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Joseph Smith Lectures

4th Annual Joseph Smith Lecture by Douglas Laycock

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…

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Douglas Laycock, What the Supreme Court Did in Masterpiece Cakeshop

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…

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Alan Taylor, The Tyranny of Religious Majorities in Early America

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…

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Senator Harry Reid is welcomed as Inaugural Joseph Smith Lecturer

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…

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Katrina Lantos Swett, Keeping Religion Free in a Time of Radicalization

September 22, 2017

Our third annual Joseph Smith Lecture was given by former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Katrina Lantos Swett. Her theme…

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