Book of Mormon Studies Association
Annual Meeting Schedule
October 10 – 12, 2024
Thursday, October 10th
Church History Library Event, 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Robin Jensen and Michael Hubbard Mackay, “A Textual Tour of the Book of Mormon Characters”
Leonard J. Arrington Memorial Lecture, Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall, 7:00 pm
Jana Riess, “Latter-day Saint Women and the Quiet Erosion of Certainty”
Friday, October 11th
Plenary Session, Book Reviews, 8:30 – 9:30 am
Kylie Nielson Turley (Brigham Young University), reviewing Michael Austin, The Testimony of Two Nations: How the Book of Mormon Reads, and Rereads, the Bible
Nick Frederick (Brigham Young University), reviewing Brant Gardner, Engraven Upon Plates, Printed Upon Paper: Textual and Narrative Structures of the Book of Mormon
Rosalynde Welch (Neal A. Maxwell Institute), reviewing Joseph Spencer, A Word in Season: Isaiah’s Reception in the Book of Mormon
Concurrent Sessions, 9:45 – 11:15 am
Room 1
Jared Hickman (Johns Hopkins University), “What Might It Mean to Call the Book of Mormon ‘Romance’?”
Janiece Johnson (Deseret Book Company), “Two Books of Mormon in Practice: The Marginalia of Patience Simmons Cowdery (1837 ed.) and Johan Kauer (1873 German ed.)”
Room 2
Michael Biggerstaff (Brigham Young University), “Differing Conceptions of Seers in the Book of Mormon”
Makoto Hunger (UC Santa Barbara), “Scripture Study in the Shadow of the Christian University: The Reorganized Church, from Exploring the Book of Mormon to the Position Paper, 1960-1970″
Business Meeting, 11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Concurrent Sessions, 1:45 – 3:15 pm
Room 1
Kylie Nielson Turley (Brigham Young University), “The Second Sin, Wounded Women, and Modern Misjudgment of Jacob 2-3”
Margaret Olsen Hemming (Duke University), “How a Trauma-Informed Hermeneutic May Challenge the Dominant Narrative”
Room 2
Rebekah Call (Utah State University), “The Doctrine of Christ: Being One”
Truman Callens (Brigham Young University), “A Function Based Approach to a Whole-Book Reading of the Book of Mormon”
Keynote Address, 3:30 – 4:30 pm
John Christopher Thomas (Pentecostal Theological Seminary and Bangor University), with Patrick Q. Mason (Utah State University), “A Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon Studies Association: A Conversation”
Evening Screening: Corianton, A Story of Unholy Love, 255 Old Main, 7:00 pm
Ben Harry (Brigham Young University) and Joseph M. Spencer (Brigham Young University), “An Introduction to Corianton“
(Film to be followed by general discussion)
Saturday, October 12th
Concurrent Sessions, 8:30 – 10:00 am
Room 1
Robin Jensen (Church History Library), “Printing as Proxy for the Plates: The Publication History of the Caractors Document”
Elizabeth Fenton (University of Vermont), “The Last Shall Be First: Print History and Primacy in the Book of Mormon”
Room 2
Julie Frederick (Brigham Young University), “The First and Final Fathers in the Book of Mormon and the Problem of Suffering”
Jan Martin (Brigham Young University), “Domestic Violence and Lehi’s Family”
Plenary Session: Reflections on The Book of Mormon For the Least of These, 10:15 – 11:15 am
Daniel Becerra (Brigham Young University)
Robbie Taggart (Brigham Young University)
Elizabeth Fenton (University of Vermont)
Margaret Olsen Hemming (Duke University)
Concurrent Sessions, 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Room 1
Joseph M. Spencer (Brigham Young University), “And Also to the…: Questions of Audience in Nephi’s Record”
Jenny Webb (Bangor University), “Speaking in Tongues and Divine Excess: Ecclesiastical Abundance in the Book of Mormon”
Room 2
Sharon Harris (Brigham Young University), “Toward a Study of the Lehitic Book of Mormon Covenant Beginning with 1 Nephi 2”
Morgan Davis (Neal A. Maxwell Institute), “Anatypes of Covenant in the Book of Mormon”
Concurrent Sessions, 3:15 – 4:45 pm
Room 1
Newell D. Wright (North Dakota State University), “A Hermeneutical Examination of the Phrase ‘Carried Away’ in the Book of Mormon”
J. Joseph DuWors (Claremont Graduate University), “Wrought Upon by the ‘Spirit of God’: A Post-Colonial Revisioning of 1 Nephi 13:12”
Room 2
Kimberly Matheson (Neal A. Maxwell Institute), “One Among Them: Toward a Book of Mormon Theology of Dissenters”
Rosalynde Welch (Neal A. Maxwell Institute), “Revisiting Revelation: Divine Dialogue or Entrance Liturgy?”
Keynote Address, 5:00 – 6:00 pm
Richard Saunders (Southern Utah University), “Latter-day Saint Book History, with a Recent Book of Mormon as Example”