Thursday, June 07, 2012

Women and the LDS Church Conference

Women and the LDS Church: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Conference

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. 



August 24 - 25, 2012

Fort Douglas, Officer's Club Theater
150 S. Fort Douglas Blvd
University of Utah
  • The Sterling M. McMurrin Lecture on Religion and Culture - Dr. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  • Latter-day Saint Women and Agency: A Historical Perspective - Susanna Morrill, Quincy Newell,  Kate Holbrook, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (panel)
  • Women's Agency in the Contemporary LDS Church: Analytical Perspectives - David Campbell, Mary Farrell Bednarowski, Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, and Aimee Evans Hickman (panel)
  • Women's Agency in the Contemporary LDS Church: Popular Perspectives - Neylan McBaine, Jana Riess, Jane Hafen, and Claudia Bushman (panel)
  • Latter-day Saint Women Outside the United States - Judith Dushku, Matt Heiss, Carine Decoo-Vanwelkenhuysen, and Eva Roth