Mormonism and the
Challenges of Whiteness
Virtual Speaker Series
Fall, 2020 & Spring, 2021
All events will be hosted online and are free and open to the public.
Speakers & Schedule
"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.
“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.
LaShawn Williams
Assistant Professor of Social Work, Utah Valley University
Co-Founder, Black LDS Legacy Committee, author at Rational Faiths
Monday, March 1st | more information forthcoming
Joanna Brooks
Professor of English and 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 | more information forthcoming
For more information, contact Lydia Kerr at LKerr@uvu.edu.