The BYU department of Church History and Doctrine and the church history department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sponsor this year’s symposium, which focuses on historical and global perspectives of religious liberty.
Keynote speakers include Elder Gerrit W. Gong, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and Sarah Barringer Gordon, professor at the University of Pennsylvania. A panel on religious liberty at home and abroad will include Elder Lance B. Wickman, Sharon Eubank, former governor Michael O. Leavitt, Elizabeth A. Clark, W. Cole Durham Jr., and Gary B. Doxey.
This symposium was established to explore annually a topic of special interest in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Historians and scholars meet to share the fruits of their research with each other and a general audience of interested Latter-day Saints and friends. Selected papers from previous symposia have been printed in books co-published by the Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book.