{"id":37291,"date":"2017-10-09T15:34:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T20:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=37291"},"modified":"2017-10-09T15:34:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T20:34:41","slug":"call-for-applicants-the-fifth-annual-summer-seminar-on-mormon-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2017\/10\/call-for-applicants-the-fifth-annual-summer-seminar-on-mormon-theology\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Applicants: The Fifth Annual Summer Seminar on Mormon Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9851\" src=\"http:\/\/mi.byu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MTS-small-300x165.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mi.byu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MTS-small-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/mi.byu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MTS-small.png 787w\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"87\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAre We Not All Beggars? Reading Mosiah 4\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nCittadella Ospitalit\u00e0, Assisi, Italy<br \/>\nJune 17\u2013June 30, 2018<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormontheologyseminar.org\/\">Mormon Theology Seminar<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em>in partnership with<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and the Wheatley Institution<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2018, the Mormon Theology Seminar, in partnership with the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute at Brigham Young University, and the Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University, will sponsor a summer seminar for graduate students and faculty devoted to reading Mosiah 4.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar will be hosted by the Cittadella Ospitalit\u00e0 in Assisi, Italy, from June 17 through June 30, 2018. Travel arrangements, housing, and a $1,000 stipend will be provided for admitted participants. The seminar will be led by Adam Miller and Joseph Spencer, directors of the Mormon Theology Seminar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"ribbon\">ABOUT THE SEMINAR<\/h2>\n<p>This fifth 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 4:4-25 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 30, 2018. The conference proceedings will then be gathered and edited for publication.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"ribbon\">HOW TO APPLY<\/h2>\n<p>The seminar welcomes applications from a wide variety of academic disciplines, cultural backgrounds, and geographic locations. Graduate students, junior faculty, and scholars based outside the U.S. are especially encouraged to apply, though applications from senior and independent scholars are also welcome.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2013750 word essay that demonstrates the applicant\u2019s ability to offer a close, creative, and theologically substantial reading of Mosiah 4:13.<\/p>\n<p>Applications should be submitted by\u00a0<strong>December 22, 2017<\/strong>. Notifications will be sent by January 22, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Questions and application materials should be directed to\u00a0<strong>maxwell_institute@byu.edu.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Mormon Theology Seminar, visit\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mormontheologyseminar.org\/\">mormontheologyseminar.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAre We Not All Beggars? Reading Mosiah 4\u201d Cittadella Ospitalit\u00e0, Assisi, Italy June 17\u2013June 30, 2018 Sponsored by the\u00a0Mormon Theology Seminar in partnership with The Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies, The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, and the Wheatley Institution In the summer of 2018, the Mormon Theology Seminar, in partnership with the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute at Brigham Young University, and the Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University, will sponsor a summer seminar for graduate students and faculty devoted to reading Mosiah 4. The seminar will be hosted by the Cittadella Ospitalit\u00e0 in Assisi, Italy, from June 17 through June 30, 2018. Travel arrangements, housing, and a $1,000 stipend will be provided for admitted participants. The seminar will be led by Adam Miller and Joseph Spencer, directors of the Mormon Theology Seminar. ABOUT THE SEMINAR This fifth 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 4:4-25 from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"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-37291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37292,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37291\/revisions\/37292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}