Thursday November 3, 2016

8:00-8:30

Breakfast

8:30-9:30

International Mormonism
Moderator: Dan Sharp, BYU Hawaii
Mormons! Mormons!: Treatments of Mormonism in Danish Popular Media Between
1850 and 1911 Julie K. Allen, BYU Provo
Robidas Mormons: A Secte Rouge in Third Republic France Daryl Lee, BYU Provo*
The LDS Church in the Post-Aum Era: An Analysis of Weekly Newsmagazine Coverage in
Japan - 1995-2015 Greg Wilkinson, BYU Provo

9:45-10:45

Book of Mormon as Media

Moderator: Richard McBride, BYU Hawaii
Both Good and Evil Spoken Of: Early Anti-Mormon Publications on Joseph Smith and
the Book of Mormon Gerrit Dirkmaat, BYU Provo
Upon Their Towers: Tower Speeches and Other Ancient Broadcast Media in the Book
of Mormon Matthew L. Bowen, BYU Hawaii
The Book of Mormon as News Lane Williams, BYU Idaho

11:00-12:00

Image Control and Public Affairs

Moderator: Tevita Kaili, BYU Hawaii
Handbook One: A New Marketplace and Its Effect on Limited Release,
Whistleblowers, and the Notion of Managing the Narrative Ben Whisenant, University
of Utah
A More Public Public Affairs Post-Romney: Part External Communications, Part
Internal Communications J.B. Haws, BYU Provo
The Changing Role of the LDS PR Office: How Spokesmen and An Occasional woman
Have Often Become the Voice of the Church Peggy Fletcher Stack, Salt Lake Tribune

12:15-1:30

Lunch
Mormons into Meaning-making
Moderator: Phillip McArthur, BYU Hawaii
The Proclamation on the Family: Meaning-making among Mormons in the Private and
the Public sphere David W. Scott, Utah Valley University; Boyd Petersen, Utah Valley
University
Mormons Finding Morality in Popular Culture: The MormonsIntoMedia.com Digizine
Venture Daniel Stout, BYU Hawaii
An Earthquake Beneath My Feet: The Saints Scuffle with the Politics of Memory
Taylor Kerby, Claremont Graduate University
When Virtual Community Was Textual: How Fissures and Flaming in the Mormon
Online Communities in the 1980s Led Me to Ten Years in an Online, Virtual, Private
Ward Joseph Straubhaar, University of Texas- Austin

1:45-2:45

Memes, Humor and Social Media

Moderator: Keith Peterson, BYU Hawaii
Mormon Memes: Audience and Institution in Digital Religion Ben Burroughs,
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
The Shared Cultural Experience: A Comparison of Religious Memes Created by The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Religious Media, and Church Members
Pamela Brubaker, BYU Provo; Kris Boyle, BYU Provo; David Stephan, BYU Provo
Sacralicious: Sacrilegious or Delicious? Humor in LDS/Mormon-themed social media
accounts Emily Plicka, BYU Hawaii

3:00-4:00

Mormons as Image Makers 1

Moderator: Patricia Patrick, BYU Hawaii
Negative Dialectics, the Currant Bush, and Mediated Theology as Non-Representation
Brent Yergensen, Dixie State University*
Visualizing Apostolic Succession Meilan Jin, BYU Provo; Iliesa S. K. Delai BYU Hawaii;
Geoffrey M. Draper, BYU Hawaii
Transcendent Aesthetics and the Mormon Channel on YouTube: The Cinematic Sublime
in Earthly Father, Heavenly Father Scott Haden Church, BYU Provo

4:15-5:30

Mormons in the Media: Historical perspectives

Moderator: Joe Plicka, BYU Hawaii
There is Danger of a Collision: Mormons and Civil War Reporting Kenneth L. Alford,
BYU Provo
A Case Study in the Depiction of the 1838 Missouri-Mormon War on NBCs Television
Series Profiles of Courage, 1965 Alexander L. Baugh, BYU Provo
The Mormon Pavilion at the 1964-65 New York Worlds Fair Brent L. Top, BYU Provo
Whats the Difference between a White Man and a Mormon?: Perceptions of
Mormons and Contemporary American Politics in Darryl F. Zanucks Brigham Young
(1940) James V. DArc, BYU Provo

5:30-7:30

Dinner (On your own)

7:30-9:00

Communication as Culture: Mormon Messages and the Polynesian Cultural Center

Moderator: Tevita Kaili, BYU Hawaii
The Sacred House of Learning Seamus Fitzgerald, PCC
The Embodiment of Our Culture and Lifestyle Tevita Alamoti Taumoepeau, PCC
Stories Told through Mele Terry Naauao Panee, PCC
The PCC Effect: Polynesian Re-Creation Kali Fermantez, BYU Hawaii
Critiquing the Hidden Mormon Messages of the Polynesian Cultural Center Tevita
Kaili, BYU Hawaii

Friday November 4, 2016

8:00-8:30

Breakfast

8:30-9:30

Early Mormon Engagements with Print Media*

Moderator: Chiung Hwang Chen, BYU Hawaii
Circulating Specters: Regulating Mormon Vision in the Face of Print and Optical Media
Mason Kamana Allred, The Joseph Smith Papers
Stereotyping Scripture: The Book of Mormon, Nineteenth-Century Printing Apparatus,
and the Fluidity of Revelation Spencer W. McBride, The Joseph Smith Papers
The Utah War on the Scrapbooking Front: Memory, Print, and Identity Robin Scott
Jensen, The Joseph Smith Papers

9:45-10:45

Mormonism, Sports and Media: Social Issues

Moderator: Mark James, BYU Hawaii
Sports and Social Change Chad Ford, BYU Hawaii
Red Raiders for (Eternal) Life Kali Fermantez, BYU Hawaii
"Ka Mate, Ka Ora or What? The Commercialization and Cultural Appropriation of the
Haka" Debbie Hippolite Wright, BYU Hawaii

11:00-12:00

Mormonism in the Media

Moderator: Keith Peterson, BYU Hawaii
A Decade of Rough Stone Rolling: Critical Analysis of Bushmans Book in the Media
Blair G. Van Dyke, Utah Valley University*
Secrets and the Making of the Mormon Moment J. Spencer Fluhman, BYU Provo
Mormonism and the Sony Progeny: How Mormon Culture Has Impacted Copyright for
Manufacturers, Developers, and Content Creators in Visual Entertainment Ben
Whisenant, University of Utah

12:15-1:15

Lunch
Mormon Media Studies: Past, Present and Future
Moderator: Daniel Stout, BYU Hawaii
Error is Created, Truth is Eternal: Media Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and
Race and the Future of Mormon Faith Boyd Peterson, Utah Valley University and
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
English as Hegemony: The Knowledge Gap and the Internationalization of Mormon
(Media) Studies Chiung Hwang Chen, BYU Hawaii
The Long Past and Short History of Mormon Media Studies John D. Peters, University
of Iowa

1:30-2:30

Current Issues in Mormonism

Moderator: AnnaMarie Christiansen, BYU Hawaii
Church History in the Internet Age: Open, Transparent, and Official J.B. Haws,
BYU Provo
Exploring Perceived Norms of Parent-child Communication about Pornography Jessica
D. Zurcher, BYU Provo
Social Medias Impact on LDS Literal Belief Travis Stratford, Case-agency.com

2:45-4:00

Mormons as Image Makers 2

Moderator: Joel Helms, BYU Hawaii
Families Agree on KSL-TV: Mormonisms Tenuous Relationship with Early Television
Gavin Feller, University of Iowa
God Made Adam White: Race and Ethnicity in the Juvenile Instructor, 1866-1929
April Makgoeng, BYU Provo
Modern Mormon Media Messaging: How The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints Changed LDS Identity Through Contemporary Media Branding Tim Hoxha,
University of Toronto
The Mormon Tabernacle ChoirA Dynamic Harmony of Religion, Music, Media, and
Culture Lloyd D. Newell, BYU Provo

4:15-5:30

Intercultural Encounter
Moderator: Dan Scott, BYU Hawaii
International Media Needs and the creation of the Radio, Publicity, and Mission
Literature Committee Matthew Porter Wilcox, LDS Seminaries and Institutes of
Religion*
Pioneers in Every Land: Sharing Samoan Church History Brett Macdonald, LDS
Welfare Services Department
Mormon Yankees: Changing Perceptions through Australias Media via LDS
Missionaries Playing Basketball in a Land Where Sport Was and Is Religion Fred E.
Woods, BYU Provo
Media Use among Brigham Young University Hawaii Students Daniel Stout, BYU
Hawaii; Joel Helms, BYU Hawaii

5:30-7:30

Dinner (On your own)

7:30-9:00

Keynote Speech
Introduction: Phillip McArthur, BYU Hawaii
Why Global Media Have Always Played a Part in Mormonism (Especially If We Think of
Media as More Than Content) John D. Peters, University of Iowa
Closing Remark: President John Tanner, BYU Hawaii

*Teleconference presentations