We want everyone to know about the Wilson Folklore Archives Founders Lecture to be given next week by Tom Mould. The lecture will be Wednesday, Nov. 14 at noon in the Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium on the BYU campus. Here are some details about the lecture and about Tom:
Title: Personal Revelation In & Beyond the Intermountain West
Brief Abstract: In Still, The Small Voice: Narrative, Personal Revelation and the Mormon Folk Tradition, Tom Mould examines how people transform the intensely personal experience of revelation into stories that can be shared with Mormon and non-Mormon alike. In his Founder’s Day talk, Mould will introduce some of the major patterns and paradoxes of personal revelation stories in order to engage the audience in an exploration of some preliminary comparisons between the personal revelation stories found in and outside the Intermountain West.
Bio: Tom Mould is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Elon University and director of PERCS, Elon’s Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies. He is the author of Choctaw Prophecy: A Legacy of the Future (2003),Choctaw Tales (2004), and Still, the Small Voice: Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition (2011), and co-editor of The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives(2011) and Latter-day Lore: A Handbook of Mormon Folklore Studies (due out in 2013). His research focuses on issues of generic boundaries and constructed identities, particularly in the study of oral narrative. He has also produced video documentaries for public television on folk art and culture in Indiana, Kentucky and North Carolina. His current work includes a collaborative research project to understand the effects of contemporary legends and personal narratives about the welfare system in the U.S. on public opinion, perspective and policy.
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