Seminars and Conferences

On October 25th, 2025, UVA Mormon Studies and the Forum on Religion and Democracy hosted three scholars of American religious identity to discuss “Belief…

A sneak preview of David Walker’s documentary film, Mormon Wrestling: A Genealogy.  
David Walker is the J. F. Rowny Chair in Religion and…

A Research Workshop Hosted by the University of Virginia Mormon Studies Program
Research Workshop Schedule
8:30 a.m.  Continental Breakfast

9:00 to 11:00 a.m….

Professor Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards are currently soliciting contributions for an anthology of speeches from Latter-day Saint history. This…

“This Prison… of a Crooked, Broken, Scattered, and Imperfect…

September 21 – 24
Fredericksburg, Texas

“Restoration Tales from Texas Dust”
Led by independent Apostle Lyman Wight, a number of early Latter Day Saints departed from…

In the summer of 2023, the Latter-day Saint Theology Seminar, in partnership with the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies and…

Mormon Scholars in the Humanities (MSH) invites proposals for its 2023 annual conference. The conference topic this year is Translation/s, and papers or…

The UVA Mormon Studies program hosted a Zoom panel on March 11, 2021, entitled “‘Lamanite’ as a Religious Signifier and Settler-Colonial Encounter.”

Panelists: