Several conference reports. The first is for the upcoming conference on "All are alike unto God: Mormonism and Social Justice" I mentioned that a few weeks, but there is apparently an updated schedule. That's March 3 - 5 at UVSC here in Provo. The other upcoming event is by the Miller-Eccles Group. It is March 11 and 12th and takes place in Santa Ana, CA and Flintridge, CA. (I think it is the same presentation given at two different locations) The topic is the Joseph Smith papers project and the presenter is Grant Underwood of BYU. Click on the "Current Newsletter" link on the left to get the information. (It's not the best of websites) The last one is that UVSC is hosting a conference where the Society Phenomenology and Existential Philosoophy and the Nietzsche Society meet this year. Babette Babich sent me a note on it and then Dennis Potter filled in the details. Apparently Angela Davis is one of the invited speakers. (I'll confess I don't know much about her but I gather she's famous - I'm not up on leftist activists I'm afraid.)
Thanks for the heads up on the JS papers project, Clark! I may try to catch the Santa Ana presentation. If I do I'll take notes.
>Apparently Angela Davis is one of the invited speakers.
>(I'll confess I don't know much about her but I gather she's
>famous - I'm not up on leftist activists I'm afraid.)
Famous? Let's just say the Rolling Stones wrote a song about her. (It's on the same album where Mick Jagger renounces theology, saying "I don't want to talk about Jesus, I just want to see his face.")
You can find a brief bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
Meanwhile, how do you know Babette? New Nietzsche Studies is one of my favorite journals.
I've commented on some of her papers here before. But I suspect she just looked up my name via google while doing a search for Mormon philosophers. She'd forwarded a note to me about the conference searching for Mormon philosophers interested in Nietzsche. Since I'm not technically a philosopher I don't count. (grin) But I did forward her request on to LDS-Phil which has a large number of LDS philosophers on it. There are a lot of Nietzscheans, although their perspective is obviously tempered a great deal since they are theists.
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