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2 Conference Schedule at a Glance When What Where Wednesday, June 3, :00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Registration Conference Center 3rd Floor Thursday, June 4, :00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Registration Conference Center 3rd Floor 7:45 a.m. Film Tour bus leaves Conference Center Parking Lot 8:00 a.m. Special Collections Workshop shuttle leaves 8:30 a.m. Utah County Women s History Tour bus leaves 1:00 p.m. Pioneer Museum Tour shuttles leave Conference Center Parking Lot Conference Center Parking Lot Conference Center Parking Lot All Day Local Tours Provo 7:00 p.m. Open Reception Conference Center 3rd Floor Friday, June 5, :00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Registration Conference Center 3rd Floor 8:00 a.m. Newcomer s Breakfast Ballroom B 9:00 a.m. Opening Plenary Colleen McDannell, University of Utah Ballrooms 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Break 10:30 - Noon Concurrent Session 1 Conference Center 3rd Floor Noon - 12:15 p.m. Break 12:15-1:15 p.m. Membership Luncheon Ballrooms 1:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Break 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Concurrent Session 2 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Break 3:30 p.m.- 4:45 p.m. Concurrent Session 3 4:45 p.m.- 7:00 p.m. Dinner on Own 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Award Presentations Ballrooms

3 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Gold and Green Ball Conference Center 3rd Floor 9:15 p.m. Student Reception Hobble Creek Room Saturday, June 6, :00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Registration Conference Center 3rd Floor 7:45 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Mormon Women s Initiative Breakfast Ballroom A 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 p.m. Concurrent Session 4 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Break 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Smith Pettit-Lecture Margaret Jacobs, University of Nebraska at Lincoln Ballrooms 12:15-2:00 p.m. Lunch on Own 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Concurrent Session 5 3:30-4:00 p.m. Break w treats 4:00-5:15 p.m. Concurrent Session 6 6:30 Presidential Banquet Ballrooms Sunday, June 7, :00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Devotional Ballrooms 12:00 p.m. Post Conference Tour Bus Leaves Conference Center Parking Lot Monday, June 8, :00 p.m. Post Conference Tour Bus Returns to Conference Center Conference Center Parking Lot

4 MHA 2015 Program Draft v 5.0 last updated 3/30/15 June 5-7, 2015 Opening Plenary - Friday June 5 9:00-10:00 am Speaker: Colleen McDannell, University of Utah Concurrent Session 1 - Friday June 5 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Session 1A. (50th Anniversary Session) A Retrospective on John Brooke, The Refiner s Fire (Cascade D) Chair: Benjamin E. Park, University of Missouri Refiner s Fire and the Yates Thesis: Hermeticism, Esotericism, and the History of Christianity, Stephen Fleming, Orem UT The Refiner s Fire: Rites of Scholarly Passage, Susanna Morrill, Lewis & Clark College Narrative Arcs and Scholarly Nerve: A Reflection on John Brooke s Accomplishment, David F. Holland, Harvard University Refiner s Fire and Transatlantic Hermeticism, Neil Kamil, University of Texas Austin The Refiner s Fire: In Retrospect, John L. Brooke, Ohio State University Session 1B. Theology and Cosmology of Mormon Conceptions of Race (Cascade E) Chair and Comments: Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Washington University in St. Louis The Cosmological Priesthood : Polygamy, Adoption, and the Priesthood Restriction, Jonathan A. Stapley, Bellevue, WA Holy Race: Abraham Lineage, Nauvoo Theology, and the Fluidity of Race in Early Mormonism, Joseph R. Stuart, Independent researcher, Richmond, VA Mamaia and Mormonism: Millennial Movements in the Pacific Islands, Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, University of Michigan Session 1C. The Young, the Ambitious and the Feminist: Examining the Rhetorical, Cultural, and Historical Prescriptions for LDS Women (Cascade C) Chair and Comments: Lisa Olsen Tait, LDS Church History Department 1

5 A Mormon New Woman for the Twentieth Century? Natalie K. Rose, Michigan State University Of Medical Degrees, Concert Stages, and Olympic Medals: Mormon Women and Feminine Ambition, Andrea G. Radke-Moss, Brigham Young University- Idaho What Are Mormon Feminists Trying To Do? Mormon Feminist Theory, Nancy Ross, Dixie State University and Jessica Finnigan, Kings College London Session 1D. Mormons in the Margins: Explorations in LDS Histories, Lineages and Ethnic Identity (Cascade B) Chair: Elise Boxer, University of South Dakota Comments: Jared Tamez, independent scholar I am an Indian : Dakota Mormon Syncretism or Mormon Colonialism, Elise Boxer, University of South Dakota Latinos as Lamanites: Present, Past and Complicated Identities in Latino Mormondom, Sujey Vega, Arizona State University Je: nahch ing -me -ya xine:wh (Church, Modern Christian): Intersections Between California Indian Identity and the Mormon Faith, Brittani R. Orona, California State University, Sacramento Session 1E. Cultural Dynamics in Territorial Utah (Cascade A) Chair and Comments: Richard E. Turley, Jr., LDS Church History Department Walker War Mislabeled, Ryan Wimmer, Salt Lake City, UT Pioneer Revelation: Brigham Young and the Word and Will of the Lord, Jeremy S. Parkin, Long Beach, CA A People Alien in All Their Sympathies : Elizabeth Kane and the St. George Mormons, Darcee D. Barnes, Sandy, UT Praying to go to Zion: Nineteenth-century Mormon Conversion and Immigration, Jeffrey J. Turner, Claremont Graduate University 2

6 Session 1F. Roundtable: Cultural Mormons and Politics in the Nauvoo Period, (Silver Creek) Chair: Gerrit Dirkmaat, Brigham Young University The Shattering of American Idealism: The Misplaced Expectations of the 1839 Mormon Delegation to the Federal Government, Spencer W. McBride, The Joseph Smith Papers Project, Salt Lake City, UT Orson Hyde s Political and Religious Perspective on Jews and Judaism, Andrew Reed, Brigham Young University Joseph Smith, Thomas Ford, and the Third Extradition Attempt, Andrew H. Hedges, Brigham Young University JOSEPH SMITH the Proclaimer of Jefferson Democracy, of Free Trade and Sailors Rights and Protection of Person and Property : Political Slogans, American Memory, and the Presidential Election of 1844, Jeffrey Mahas, LDS Church History Department Session 1G. Seeds of the Springville Art Movement (Hobble Creek) Chair and Comments: Rita R. Wright, Springville Museum of Art Philo Dibble s Dream of A Gallery in Zion, Devan Jensen, Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University A Heroic Vision of LDS History: C.C.A. Christensen s Mormon Panorama, Paul L. Anderson, Brigham Young University Museum of Art Springville Art Movement Inspired by John Hafen s Message, Vern G. Swanson, director emeritus of the Springville Museum of Art Plenary #2 - Friday June 5 12:00 Membership Luncheon The Culture of the Early Mormon History Association Jan Shipps, Tom Alexander, Doug Alder, Jim Allen, Gary Bergera, Susan Arrington Madsen 3

7 Concurrent Session 2 - Friday June 5 1:30-3:00 pm Session 2A. (50th Anniversary Session) Exponent II: Present At the Creation (Cascade D) Chair: Claudia L. Bushman, American Antiquarian Society Origins and Development, Claudia L. Bushman, American Antiquarian Society The Physical Process of Creation, Carrel Hilton Sheldon, Seattle, WA Discovering the Woman s Exponent, Susan Whitaker Kohler, Provo UT Key Turning Points in Exponent II s History, Nancy Dredge Negotiating Controversy, Judy Dushku, President of THRIVE-Gulu, Inc, Boston MA Session 2B. Landscape, Space and Material Culture (Cascade E) Chair and Comments: Martha Bradley, University of Utah Here We Are! -- Hillside Letters in Mormon Campus and Town Life, Esther Truitt Henrichsen, Salt Lake City, UT "Mapping Deseret: Vernacular Mormon Mapmaking and Spiritual Geography," Richard Francaviglia, Willamette University The Cultural Context over Mormon Sacred Space, Jon England, Arizona State University Brass Bands: A Cultural Bridge Between Mormon Utah and the Eastern United States, Bryant Smith, Columbia Basin College Session 2C. Beyond the Binary: Multiplicity of Women s Voices in Mormon Culture (Cascade C) Chair: Barbara Jones Brown, South Jordan UT Comments: Andrea G. Radke-Moss, Brigham Young University-Idaho Rhetoric versus Reality: Mormon Women s Diaries and Domesticity in the early Twentieth Century, Charlotte Hansen Terry, University of Utah 4

8 Joining the Club: How Moving to Utah Affected LDS Young Women in the 1980s, Heather J. Stone, University of Utah See Jane Blog: The Performance of Gender in a Mormon Context, Saskia Tielens, Dortmund University Something Extraordinary: The Relief Society Presidency of Elaine L. Jack, , Dave Hall, Department of History, California State Fullerton Session 2D. Confronting the Sacred: Processes of Canonization (Cascade B) Chair and Comments: Steven C. Harper, LDS Church History Department "Canon and History: On the Revelation to Emma Smith, Joseph M. Spencer, University of New Mexico Canonical and Popular Perceptions of the Condition of the Dead among Progressive Era Mormon Women, , Elizabeth Mott, Claremont Graduate University Vision Literature in the Doctrine and Covenants and the Canonization of Priesthood Authority, David Golding, Claremont Graduate University Session 2E. Defining and Contesting Mormon Bodies: From Horns and Poly-erotic Eyes to Childbearing (Cascade A) Chair and Comments: Angela M. Smith, University of Utah The Mormon Stepback into Barbarism : Physiognomy, Polyeroticity, and the Degraded Mormon Body, W. Paul Reeve, University of Utah The Origin and Persistence of Mormon Horns, Edward H. Jeter, Lamar State College - Orange Presiding at Birth : The Creation of Folk Theologies among Latter-day Saint Women, Christine Elyse Blythe, Memorial University of Newfoundland Session 2F. Mormonism Meets Asia: Cultural Perspectives in Asian Mormon History (Silver Creek) Chair: Brittany A. Chapman, LDS Church History Library Comments: Casey Griffiths, Brigham Young University 5

9 Taiwan and Thailand: A Tale of Two Cultures and its Impact on Missionary Work, Po Nien (Felipe) Chou, LDS Seminaries and Institutes Walking Between State and Religion: Gender and Family Relations of Singaporean Mormon Women, , Keshia S. Lai, The Ohio State University Thai Foundations: When a Missionary Arrived in 1854, Audrey Bastian, Silver Spring, MD Session 2G. New Research Outside the Mormon Mainstream (Hobble Creek) Chair and Comments: Susan S. Rugh, Brigham Young University " Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse : Stories from the Tithing and Financial Records in Pottawattamie, Maurine Carr Ward, Hyrum, UT Meliton Gonzalez Trejo ( ): a Former Catholic Performing 19th Century Mormon Temple Rituals, George R. Ryskamp, Brigham Young University A Lonely, Thankless Path: Thaddeus Stevens, Abolitionist, Reformer, Mormon Defender, Kevin Folkman, Redmond, WA Concurrent Session 3 - Friday June 5 3:30-4:45 pm Session 3A. (50th Anniversary Session) Art + Belief, Documentary Screening and Discussion with the Filmmakers and Artists (Cascade D) Chair: Tona Hangen, Worcester State University Presenters: Nathan Samuel Florence, Salt Lake City, UT Matt Black, Salt Lake City, UT Derek and Veloy Smith Session 3B A Year of Decision: The LDS Church Grapples with Civil Rights and Its Practice of Black Priesthood Denial (Cascade E) Chair and Comments: W. Paul Reeve, University of Utah 6

10 1954: A Critical Year--LDS Church President David O. McKay Confronts Black Priesthood Denial, Newell G. Bringhurst, Visalia, CA "Mark E. Petersen, J. Reuben Clark, and Civil Rights: Two Apostles Respond to Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)," Matt Harris, Colorado State University Pueblo Session 3C. CHL #2 Mormons in Mexico: Forty Years of Cultivating Church History (Cascade C) Chair: Matthew G. Geilman, Area Manager, LDS Church History Department Presenters: F. LaMond Tullis, Former LDS Church History Missionary Armando and Dina Ceballos, Mexico Area LDS Church History Advisers Bradley Lunt Hill, Former LDS Church History Missionary Jeremy Talmage, Church History Specialist, LDS Church History Department Q&A from Audience Session 3D. Indian-Mormon Relations (Cascade B) Chair and Comments: Mark Edwin Miller, Southern Utah University A Navajo Account of the Death of Lot Smith, Corey Smallcanyon, Provo, UT A Personal War: The Tangled Web of Indian-Mormon Relations, Sondra G. Jones, Utah Valley University Ganado Mucho, Navajo Headman, and the Mormons, Todd M. Compton, Palo Alto, CA Session 3E. The Hijacking of the Mormon Trail Story by the Willie-Martin Disasters (Cascade A) Chair: Mel Bashore, West Jordan, UT Comments: Eric Eliason, Brigham Young University Captain Edward Bunker and his 1856 Handcart Company, William G. Hartley, Brigham Young University (Emeritus) To Be A Pioneer: Handcart Narratives and the Construction of Mormon Religious Identity, Julie Hartley-Moore, Utah State University 7

11 Session 3F. Settling the Valley, Converting the World: The First Presidency s General Epistles, (Silver Creek) Chair: Brent M. Rogers, Joseph Smith Papers Project Having a Great Time, Wish You Were Here: Reporting the First Years in the Great Salt Lake Valley, Nathan N. Waite, LDS Church History Department Proclaiming the Gospel: Missionary Work and the General Epistles, Reid L. Nielson, LDS Church History Department First Presidency s General Epistles: A Response in Light of New Testament Epistolography, Lincoln H. Blumell, Brigham Young University Session 3G. The Cultural Complexity of Conversion: Examining Mormonism(s) in India (Hobble Creek) Chair: R. Lanier Britsch, Brigham Young University Comments: Eliza Kent, Skidmore College (via Skype) We Are Now One Family : RLDS Conversions in Rural Odisha, India, , David J. Howlett, Skidmore College We Have Left the Traditions Of Our Ancestors : The Complexity of Conversion among Latter-day Saints in Hyderabad, India, Taunalyn Ford Rutherford, Claremont Graduate University Kirtland, Nauvoo, and Now Looking Towards Stakes of Zion in India, John Santosh Kumar Murala, Hyderabad, India Concurrent Session 4 - Saturday June 6 9:00-10:30 am Session 4A. (50th Anniversary Session) Legacies of Leonard Arrington (Cascade D) Chair: David Walker, University of California Santa Barbara Presenters: Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Washington University in St. Louis John G. Turner, George Mason University Reid L. Neilson, LDS Church History Department 8

12 Session 4B. Early Mormon Translation: Mechanics and Metaphysics (Cascade E) Chair and Comments: Philip Barlow, Utah State University Joseph Smith and Translation: Notes Toward a Theoretical Framework, Terryl Givens, University of Richmond A Metaphysical Reading of Joseph Smith s Translation Projects, Jared Hickman, Johns Hopkins University The Mechanics of Book of Mormon Translation: Evidence, Stakes, and Implications, Samuel M. Brown, Intermountain Medical Center and University of Utah School of Medicine Session 4C. The Unfamiliar Saints: Insights from the Joseph Smith Papers (Cascade C) Chair: Matthew C. Godfrey, LDS Church History Department Roundtable Presenters: Brent M. Rogers, The Joseph Smith Papers Project Shannon Kelly, The Joseph Smith Papers Project Elizabeth Kuehn, The Joseph Smith Papers Project Christian Heimburger, LDS Church History Department Session 4D. Relief Society on the Periphery (Cascade B) Chair and Comments: Jennifer Reeder, LDS Church History Department Looking for Career-Woman Models in the 1930s: Virginia Hanson and Her Correspondence with Margaret Sanger and Clare Boothe Luce, Emily January Petersen, Utah State University We feel very proud of our Relief Society building : The History of the Newcastle, Utah, Ward Relief Society Hall, , R. Eric Smith, LDS Church History Department The Beginning of Better Days for African Sisters, Jennifer Brinkerhoff Platt Session 4E. Gender, Sexuality and Family (Cascade A) Chair: Rebecca De Schweinitz, Brigham Young University 9

13 Comments: Lawrence Foster, Georgia Institute of Technology Queer Mormon Historical Modes and Identities, Alexandria Gale Griffin, Arizona State University The Household(s) of Brigham Young: Household Organization and Governance in Nineteenth-Century America, Megan Falater, University of Madison-Wisconsin Mormon Women and Power in Millard County, Utah in the late 1870s, Sherilyn Farnes, Salt Lake City, UT Session 4F. Telling Mormon History (Silver Creek) Chair and Comments: Keith A. Erekson, LDS Church History Library A Record-Keeping Culture? The Rise, Fall, and Partial Resuscitation of Local Latter-day Saint Historical Records, Richard L. Jensen, LDS Church History Department Historiology and the Generation Before MHA: Brodie, Burgess, Morgan, Smith, Smith, Smith, and Others, Richard Saunders, Southern Utah University Taking Mormon History into All the World, D. Brent Smith, Clifton, VA Session 4G. Masculinity and its Discontents: (Re)Constructions of Mormon Manhood, (Hobble Creek) Chair and Comments: Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, University of Michigan Brothers in Arms: Mormons 19th Century Muslim Imaginary, S. Spencer Wells, College of William and Mary Men with the Bark On : Prophets, the Western Narrative, and the Construction of a Masculine Mormon Ideal, Brant W. Ellsworth, Penn State Harrisburg Depression and Uncertainty: Mormon College Masculinity in the Great Depression and on the Eve of War, Jared S. Rife, Penn State Harrisburg Plenary #3 - Smith-Pettit Lecture - Saturday June 6 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Speaker: Margaret Jacobs, University of Nebraska 10

14 Concurrent Session 5 - Saturday June 6 2:00-3:30 pm Session 5A. (50th Anniversary Session) Mormon History Journals Editors Panel (Cascade D) Chair: Lavina Fielding Anderson, Salt Lake City, UT Presenters: Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Kristine Haglund Sunstone, Stephen Carter Journal of Mormon History, Martha Taysom Mormon Studies Review, J. Spencer Fluhman Mormon Historical Studies, Ronald O. Barney BYU Studies, Richard E. Bennett Exponent II, Aimee Hickman Session 5B. Mormonism and Material Culture (Cascade E) Chair: Christine Elyse Blythe, Memorial University of Newfoundland Comments: Josh Probert, independent historical structures consultant Martyrdom Canes and Vernacular Mormonism, Christopher James Blythe, Utah State University From Cumorah s Ark to Joseph s Hat: Sacred and Mundane Objects in the Emergence of the Book of Mormon, Don Bradley, Utah State University Book and Manuscripts in Contemporary Mormon Fundamentalism, Ryan Roos, Zion s Books Session 5C. The Challenge and Dilemma of Memory in Mormon History (Cascade C) Chair and Comments: Jeffery O. Johnson, Salt Lake City, UT "Dating Joseph Smith s Plural Marriages to Louisa Beaman, Zina Jacobs, and Presendia Buell: Memory as Evidence, Gary James Bergera, Smith-Pettit Foundation "From Prayer to Visitation: Re-exploring Lorenzo Snow s Vision of Christ in the Salt Lake Temple, John P. Hatch, Salt Lake City, UT Thirty Years after the Forgeries: The Public Opinion Impact of Mormon History and of a New Generation of Mormon Historians, J. B. Haws, Brigham Young University 11

15 Session 5D. Domesticating Provo: Relief Society, the Academy, & Home Economics (Cascade B) Chair: Connie Lamb, Brigham Young University Comments: Amy Harris, Brigham Young University From Hell to Happy Valley: The Taming of Provo, , Janelle M. Higbee, Provo, UT Enter to Learn; Go Forth to Serve : Brigham Young Academy s Influence on Women Leaders in the LDS Church, Rebecca Strein, LDS Church History Department Delineating Work and Home: BYU Early Domestic Science Education, Kate Holbrook, LDS Church History Department Session 5E. Decentralization in LDS Church History Department: A Brave New World (Cascade A) Chair: Matthew K. Heiss, Area Manager, LDS Church History Department Presenters: John G. Mills, Europe Area LDS Church History Adviser Warner M. Molema, Africa Southeast Area LDS Church History Adviser Alexander Núñez, Area Manager, LDS Church History Department in Peru Natalia Savelyeva, Europe East Area LDS Church History Adviser James A. Miller, Church History Specialist, LDS Church History Department Q&A from Audience Session 5F. Shifting the Boundaries of Identity in Mormon Culture (Silver Creek) Chair: Robin S. Jensen, LDS Church History Library Teaching the Gospel to American Indians, LeChele Gishi, Salt Lake City, UT Preserving and Purifying the Saints: Compulsory Sterilization in Utah and the Rhetoric of Eugenics, Gregory Seppi, Provo, UT The Image of Mormonism: How 21st Century Media Portrays Mormonism, Trevor Alvord, Brigham Young University 12

16 Session 5G. Theology and History (Hobble Creek) Chair and Comments: Brian Birch, Utah Valley University Exploring Eternity: Orson Pratt Envisions the Family, Chase Kirkham, Claremont Graduate University To Destroy the Agency of Man: Satan s Plan in Mormon Discourse and Political Culture, Michael Haycock, Alexandria, VA Latter-day Saints, Jesus Christ, and Christocentricity: The Meaning of Recent Developments, John G. Turner, George Mason University Concurrent Session 6 - Saturday June 6 4:00-5:15 pm Session 6A. (50th Anniversary Session) Mormonism: Image and Identity (Cascade D) Chair: Colleen McDannell, University of Utah Presiding in Love and Righteousness : Joseph Smith and Ideal Fatherhood in Contemporary LDS Visual Culture, Nathan K. Rees, University of North Dakota Mormon Missionaries, Mormon Maulers: Performing World Religions in the Wrestling Ring, David Walker, University of California Santa Barbara And Should We Die : Blending Fact with Fiction in Mormon Film, Kirk Henrichsen, Salt Lake City, UT Vikings of the West: Blood, Sex, and Sin in Balduin Möllhausen s Mormon Novels, Sarah C. Reed, University of Wisconsin-Madison Session 6B. Mormonism in Mexico and its Borderlands (Cascade E) Chair: Fernando R. Gomez, Museum of Mormon Mexican History, Inc. Comments: Sujey Vega, Arizona State University Our Faithful Sisters : Gender and Mormon Worship in Early 20th Century Mexico, Jared Tamez The Rise and Demise of Mormon Polygamy in Mexico, Barbara Jones Brown, South Jordan, UT Margarito Bautista s External Mexico : A Revolutionary Mormon proto- Chicanismo, Stuart Parker, Simon Fraser University, Los Altos Institute 13

17 Solving Schism in Nepantla: The Third Convention Returns to the Fold, Elisa Pulido Session 6C. Grassroots Mormon History: Collecting and Sharing History from a Local Perspective (Cascade C) Chair: Elizabeth Heath, Church History Specialist, LDS Church History Department Presenters: Brett Macdonald, Former Pacific Area LDS Church History Adviser Nestor Curbelo, South America South Area LDS Church History Adviser Charles Sono-Koree, Africa West Area LDS Church History Adviser Macy M. Lewis, LDS Church History Missionary Q&A from Audience Session 6D. Perspectives on the St. George and other Historic Mormon Temples (Cascade B) Chair: Emily Utt, LDS Church History Department Presenters: Bruce C. Hafen, Orem, UT Elwin C. Robison, Kent State University Paul D. Monson, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Temple Department Session 6E. Mormons and Cultural Conflict (Cascade A) Chair and Comments: Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University We Aren t Africa: Mormonism in Nigeria, , Russell Stevenson, Salt Lake Community College I Will Soften the Hearts of the People : Mormon-Gentile Relations in Clay County, Missouri, , Alex Baugh, Brigham Young University Cultural Cooperation Amid Conflict: Mormons and Catholics in the Restoration of Nauvoo, Scott C. Esplin, Brigham Young University 14

18 Session 6F. Medicine and Law in Nauvoo: Judge Joseph Smith, Frontier Obstetrics, and the Expansion of the Legal Rights of Women (Silver Creek) Chair and Comments: Alex D. Smith, LDS Church History Department The Doctors in this Region Don t Know Much : Medicine and Obstetrics in Nauvoo, Steven C. Dinger, Taylorsville, UT Joseph Smith as a Progressive Jurist: Law and Medicine in Nauvoo, John S. Dinger, Meridian, ID Called to Serve, Called to Birth: Social Medicine, Herbal Remedies, and Midwifery in the Nauvoo Relief Society, Winter Quarters, and the Salt Lake City Female Council of Health, Jennifer Reeder, LDS Church History Department Session 6G. Mormon Libraries: Reflecting and Reinforcing Mormon Culture (Hobble Creek) Chair and Comments: David J. Whittaker, Orem UT Correlating the Meetinghouse Program, Cory L. Nimer, Brigham Young University The Evolution of Meetinghouse Libraries, s, Patricia Frade, Brigham Young University Documenting Church Education and Mormon Culture: The BYU Library Religion Collection in the 20th Century, Gerrit Van Dyk, Brigham Young University The Heart of a Community: The Provo Carnegie Library and the Brigham Young University Library, J. Gordon Daines III, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University Closing Plenary - Presidential Address - Saturday 6:45 pm Speaker: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Runaway Wives,