AuthorCast
AuthorCast #43: This Month in Mormon Studies May 01 2017
Join co-hosts Brian Whitney (Greg Kofford Books) and Brandt Malone (Mormon News Report) in this lively look at the latest happenings in the field of Mormon studies, including news, blogs, new book releases, and events from the past month.
Highlights from this month include: Blogs becoming independent presses, Mormon studies nerds filing briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Marlin K. Jensen and insider baseball, summer book club, temple ships and Ouija boards, and big words like indigeneity!
In the News
Firm Foundation Expo and bad science
BCC Press; See also
Ben Park in Newsweek; See also
Signature Books digital archives project
Jana Riess The Next Mormons survey: trust gap
On the Blogs
Vincenzo di Francesca: Cultural Impediments in the Way of His Baptism
Mormon Scholars Opposed to Refugee and Immigrant Ban
Embracing the Chaos and Diversity of Mormonism's Past: Laurie Maffly-Kipp's MHA Presidential Address
Mormon Interpreter: Looking Back, Almost Five Years On
“Providing intellectual and devotional frameworks” (Nibley Fellow Reflections)
Looking Deeper Into Joseph Smith's First Vision: Imagery, Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Construction of Memory
An Evening With Elder Marlin K. Jensen
My Thoughts on Patrick Mason's Miller Eccles Presentation
BCC Press Q&A for academic historians
The Third Annual Summer Book Club: A House Full of Females
Podcasts
LDS Women at the Pulpit - Jenny Reeder and Kate Holbrook
Tithing and the Law of Consecration - Steven C. Harper
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and “A House Full of Females”
Darron Smith interviews on Gospel Tangents
Richard Bennett interviews on Gospel Tangents
On the Erasure of Native Americans from the Book of Mormon Conversation: Thomas Murphy
Kava, Culture, Indigeneity and Mormonism: Daniel Hernandez
God, the Image of God, Theosis, Sex and Godly Creation: Blair Ostler
Recent Book Releases
Steven Peck, Science the Key to Theology: Volume One: Preliminaries (BCC Press); See also
Reid L. Neilson and Nathan N. Waite, eds., Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel: The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency (Oxford University Press)
Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (University of Utah Press)
Published Articles
Brian Hauglid, “Book of Abraham and Translating the Sacred”
Robin Scott Jensen, “The Joseph Smith Papers and the Book of Abraham”
Christopher Blythe, “The Church and Kingdom of God: Ecclesiastical Interpretations of the Council of Fifty”
Conferences and Events
Reid Neilson and Nathan Waite at Benchmark Books
2017 UVU Mormon Studies Conference on YouTube: Thurs sessions, Friday sessions
Sunstone Symposium in Southern Utah
2017 Association for Mormon Letters conference; AML Book Awards, Fundraiser
Sunstone Symposium in Boise
2017 Mormon History Association Registration
2017 Sunstone Symposium SLC
2017 FairMormon Conference
2017 JWHA in Nauvoo
Call for Papers/Applications
The International Society of Landscape, Place and Material Culture
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AuthorCast #42: This Month in Mormon Studies April 03 2017
Join co-hosts Brian Whitney (Greg Kofford Books) and Brandt Malone (Mormon News Report) in this lively look at the latest happenings in the field of Mormon studies, including news, blogs, new book releases, and events from the past month.
In the News
Dr. Robert Rees appointed chair of Mormon studies at GTU
Community of Christ announces three new World Church Historians
Joseph M. Spencer named editor of JBMS
George Q. Cannon digitization update (sort of)
175th Anniversary of the Articles of Faith
Richard Turley honored by Mormon Historic Sites Foundation
Signature Books newspaper digitization at Archive.org
JSP creates index to Joseph Fielding Smith's Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
On the Blogs
William Law’s Amazing (and Suspect) Diary
Florence Smith Jacobsen: Saving Our Material Heritage
Eugenics and the Intellectual Underpinnings of Mormonism in the Alt-Right
Fake News, Leaked Documents, and the Book of Mormon
Also check out: Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: The Fake News of 1859
Seers and Stones: The Translation of the Book of Mormon as Divine Visions of an Old-Time Seer
Why Evolution and LDS Thought are Fully Compatible: Overcoming our Suspicions of Science
Denver Snuffer's teachings to be canonized
The good and bad of studying history
Paul Reeve wrote the race essay
The Relief Society 175th Anniversary–A Sermon
Five People Who Helped Found the Relief Society
Podcasts
Mark Lyman Staker on Gospel Tangents
The Three Witnesses–Larry Morris on LDS Perspectives
In Brigham Young's Words–Gerrit Dirkmaat and LaJean Carruth on LDS Perspectives
New Perspectives on Joseph Smith and Revelation on Mormon Matters
Also: Faith Matters
Women at the Latter-day Saint pulpit, with Jennifer Reeder and Kate Holbrook on MIPodcast
Recent Book Releases
Devery Anderson's Mississippi Freedem Summer Kickstarter
Patrick Q. Mason, What is Mormonism? A Students Introduction (Routledge)
Michael Austin and Ardis E. Parshall, eds., Dime Novel Mormons (Greg Kofford Books)
Published Papers
William Davis, “Reassessing Joseph Smith Jr.’s Formal Education”
Conferences and Events
Book of Mormon Conference (formerly Book of Mormon Archaeological Foundation)
Mormon Transhumanist Association 2017 conference
Mormon History Association 2017 conference
Kate Holbrook at Benchmark Books for At the Pulpit release event
Call for Papers/Applications
Neal A. Maxwell Institute Summer Seminar
Surveying Trends in the Field: Mormon History and Mormon Studies in the Modern Academy
AuthorCast #36—This Month in Mormon Studies, November 2016 December 20 2016
Join co-hosts Brian Whitney (Greg Kofford Books) and Brandt Malone (Mormon News Report) in this lively look at the latest happenings in the field of Mormon studies, including news, blogs, new book releases, and events from the month of November!
Special guest: Stephanie Lauritzen from Signature Books.
In the News
Maxwell Institute Visiting Fellows
D. Todd Christofferson invocation on Senate floor
Retirement of "To Young Men Only" pamphlet
Revelations in Context Sunday School supplement
Gospel Topics Essays added to Sunday School lesson manual
On the Blogs
Ben Park, "2016 in Retrospect"
Christian Anderson, "Heavenly Parents at Conference"
Jessica Finnegan, Kari Waters, and Nancy Ross, "What are Mormon feminists trying to do?"
Nancy Ross review of One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly
Fair Mormon interviews:
Braving Isaiah with Joseph M. Spencer
Translating with Seer Stones with Michael Hubbard McKay
The Book of Mormon: A Closer Look with Brant Gardner
Emma Smith "An Elect Lady" with Matthew J. Grow
Steve Evans Book Review Roundup
Ashley Mae Hoiland "For many years my voice shook"
Johnathan Stapley, "Tools for teachers 2017"
Recent Book Releases
Donald Faber, James Jesse Strang: The Rise and Fall of Michigan's Mormon King (University of Michigan Press)
Scott Hales, The Garden of Enid: Adventures of a Weird Mormon Girl, Part One (Greg Kofford Books)
Richard S. Van Wagoner, Natural Born Seer: Joseph Smith, American Prophet: 1805–1830 (Smith-Pettit Foundation)
Recent and Upcoming Events
"Intellectual Life of Mormonism" final panel at University of Utah
Call for Papers
2017 Mormon Scholars in the Humanities
AuthorCast #24 - This Month in Mormon Studies! June 03 2016
This Month in Mormon Studies is a new series co-hosted by Brian Whitney (Greg Kofford Books) and Brandt Malone (Mormon News Report). In this engaging and lighthearted series, Brian and Brandt will be discussing the latest going's-on in the field of Mormon studies. From news and blog highlights to new book releases and upcoming events, this monthly series is not to be missed. Subscribe today!
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In the News
Spencer Fluhman named director of Maxwell Institute
Historian Ronald Walker passed away at age 76
George D. Smith receives honorary Doctorate from University of Utah
First edition of Book of Mormon to be part of Library of Congress
On the Blogs
Juvenile Instructor Book Club for Summer 2016 - Mormon Enigma
Harmonized First Vision accounts in CES broadcast (times & Seasons)
Matthew Grow’s touching tribute to Ronald Walker @ BCC
Re-examining and re-evaluating the Gospel Topics essays by Mary-Ann at W&T
Steve Taysom interviewed by Matt Bowman on craft of biography writing
Latest Book Releases
Adam Miller, Future Mormon: Essays in Mormon Theology
Kate Holbrook and Matthew Bowman, eds., Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Gregory A. Prince, Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History
Matthew C. Godfrey, et al., eds., Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, Vol. 4: April 1834 - September 1835
Martha Bradley-Evans, Glorious in Persecution: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839-1844
Patrick Q. Mason, ed., Directions for Mormon Studies in the Twenty-First Century
Laura Hales, ed., A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Read Brandt Malone's interview with Laura Hales on the Cultural Hall Podcast.
Upcoming Events
Mormonism in Religious Studies workshop at University of Utah
Mormon History Association 2016 Conference in Snowbird, UT
Mormon Women's History Initiative Team (MWHIT) sponsoring a fundraising bazaar at MHA.
Greg Prince author event at Benchmark Books, June 8
Greg Prince author event at Writ & Vision, June 9
Adam Miller author event at Writ & Vision, June 14
Jack Harrell author event at Writ & Vision, June 28
Matthew Godfrey speaking on Zion's Camp at Temple Square Assembly Hall, June 23