Two significant Mormon Studies events are scheduled for Logan in early October:

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ARRINGTON LECTURE

Thursday, October 1, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Logan Tabernacle

Kathleen Flake
“The Emotional and Priestly Logic of Plural Marriage”

Kathleen Flake, Associate Professor of American Religious History at Vanderbilt University and former litigation attorney in Washington, D.C., teaches courses in American religious history and in the interaction of American religion and law. In addition to her participation in MHA and her appearances on PBS’s 2007 “The Mormons,” Professor Flake is probably best known to the Bloggernacle as author of The Politics of Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle.

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EVANS AWARDS

Friday, October 2, 2009
2:30 p.m.
Taggart Student Center Ballroom, USU Campus, Logan

The Evans Biography Award is a $10,000 prize given to the best biography of a person who lived a significant portion of his or her life in “Mormon Country”; the Evans Handcart Award is a $2,500 prize given to a biography of a person of similar characteristics, usually awarded to a new author or the author of a family history. Winners of this year’s prestigious Evans Awards are:

Evans Biography Award:

Janet Chapman and Karen Barrie
Kenneth Milton Chapman: A Life Dedicated to Indian Arts and Artists
University of New Mexico Press

Evans Handcart Award:

William B. Smart
Mormonism’s Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart
Utah State University Press