Recent and Coming Papers and Addresses

9 November 2011. Claremont, CA
“Trailing Clouds of Glory: Poetry, Theology, and the Preexistence of the Soul.”

15 October 2011. New York City.
“The Titanic or the Lifeboat?: Of Mormons, Media, and Mainstreams,”
Bonneville Communications Creative Conference.

14 October 2011. Salt Lake City.
“Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism,”
Book signing and lecture, Benchmark Books.

13 October 2011. Hinckley Alumni Center, Provo, Utah.
“‘Straining at particles of light:’Premortal Life and the Mansions of Memory,”
Truman Madsen Lecture, Wheatley Institution.

13 October 2011. BYU, Provo, Utah.
BYU Studies Roundtable on “When Souls had Wings.”

12 October 2011. Villa Park and La Canada-Flintridge, California
“Parley P. Pratt and the Unveiling of Mormonism.”

11 July – 19 August 2011. Provo, Utah
Joseph Smith Summer Seminar

18 June 2011. Springville, Utah.
Address TBA
Richard Bushman Mormon Studies Symposium

30 May 2011. Duck Beach, Virginia.
Address TBA
John Adams Center

15 May 2011. Dallas, Texas.
“The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion”

14 May 2011. Dallas, Texas.
“Parley Pratt and Early Mormon Theology”
Eccles Group

11 November 2010. BYU
“Fraud, Philandery, and Football: Two Centuries of the Mormon Image.”
Mormon Media Studies Symposium

14 October 2010. BYU-Idaho.
“Cultivating the Mormon Mind”
“Grounding Joseph Smith’s Theological Imagination”

30 September 2010. University of Utah.
Keynote, Conference on “Transhumanism and Spirituality”

10 September 2010. Cincinnati, Ohio.
“The Many Lives of the Book of Mormon”

15 – 16 July 2010. Tilburg, Holland.
Keynote, The European Mormon Studies Association Annual Meeting
“European Mormonism: Its Experience in Media and the Public Sphere”

1 June – 9 July 2010. Provo, Utah.
Directing the Joseph Smith Summer Seminar: “The Foundations of Mormon Theology: The Nature of God and the Human”

7 May 2010. Phoenix, Arizona
Keynote, The J. Reuben Clark Law Society, Mesa, Arizona.

24 March 2010. Orem, Utah
“Finding the Divine in Man: Romantic Angst and the Collapse of Transcendence.” Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology.