Conference season is underway! With Exponent II’s 50th anniversary this year, we have lots going on. Here are some not-to-miss events.
This week, the Mormon History Association is meeting in Cleveland and Kirtland, Ohio, for its annual conference. If you are not attending in person, there is an option to register for the digital conference where you can watch the plenary speeches and one livestreamed panel per session.
The Exponent II panel will be held in person and live-streamed on Saturday, June 15, from 2-3:30 pm ET. Michael Austin will chair the session, and Caroline Kline, Aimee Evans Hickman, Margaret Olsen Hemming, Lorie Winder Stromberg, and I (Katie Ludlow Rich) will present as part of a roundtable discussion. The session is titled “Fifty Years of Exponent II: Transitions, Turning Points, and Writing the Perilously Recent Past.”
We are less than two months away from the Sunstone Symposium that will be held August 1-3, 2024, in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah campus. Exponent II will have two panels.
On Friday, August 2, from 10:25-11:55 am MT, Exponent II President Lori LeVar Pierce will guide a roundtable discussion with current and former bloggers Nancy Ross, Jody England Hansen, Abby Maxwell Hansen, and Melissa-Malcolm King. The session is titled, “‘We’ve Been Here Before’: Exponent II, Online Mormon Feminism, and Where Change Happens.”
Then, on Saturday, August 3, from 5:55-6:55 pm MT, Heather Sundahl and I will present research findings from our forthcoming book, Fifty Years of Exponent II (Signature Books, 2024). Stay tuned in the coming weeks for a book cover reveal and pre-order information!
Session and panel times are subject to change, so be sure to check the schedule as time gets closer.
The FaithMatters Foundation is holding its third annual Restore conference from September 5-7, 2024, at the Mountain American Expo Center in Sandy, Utah. They have lined up incredible speakers, and Exponent II will have a table there. Come say hi!
And of course, don’t miss this year’s Exponent II retreat in New Hampshire! It will be September 20-22, 2024 and open registration begins THIS FRIDAY, June 14, at noon ET. It is expected to sell out, so register early!
There are more opportunities to gather to come. Be sure to sign up for our monthly newsletter so you don’t miss out on announcements for events around the country, like the one in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 13, at 6 pm ET. Details and RSVP here.
*Feature image from an Exponent II event at Writ and Vision in Provo, Utah, in March 2024. Photo by Abby Maxwell Hansen.
Yay! Thanks for this, Katie! You are amazing.
I loved your panel at MHA! It was so fun to see so many cool Exponent II folks in one place!