Due to travel and gathering restrictions, we have postponed the in person Birmingham event to keep our community safe and healthy. Join us for a keynote taster event on September 5th 2020, and then in person in 2021 when it's safe again to gather. Please view details for the in-person conference at the bottom of this page.
The Sunstone Birmingham 2020 digital conference will take a closer look at the idea of Zion. What makes a perfect Zion? How have we strayed from the ideal Zion? What can we do to dismantle and reconstruct a Zion fit for the modern day? What parts of our imagined Zion need to be re-examined and re-built for a modern day Zion?
Schedule
This schedule is in local Birmingham time (GMT+1). If you are watching from another time zone, please adjust your schedule accordingly to catch the sessions live, or visit our UK facebook group after the streams have ended to watch the sessions any time.
Click any of the links below to watch sessions live through Zoom. You will be asked to enter a name, but you do not need a Zoom account to watch. If you have not downloaded Zoom, you are able to watch through the Zoom web client without downloading the application. Questions for presenters cannot be submitted through Zoom.
1:30 PM: Welcome
- This broadcast will be a part of the John Hamer Keynote.
1:35 PM: Keynote: John Hamer
2:25 PM: Panel Discussion led by Mark Johnson
3:45 PM: Keynote: Zelph on the Shelf
4:30 PM: Conclusions and in-person conference update.
- This broadcast will be a part of the Zelph on the Shelf Keynote.
Join us live at local Birmingham time, or catch the video after the stream has ended.
This event will be live-streamed on the Birmingham Facebook event page. To keep up to date on events in the UK, please email info@Sunstone.org to join our UK mailing list.
To watch the live sessions WITHOUT joining the Facebook group, clicck any of the links above to join the Zoom Webinars directly through Zoom (no Zoom account required).
Keynote Speakers
Birmingham 2021 In-Person Conference
Schedule
Date and full schedule for the in-person conference in Birmingham, UK TBA.
Location
Location for the in-person conference TBA
Submit a paper for the in-Person conference in Birmingham, UK (Date TBD)
We invite proposals and suggestions for papers and panels that will address the theme of the 2020 Sunstone conference, covering, but not limited to: literature, film and media studies, history, theology and religious studies, philosophy and the social and political sciences. We also especially welcome personal, non-academic proposals.
Proposals should be emailed to UK@Sunstone.org and should include a title, short abstract, and list of presenters. For questions abotu presenting, please email UK@Sunstone.org
Sessions, panels and paper proposals - welcomed on topics including but not limited to:
What was original vision of Zion in Kirtland, Ohio and Independence, MIssouri?
Feelings, Hopes and Stories about Zion
How might Covid-19 challenge our ideas of Zion?
Images of Zion as just society in the Book of Mormon and early Doctrine and Covenants
City on a Hill - revisiting the New Testament roots of the concept of Zion for today
Comparing Old Testament and New Testament Models of Zion
Green Zion and Climate Emergency – Are we taking the challenge seriously?
Making Zion safe for all children
What would Zion look like in W. Europe today ?
Zion: Jesus or Joseph Centred?
Zion: Whose politics?
Zion: Equal inclusion of Women, LGBT members and Men
Transparency in Zion: decisions, finances, and other issues
Make Noiz!: Dissent, Protest and Conformity in the Process of the Kingdom