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The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
and the Mormon Scholars Foundation

Invite you to the Annual Summer Symposium on Mormon Culture

THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE GOLD PLATES

Thursday, August 18, 2011
Room B037 Joseph F. Smith Building
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The program will feature the following papers:

Morning Session:

Stephen Taysom, “Worlds of Discourse, Plates of Gold: Joseph Smith’s Plates as Cultural Catalysts”

Ben Bascom, “Guard the Gold: Didactic Fiction and the Mainstreaming of Moroni”

Jared Halverson, “Fictionalizing Faith: Popular Polemics and the Golden Plates”

Julie Frederick, “Artistic Depictions of the Gold Plates and the Material Cultural Inheritance"

Tyler Gardner, “Possessing the Plates: The Presence and Absence of the Gold Plates”

Rachael Givens, “’Wagonloads’: The Disappearance of the Book of Mormon's Sealed Portion”

Afternoon Session:

Sarah Reed, “Fantasy, Fraud and Freud: The Uncanny Gold Plates in 19th Century Newspaper Accounts”

Elizabeth Mott, “The Forbidden Gaze: The Veiling of the Gold Plates and Joseph Smith’s Redefintion of Sacred Space”

Michael Reed, “The Notion of Ancient Metal Records in Joseph Smith’s Day”

Caroline Sorensen, “The Metallurgical Plausibility of the Gold Plates”

Christopher Smith, “Rediscovering Joseph Smith’s ‘Discovery Narrative’ in Southern Utah”

Rachel Gostenhofer, "In Consequence of Their Wickedness: The Decline and Fall of Mormon Seership, 1838-1900"

Everybody who's anybody is going to be there.

April 18, 2011 already passed.

just me wrote:April 18, 2011 already passed.

Quick eye, JustMe. I edited this post, and let Bushman know about the needed correction. Thanks!

Mike Reed wrote:Rachel Gostenhofer, "In Consequence of Their Wickedness: The Decline and Fall of Mormon Seership, 1838-1900"

I think I'd change this title to 1838-2011.

Mike Reed wrote:

just me wrote:April 18, 2011 already passed.

Quick eye, JustMe. I edited this post, and let Bushman know about the needed correction. Thanks!

Hehe. It's cuz I'm so critical.

Sounds like a good seminar. I hope you all have fun!

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harmony wrote:

Mike Reed wrote:Rachel Gostenhofer, "In Consequence of Their Wickedness: The Decline and Fall of Mormon Seership, 1838-1900"

I think I'd change this title to 1838-2011.

But then Rachel would end up speaking all day. ;)

Mike Reed wrote:But then Rachel would end up speaking all day. ;)

She could just point out the big fat ZERO coming out of SLC since 1978, and then open the floor for comments. ;-)

harmony wrote:

Mike Reed wrote:But then Rachel would end up speaking all day. ;)

She could just point out the big fat ZERO coming out of Salt Lake City since 1978, and then open the floor for comments. ;-)

Ha! Good point. ;) by the way... Rachel is a gentile participant. Out of 12 participants, we have two gentiles (Chris being the second), one apostate (me), and two fense sitters (it seems). That's a pretty damn good representation, if you ask me.