PANEL II: Thursday, October 27, 7:00-8:30 PM
“Writing Women’s History in Mormonism:
Old Challenges, New Prospects”
IMPORTANT!
If you have not already, please RSVP to John Boyack at john.boyack@utah.edu or (801) 587-8879 for each panel at least two days prior to each panel.
All events are free and open to the public. Panel discussions are held in the Tanner Humanities Center, Room 143 (map) unless otherwise noted from 7:00-8:30pm. A short Q&A will follow.
"Writing Women's History" panelists:
COLLEEN McDANNELL
Colleen McDannell is the Sterling M. McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of History, University of Utah; author of Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America, Heaven: A History, and The Spirit of Vatican II: A History of Catholic Reform in America.
LINDA KING NEWELL
Linda King Newell is author of Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith; past president of the John Whitmer Historical Association and the Mormon History Association, and former co-editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.
KATE HOLBROOK
Kate Holbrook is a specialist in women’s history in the Church History Department for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is the co-editor of Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives and The First Fifty Years of the Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History.
About the Fall 2016 Panel Discussion Series
In conjunction with the Marlin K. Jensen Scholar in Residence program, Brian Birch's course on "The Intellectual Life of Mormonism" is hosting a four-part discussion series featuring Mormon Studies scholars during the fall semester at the University of Utah's Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center.
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Thursday, November 17, 7:00-8:30 PM
"Race & Gender: Contemporary Persepectives"
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Thursday, December 08, 7:00-8:30 PM
"The LDS Church and the Academic Study of Mormonism:
Institutional Dynamics"
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