http://farms.byu.eduProviding news and updates from the Maxwell Institute.Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:53:24 MSThttp://mi.byu.edu/files/2009_Call_for%20Papers.pdfMormon Scholars in the Humanities is seeking papers for a conference entitled "Religions and Critical Practices: Prospects for Scholarship in the Humanities." The conference will be held May 8–9, 2009, in Provo and Aspen Grove, Utah. Click on this announcement for more information about how to submit a paper for consideration.http://www.byubookstore.com/ePOS?this_category=127&store=439&item_number=3258151&form=shared3%2fgm%2fdetail%2ehtml&design=439The Maxwell Institute is pleased to announce the publication of <i>The Legal Cases in the Book of Mormon,</i> by John W. Welch. The close readings in this book bring many new details to light, making the legal cases in the Book of Mormon clear to ordinary readers, convincing to attorneys, and respectable to scholars of all types, whether Latter-day Saints or not.http://www.byubookstore.com/ePOS?this_category=127&store=439&item_number=3288006&form=shared3%2fgm%2fdetail%2ehtml&design=439Dr. Royal Skousen's monumental effort to recover the original text of the Book of Mormon continues in volume 4, part 5 of the Book of Mormon Critical Text project. This volume (analyzing Alma 56 to 3 Nephi 18) examines 906 cases of variation (or potential variation) in the text.William J. Hamblin and Daniel C. Peterson will present a fireside Sunday, 23 November, at the Longfellow Park LDS meetinghouse (4 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA) near Harvard University, on the temple and Mormonism and Islam, at 7:30 PM.