Events

Past Events

Seminar: A Conversation with Prof. Alan Taylor

Professor Alan Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Chair, UVA Corcoran Department of History, will meet with graduate students to discuss how to write…

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Colloquium: Joseph Smith Papers Web Design

The Joseph Smith Papers Project web team, hosted by Professor Flake and William B. Kurtz, Digital Historian and Archivist for UVA’s Nau Center for…

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Seminar: A Workshop with Professor Lincoln Mullen

Assistant Professor Lincoln Mullen, George Mason University, will workshop his book manuscript, “The Varieties of Religious Conversion: The Origins of Religion as Choice in…

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Service: UVA Jefferson Fellows Selection Committee

Professor Flake serves on the Jefferson Fellowship Selection Committee. Established in 2001, the Jefferson Fellowship is the premier graduate fellowship offered at the University…

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Meeting: LDS Council on Mormon Studies

The Religious Studies Department welcomes the Latter-day Saint Council on Mormon Studies for its semi-annual planning meeting.

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Seminar: A Conversation with Professors Richard and Claudia Bushman

Religious Studies doctoral students will meet with Professors Richard and Claudia Bushman for a discussion on how to research and write Mormon…

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Seminar: Paper Workshop with Mae Speight

Mae Speight will present for peer review her paper “Same-Sex Attraction, Sedgwick, and the Saints: The Emerging Mormon Discourse on Sexual Identity.”…

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Symposium: Early Saints Research Group

On behalf of UVA Mormon Studies and its Early Mormon Marriage Digital Humanities Project, Dr. Luther Tychonievich will introduce the Nauvoo Equivalencies Database. The…

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Senator Harry Reid is welcomed as Inaugural Joseph Smith Lecturer

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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Presentation: “Mormonism in Relation to Traditional Christianity.”

Prof. Flake has been invited to speak on the beliefs and practices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the UVA’s…

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