November 12, 2025
The eleventh annual Joseph Smith Lecture, “Not All In, But Not Out: Exploring the Borderlands Between Mormon Orthodoxy and Disaffiliation” with author…
September 17, 2025
On October 25th, UVA Mormon Studies and the Forum on Religion and Democracy will host three scholars of American religious identity to…
July 14, 2025
Jana Riess will discuss changing feelings of belief, practice, and belonging among Latter-day Saints.
February 14, 2025
The Tenth Annual Joseph Smith Lecture is now available to watch on our YouTube channel!
November 13, 2024
University of Virginia, Mormon Studies Program
July 30, 2024
September 28, 2018
Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Religious Studies Douglas Laycock delivered the 2018 Joseph Smith Lecture on Religious Liberty…
September 9, 2016
“Early Mormonism emerged both from and against a religious culture generated, or I would say, more accurately, accelerated by the Revolution: a religious culture…
September 12, 2015
The inaugural Joseph Smith Lecture on Religious Liberty featured an open conversation between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Professor Kathleen Flake, with audience…
