AML

Conference
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Utah Valley University
Library

Library Lecture Hall (LI 120)

9:00-9:50

Gideon Burton
Creativity and New Media Mormonism

UVU Library, Room 505

9:00-9:50

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

3:305:00

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 Conict 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

UVU Library, Room 506

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

9:00-9:50

Katherine Morris
Mormon Gothic in Film

10:00-10:50

Film screening and discussion with

Margaret Young
Nobody Knows

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

Daniel Wells and Brandon Sanderson

Readings and open discussion