{"id":16607,"date":"2011-08-17T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T21:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=16607"},"modified":"2011-08-17T16:50:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T21:50:55","slug":"summer-seminar-symposium-the-cultural-history-of-the-gold-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/08\/summer-seminar-symposium-the-cultural-history-of-the-gold-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Seminar Symposium: The Cultural History of the Gold Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Participants in Richard Bushman’s and Terryl Givens’ Summer Seminar on the Gold Plates<\/a> will be presenting papers tomorrow, Thursday, August 18th, at BYU. Here are the details:<\/p>\n

The Mormon Scholars Foundation Annual Summer Symposium on Mormon Culture<\/em>
\nThe Cultural History of the Gold Plates<\/strong>
\nThursday, August 18, 2011
\nB037 Joseph F. Smith Building
\nBrigham Young University, Provo, UT<\/div>\n

Morning Session<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
9:00 AM<\/td>\nWelcome by Richard Bushman, Invocation TBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:15 AM<\/td>\n\u201cWorlds of Discourse, Plates of Gold: Joseph Smith\u2019s Plates as Cultural Catalysts\u201d—Stephen Taysom<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:45 AM<\/td>\n\u201cGuard the Gold: Didactic Fiction and the Mainstreaming of Moroni\u201d—Ben Bascom<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:15 AM<\/td>\n\u201cFictionalizing Faith: Popular Polemics and the Golden Plates\u201d—Jared Halverson<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:45 AM  <\/td>\nBREAK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:00 AM<\/td>\n\u201cArtistic Depictions of the Gold Plates and the Material Cultural Inheritance\u201d—Julie Fredericks<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:30 AM<\/td>\n\u201cProcessing the Plates: The Presence and Absence of the Gold Plates\u201d—Tyler Gardner<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00 PM<\/td>\n\u201c\u201dWagonloads\u2019: The Disappearance of the Book of Mormon\u2019s Sealed Portion\u201d—Rachael Givens<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:30 PM<\/td>\nBREAK FOR LUNCH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Afternoon Session<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1:45 PM<\/td>\n\u201cFantasy, Fraud and Freud: The Uncanny Gold Plates in 19th Century Newspaper Accounts\u201d—Sarah Reed<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:15 PM<\/td>\n\u201cThe Forbidden Gaze: The Veiling of the Gold Plates and Joseph Smith\u2019s Redefinition of Sacred Space\u201d—Elizabeth Mott<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:45 PM<\/td>\n\u201cThe Notion of Ancient Metal Records in Joseph Smith\u2019s Day\u201d—Michael Reed<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:15 PM<\/td>\nBREAK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:30 PM <\/td>\n\u201cThe Metallurgical Plausibility of the Gold Plates\u201d—Caroline Sorensen<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:00 PM<\/td>\n\u201cRediscovering Joseph Smith\u2019s \u2018Discovery Narrative\u2019 in Southern Utah\u201d—Christopher Smith<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:30 PM<\/td>\n\u201cIn Consequence of Their Wickedness: The Decline and Fall of Mormon Seership, 1838-1900\u201d—Rachel Gostenhofer<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

A PDF version<\/a> of the program is also available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Participants in Richard Bushman’s and Terryl Givens’ Summer Seminar on the Gold Plates will be presenting papers tomorrow, Thursday, August 18th, at BYU. Here are the details: The Mormon Scholars Foundation Annual Summer Symposium on Mormon Culture The Cultural History of the Gold Plates Thursday, August 18, 2011 B037 Joseph F. Smith Building Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Morning Session 9:00 AM Welcome by Richard Bushman, Invocation TBA 9:15 AM \u201cWorlds of Discourse, Plates of Gold: Joseph Smith\u2019s Plates as Cultural Catalysts\u201d—Stephen Taysom 9:45 AM \u201cGuard the Gold: Didactic Fiction and the Mainstreaming of Moroni\u201d—Ben Bascom 10:15 AM \u201cFictionalizing Faith: Popular Polemics and the Golden Plates\u201d—Jared Halverson 10:45 AM   BREAK 11:00 AM \u201cArtistic Depictions of the Gold Plates and the Material Cultural Inheritance\u201d—Julie Fredericks 11:30 AM \u201cProcessing the Plates: The Presence and Absence of the Gold Plates\u201d—Tyler Gardner 12:00 PM \u201c\u201dWagonloads\u2019: The Disappearance of the Book of Mormon\u2019s Sealed Portion\u201d—Rachael Givens 12:30 PM BREAK FOR LUNCH Afternoon Session 1:45 PM \u201cFantasy, Fraud and Freud: The Uncanny Gold Plates in 19th Century Newspaper Accounts\u201d—Sarah Reed 2:15 PM \u201cThe Forbidden Gaze: The Veiling of the Gold Plates and Joseph Smith\u2019s Redefinition of Sacred Space\u201d—Elizabeth Mott 2:45 PM \u201cThe Notion of Ancient Metal Records in Joseph Smith\u2019s Day\u201d—Michael Reed 3:15 PM BREAK 3:30 PM  \u201cThe Metallurgical Plausibility […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16607"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16632,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607\/revisions\/16632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}