Call for Papers
The annual meeting of
Mormon Scholars in the Humanities
in collaboration with the
Association of Mormon Letters
presents
Cultivating Mormon Literature & Other Gardens
The Association for Mormon Letters (AML) and Mormon Scholars in the Humanities (MSH) are delighted to announce a joint conference on the broad and generative theme of Cultivating Mormon Literature & Other Gardens with a submission deadline of October 31, 2024.
The AML-MSH 2025 host and keynote speaker Michael Austin will ask, in the spirit of AML, what is Mormon literature and how does any lettered tradition (poetry, scripture, music, film, liturgy, even law) grow and flourish?
The AML and MSH Boards welcome papers and panels around and beyond the conference theme of Cultivating Mormon Literature and Other Gardens, welcoming all serious expressions of interest across the humanities (what we’re here calling “other gardens”). Using the garden metaphor, what spadework must happen for the flowering, maturation, and harvest of Mormon literature? What is Mormon literature today? What should it be? More broadly, how does one secure a past? How does the word, once archived, become alive? When does an archive become, with a nod to Foucault and the Beehive State, an (arc)hive? How is the word enfleshed? What are the salutary limits of organic metaphors?
Come join us as our communities cultivate a literary and artistic garden—Mormon, scholarly, and otherwise—at beautiful Snow College in Ephraim, Utah near the exact geographic center of the Beehive State.
All students and scholars are invited to submit a 250-word proposal for a paper, panel, or other submission and a 50-word bio at the link below by October 31, 2024 for full consideration.
See the full Call for Papers here.
Please submit proposals by October 31, 2024 here.
MSH inquiries can be sent to bjpeters@gmail.com with nicole24issac@gmail.com and admin@mormonscholars.net on CC.
AML inquiries may be sent directly to Jessie_Christensen@byu.edu.