Colloquium in Honor of Richard L. Bushman

Friday, June 17

SESSION 1
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Chair:
J. Spencer Fluhman, Brigham Young University

Presentations:
“The Role of the Church History Department in Mormon Scholarship: A Reflection on the Leonard J. Arrington Era and the Present”
Matthew Grow, LDS Church History Department

“The Second Vatican Council and Mormon Correlation from Pulpit and Pew”
Matthew Bowman, Henderson State University

“Richard Bushman and the Future of Mormon Teaching”
Jana Riess, Religion News Service

Comment:
Robert Goldberg, University of Utah

SESSION 2
1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

Chair:
Jed Woodworth, LDS Church History Department

Presentations:
“Teaching While Mormon: Hierarchy, Learning, and Contradictions in the Classroom”
Melissa Inouye, University of Auckland

“Saving History: The Perquisites and Perils”
Kate Holbrook, LDS Church History Department

“Prophetic Biography: The Universal, the Particular and the Saving Grace of Context”
David Holland, Harvard Divinity School

Comment:
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Washington University in St. Louis

SESSION 3
3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m.

Chair:
Kathleen Flake, University of Virginia

Presentations:
“Truth, Community, and Prophetic Authority”
Mauro Properzi, Brigham Young University

“The Poetics of Prejudice”
Terryl L. Givens, University of Richmond

“‘We Gain Knowledge No Faster Than We Are Saved’: The Epistemic Dimension of Character”
Philip Barlow, Utah State University

Comment:
David Hall, Harvard University (emeritus)

KEYNOTE—RICHARD L. BUSHMAN, “Finding the Right Words: Speaking Faith in Secular Times”
6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 18

SESSION 4
10:30 p.m.–12:00 p.m.

Chair:
Jed Woodworth, LDS Church History Department

Presentations:
“Christo-Fiction, Mormon Philosophy, and the Virtual Body of Christ”
Adam Miller, Collin College

“Becoming Equal Partners: Latter-day Saint Women as Theologians”
Deidre Green, Claremont Graduate University

“The Perverse Core of Mormonism: The Book of Mormon, Genetic Secularity, and Messianic Decoloniality”
Jared Hickman, Johns Hopkins University

Comment:
Ann Taves, University of California—Santa Barbara

SESSION 5 
1:30 p.m.–2:45 p.m.

Chair:
Kathleen Flake, University of Virginia

Presentations:
“‘Mormonism in the Academy’: Reflections on its Meaning”
Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University

“On Being Epistemically Vulnerable: Mormonism and the Secular Study of Religion”
Brian Birch, Utah Valley University

Comment:
Richard D. Brown, University of Connecticut

SESSION 6 
3:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Chair:
J. Spencer Fluhman, Brigham Young University

Presentations:
“Acts of Faith … and Reason”
Armand Mauss, Washington State University (emeritus)

“Can a Mormon Write Mormon History?”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University

“My Life Among the Scholars”
Claudia L. Bushman, New York City

Comment:
Grant Wacker, Duke University (emeritus)