AML Conference Program 2009

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ConferenceSaturday, February 28, 2009

Utah Valley University Library

9:00-9:50 Gideon Burton Creativity and New Media Mormonism

Jacob Bender The Paradox of Mormon Media 10:00-10:50 Megan Sanborn Jones The Paradox of Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama

Bruce Jorgensen Proving Sub-contraries

11:0011:50 Terryl Givens, Keynote address

12:00-1:00 Lakeview Room Luncheon, business meeting

1:00--2:30 Library Lecture Hall (LI 120) Awards Presentations, Presidential Address Eric Samuelsen

2:303:30 Boyd Petersen The Circle and the Cross: Richard Dutchers States of Grace as a Uniquely Mormon Film

Katherine Morris Mormon Gothic in Film

3:305:00 Film screening and discussion with Margaret Young Nobody Knows

9:00-9:50 Brittany Chapman I Never Considered My Poems Anything but Just Rhymes: the poetry of Ruth May Fox and domestic feminism in the Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association, 1898-1937 Jack Harrell The Human Con ict and the Mormon Writer

10:00-10:50 Stephen Carter Writing as Repentance: but its not what you think

Harlow Clark With Desire have I Desired to Wrestle this Wrestle

2:303:30 James Goldberg New Play Projects Emerging Aesthetic(s) for Religious Theatre

Mahonri Stewart The Continued Emergence of Mormon Dramatists

9:00-9:50 Daniel Wells and Brandon Sanderson

Readings and open discussion

10:00-10:50 Panel Discussion: Stacy Whitman, Jessica Day George, Aprilynne Pike Mormonism and YA Fiction

2:30- 3:30 Daniel Wells and Brandon Sanderson The Importance of Writers Groups in Mormonism

3:30-5:30 Student session

Library Lecture Hall (LI 120) UVU Library, Room 505

UVU Library, Room 506