{"id":36008,"date":"2016-11-07T15:01:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T20:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=36008"},"modified":"2016-11-07T15:01:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T20:01:20","slug":"call-for-applications-2017-mormon-theology-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/call-for-applications-2017-mormon-theology-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Applications: 2017 Mormon Theology Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mts-small\"<\/strong>The Fourth Annual Summer Seminar on Mormon Theology<\/strong>
\n\u201cGod Himself Shall Come Down: Reading Mosiah 15\u201d<\/strong>
\nCollege of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia<\/strong>
\nJune 5\u2013June 17, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sponsored by the Mormon Theology Seminar<\/strong>
\nin partnership with<\/strong>
\nThe Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies and<\/strong>
\nThe Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the summer of 2017, the Mormon Theology Seminar, in partnership with the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies and the Neal A. Maxwell Institute at Brigham Young University, will sponsor a summer seminar for graduate students and faculty devoted to reading Mosiah 15.<\/p>\n

The seminar will be hosted by the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, from June 5 through June 17, 2016. Travel arrangements, housing, and a $1000 stipend will be provided for admitted participants. The seminar will be led by Adam Miller and Joseph Spencer, directors of the Mormon Theology Seminar, with assistance from Brian Hauglid, director of the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies.<\/p>\n

This fourth annual summer seminar will again adapt the Mormon Theology Seminar\u2019s practice of facilitating intense, exploratory, interdisciplinary, and collaborative readings of Mormon scripture for a live two-week format. During the first week, the seminar will meet daily to work word by word through the text of Mosiah 15:1-20 from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (philosophical, historical, literary, anthropological, rhetorical, political, archeological, sociological, etc.) in order to promote theologically rich readings of the text. The second week will workshop conference papers and a joint-report based on the previous week\u2019s collaboration and will culminate in a one-day conference, open to the public, on June 17, 2017. The conference proceedings will then be gathered and edited for publication.<\/p>\n

The seminar welcomes applications from a wide variety of academic disciplines, cultural backgrounds, and geographic locations. Graduate students, junior scholars, and scholars based outside the U.S. are especially encouraged to apply, though applications from senior and independent scholars are also welcome.<\/p>\n

Applications should be submitted by January 15, 2017. Notifications will be sent by February 15, 2017. Application materials should include (1) a full curriculum vitae, (2) a 200 word statement regarding the applicant\u2019s interest in the seminar, and (3) a 500-750 word essay that demonstrates the applicant\u2019s ability to offer a close, creative, and theologically substantial reading of Mosiah 15:4.<\/p>\n

Questions and application materials should be directed to Maxwell_Institute@byu.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

For more information about the Mormon Theology Seminar, visit:
\nwww.mormontheologyseminar.org<\/a><\/p>\n

For more information about the Maxwell Institute, visit:
\nwww.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Fourth Annual Summer Seminar on Mormon Theology \u201cGod Himself Shall Come Down: Reading Mosiah 15\u201d College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia June 5\u2013June 17, 2017 Sponsored by the Mormon Theology Seminar in partnership with The Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies and The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship In the summer of 2017, the Mormon Theology Seminar, in partnership with the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies and the Neal A. Maxwell Institute at Brigham Young University, will sponsor a summer seminar for graduate students and faculty devoted to reading Mosiah 15. The seminar will be hosted by the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, from June 5 through June 17, 2016. Travel arrangements, housing, and a $1000 stipend will be provided for admitted participants. The seminar will be led by Adam Miller and Joseph Spencer, directors of the Mormon Theology Seminar, with assistance from Brian Hauglid, director of the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":36009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MTS-small.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36008","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36012,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36008\/revisions\/36012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}