Claremont Mormon Studies

Get ready to join us at 's keynote address! (It's kind of like our super-bowl)

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife has played a critical role in educating and supporting LDS audiences, teaching healthy sexuality, navigating gender in the contemporary moment, and how her faith supports her as an LDS woman.

Seating is limited, make sure you register in time! Check out the link in our bio or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/navigating-agency-mormon-women-in-art-history-and-narrative-tickets-1982473948948?

Our third and final panel takes us through time, as our speakers will discuss "Tracing Agency: Mormon Women in Historical Context."

Makoto Hunter will start off by discussing her research on nineteenth-century polygamous women, then will share her work on the legendary Minerva Teichert, and .martha7 will conclude with her work on twentieth-century LDS women. We are so honored to host these speakers, and we can't wait to have you join us on May 23!

You can register via the link in our bio or at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/navigating-agency-mormon-women-in-art-history-and-narrative-tickets-1982473948948?

With these speakers, the force will be with us!

Join us at the 2026 CGU Mormon Studies Conference, "Navigating Agency: Mormon Women in Art, History, and Narrative"

Our second session, Visualizing Agency: Mormon Women and Artistic Practice, brings together three of the most impactful women working in LDS art.

will be presenting on how LDS women artists depict power, identity, and constraint. .knobloch.geilman will follow by sharing how art can illuminate history, and the stories will round out the discussion by speaking about the Becoming Soverign Art Exhibition that will accompany the conference and will be up through June 9 in the Peggy Fletcher & East Galleries at CGU.

You can register via the link in our bio or at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/navigating-agency-mormon-women-in-art-history-and-narrative-tickets-1982473948948?

We are so excited to announce our first panelists, organized around the theme, "Telling Agency: Story, Voice, and Mormon Women."

Vinna Chowriamah will speak about women of faith in Mauritius, will be sharing about the Claremont Mormon Oral History Collection, and will conclude the session by sharing her research on Latter-Day Saint women in Finland.

Registration is free, and all are welcome! Link is in our bio, or you can register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/navigating-agency-mormon-women-in-art-history-and-narrative-tickets-1982473948948

Join us in person for this year's Mormon Studies Conference, hosted by Claremont Graduate University's Mormon Women, which will be introduced during the program and remain open for viewing throughout the day and for the following week. Featuring original works by Mormon women artists, the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on women’s lives, choices, and experiences through visual form. Attendees are invited to a free catered lunch, with time set aside to visit the exhibition, participate in an art workshop, and engage with an oral history booth. The day will conclude with a keynote address by Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, who will reflect on Mormon women, agency, and moral development, bringing the conference’s creative and scholarly themes into conversation with contemporary questions of selfhood and ethical life.

CGU will host a one-day Mormon studies conference, Negotiating Agency: Mormon Women in Art, History, and Narrative. Bringing together scholars, artists, and community members, the conference explores how Mormon women have expressed and experienced agency through lived experience, creative practice, and historical circumstances. The program is organized around three thematic conversations: women’s narrated life stories and oral histories; visual and artistic expressions of agency; and scholarship on Mormon women’s lives and choices across time. Presenters draw on interviews, archival research, and artistic interpretation to examine agency as shaped by power, identity, and constraint, rather than as a simple story of freedom or resistance.

This event is free and open to the public!

Register at the link in our bio or at https://bit.ly/navigatingagency