Friday/Saturday
Ronan
2013 EMSA Conference (with Brigham Young University London Centre)
“Great Men and Mormonism”
Conference fee: £10
Friday, 13th December 2013 (7.30-9.30pm)
Key note: Wilfried Decoo (University of Antwerp/BYU):
“European Great Men and Mormonism: A Positive Dissection . . . With a Twist”
Loyola Hall, Heythrop College, Kensington Square, London W8 5HN
Saturday, 14th December 2013 (9.30am-5pm)
Hyde Park LDS Chapel, 64-68 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2PA
9.30-12.30
Ryan Tobler (University of Chicago): “Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Brigham Young.”
Brittany Chapman (LDS Church): “Great Mormon Women Remembered: Pinning Down the Rhetoric”
Luke Perry (Utica College): “Comparing Two Great Mormon Senators: Orrin Hatch and Harry Reid.”
Wouter van Beek (Tilburg University): “Big Fish in a Small Pond: Dynamics of Polder Greatness.”
Janiece Johnson (University of Leicester): “Spoons, Card, and a Flag: Edith Ann Smith and the 1905 Dedication of the Joseph Smith Monument.”
Carl Youngblood (Mormon Transhumanist Association): “Demythologizing Mormonism.”
2.00-5
Christian Euvrard (LDS Church): “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Destiny: The case of Louis A. Bertrand, French Pioneer of the 1850s.”
Ben Park (University of Cambridge): “Greatness” of (Wo)Men: Edward Tullidge, Hannah Tapfield King, and the Gendered Tasks of Biography.”
David Richards (University of Exeter): “The Book of Mormon and the ‘Great Man Theory’ of History.”
Jessica Finnigan (University of Cambridge): “The Heroic Struggle: A Process of Creating Great Leaders.”
Quint Randle (BYU): “Themes of Mormon Doctrine in the Lyrics of Brandon Flowers.”
Sherry Baker (BYU): “Great Men and Common Women in Mormon Studies: An Agenda-Setting Analysis.”