Annual Meeting, March 5-6, 2004, “Wrestling with the Word.”
Friday, March 5, 10:00 am – 5 pm
Location: Utah Valley State College, Orem Utah Student Center Room 206
Sessions & Panels include discussion of the Book of Mormon as Literature, LDS Satire in The Sugar Beet, Mormon persecution rhetoric, LDS oratory in an early American context, Mormon characters in mainstream drama, film, and TV; assessing Mormon Cinema, plus film screenings, folklore, etc.
Saturday, March 6, 9:00 am – 5 pm
Location: Salt Lake Public Library, Auditorium and Conference Rooms
Keynote Speaker: Bruce Jorgensen: “What if the Book of Mormon were a Novel?–Which of Course it isn’t.”
AML Luncheon: Featuring annual AML literary awards presentations plus plenary address from AML President, Gideon Burton “Wrestling with the Word: Literary Mormonism”
Sessions & Panels feature papers on Hugh Nibley, Virginia Sorensen, LDS Historical fiction, LDS Women’s Folklore, Domestic Fiction, Contemporary LDS poetry, Jack Harrell’s Vernal Promises, plus discussion of LDS cinema by Eric Snider, Eric Samuelsen, LDS Film Festival founder Christian Vuissa, and a special panel on opportunities and obstacles for Mormon cultural studies (Hispanic studies, women’s studies, rhetorical studies, LDS film criticism, etc.)
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Writers’ Conference, November 16, 2004, Westminster College. “Writing with Honesty.” Keynote, Anne Perry.