Women and the LDS Church: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Conference

Women and the LDS Church: Historical

and Contemporary Perspectives Conference

August 24 - 25, 2012

Fort Douglas, Officer's Club Theater

150 S. Fort Douglas Blvd

University of Utah

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FREE TO THE PUBLIC - No registration required.

Please join us for the "Women and the LDS Church" conference, August 24 - 25, 2012, co-directed by Kate Holbrook, Specialist in Women's History in the LDS Church History Department and the 2010-2011 Eccles Mormon Studies Fellow, and Matt Bowman, Professor of History at Hampden Sydney College and alumnus of the University of Utah. 

The Sterling M. McMurrin Lecture on Religion and Culture, given by Dr. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, on Friday, August 24 will serve as the plenary address for the conference:

"Remember Me:

The Inscription of Self in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism"

“When I am dead and in my grave/ And all my bones are rotten/ When this you see remember me/ That I won’t be forgotten.”   This curious verse inscribed in schoolbooks, embroidered on samplers, or chiseled onto gravestones over centuries reflects a widespread human impulse to transcend death by leaving behind some sort of evidence of their existence. Some people left letters, diaries, and formal autobiographies.  Others memorialized themselves and their loved ones with locks of hair, scribbled verse, or chalk marks on a closet door. This lecture will explore the many ways early Latter-day Saints used "life-writings" and physical mementos to mark the passage of time, link themselves to friends and family, and beg to be remembered. It will look at how institutional priorities, public controversies, and family circumstances shaped their production and preservation, and will consider the implications of these practices for the place of women in their communities (then and now). 

Dr. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is currently Phillips Professor of Early American History and 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University.  She is the author of Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (Vintage, 2008). Her book A Midwife’s Tale won the Pulitzer Prize in History, among other awards. Ulrich received her B.A. from the University of Utah, her M.A. from Simmons College, and her Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire. Ulrich is the recipient of a       MacArthur Fellowship and the author of numerous articles and essays.

Friday, August 24, 2012

7:00 PM

 Salt Lake City Main LibraryNancy Tessman Auditorium210 E 400 South, Salt Lake City

On August 25, 2012, please join us for four roundtable panels: 

Latter-day Saint Women and Agency: 

A Historical Perspective

9:00 - 10:30 AM

Susanna Morrill, Quincy Newell, 

Kate Holbrook, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Women's Agency in the Contemporary 

LDS Church: Analytical Perspectives

 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM

David Campbell, Mary Farrell Bednarowski, 

Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, and Aimee Evans Hickman

Women's Agency in the Contemporary 

LDS Church: Popular Perspectives

1:30 - 3:00 PM

Neylan McBaine, Jana Riess, 

Jane Hafen, and Claudia Bushman

Latter-day Saint Women 

Outside the United States

3:15 - 4:45 PM

Mariama Kallon, Matt Heiss, 

Carine Decoo-Vanwelkenhuysen and Anita Sthalasayee

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Women and the LDS Church Conference Sponsors 

Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah

Utah Valley University

LDS Church History Department

Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University

Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University

Women's Studies Program, Brigham Young University

American West Center, The University of Utah

Program in Religious Studies, Utah State University

Center for Women & Gender, Utah State University