The symposium is part of the 40th anniversary celebration of BYU Studies, the leading LDS scholarly journal, which is published quarterly at BYU and features multidisciplinary LDS subjects.
Admission is free and the public is welcome.
In addition to the keynote address by Lund, four other speakers will give addresses at the symposium. Doris R. Dant, assistant teaching professor of English at BYU and executive editor of BYU Studies, will speak about Minerva Teichert's memoirs concerning her work on the murals in the LDS Church's Manti Temple. Bart J. Kowallis, chair of the Department of Geology at BYU, will give a geologist's view of the great destruction described in 3 Nephi of the Book of Mormon. Kowallis will show slides of volcanic activity and will present information from eyewitness accounts in support of the descriptions of destruction in the Book of Mormon. John W. Welch, professor of law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School and editor in chief of BYU Studies, will also speak about the earliest Christian interpretation of the parable of the Good Samaritan in the Bible.