Gideon Burton's Blog

Creativity and New Media Mormonism

I presented a speech, "Creativity and New Media Mormonism" at the annual meeting of the Association for Mormon Letters on February 28, 2009 at Utah Valley University. Below find links both to the PDF version of the written speech and to a recording of it. In the audio version I excerpt a symphony composed by my father, Rulon T. Burton. The complete symphony is included as the last 9 minutes of the 30 minute recording. If you like the music, send a compliment to the composer (rulonburton AT gmail.com) or to the sound engineer, Perry (introspectiveafrika AT gmail.com).

Download Burton-AML2009 (PDF)

Download Creativity and New Media Mormonism (audio, 40mb)

Mormon Studies Conferences in 2008

Mormons are being studied by more than Mitt Romney pundits. Here are some academic conferences happening that I know of this year (2008):

Mormon Scholars in the Humanities Conference

I attended the first conference of the Association for Mormon Scholars in the Humanities  (program). I found this very stimulating and well worth supporting and repeating in the future. My responses follow below: