I love practical advice. suggestions:
I’m a sucker for how-to
how to schedule your time more
effectively, how to plan your days efficiently, or how to think about your life decisions in more conscious ways. I’m convinced that this is one of the many reasons why, as an “outsider” to the LDS movement, I am fascinated by—and in love with—this religious tradition. Mormons live to plan and to practice. From their early days in children’s programs, young LDS members are taught to think carefully about their life goals, to plot thoughtfully, and to live with the future in mind. Our conference this year highlights that very focus on practice, practice, practice—one of the primary integrating elements of life in the restoration.
In
keeping with this theme, our innovative and exciting conference program features a host of “how-to” sessions that will spark discussion and new ideas: sessions on writing history, on thinking about gender, and on living out one’s faith in distinctive cultural contexts and sites. We will dance, craft, and sing—all ways of honoring the abiding Mormon interest in self-expression. Shifting the focus of religious history to the issue of practice encourages all of us to consider the lived experiences of Mormons in a variety of settings and time periods. It suggests that the histories of ordinary believers are a critical component of the story of the Mormon movement as a whole. So, too, our tours introduce critical aspects of Mormon experience that have often been neglected. The worlds of African Americans and women in the LDS Church are highlighted in the pre-conference programs. Our business meeting will feature a session that focuses on lived experiences in non-U.S. church settings. After the conference, the tour on mining cultures will instruct participants on the myriad ways that LDS community life has been structured by—and has, in turn, affected—the pace and character of mining life in the Mormon culture region. We are so glad you have joined us. Let’s think together in creative ways about how the practice of Mormon life—in whatever forms that takes around the world—can shape our views of the past and present. The Church is changing, and so, too, is its history developing, as it keeps up with shifting notions of how to interpret the past. Welcome to the conversation!
LAURIE MAFFLY-KIPP, PRESIDENT
PRESIDENTIAL WELCOME
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WELCOME TO THE MHA CONFERENCE
4 We are thrilled to welcome you to the 2016 MHA conference in Snowbird, Utah! This year’s theme is “Practice,” and was meant to be interpreted both provocatively (understanding elements of the Mormon experience in ways beyond what previous scholars have considered) and widely (bringing in considerations of Mormon life far outside the American context). We are pleased that MHA’s participants took up the challenge in such innovative and exciting ways, as displayed in the program. Attendees will be privileged to hear about the variations in how the LDS Church’s racial policies were “practiced” in Africa and South America prior to 1978, how Mormon identity has been “practiced” in theater and in cultural reenactments, how women writers “practiced” their devotion through novels and letters, and even “best practices” for teaching Mormon history in the university classroom. One innovative panel argues that hands-on practice of everyday activities such as spinning and tinsmisthing can reveal historical insights inaccessible through texts (and will include a full-sized spinning wheel and other authentic tools to demonstrate their point. The Friday membership luncheon brings together participants from around the globe to discuss the international dimensions of contemporary LDS and Community of Christ history and practice. We are confident that listeners will leave this conference with a better understanding of the breadth and depth of Mormonism’s culture and history. Of course the program also features panels that cover traditional hallmarks of Mormon historical scholarship, like the Book of Mormon, polygamy, and the rise of Mormon political conservatism, though in new and innovative ways. There are also panels that address contemporary issues, like the roundtable on Mormon feminism in the twenty-first century, the function of social media in shaping Mormon culture, or the varieties of Mormon mothering. And for those who want a better understanding of modern LDS archiving practices, there are workshops meant to demystify the LDS Church’s Granite Mountain Vault and the Church History Library’s policies governing access to documents. Whatever your interests are, there should be something for you. So bring a notebook, open your mind to new ideas, and genuinely enjoy yourself over these few days while feasting on a rich array of new work and engaging perspectives.
MELISSA WEI-TSING INOUYE,
BENJAMIN E. PARK
University of Auckland, Co-Chair
University of Missouri, Co-Chair
GINA COLVIN, University of Canterbury
MAURO PROPERZI, Brigham Young University
JARED HICKMAN, Johns Hopkins University
NATALIE ROSE, Michigan State University
JANELLE HIGBEE, Independent Scholar
CHRISTINE TALBOT, University of Northern Colorado
ROBIN JENSEN, LDS Church History Department
CHRYSTAL VANEL, Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcité (GSRL), Paris, France
WELCOME TO SNOWBIRD!
5 Nestled in mountain paradise of Little Cottonwood Canyon, roughly fifteen miles from downtown Salt Lake City, the steep canyon is home to the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, carved out by an alpine glacier in the last ice age. The steep granite walls at the mouth of the canyon provided quartz monzonite for the Mormon pioneer construction of the Salt Lake Temple, and the Albion Basin at the top of the canyon is home to a number of rare plants and wildflowers. In addition to providing stone for the Mormon temple and housing a mountain vault closed to the public, Snowbird is a historic site: miners discovered silver within the rugged confines of the glacial canyon in 1869. The deposits soon evolved into a massive industry with one of the largest producers of silver ore in the Wasatch Mountains, producing more than $3.8 million in silver. At its peak, 8,000 people lived and worked in the canyon, with two smelters, 138 homes, hotels, boarding houses, stores, and a railroad. The town was later destroyed by a series of avalanches. The snow provided a new life to the area: in 1971, the narrow canyon became home to the world-famous Snowbird ski resort, a site for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Today, Snowbird and Little Cottonwood Canyon are home to recreational activities including hiking, camping, fishing, mountain biking, rock climbing, bouldering, and of course skiing, snowboarding, and backcountry use. Snowbird is the perfect location for MHA’s 2016 conference. Preconference tours will travel to local sites in the Salt Lake valley with themes on the Utah African American experience and Mormon women’s public life and activism. Two preconference workshops will take attendees on location to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers to discuss material culture with past MHA president and Pulitzer Prize-winning specialist Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and crack research tips will be presented at the LDS Church History Library. A post-conference tour will explore historic mining and architectural sites along the Wasatch Front and Back, including Park City, Copperton, and Bingham. You won’t want to miss the onsite conference events. Our opening reception will include a local arts and crafts exhibition as well as a performance by the Lower Lights, a local hymn revival band known for their folksy bluegrass approach to familiar hymns, overlooked hymns, and more, connecting to beautiful, old songs with a rich mine of harmony, part-revival, part-vigil. Throughout the conference, MHA will host a Relief Society bazaar to raise money for the Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team, where you’ll be able to bid for homemade items such as quilts and jams and cookies, as well as modern history services, such as editing and writing. Our closing reception will include a showing of clips from the Mormon film archive at BYU. We are delighted to welcome you to Snowbird. ANNE BARRETT, EMILY UTT, AND JENNY REEDER, LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS.
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OFFICERS & BOARD MEMBERS
LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH
LAURIE MAFFLY-KIPP
BRIAN Q. CANNON
PAST PRESIDENT
PRESIDENT
PRESIDENT-ELECT
BRYON ANDREASEN
DARIUS GRAY
JB HAWS
JOSEPH STUART
LISA OLSEN TAIT
ROBERT L RACKER
PUBLICATIONS
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
MEMBERSHIP
PUBLIC RELATIONS
AWARDS
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
PATRICK MASON
JONATHAN STAPLEY
JESSIE EMBRY
JEFFERY O JOHNSON
EDUCATION LIAISON
EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY
FINANCES
HISTORIAN/ARCHIVIST
2016 MHA COMMITTEES
7 NOMINATING COMMITTEE Glen M. Leonard, Chair Richard E. Bennett Keith Erekson
MEMBERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Darius Gray, Chair Robert L. Racker
LONG-TERM AND STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Chair Laurie Maffly-Kipp Brian Q. Cannon Robert L. Racker
STUDENT RELATIONS COMMITTEE Joseph Stuart, Chair
LIAISON COMMITTEE
JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY EDITOR
Patrick Q. Mason, Chair
Jessie Embry
FINANCE AND FUND-RAISING COMMITTEE
JOURNAL BOARD OF EDITORS
Jonathan Stapley, Chair Michael H. Paulos Robert L Racker
PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE Bryon Andreason, Chair
PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE
Gary Bergera Michael Harold Paulos Fr. Daniel P. Dwyer Janiece Johnson Colleen McDannell Marjorie Newton Barbara Walden Jennifer L. Lund Matthew Garrett Patricia Scott Rachel Cope
Lisa Olson-Tair, Chair
Awards Committee (JB Haws will provide)
CONFERENCE CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
8 OPENING PLENARY F R I D A Y , JU N E 10 • 9:00 - 10:00 A M • B A L L R O O M M O R MO N P R A C T I C E : A N A N T H R O P O LO G I S T ’S P E R SP E C T IV E ABSTRACT: Mormonis m and t he ant hropologis t . W hat , i f any t hing, does a non-LD S ant hropol ogis t have to o ffe r to a d is c us s i on of Mormon prac t i c e? A nd w hat do LD S in te rlo cu to rs hav e t o s ay t o and about t he prac t i c es of a v i s it ing a n th ro p o lo g ist? F enella C annel l has been w ork i ng w it h A meric an Latte r-d a y S a in ts a t int erv al s s inc e 2001, and has c onduc t ed part i c ipan t o b se rva tio n fiel dw ork i n ups t at e N ew Y ork and in U t ah. Many c om m e n ta rie s o n Mormonis m as s ume t hat t he c hurc h c an be def ined by its th e o rie s o f it s elf (i t s doc t ri nes and S c ript ures ) or by it s i nstitu tio n a l a n d r egul at ory f orms . A nt hropologic al approac hes begin so m e w h e re dif f erent , by pri v ileging t he v iew poi nt f rom religi on-a s-p ra ctice d ; Mormoni s m ‘ is ’ w hat is done on a dai ly bas is , in any pa rticu la r tim e and pl ac e w here peopl e def i ne t hems elv es as Lat t e r-d a y S a in ts. C annell w ork ed w i t h a w ard in ups t at e N ew Y ork w hi ch w a s a lm o st FANELLA CANNELL equally div ided bet w een f amilies w it h a long hi s t ory in th e ch u rch , a nd f i rs t -generat i on c onv ert s . P art of her s t udy c once rn s th e w a ys in w hi c h t his w ard nav igat es t he religi ous w ork of beco m in g a n d r e m a in i n g M o rm o n, b y we a v in g th e c o n tin g enc ies of pers onal biography and ev ent int o f orm s o f life a n d n a r r a t i v e t h a t a r e r e c o g n is a b le fo r th e m s e l v es and ot hers as LD S . I n t he c ours e of t hi s w ork, th e y co m e s u r p ri s i n g l y c l o s e to fo r m s o f r e lig io u s life w hi c h w oul d i n ot her f orms of C hris t ian prac t ic e be d e scrib e d a s ‘ i n t e r c e s s i o n a ry ’ . Ca n n e ll a s k s wh e th e r L D S ex c ept i onal is m has been ex aggerat ed at l eas t w ith in so cia l s c i e n c e , a n d w h a t M o r m o n p r a c tic e h a s to te ac h ant hropologis t s of religi on. BIO: D r F en e l l a C a n n e l l is a sp ecialist in Sou the ast A s ian ant hropol ogy , and has al s o c onduc t ed res earc h o n k i n s h i p a n d r e l i g i o n i n th e Un i t ed State s. She wor ke d in the P hilippines in 1988-89, 1992, and 1997. H er f ieldw ork w a s w i t h C a t h o l i c r i c e - f a r m i n g p e o p l e in a ru ra l ar ea , bu t on the out s k irt s of a s mall t ow n, w here peopl e w ere als o ex pose d t o c o m p l e x , u r b a ni s i n g i n f l u e n c es a nd im ag es fr om M an ila an d f rom t he W es t , es pec ially A meri c a. H er res earc h ex plor e d t h e w a y s i n w h i c h p e o p l e c o me to thin k a bo ut " cu ltur e" in a pos t -c olonial s oc iet y , and f oc us ed on w omen' s liv es a n d a r r a n g e d m a r r i a g e , s p i r i t- m e diu m ship , sain t' s cu lts an d re ligion, and popul ar perf ormanc es inc luding t rans v es t i t e be a u t y c o n t e s t s . S h e h a s s i n c e c a r r i ed ou t histor ica lly- ba se d wo rk on t he P hi l i ppi nes , es pec i al l y on educ at ion, k ins hip, and g e n d e r i n t h e A m e r i c a n c o l o n i a l p e rio d. She also wo rks with a number of pos t graduat e s t udent s w hos e res earc h i s bas e d i n I n d o n e s i a a n d o th e r p a r ts o f Sou the ast Asia , a nd in ten ds t o do more w ork i n t he regi on in t he f ut ure. Mos t rec ent l y , h o w e v e r , s h e h a s c o n d u c t e d a t w o- ye ar r esea rch pr oje ct on Americ an k ins hip and rel i gi on, w it h a part i c ul ar f oc us on Mo r m o n i s m . M u c h o f t h i s r e s e a r c h to o k p lace in up sta te Ne w Yo rk and i n U t ah. I n addit i on t o t hes e f ield-bas ed projec t s , D r C a n n e l l h a s w r i t t e n mo r e b r o a d l y on the re latio nship be twee n C hris t i ani t y and s oc ial t heory .
HIGHLIGHTS CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
9 SMITH-PETTIT LECTURE SA T U R D A Y , JU N E 11 • 9:00 - 10:00 A M • B A L L R O OM RE C K O N I N G WI T H H I S T O R Y : R I C H A R D B U S H MA N, G E O R G E MARSDEN, AND THE ART OF BIOGRAPHY ABS T R A C T : Ric hard B us hman and G eorge Mars den rank as t w o o f t h e m o s t dist inguis hed hi s t ori ans in t he w orld. T heir dis t i nc t ion l i es n o t o n l y i n t h e qu ant i t y and qualit y of t hei r w ork but al s o in t heir public c o m m i t m e n t t o writ e f rom t he pers pec t i v e of t hei r f ait h t radit i ons , M o r m o n a n d Evangelic al. F oc us ing on B us hman’ s pri z e-w inning bi ograp h y o f J o s e p h Sm it h and Mars den’ s pri z e-w inning bi ography of J onat han E d w a r d s , t h i s talk w i l l ex plore s ome of t he as s umpt ions , met hods , and goa l s t h a t m a r k the w ork of t hes e t w o s c hol ars . I n mos t w ay s t hey parallel ea c h o t h e r , b u t in s ome res pec t s t heir C hris t i an al i gnment s f os t er dif f erenc es o f a p p r o a c h an d out look .
GRANT WACKER
BIO: G ra nt W ac k er i s t he G i l bert T . R ow e P rof es s or E merit us o f C h r i s t i a n His t ory at D uk e D iv init y S c hool . H e is t he aut hor of H eav en B e l o w : E a r l y Pe nt ec os t al s and A meri c an C ul t ure (2001), and A meric a’s P a s t o r : B i l l y G ra ham and t he S haping of a N at ion (2014), bot h publis he d b y H a r v a r d Uni v ers i t y P res s . W ac k er is pas t pres ident of t he S oc iet y f o r P e n t e c o s t a l Stu dies , pas t pres i dent of t he A meri c an S oc iet y of C hurc h H i s t o r y , a n d a for mer s eni or edi t or of C hurc h H is t ory : S t udi es in C hris t i ani t y a n d C u l t u r e .
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS SAT U R D A Y , JU N E 11 • 7:00 - 9:00 P M • B A L L R O O M THE C LO C K A N D T H E C O MP A S S : MO R MO N C U LT U R E IN M O T IO N T h e early Mormon mov ement w as an orient eering t radi t ion. A s t h e S a i n t s m oved ac ros s t he A meri c an l ands c ape, t hey f oc us ed int ent l y o n a n e w u nd ers t andi ng of t i me and s pac e t hat ref ramed t heir c ollec t i v e d e s t i n y . B u t wh at does t he more rec ent grow t h of t he LD S C hurc h, es pe c i a l l y i n t h e Sou t hern H emi s phere, s ugges t about rev is ions t o t hat origina l g e o g r a p h i c a nd t emporal organi z i ng s c heme? A s t he C hurc h maps it s el f o n t o d i f f e r e n t la nd s c apes , how w ill c ommuni t y prac t i c es be reori ent ed or rev i s e d ?
LAURIE MAFFLY-KIPP
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T H U R S D AY 9 J U N E
Day at a Glance
11 SNOWBIRD CLIFF LODGE
SNOWBIRD CLIFF LODGE
SNOWBIRD CLIFF LODGE
BALLROOM
7:00 - 6:00
Registration
Church History Library: Power Searching Shuttle Departs
ALL DAY
8:00 AM
Utah African American Experience Bus Departs Tour Bus Departs
8:15 AM Mormon Women’s Public Life and Activism Tour
8:30 AM
Bus Departs
Church History Library: Power Searching Shuttle Returns
Material Culture Shuttle Departs
12:30 PM
1:30 PM
Mormon Women’s History Tour Bus to Return
Material Culture Shuttle Returns
5:00 PM
6:00 PM
7:00 PM
Utah African American Experience
Join us for a tour of significant sites and stories related to African-Americans in Utah. Led by Darius Gray and others, this tour includes stops at homes, churches, cemeteries, parks, museums and many others. Sites with connections to Latter-day Saint Church History will be visited along with sites connected to broader themes and experiences.
Women’s Public Life and Activism
Join historians Andrea Radke-Moss and Janelle Higbee for a special pre-conference tour of Mormon Women’s Public Life and Activism.
Church History Library: Power Searching
Bring your laptop, questions, and curiosity to MHA “Power Searching” Workshop at the CHL to learn tips and tricks the will enlarge your research in CHL resources.
Material Culture
Material Culture is a rich historical research but it can be difficult to understand this source material and how to use it in your research. Join Laurel Thatcher Ulrich for a half-day workshop on LDS material culture research hosted by the International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
F R I D AY 1 0 J U N E Day at a Glance
12 BALLROOM / GOLDEN CLIFF 6:30 - 8:00
9:00 - 10:00
PRIMROSE A
PRIMROSE B
MAYBIRD
WASATCH B
Sacred Books, Solemn Rites: Text, Ritual, and Cosmos in Mormon History
Priesthood: Policy and Practice in Africa and Latin America
Mormonism in Practice: Insights from Church History Dept. 2016 Releases
“Deny Not the Gifts of God”: Charismata in Mormon Memory and Practice
Holy Theater: Mormon Performance, Identity and Representation
From Earthly to Eternal Families: Historical and Cultural Insights into Latter-day Saint Heaven Discourse
Newcomer’s Breakfast Golden Cliff
Opening Plenary Ballroom
10:00 - 10:30 10:30 - 12:00
BREAK
12:00 - 12:15 12:15 - 1:45
Membership Luncheon -Panel Ballroom
BREAK
1:45 - 2:00 The Council of Fifty Minutes: An Initial Scholarly Appraisal
2:00 - 3:30
BREAK
3:30 - 4:00 Author Meets Critics: A Panel Discussion of Hokulani Aikau’s A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i
4:00 - 5:00
5:00 - 6:00
6:00 - 7:00
7:00 - 8:45
Awards Banquet Ballroom
8:45 - 10:00
Gendering Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
Student Reception Golden Cliff
The Intellectual and Theological World of Early Mormonism
Faith and Science: The Intersection of Mormonism and Eugenics
The Granite Mountain Records Vault
13 MAGPIE B
WASATCH A
MAGPIE A
WHITE PINE 8:00 - 9:00
9:00 - 10:00 10:00 - 10:30 Practicing as They Practiced: Enhancing Historical Understanding Through Material Culture and Living History
Lives Consecrated: May and James Talmage, Their Relationship and Work
Of Myths, Memorates, and Missions: The Practices of Modern Mormon Missionaries
Progressive Practice: Development of Church Institutions at the Turn of the Century
BREAK
10:30 - 12:00 12:00 - 12:15 12:15 - 1:45
BREAK Twentieth-Century Mormon Practices in Eastern Europe
1:45 - 2:00 The Perils and Pitfalls of Mormon Biography
Mormon Pilgrimages to (the) Holy Land(s)
Mormonism and Social Practice in Nineteenth-Century France
BREAK Strangers in the Borderlands: An Unlikely Tale from the Mormon Mexican Colonies
Leonard Arrington and the History Division: Lessons to be Learned
Fundamentalist Mormon Apostolic United Brethren
2:00 - 3:30 3:30 - 4:00
“That They May Dwell in a Place of Their Own�: The Evolution of Deaf Latter-day Saint Worship and Gathering Places
4:00 - 5:00
5:00 - 6:00
6:00 - 7:00
7:15 - 9:00
8:00 - 9:00
9:15 - 10:30
S AT U R D AY 1 1 J U N E Day at a Glance
14 BALLROOM / GOLDEN CLIFF 7:30 - 8:30
9:00 - 10:00
PRIMROSE A
PRIMROSE B
MAYBIRD
WASATCH B
The Book of Mormon: New Views of an Old Text
Joseph Smith, Josephine Lyon, and the Puzzles of Nauvoo Polyandry
Contested Memories of the 1838 Missouri-Mormon War
On Active Duty: The Utah War’s Women at Home and Afield
Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team Breakfast Golden Cliff Smith-Pettit Lecture Plenary Speaker: Grant Wacker Ballroom
10:00 - 10:30 10:30 - 12:00
BREAK
12:00 - 12:15 12:30 - 2:00
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN BREAK
1:45 - 2:00 Ezra Taft Benson and the Rise of American Conservatism after 1960
2:30 - 4:00
The Legal World of Early and Contemporary Mormonism
4:30 - 5:30
The Elections and Travels of Church Leaders in the Twentieth Century
BREAK
5:30 - 7:00
9:00 - 10:00
YouTube as Historical Archive for Lived Religion and Digital Pedagogy
The Practice of Mormon Mothering
The Book of Mormon in Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Mormonism and World Leaders
Restriction-ism Unveiled! A Workshop on Research Access and Intellectual Property at the Church History Library
BREAK
4:00 - 4:30
7:00 - 9:00
PRE-PURCHASED BOX LUNCHES CAN BE PICKED UP IN BALLROOM LOBBY
Presidential Banquet Ballroom Closing Reception Ballroom
9 15 MAGPIE B
WASATCH A
MAGPIE A
WHITE PINE 7:30 - 8:30
9:00 - 10:00 10:00 - 10:30 People, Places and Businesses in Territorial Utah
Women Writers and the Practice of Mormonism
Mormon Uniqueness and Identity Formation
Practicing 21st Century Research
BREAK
12:00 - 12:15
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
PRE-PURCHASED BOX LUNCHES CAN BE PICKED UP IN BALLROOM LOBBY
12:30 - 2:00
BREAK Sacred Geography, Sacred Artifacts, Sacred Sites
Mormon Feminist Social Networks in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
1:45 - 2:00 The Public Side of Mormon Distinctiveness, 1831-49
Mormonism and Religious Sensibility
BREAK Teaching Mormon History: Pedagogy Workshop
Nathaniel Baldwin and the Spread of Early Fundamentalist Mormonism
The Practice of Mormon Missionary Work
BREAK
10:30 - 12:00
2:30 - 4:00 4:00 - 4:30
A Close Look at Willima B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet
4:30 - 5:30
5:30 - 7:00
7:00 - 9:00
9:00 - 10:00
S U N D AY 1 2 J U N E Day at a Glance
16 TOTAL BALLROOM
SNOWBIRD VALET PARKING
8:30
8:30 Sunday Devotional Genesis Group Choir
9:00
Mining and Community Building in Zion overnight (Park City) Bus Departs
11:00
7:30
9:00
LDS Film Tour bus leaves
5:00PM MONDAY
KAERB Mining and Community Building in Zion overnight (Park City) Bus Returns
Devotional
Mining and Community Building in Zion
Explore the dynamic connections between Mormonism, mining, and the growth of communities along the Wasatch Front and Back
CONFERENCE INFO MOTHER’S LOUNGE For those in need, the Little Pine breakout room on Level C has been set up as a complimentary Mother’s Lounge. REGISTRATION DESK The registration desk (located on Level B) can assist you with any questions or concerns, including schedule issues, event information, and any other assistance you may need. The registration desk hours are: Wednesday............ 3 PM - 7 PM Thursday................ 7 AM - 6 PM Friday..................... 7 AM - 6 PM Saturday................. 7 AM - 4 PM LOST AND FOUND In case of lost items, a Lost and Found is located at the registration desk on level ?. If lost items are found, please return them to the registration desk.
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FRIDAY 10 JUNE
18 9:00 - 10:00
10:30 - 12:00
10:30 - 12:00
10:30 - 12:00
Opening Plenary Session
Sacred Books, Solemn Rites: Text, Ritual, and Cosmos in Mormon History
Priesthood: Policy and Practice in Africa and Latin America
Mormonism in Practice: Insights from CHD’s 2016 Releases
session
OP Fanella Cannell
London School of Economics
Mormon Practice: An Anthropologist’s Perspective
session
1A
session
Robin Jensen
Chair & Discussant LDS Church History Dept
Kathleen Flake
1B
W. Paul Reeve
Chair and Discussant University of Utah
Jeffrey G. Cannon
University of Virginia
LDS Church History Dept
‘There is No End to Priesthood’: Nauvoo’s Marital Sealings in Light of the Book of Abraham
Practicing the Priesthood and Temple Ban in South Africa
Russell W. Stevenson Michigan State University
Jonathan A Stapley Mormon Ordination: Texts, Powers, and Priesthoods
Prophets and Prosperity: The Growth of Mormonism in Postcolonial Igboland, 1964-1981
Ryan G. Tobler
Jeremy Talmage
Keeping the Books of Life: Rituals and Recording in Early Mormonism
Blurring the Ban: Brazil’s Pre-1978 Black Priesthood Ordinations
Independent Scholar
Harvard University
LDS Church History Dept
9:00 - 10:00
PRIMROSE A
1C
R. Eric Smith
Chair and Discussant LDS Church History Dept
Matthew C. Godfrey LDS Church History Dept
A Season of Blessings: What We Learn about Ordination and Patriarchal Blessings in Kirtland, Ohio, from the Joseph Smith Papers
Jeffrey D. Mahas LDS Church History Dept
‘As Good an Institution As We Should Want’: The Council of Fifty, the Whistling and Whittling Movement, and the Quest for a Theocratic Government
Clinton D. Christensen
Jill Mulvay Derr
Racial Perception and the Priesthood: Practice Among Latin American and Caribbean Saints
How Women Created and Negotiated Their Institutional Presence: Emergent Narratives from Key Documents in The First Fifty Years of Relief Society
PRIMROSE B
MAYBIRD
LDS Church History Dept
BALLROOM
session
1 0 : 3 0 - 1 2 : 0 01 0 : 3 0 - 1 2 : 0 0
LDS Church History Dept
FRIDAY 10 JUNE
19 10:30 - 12:00
10:30 - 12:00
10:30 - 12:00
10:30 - 12:00
10:30 - 12:00
Deny Not the Gifts of God: Charismata in Mormon Memory and Practice
Practicing as They Practiced: Enhancing Historical Understanding Through Material Culture and Living History
Lives Consecrated: May and James Talmage, Their Relationship and Work
Of Myths, Memorates, and Missions: The Practices of Modern Mormon Missionaries
Progressive Practice: Development of Church Institutions at the Turn of the Century
session
1D
session
Bradley Kramer Chair and Discussant Writ & Vision
1E
session
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Chair and Discussant Harvard University
1F
session
J. Spencer Fluhman Chair and d\Discussant Brigham Young University
1G
session
David Golding
Chair Brigham Young University
1H
Mary Jane Woodger Chair and Discussant Brigham Young University
Lynn E. Henrichsen
Kelly Lelegren
Gerrit van Dyk
Brant W. Ellsworth
Casey Griffiths
York College
Brigham Young University
We Believe in the Gift of Tongues: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century LDS Missionary Experiences Learning and Using Foreign Languages
Home Manufacture and the Mormon Call to Dust Off the Spinning Wheel
May Booth Talmage: A Life of Reflection and Service
Portals to the Past: Reflexivity and the Study of Memorates
Elise Reynolds
Spencer L. Green
Young, Progressive, and in Love: Joseph F. Merrill, Laura Hyde and the Origins of Latter-day Saint Educational Practices
Brigham Young University
John C. Thomas Brigham Young U - Idaho
Ambivalence Lost? Remembering and Forgetting Unknown Tongues
Alan J. Clark
Claremont Graduate University
The LDS Antinomian Faith Crisis: Snuffer, Pontius, Kelly and the LDS Hunger for Spiritual Expression
WASATCH B
Cedar City, UT
Debi Brady
UT Tour Guide Association
Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do, Or Do Without: Weaving as a Cause for Mormon Frugality
Shay Lelegren Cedar City, UT
Tinsmithing in the Untamed West
Brigham Young University
LDS Church History Dept
James E. Talmage: Scientist, Educator, Apostle, and PR Man
Ryan K. Lee
Brigham Young University
Beyond Educator, Scientist, and Apostle: James E. Talmage as a Family Man
Hadyn B. Call
Utah State U/Davis School District
Return with Bother: Awkward Dating Stories with Recently Returned Missionaries
Jared S. Rife
Central Pennsylvania College
LDS Missionary Acclimation and Adjustment: The Stories Fold Two by Two
Eric Eliason
Interpreting the Past through the Lens of Living History: The Material Culture of Mormon Pottery
MAGPIE B
Pennsylvania State U, Harrisburg
Brigham Young University
Comments
WASATCH A
10:30 - 12:00
MAGPIE A
Nicholas Davis
Brigham Young University
A Line in the Sand: Joseph Keeler’s Institutionalized Bishop’s Court Practices in the Progressive Era
Alec Kearns
Brigham Young University
The Boy Scouts of America and the Development of Mormon Patriotism in the Progressive Era
WHITE PINE
FRIDAY 10 JUNE
20 MEMBERSHIP LUNCHEON
12:15 - 1:45
2:00 - 3:30
2:00 - 3:30
2:00 - 3:30
Roundtable and Audience Discussion:
The Council of Fifty Minutes: An Initial Scholarly Appraisal
Gendering Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
Holy Theatre: Mormon Performance, Identity, and Representation
“Global Practice: Perspectives on Mormon Diversity” session
ML
session
Membership Luncheon
Spencer Fluhman, Chair
Annual MHA Membership/ Business Report
2A
session
Matthew Grow
Chair LDS Church History Dept
Panalists:
Alexandria, VA
Columbia University Brigham Young University-Hawai’i
Gina Colvin
University of Canterbury
Chair
Michael Haycock
Richard Bushman Chiung Hwang Chen
2B
session
Janelle Higbee
Jan Shipps
Indiana University - Purdue University
Richard Bennett
Brigham Young University
2C
Callie Oppedisano Chair Draper, UT
Tona Hangen
Worcester State University
Have Done with Lesser Things: Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Mormon Masculinity
Performing Trek: Becoming ‘Pioneer Children’ in the Digital Age
Maxine Hanks
Sam O’Connell
Salt Lake City, UT
Worcester State University
Wayne Crosby
And Thou Shalt Be Ordained: Have Mormon Women Been Ordained Since 1830?
The Sacred and the Profane: Performing Mormon Identities in The Book of Mormon
Chrystal Vanel
Lawrence Foster
Megan Sanborn Jones
Melissa Inouye University of Auckland
Paul Reeve
University of Utah
LDS Church History Department
Georgia Institute of Technology
GRSL, Paris, France
The Impact of the Great Mormon Trek West in 1846-47 on the Establishment of Polygamy and New Forms of Family and Kinship Ties among the Latter-day Saints
Brigham Young University
Testimony in the Muscles, in the Bone: Proxy Performance at the Mesa Easter Pageant
Don Bradley
Utah State University
Comments
BALLROOM
12:15-1:45 PM
PRIMROSE A
PRIMROSE B
10:30 - 12:00 2:00 - 3:30
MAYBIRD
FRIDAY 10 JUNE
21 2:00 - 3:30
2:00 - 3:30
2:00 - 3:30
2:00 - 3:30
2:00 - 3:30
From Earthly to Eternal Families: Historical and Cultural Insights into Latter-day Saint Heaven Discourse
Twentieth-Century Mormon Practices in Eastern Europe
Mormon Pilgrimages to (the) Holy Land(s)
The Perils and Pitfalls of Mormon Biography
Mormonism and Social Practice in Nineteenth-Century France
session
2D
session
Kate Holbrook
Chair LDS Church History Dept
Barbara Morgan & Devan Jensen Brigham Young University
Line Upon Line: Joseph Smith’s Growing Understanding of Families and Heaven
Laura Harris Hales Layton, UT
Legal Briefs or Pastorals?: The LDS Church’s Three Official Statements on Marriage and Family
Jennifer Brinkerhoff-Platt
2E
session
Rogert Minert
Chair and Discussant Brigham Young University
2F
session
Andrew Reed
Chair and Discussant Brigham Young University
2G
session
Martha Bradley-Evans Chair and Discussant University of Utah
2H
Elizabeth Emery Chair and Discussant Montclair State U
Katherine Kitterman
Mason Allred
John P. Hatch
Daryl Lee
Undaunted: Austrian Mormon Experience
Dr. Hirschell and Mr. Hyde: Restorationism, Descendancy, and Orson Hyde’s Shifting Jewish Identity
Lorenzo Snow: The Prophet of Paradox
Devery Anderson
Mormonism as a Secte Rouges in 19th-Century French Thought
Willard Richards: Crafting a Life
Heather Belnap Jensen
American University
Connie Lamb
Brigham Young University
A New Chapter: Recent History of the LDS Church in Turkey
LDS Church History Dept
Brett D. Dowdle
Texas Christian University
Ronald Watt
West Valley City Historical Society
Arther Gaeth: The Making of a Mission President for Czechoslovakia, 1926-1929
Promised Gatherings to Promised Lands: Mormon Gatherings, Early Zionism, and Orson Hyde’s 1840 Mission to Jerusalem
Signature Books
Signature Books
Jon Sillito
Weber State University
B.H. Roberts: Defender and Advocate of Mormonism
Dangerous Similarities: Mormons in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction
A Great Trek to Zion: Manifestations, Movements, and Meanings of the LDS Presence in the Holy Land, 1841-1989
Jenny Reeder
LDS Church History Department
Romantic Socialism, La Nouvelle Femme, and Representations of Mormon Women in Nineteenth-Century French Art and Literature
Brigham Young University
Brandeis University
Latter-day Saint Discourse on Eternal Families, 1844-2015: A Cultural Perspective
Brigham Young University
Corry Cropper
Amber Taylor
Provo, UT
Brigham Young University
Comments
WASATCH B
MAGPIE B
WASATCH A
2:00 - 3:30
MAGPIE A
WHITE PINE
FRIDAY 10 JUNE
22 4:00 - 5:00 Author Meets Critics: A Panel Discussion of Hokulani Aikau’s A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) session
3A
4:00 - 5:00
4:00 - 5:00
4:00 - 5:00
The Intellectual and Theological World of Early Mormonism
Faith and Science: The Intersection of Mormonism and Eugenics
The Granite Mountain Records Vault
session
Stanley Thayne
Chair Univ at North Carolina
Panelists Sujey Vega
3B
Chair and Discussant University of Richmond
John Rogers
Author-Respondent
Ian Barber
Hokulani K. Aikau
University of Hawai’i, Mānoa
PRIMROSE A
Chair and Discussant Brigham Young University
University of Utah
Elise Boxer
University of South Dakota
3C
Michael MacKay
Cassandra L. Clark
Yale University
Latter-day Milton: Speculations on an Early Mormon Reading Practice
Arizona State University
session
session
Terryl Givens
University of Otago
A New Chapter to Us: A Novel View of Joseph Smith’s 1820s Work as a Seer from a Sympathetic Non-Mormon Reminiscence
Legitimizing Whiteness: John A. Widtsoe’s Correspondence with Eugenic Scientists in the Early Twentieth Century
3D
Reid L. Neilson
Chair LDS Church History Dept
Joseph P. Monsen LDS Church History Dept
John H. Heath LDS Church History Dept
Gregory Seppi
Brigham Young University
’Our Interest in Eugenics’: The Latter-day Saints and Early 20th Century Perceptions of Race and Class
PRIMROSE B
1 0 :43: 0 0- -1 25 : 0 0
MAYBIRD
MAGPIE A
FRIDAY 10 JUNE
23 SPECIAL EVENTS 4:00 - 5:00 4:00 - 5:00
4:00 - 5:00
4:00 - 5:00
Strangers in the Borderlands: An Unlikely Tale from the Mormon Mexican Colonies
Leonard Arrington and the History Division: Lessons to be Learned
Fundamentalist Mormon Apostolic United Brethren
session
3E
session
Barbara Jones Brown Chair and Discussant South Jordan UT
John Gonzalez Draper, UT
3F
session
Benjamin E Park Chair Unversity of Missouri
Gregory Prince Potomac, MD
3G
session
Janet Bennion
Chair and Discussant Lyndon State College
Joe Jessop Hamilton, MT
Dale Van Atta
3H
6:30 - 8:15 Awards Banquet Room: Total Ballroom
8:30 - 10:30 Student Reception Room: Golden Cliff
Blair Hodges
Chair and Discussant Brigham Young Unversity
Doug Stringham Utah Valley University
Anne Leahy
Ashburn, VA
MAGPIE B
‘That They May Dwell In a Place of Their Own’: The Evolution of Deaf Latter-day Saint Worship and Gathering Places
Salt Lake City, UT
WASATCH A
MAGPIE A
4:00 - 5:00
WHITE PINE
FRIDAY EVENING
SATURDAY 11 JUNE
24 SPECIAL EVENTS
7:30 - 8:30 Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team Breakfast Room: Golden Cliff
9:00 - 10:00 Smith-Pettit Lecture
Grant Wacker Duke Divinity School
Reckoning with History: Richard Bushman, George Marsden, and the Art of Biography
10:30 - 12:00
10:30 - 12:00
10:30 - 12:00
The Book of Mormon: New Views of an Old Text
Joseph Smith, Josephine Lyon, and the Puzzles of Nauvoo Polyandry
Contested Memories of the 1838 Missouri-Mormon War
session
session
4A
Rosalynde Frandsen Welch Chair & Discussant
4B
Merina Smith
Chair and Discussant San Diego, CA
Samuel Brown
Don Bradley
University of Utah
Utah State University
‘To Read the Sound of Eternity’: Speech, Text, and Scripture in the Book of Mormon
Did Joseph Smith Father Josephine Lyon? The Historical Evidence on a Reputed Child of Nauvoo Polyandry
Terryl Givens
Ugo Perego
University of Richmond
The Book of Mormon and the Reshaping of Covenant Theology
University of Perugia
Was Joseph Smith the Biological Father of Josephine Lyon? The Genetic Evidence
Brian Hales
John Whitmer Historical Assoc.
Polyandry and the ‘Offer’ Mentioned in D&C 132:51
session
4C
Alexander L. Baugh Chair Brigham Young University
David W. Grua
LDS Church History Dept
Joseph Smith’s 1838-1839 Missouri Jail Letters and Mormon Persecution Memory
Brent M. Rogers LDS Church History Dept
Gendered Memories of the 1838 Missouri War
Andrea G. Radke-Moss Brigham Young University-Idaho
Sexual Violence and the Practices of Memory: Competing Constructions of the Missouri Rapes in LDS and non-LDS Discourses
Steven C. Harper LDS Church History Dept
Comments
BALLROOM
PRIMROSE A
PRIMROSE B
1 0 : 3 0 - 1 2 : 0 01 0 : 3 0 - 1 2 : 0 0
MAYBIRD
SATURDAY 11 JUNE
25 10:30 - 12:00
10:30 - 12:00
10:30 - 12:00
10:30 - 12:00
10:30 - 12:00
On Active Duty: The Utah War’s Women at Home and Afield
Peoples, Places, and Businesses in Territorial Utah
Women Writers and the Practice of Mormonism
Practicing 21st Century Research
Mormon Uniqueness and Identity Formation
session
4D
session
Barbara Morgan Cair and Discussant
4E
session
Thomas Alexander Chair and Discussant Brigham Young University
4F
session
Lisa Olsen Tait
Chair and Discussant LDS Church History Dept
4G
session
Jonathan Murphy
Chair and Discussant Brigham Young University
Kenneth L. Alford
Larry King
Saskia Tielens
Gerrit van Dyk
The Utah War’s 1858 Move South Viewed through Women’s Eyes
Analyzing the Success of ZCMI in Pioneer Utah
Online Tools for Mormon Research
Audrey M. Godfrey
Linda Hunter Adams
’When Men Were Men and Women Were Women’: An Exploration of the Regency Romance Novel in a Mormon Context
Brigham Young University
Independent Scholar
Lifeline by Mail: Utah War Letters From the Field and Home Front
William P. MacKinnon
Orem, UT
Brigham Young University
Archibald Gardner’s Lumber Mills in Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons
Independent Scholar
Rescued or Kidnapped: The Trans-Atlantic Saga of Henrietta Polydore
Robert Haven Briggs
Sarah Reed
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Polygamy and Postmemory: Virginia Sorensen’s Utah Novels
Fullerton, CA
Ira Hatch: Mountain Meadows Militiaman, Indian Scout, Explorer and Colonizer on the Mormon Frontier
WASATCH B
TU Dortmund
MAGPIE B
Scott Hales
Brigham Young University
Ryan Leavitt Combs
LDS Church History Dept
George Ryskamp Brigham Young University
Meliton Gonzalez Trejo: A Former Catholic and Mormon Temple Rites
Taylor Kerby
Claremont Graduate U
In the World, but Not of It: The Drive for Mormon Uniqueness
Trevor Alvord
Cristina M. Rosetti
Brigham Young University
Preserving the Future of History: BYU’s Web Archive
The Poet and the Apostle: The Correspondence of Ina Coolbrith and Joseph F. Smith
10:30 - 12:00
Chair and Discussant U. of Northern Colorado
Online Tools from the LDS Church History Library
LDS Church History Dept
WASATCH A
4H
Christine Talbot
MAGPIE A
U of California, Riverside
‘The Glory of God is Intelligence’: The Centrality of Religious Education in Mormon Identity Formation
WASATCH B
SATURDAY 11 JUNE
26 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN or PRE- ORDERED LUNCH from SNOWBIRD Pre-ordered Lunches picked up in Ballroom lobby
2:30 - 4:00
2:30 - 4:00
2:30 - 4:00
Ezra Taft Benson and the Rise of American Conservativism after 1960
YouTube as Historical Archive for Lived Religion and Digital Pedagogy
The Practice of Mormon Mothering
session
5A
session
Robert A. Goldberg Chair & Discussant University of Utah
5B
session
Joseph Stuart
Chair and Discussant University of Utah
Newell G. Bringhurst
Jeff Turner
Ezra Taft Benson’s Quest for the U.S. Presidency
Deconversion Narratives in the Internet Age: The ‘I am an Ex-Mormon’ Campaign
Visalia, CA
Matthew L. Harris Colorado State U, Pueblo
University of Utah
5C
Susanna Morrill
Chair Lewis and Clark College
Emily January Petersen Utah State University
Mother’s Work: Organizing Mormon Motherhood in the Early Twentieth Century
John C. Feinauer
Ezra Taft Benson, Martin Luther King and the ‘Communist Conspiracy’
University of Utah
YouTube Mormonism: Arguing the Case of Mormon Fundamentalism
LDS Church History Dept
Patrick Q Mason
Jordan F. Bratt
Dave Hall
Claremont Graduate University
Twentieth-Century Environmental Politics in the Mormon Culture Region
George Mason University
Searching for Mormonism: Digital Religion in the Age of YouTube
Kate Holbrook
Mothers at Work: A Look at the 1970s
California State U, Fullerton
Changing Realities for Mormon Women: The Gospel Literacy Effort During the Presidency of Elaine L. Jack
Kristine L. Wright Independent Scholar
’You are Hereby Called to Serve’: Opening the White Envelope, Performance and Collective Identity
PRIMROSE A
12:30 - 2:00
PRIMROSE B
10:30 - 12:00 2:30 - 4:00
Claudia Bushman Columbia University
Comments
MAYBIRD
SATURDAY 11 JUNE
27 2:30 - 4:00
2:30 - 4:00
2:30 - 4:00
2:30 - 4:00
2:30 - 4:00
The Book of Mormon in Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Sacred Geography, Sacred Artifacts, Sacred Sites
Mormon Feminist Social Networks in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
The Public Side of Mormon Distinctiveness, 1831-49
Mormonism and Religious Sensibility
session
5D
session
Ryan G. Tobler
Chair and Discussant Harvard University
5E
session
Emily Utt
Chair and Discussant LDS Church History Dept
5F
session
Christine Duncan Chair Dixie State University
5G
session
Brent M. Rogers
Chair and Discussant LDS Church History Dept
5H
Samuel Brown
Chair and Discussant University of Utah
Stephen J. Fleming
Jared Call
Kari Waters
J eremy J . C hat el ai n
Justin Bray
When Did Joseph Smith Know What He Knew? Hints at Pre-Existence, Deification, and Eternal Marriage in the Book of Mormon
The Geography of the Dissenters
Mormon Feminist Social Networks in the Age of Newsletters and Phone Calls
The Practice and Practicing of Mormon Agenda Setting in the Times and Seasons, 1839-1842
The Nose Knows: Mormons, Smell, and Sensory History
Fallbrook, CA
Janiece Johnson
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Becoming A People of the Books: Early Mormon Converts and the New Word of the Lord
Taunalyn Ford Rutherford
Claremont Graduate University
Book of Mormon and Bhagavad Gita: Latter-day Saint Practice of ‘Translation’ in India
Utah State University
Charlotte Hansen Terry
Houston, TX
University of Utah
Scott C. Esplin
Brigham Young University
Changing Their Practice: Latter-day Saint and Reorganized Church Approaches to Historical Interpretation in Nauvoo, Illinois
Randal Powell
Claremont Graduate U
LDS Church History Dept
Documents and Properties for Furs: Wilford C. Wood and the Preservation of Church History
University of Utah
Anja Tinajero
Andrew H. Hedges
The Rise of Women’s Blogs in the Early Twenty-First Century: Mormon Feminism, Secular Feminism, and Mormon Mommies
Practice in the Papers: News from Utah, 1847-49
Morelos, Mexico
Gina Colvin
University of Canterbury
Mormon Feminist Storytelling Through Podcasting
Nancy Ross
Brigham Young University
’Beyond the Veil’: The Spirit World of Popular Mormonism
Nathaniel Wiewora Harding University
Gerrit J. Dirkmaat Brigham Young University
Agriculture, Adversaries, and Apostasy: Joseph Smith’s Unpublished Revelation and the Conflict Over Frederick G. Williams’ Consecrated Farm
‘Extreme Force of Language and Energy of Action’: Antebellum Evangelicals and the Fanaticisms of Mormonism
Dixie State University
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Andrew C. Reed
Brigham Young University
Finding Pathways and Practices for Religious Tolerance in Early Mormonism
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The Elections and Travels of Church Leaders in the Twentieth Century
Mormonism and World Leaders
A Close Look at William B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet
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Nate Oman
Chair & dDscussant College of William and Mary
6B
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Gregory Prince Chair & Discussant Potomac, MD
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Jeff Johnson
Chair and Discussant Utah Historical Society
John S. Dinger
Kenneth L. Cannon II Salt Lake City, UT
Ardis E. Parshall
Meridian, ID
Mormons and the Jury in Hancock County, 1839-1845
Separation of Prophet and State? The 1914 Reelection of Reed Smoot
‘The Matter is Having My Close Attention’: Discoveries into Winston Churchill’s Investigation of Mormonism in Britain
Reid L. Neilson
Gary James Bergera
Kif Augustine-Adams Brigham Young University
LDS Church History Dept
BYU, Civil Rights, and Religious Exemption to Title IX
‘A Fine Intellectual and Spiritual Opportunity’: Church Historian Leonard J. Arrington’s Tour of the LDS Church’s Asian Area General Conferences, August 1975
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Keepapitchinin
Smith-Pettit Foundation
Ezra Taft Benson Meets Nikita Khrushchev, 1959: Memory Embellished
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Glen Leonard Chair
Presenters H . Mich a e l M a rq u a rd t Sandy, UT
Megan Falater
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Response Kyle Walker
Brigham Young University-Idaho
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Teaching Mormon History: Pedagogy Workshop
Nathaniel Baldwin and the Spread of Early Fundamentalist Mormonism
Restriction-ism Unveiled! A Workshop on Research Access and Intellectual Property at the Church History Library
The Practice of Mormon Missionary Work
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Benjamin E. Park Chair University of Missouri
Laurie Maffly-Kipp Washington U in St. Louis
W. Paul Reeve University of Utah
Andrea Radke-Moss
Brigham Young University-Idaho
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David Watson
Cair Independent Scholar
6G
7:00 - 9:00 Presidential Banquet Room: Total Ballroom
MHA Presidential Address by President Laurie Maffly-Kipp
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Keith A. Erekson
Session Leader Director, LDS Church History Library
6H
Melissa Inouye
Chair Univerity of Auckland+
Craig L. Foster
Matthew McBride
Like Sparks of a Wildfire: The Spread of Early Fundamentalist Mormonism
‘An Ardent Desire to Speak Myself’: Early Women Missionaries and Gendered Separate Spheres
M a r ia n n e T. W a ts o n
Kari Lynne Roueche
Nathaniel Baldwin: Key Figure in the Emergence of the Fundamentalist Mormon Community
Missionary Experiences in Great Britain after the Call to Zion
Layton, UT
LDS Church History Dept
Lehi, UT
“The Clock and the Compass: Mormon History in Motion”
9:00 - 10:00 Closing Reception
Room: Total Ballroom or Golden Cliff
Kingsport, TN
Ken Driggs
Independent Scholar
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Mormon History Association 52nd Annual Conference Call for Papers 2017 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI “CROSSING AND DWELLING IN MORMON HISTORY” The fifty-second annual conference of the Mormon History Association will be held June 1-4, 2017, at the St. Charles Convention Center in the St. Louis, Missouri metro area. The 2017 conference theme, “Crossing and Dwelling in Mormon History,” borrows concepts from religious studies scholar Thomas A. Tweed, who argues that religion is simultaneously in motion and in place. The theme seeks to capture both St. Louis’s general history and Latter-day Saint connections to the city’s past. St. Louis was founded by fur traders in 1764. The territory in which St. Louis was located was governed by Spanish and French authorities prior to the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, after which it became part of the United States. The city’s geographical position on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers ensured that St. Louis would be an important trade center and a launching point for westward migration. In the twentieth century, the city’s historic status as the Gateway to the West was made tangible when St. Louis hosted the World’s Fair in 1904 (held partly to honor of the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase) and the construction of the famous Gateway Arch in 1965. The conference theme, “Crossing and Dwelling in Mormon History,” seeks to capture the essence of Mormon connections with St. Louis’s history. As early as 1831, Oliver Cowdery and his companions passed through the city on their way to the Indian territory. In subsequent years, many Saints, including Joseph Smith, stopped in St. Louis as they traveled between the Mormon settlements in Missouri and Ohio. In 1839, the inhabitants of St. Louis welcomed Latter-day Saint refugees fleeing Governor Lilburn W. Boggs’s infamous “extermination order.” Within a decade, as conditions in Illinois deteriorated, many Mormons again found a safe haven in St. Louis. From the 1840s through the late 1860s, thousands of European converts passed through the city on their way first to Nauvoo and then the Great Basin. In the 1850s, the semi-permanent Mormon population in St. Louis had grown to the point that the Utah church established a stake in the city for a few years, until the stake was discontinued during the Utah War in 1857. The Reorganized Church (now Community of Christ) maintained a prospering branch in St. Louis during the second half of the nineteenth century, with Joseph Smith III presiding over two General Conferences in the city in 1869 and 1872. In the twentieth century, both major manifestations of the Restoration have claimed significant presences in St. Louis. The program committee invites proposals that address the conference theme of “Crossing and Dwelling in Mormon History.” How has the practice of “gathering” tied the various Restoration traditions to specific places, and how have those places been connected with the broader society? How have the various traditions of Mormonism crossed from one place to another, both literally and figuratively? How have ideas and practices remained constant or changed over time? Although the program committee is especially interested in papers that address the theme, all proposals will be considered. A strong preference will be given to proposals for complete panels, meaning a chair, three presenters, and a commentator. Sessions including international presenters (in person or via teleconference), and creative formats such as roundtables, performances, film screenings, or other experimental arrangements, are particularly encouraged. Please send 1) a 300 word abstract for each paper or presentation and 2) a brief 1-2 page CV for each presenter, including email contact information. Session proposals should also include the session title and a 300 word session abstract, along with a confirmed chair and/or commentator, if applicable. Previously published papers are not eligible for presentation at MHA. An individual may only submit one proposal as a session presenter, although it is acceptable for a presenter in one session to be a chair or commentator in another. Limited financial assistance is available to some student presenters and presenters from less economically-developed nations. Those who wish to apply for funding should include estimated travel expenses with their proposals. The deadline for all proposals is October 1, 2016. Proposals should be sent by email to the program co-chairs, David Grua and Janiece Johnson, at mhaconference2017 AT gmail DOT com. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be made by December 15, 2016. David W. Grua, LDS Church History Department, Co-Chair Janiece Johnson, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Co-Chair Devery Anderson, Signature Books Rebecca De Schweinitz, Brigham Young University-Provo John Hamer, Community of Christ Christopher Jones, The College of William and Mary Amy Tanner Theriot, Independent Historian Saskia Thielens, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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