{"id":4764,"date":"2008-09-04T17:45:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2009-01-17T01:56:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T05:56:17","slug":"new-mormon-studies-clearinghouse-mormonconferencesorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/new-mormon-studies-clearinghouse-mormonconferencesorg\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mormon Studies Clearinghouse: MormonConferences.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been wondering where to go to find out what all is going on in Mormon Studies? Now you know:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonconferences.org\/\">MormonConferences.org<\/a>, just launched today, keeps track of all the major public events in Mormon Studies and lists them all on one calendar<!--more-->, with multiple convenient viewing formats. Sure, a lot of these events get announced in a blog post here on T&#038;S, or at least a sidebar link, or even get their own thread for comments during and after. But if you weren&#8217;t watching for a couple of days when that post went up, how would you know? Meeting such a clear need, and organized to do the job right, MormonConferences.org will be a key place to go, both for those looking for events, and those announcing events.<\/p>\n<p>Events currently listed on MC range all the way from a discussion at the Salt Lake City Public Library on the Mountain Meadows Massacre (tomorrow!), to MHA, SMPT and the Sperry Symposium, to Sunstone and General Conference. LDS-oriented conferences at Harvard and Claremont appear along with events by SSSM, AMCAP, and the Maxwell Institute. <\/p>\n<p>Kent White, the owner of the site, provides lists of organizations that regularly sponsor events, helpfully grouped into academic and more popular categories. You&#8217;ll also find calls for papers and links to related resources. You can even subscribe to be notified when new events are added. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great when you&#8217;re sending out a call for papers for it to go straight to all the Mormon scholars subscribed to the site?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, an idea for a site like this did get kicked around quite a while ago among the T&#038;S bloggers, but none of us had the grit to actually make it happen. Kent White has built a very nice site with the organization and the technology (with a little help from Google Calendar) to perform this service handsomely.<\/p>\n<p>Go check it out, and if you know about (or are organizing) an event or call for papers that should be listed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormonconferences.org\/contact.html\">tell Kent<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/mormonconf.jpg' alt='banner from MormonConferences.org' class='alignright'\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been wondering where to go to find out what all is going on in Mormon Studies? Now you know: MormonConferences.org, just launched today, keeps track of all the major public events in Mormon Studies and lists them all on one calendar<\/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":[56,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggernacle","category-mormon-studies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764","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=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6175,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions\/6175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}