AML Conference Program 2012

Association for Mormon Letters

2012 Annual Meeting   (April 21, 2012):

“Going Forth into All the World: Mormon Literature in an International Church”

 

Time Room SC206A Room SC206B Room SC206C
9:00-9:50 Stephen Carter, “Mormon/Christian   Video Games” Carson Bennett, “‘The Wanderer’   and Moroni’s Exile” Ken Adkins, “Cultural   Interpretations of the Rod of Iron”Josue Sanches, “On Translating for Hispanics: Faith or Knowledge?” Tyler Chadwick, “Situating   Sonospophy: Deconstructing Alex Caldiero’s Poetarium” Harlow Clark, “‘Before Pilate Was, I Am’”
10:00-11:15 Keynote: Elder John H. Groberg, Centre Stage
  Room SC206A Room SC206B
11:30-12:45 Jack Harrell, “The 13th Article of Faith as a Standard for Judging Literature”

Joy Buhler, “The Great LDS Novel: Pipedream or Future Reality?”

Scott Hales, “Beyond Missionary Stories: Voicing the Transnational LDS Experience

Glenn Gordon, “The Challenges of Faithful Fiction from the Mormon Diaspora”

Dennis and Valarie Clark, “Senior Couples in   theUkraine”

Julia G. Blair, “Remont”

Amy Coray, poem: “On the Daugava”

Riley Lewis, “Firm as the Mountains”

DVD on Cameroon Temple Trip

1:00-2:20 Lunch and AML Business Meeting (including Award Presentations) 
2:30-3:50 Angel Chaparro Sainz, “Phyllis Barber: There is Love After All”

Helynne Hansen, “Novels of Mrs. A.   G. Paddock”

Brooke Brassard, “Alberta’s Wild Rose: Zina Woolf   Hickman”

James Goldberg, “Sylvester Lamis’s   ‘The Coconut Bond’”

Poetry   Readings from Fire in the Pasture #1 (panel leader, Tyler Chadwick):Laura Baxter, Gideon Burton, Alex Caldiero, Aaron Guile, Laura Hamblin, Warren (Scott) Hatch, Marilyn Nielson, Steven Peck, Amber Watson, Terresa Wellborn                        
4:00-5:20 Kristi Bell, “Following Dickens: Mormon Authors Market Christmas”

John Bennion, “Becoming a Lord of the Earth: Reflections on my British and Victorian Roots”

Lee Sheppard, “At Church in the U. K.”

Eric Samuelsen, “Edward W. Tulldge and Ben Israel: First Mormon Playright in Light of his Best Play”

Poetry Readings from   Fire in the Pasture #2 (panel leader, Tyler Chadwick): Matthew James Babcock, Elaine Craig, Sarah Duffy, Lisa Fillerup, Sharlee Glenn, Michael Hicks, Susan Howe, E. S. (Sarah) Jenkins, Lance Larsen, Darlene Young   
6:30 Reception with Readings by AML award winners at the home of Charlotte England (1775 Andrus).  Refreshments will be served.