Fall, 2020 & Spring, 2021
Speaker Roundtable Discussion
LaShawn Williams
Assistant Professor of Social Work, Utah Valley University
W. Paul Reeve
Simmons Professor of Mormon Studies, University of Utah
Peter Coviello
Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Thursday, April 22nd
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
free and open to the public
"Innocent as Donny Osmond"
Thinking Through Mormon Conceptions of Sin and White Supremacy
Joanna Brooks
Professor of English & Comparative Literature, San Diego State University
author of Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence
(Oxford University Press, 2020)
Thursday, April 1st
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
free and open to the public
"The Identity Development of an American Faith"
Latter-day Saints, White Supremacy, and Black Lives Matter
LaShawn Williams
Assistant Professor of Social Work, Utah Valley University
Co-Founder, Black LDS Legacy Committee, author at Rational Faiths
Monday, March 1st | 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
free and open to the public
session video
“A Law Written in the Heart of our Race”
Polygamy and the Degeneration of Whiteness
W. Paul Reeve
Simmons Professor of Mormon Studies, University of Utah
author of Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
(Oxford University Press, 2015)
Tuesday, December 1st | 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
"Barbarism, Heresy, and Depravity"
Imperial Secularism and the Mormon Dilemma
Peter Coviello
Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
author of Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
(University of Chicago Press, 2020)
Thursday, October 1st
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
For more information, contact Lydia Kerr at LKerr@uvu.edu.