Association for Mormon Letters Annual Conference 11 and 12 April, 2014
Venue: Utah Valley University Library
Friday evening: (note this will be held in lecture theater LA101)
6pm Welcome and opening panel: New Mormon Theater (Eric Samuelson, Jerry Argetsinger, Scott Bronson) Moderator: Margaret Young
7pm. Reader’s Theater: “A Second Birth” Ariel Mitchell
Follow-up discussion of the play.
Saturday 12 April:
9.00am. Registration (UVU Library Lecture Theater – ground floor)
9.15. Welcome
| 9.30. (Track 1) Joseph and Kay Darowski | (Track 2) Panel Discussion: |
| The Joseph Smith Papers. What Are they Good For? | Teaching Mormon Literature |
| Christopher C Smith | Margaret Young, Scott Hales, Shelah Miner, Boyd Petersen |
| Adoption of Ecstatic Native American Practices in Early Mormon Ohio | Moderator: John Bennion |
| 10.30 (Track 1) ) Lisa Olsen Tait | (Track 2) Panel Discussion |
| Three Forgotten Women Writers of the Home Literature Movement | Promoting New Mormon Fiction |
| Boyd Petersen | Stephen Carter, James Goldberg, Shelah Miner |
| Historical Mormon Interpretations of Eve | |
| 11.30am Keynote Address: Lecture Theater | Dr Michael Hicks (BYU) |
| “Inventing ‘Mormon Music’” | |
| 12.30 Award Luncheon (box lunch $12.00) | Lakeview Room in Library |
| 2pm. Lecture Theater | Performance of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” composed by Darrell Brown, BYU Idaho With text based on the short story of the same name by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this is song cycle/musical drama for solo tenor voice and accompanied by a consort of piccolo/flute/bass flute, eb clarinet/bb clarinet/eb contralto clarinet, cello, and percussion (marimba, vibraphone, chimes, congas, and bass drum). |
| 2.30pm. (Track 1) Scott Hales | (Track 2) Tyler Chadwick |
| New Mormon Fiction | “Alex’s Tongue: Making, the Makar, and Mormonism” |
| 3.30pm (Track 1) Jerry Argetsinger | (Track 2) Harlow Clark |
| Gay Mormon Fiction | Scattered into Jagged Pieces: Troubled Mormon Marriage Memoirs of Phyllis Barber, Carol Lynn Pearson, and Florence Child Brown |
| 4.30pm Combined: Lecture Theater | James Goldberg: “Why the Church Is Boring But Our Covenants Are Not” |
| Stephen Carter: “The History of Book of Mormon Comics” | |
| 5.30pm End of the Conference |