F. Smith Building
James K A Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College, Faculty Center Lecture on Desiring the Kingdom.

4:00 to 5:00

Faculty Seminar discussion of Kierkegaard with James K. A. Smith

7:00-9:00

UVU Library Auditorium
UVU Annual Eugene England Mormon Studies Lecture
Phil Barlow, Leonard Arrington Professor of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University, ―To Mend a Fractured Reality: Joseph Smith’s Project‖

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Ongoing

Art Wall, Library 3rd floor Exhibition, The Art of Kirk Richards

9:00-9:50

Library Auditorium (LI 120)
MSH Panel:
David Gore, University of Minnesota Duluth, ―The Voice of the People and the Body Politic in Mosiah 29‖
G. St. John Stott, Arab American University – Jenin (Palestine), ―Talking of Angels; Talking to Angels‖

Lakeview Room , MSH Panel: Jonathon Penny, United Emirates University, ―Godsbody—Image, Icon, and Word Made Flesh Made Word (in Rudy Wiebe‘s A Discovery of Strangers and Paintings by Kirk Richards and Brian Kershisnik)‖
Cherise Bacalski and Shannon Stimpson, Brigham Young University, ―Bodily Influence and Accountability: A Burkean Reading of Agency‖

10:00- 10:50

Library Auditorium (LI 120)
MSH Keynote: James K.A. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College, ―Religion is for Bodies: Embodied Ritual in Postmodern Fiction‖

11:00- 11:50

Library Auditorium (LI 120)
MSH: Blake Ostler, ―An Embodied God before/after/with the Universe‖
Ron Bartholomew, Orem LDS Institute, ―The History of the LDS Doctrine of Embodiment in D&C 130:22‖

Lakeview Room
MSH: Susan H. Miller, Brigham Young University, ―‘No Greater Love‘: A Personal Recollection‖
Jay Fox, Brigham Young University, ―Embodiment and the Semantics of Stigma‖

12:00

Lunch

1:00-2:05 p.m.

LDS Institute
MSH: John W. Welch, ― Reading a Sealed Book: Humanities Lessons from Two Ancient Roman Bronze Plates‖

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Library Auditorium (LI 120)
AML: Graham St. John Stott, ―Gates to Magery‖
Brooke Brassard, ―Vampire Rules Aren‘t Enough For You? You Want to Worry about the Human Ones Too?‖

Lakeview Room
MSH: Pat Debenham, Brigham Young University, ―Somatic Practice as an Inroad to Spiritual Insights‖
Shawn Tucker, Elon University, ―Laughter as Gift‖

2:15-3:45

Library Auditorium
MSH Panel: ―Responses to the Theme of Embodiment in George Handley’s Home Waters‖
Adam Miller, chair, Jennifer Webb, Christopher Oscarson, George Handley

LI 213
AML: Jacob Bender ―A Post-Structural Approach to the Book of Mormon‖
Bruce Jorgensen, ―Toward a Hermeneutics of Grace and Charity (Mormon or Not)‖

LI 502
MSH: Wyatt Brockbank, Brigham Young University, ―Only through the Body Do We Know, Experience, Live: Philosophers, Poets, and Prophets on the Importance of the Body‖
Adam Brasich, Wabash College, ―‘God is Very Man‘: Joseph Smith and Emanuel Swedenborg in Conversation on Embodiment‖
Steve Tensmeyer, Brigham Young University, ― LDS Conceptions of Embodiment and Transcendence: Insights from Carnap‖

Lakeview Room
MSH: Poetry by Jonathon Penny, Scott Hatch, Susan E. Howe, Michael Hicks, Lance Larsen

4:00-5:30

Library Auditorium
AML: Dennis Clark, ―Liberating Form and Liberty Jail‖
Kim Heuston, ―Eternity Made Manifest: Form and the Art of Coming Home‖ Harlow Clark, ―Liberating From‖

LI 213
MSH: Jennifer Rytting, Northwest Missouri State University, ―Corpus Christi: Medieval Views of Christ‘s Body‖
Alan Goff, DeVry University, ― Written upon the Heart, Written upon the Body: The Biblical Image and Kafka‘s Uses of Literary Embodiment‖
Bruce Jorgensen, Brigham Young University, ―The Presentation of the Sexual Incident inReynolds Price‘s A Long and Happy Life‖

LI 506
MSH Panel: ―Death, Disguise and Dehumanization: the Body in Spanish Lit and Art‖ Anna-Lisa Halling, panel chair, Vanderbilt University, ―Violence and Excess: The Body as Locus of Punishment in María de Zayas
Emily Tobey, Indiana University, ―Dressing, Disguising, and Choosing Our Identities‖ Jared White, University of California Irvine, ―Dehumanizing the Spanish Portrait: Progressive Abstraction in Picasso‘s Self-Portraits‖

LI 515
AML: Helynne Hansen ―Mormonism 101 as LDS Literature Enters the Mainstream: Elna Baker‘s The New York Regional Singles’ Mormon Halloween Dance‖
Glen Gordon, ―Faith-Based Fiction: Bibliotherapy for the Soul?‖
Cameron Scott, ―Revelation‘s Disruption: The Need for Uncertainty in Jack Harrell‘s
A Sense of Order and Other Stories and Flannery O‘Connor‘s ̳Revelation‘‖

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6:00-7:15 p.m.

Lakeview Room
MSH Conference Dinner

7:30-9:00 p.m.

Library Auditorium
MSH Panel: ―Can there be Non-Creedal Orthodoxy?: Mormon Engagements with RadicalOrthodoxy‖
Robert Couch, Willamette University
David Gore, panel chair, University of Minnesota Duluth
James Faulconer, Brigham Young University
James KA Smith, Calvin College, respondent

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