Events

Upcoming Events

Joseph Smith Lecture: Dr. Laurie Maffly-Kipp, “Mormonism Through an African Lens”

October 19, 2024

Dr. Laurie Maffly-Kipp, UVA’s new Richard Lyman Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies, will deliver the tenth annual Joseph Smith Lecture on October 19th, 2024,…

Past Events

Research Workshop: Mormonism in Africa and the African Diaspora

October 14, 2023

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….

Joseph Smith Lecture: Dr. Anthea Butler, “Civil Religions: Evangelicals and Latter-day Saints in Civic Spaces”

October 14, 2023

Dr. Anthea Butler, Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered the Ninth…

Call for Papers: Soliciting Contributions for Anthology of Latter-day Saint Speeches

August 1, 2023

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

Call for Applications: Research Grants at the Church History Department

June 5, 2023

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2023

The Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…

Global Mormon Studies 2023 Online Conference

June 1, 2023

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

Call for Papers: John Whitmer Historical Association 2023 Annual Conference

April 6, 2023

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…

Call for Papers: Global Mormon Studies 2023

February 24, 2023

Seeking Applicants for the Annual Summer Seminar on Latter-day Saint Theology, “The Demands of Justice: Reading Alma 34”

January 15, 2023

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…

Call for Papers: The Annual Meeting of Mormon Scholars in the Humanities 2023

October 31, 2022

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

William Eskridge, Mediating LGBTQ Equality & Religious Liberty Clashes

September 22, 2022

William Eskridge Jr., the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School, delivered the Eighth Annual Joseph Smith Lecture on Sept. 22,…