2011 Conferences

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2011 SMPT Annual Meeting Schedule

Theme:	"Serving God with Our Minds — The Place of Philosophy, Theology, and Scholarship in a Prophetic Church"
Date:	April 7-9, 2011
Location:	Ernest L. Wilkinson Student Center and Harold B. Lee Library Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Cost:	Free and Open to the Public

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Thursday, April 7th

3:00 pm  WSC 3380	Welcome, Presidential remarks    Daniel Peterson, Brigham Young University
	William Chamberlin Session The Exile of Theology    Rachael Givens, Brigham Young University
4:15 pm  WSC 3380	Concurrent Sessions The Parable of the Twelve Servants    Morgan Davis, Brigham Young University
WSC 3252	Ethical Egoism and the Restored Gospel    Darin Gates, Brigham Young University
5:00 pm	Dinner Break
7:30 pm  Varsity  Theater	Featured Plenary BYU as a Religious University: Thriving in a Secular Academic World and a Prophetic Church    Alan Wilkins, Brigham Young University

Friday, April 8th

8:20 am  Varsity  Theater	Business Meeting
9:00 am  Varsity  Theater	Featured Plenary An Averroean Discussion of the Role of Philosophy, Theology, and Scholarly Reflection within the LDS Church    Daniel Peterson, Brigham Young University
10:00 am  Varsity  Theater	Concurrent Session After the Manner of Their Language: Hermeneutics of Prophetic Discourse    Steven Peck, Brigham Young University
WSC 3380	The Ontology of Divinity    Blake T. Ostler, attorney
11:00 am  Varsity  Theater	Concurrent Session Nephi as a Disciple-Scholar    David Grandy, Brigham Young University
WSC 3380	Body, Heart and Mind: Towards a Mormon Feminist Epistemology    Diedre Green, Claremont Graduate University
12:00 pm	Lunch Break
1:30 pm  Varsity  Theater	Concurrent Session The Role of Theology in the Devotional Life    Sheila Taylor, Graduate Theological Union
WSC 3380	Art and Philosophy of Art in the Restored Church: Philosophers and Artists in Dialogue, Part I    Sharon Adams, University of Colorado at Boulder (panelist)    Travis Anderson, Brigham Young University (panelist)    Patrick Devonas, artist, instructor, Carl Bloch Academy    Andrew Kosorok, William Whitaker, J Kirk Richards (respondents)    Julie Williamsen, Brigham Young University (moderator)
2:30 pm  Varsity  Theater	Concurrent Session Dangerous Liaisons: Mormonism and the Critical Study of Religion    Brian Birch, Utah Valley University Liberal Education in the Desert: Secular Failures and BYU's Potential    Benjamin Huff, Randolph-Macon College
WSC 3380	Art and Philosophy of Art in the Restored Church: Philosophers and Artists in Dialogue, Part II    Andrew Kosorok, William Whitaker, J Kirk Richards (panelists)    Sharon Adams, Travis Anderson, Patrick Devonas (respondents)    Ira Gagon, Artist Guild International (moderator)
4:00 pm  HBLL  3714	Featured Plenary Witnessing the Covenant: Toward a Resolution of Conflicting Baptismal Imagery in Scripture    Noel Reynolds, Brigham Young University
5:00 pm	Dinner Break
7:30 pm  HBLL  3714	Featured Plenary Critics or Caretakers? The Paradoxes of Scholarship and Sainthood    Patrick Mason, University of Notre Dame (Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at    Claremont Graduate University as of Fall 2011)

Saturday, April 9th

9:00 am  Varsity  Theater	Featured Plenary William Chamberlin and the Place of Philosophy, Theology and Scholarship in a Prophetic Church    Jim McLachlan, Western Carolina University
10:00 am  Varsity  Theater	Concurrent Session Seerhood, Translation, and the Quest to Relate    Samuel Brown, Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City
WSC 3380	Alma, Korihor, and Marx: Thematic Interdependence in Alma XVI — or, reading latter-day scriptures "in context"    Gordon Thomasson, Retired (Now Independent Scholar)
11:00 am  Varsity  Theater	Concurrent Session Peter's Tears    Steven Olsen, LDS Church History Department
WSC 3380	Mormon Theology and Issues of Justice within Zion    R. Collin Mangrum, A. A. & Ethel Yossem Endowed Chair in Legal Ethics, Creighton University    School of Law
12:00 pm	Lunch Break
2:00 pm  Varsity  Theater	Concurrent Session Are Christians Mormon?    David Paulsen, Brigham Young University
WSC 3380	Would God That All the Lord's People Were Prophets: Liberation Theology and Scholars as Prophets for the Oppressed    Loyd Ericson, Claremont Graduate University
3:00 pm  Varsity  Theater	Concurrent Session Elyonic Monotheism is not Social Trinitarianism    Sanjay Merchant, Grand Canyon University
WSC 3380	In the Service of Love and Truth: Kierkegaard and Marion on the Teacher-Disciple without Authority    Jacob Baker, Claremont Graduate University
4:00 pm  HBLL 3714	Featured Plenary Further Reflections on Loving God with All the Mind    Jack Welch, Robert K. Thomas University Professor of Law, Brigham Young University Law School

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
(SMPT Sponsored Session)

Location:

San Francisco, California

TBA

TBA (between Nov. 19-22, 2011)

Religion, Violence, and the State: A Mormon Argument    Patrick Mason, Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies, Claremont    Graduate University Responding:    Robert Rees, Graduate Theological Union