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1 Thursday, June 9, :00 am to 6:00 pm Onsite registration and Pre-Registration check in begins 8:00 am Power Searching with Church History Library workshop shuttle departs Snowbird 8:15 am African-American History tour departs Snowbird 8:30 Mormon Women s Public Life and Activism tour departs Snowbird 12:30 pm Material Culture workshop shuttle departs Snowbird 7:00 pm Opening Reception and Lower Lights performance Friday, June 10, :00-10:00am Opening Plenary Session Mormon Practice: An Anthropologist s Perspective Room: Ballroom 1 Speaker: Fenella Cannell (London School of Economics) 10:30-12:00pm Concurrent Session I Session #1A: Sacred Books, Solemn Rites: Text, Ritual, and Cosmos in Mormon History Room: Primrose A Chair and Discussant: Robin Jensen Kathleen Flake: (University of Virginia) Jonathan A. Stapley: (Independent Scholar) Ryan G. Tobler: (Harvard University) There is No End to Priesthood : Nauvoo s Marital Sealings in Light of the Book of Abraham Mormon Ordination: Texts, Powers, and Priesthoods Keeping the Books of Life: Rituals and Recording in Early Mormonism Session #1B: Priesthood: Policy and Practice in Africa and Latin America Room: Primrose B Chair and Discussant: W. Paul Reeve (University of Utah)

2 Jeffrey G. Cannon: Practicing the Priesthood and Temple Ban in South Africa Russell W. Stevenson: Prophets and Prosperity: The Growth of (Michigan State University) Mormonism in Postcolonial Igboland, Jeremy Talmage: Clinton D. Christensen: Blurring the Ban: Brazil s Pre-1978 Black Priesthood Ordinations Racial Perception and the Priesthood: Practice Among Latin American and Caribbean Saints Session #1C: Mormonism in Practice: Insights from CHD s 2016 Releases Room: Maybird Chair and Discussant: R. Eric Smith Matthew C. Godfrey: Jeffrey D. Mahas: Library) Jill Mulvay Derr: Department A Season of Blessings: What We Learn about Ordination and Patriarchal Blessings in Kirtland, Ohio, from the Joseph Smith Papers As Good an Institution As We Should Want : The Council of Fifty, the Whistling and Whittling Movement, and the Quest for a Theocratic Government How Women Created and Negotiated Their Institutional Presence: Emergent Narratives from Key Documents in The First Fifty Years of Relief Society Session #1D: Deny Not the Gifts of God : Charismata in Mormon Memory and Practice Room: Wasatch B Chair and Discussant: TBD Lynn E. Henrichsen: We Believe in the Gift of Tongues: Nineteenth and (Brigham Young University) Early Twentieth Century LDS Missionary Experiences Learning and Using Foreign Languages John C. Thomas: Ambivalence Lost? Remembering and Forgetting (Brigham Young University- Unknown Tongues Idaho)

3 Alan J. Clark: (Claremont Graduate University) The LDS Antinomian Faith Crisis: Snuffer, Pontius, Kelly and the LDS Hunger for Spiritual Expression Session #1E: Practicing as They Practiced: Enhancing Historical Understanding Through Material Culture and Living History Room: Magpie B Chair and Discussant: TBD Kelly Lelegren: (Cedar City, UT) Debi Brady: (Utah Tour Guide (Association) Shay Lelegren: (Cedar City, UT) Hadyn B. Call: (Utah State University/ Davis School District) Home Manufacture and the Mormon Call to Dust Off the Spinning Wheel Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do, Or Do Without: Weaving as a Cause for Mormon Frugality Tinsmithing in the Untamed West Interpreting the Past through the Lens of Living History: The Material Culture of Mormon Pottery Session #1F: Lives Consecrated: May and James Talmage, Their Relationship and Work Room: Wasatch A Chair and Discussant: J. Spencer Fluhman (Brigham Young University) Gerrit van Dyk: May Booth Talmage: A Life of Reflection (Brigham Young University) and Service Elise Reynolds: James E. Talmage: Scientist, Educator, Apostle, and PR Man Ryan K. Lee: Beyond Educator, Scientist, and Apostle: James E. (Brigham Young University) Talmage as a Family Man Session #1G: Of Myths, Memorates, and Missions: The Practices of Modern Mormon Missionaries Room: Magpie A Chair: David Golding (Brigham Young University) Brant W. Ellsworth: (York College) Portals to the Past: Reflexivity and the Study of Memorates

4 Spencer L. Green: (Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg) Jared S. Rife: (Central Pennsylvania College) Return with Bother: Awkward Dating Stories with Recently Returned Missionaries LDS Missionary Acclimation and Adjustment: The Stories Fold Two by Two Comments: Eric Eliason (Brigham Young University) Session #1H: Progressive Practice: Development of Church Institutions at the Turn of the Century Room: White Pine Chair and Discussant: Mary Jane Woodger (Brigham Young University) Casey Griffiths: Young, Progressive, and in Love: Joseph F. (Brigham Young University) Merrill, Laura Hyde and the Origins of Latter-day Saint and PR Man Nicholas Davis: A Line in the Sand: Joseph Keeler s (Brigham Young University) Institutionalized Bishop s Court Practices in the Progressive Era Alec Kearns: The Boy Scouts of America and the Development (Brigham Young University) of Mormon Patriotism in the Progressive Era 12:15 1:45pm Membership Luncheon Room: Ballroom 1 Chair: Spencer Fluhman (Brigham Young University) Annual Membership/Business Report Roundtable and Audience Discussion: Global Practice: Perspectives on Mormon Diversity Panelists: Chiung Hwang Chen (Brigham Young University-Hawai i) Gina Colvin (University of Canterbury) Melissa Inouye (University of Auckland) Astrid Tuminez (National University of Singapore) Richard Turley Chrystal Vanel (GRSL, Paris, France) 2:00 3:30pm Concurrent Session II

5 Session #2A: The Council of Fifty Minutes: An Initial Scholarly Appraisal Room: Primrose A Chair: Matthew Grow Panelists: Richard Bushman (Columbia University) Jan Shipps (Indiana University-Purdue University) Richard Bennett (Brigham Young University) Paul Reeve (University of Utah) Session #2B: Gendering Nineteenth-Century Mormonism Room: Primrose B Chair: Janelle Higbee Michael Haycock: (Alexandria, VA) Have Done with Lesser Things: Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Mormon Masculinity Maxine Hanks: And Thou Shalt Be Ordained: Have Mormon (Salt Lake City, UT) Women Been Ordained Since 1830? Lawrence Foster: (Georgia Institute of Technology) The Impact of the Great Mormon Trek West in on the Establishment of Polygamy and New Forms of Family and Kinship Ties among the Latter-day Saints Comments: Don Bradley Session #2C: Holy Theatre: Mormon Performance, Identity, and Representation Room: Maybird Chair: Callie Oppedisano (Draper, UT) Tona Hangen: Performing Trek: Becoming Pioneer Children in (Worcester State University) the Digital Age Sam O Connell: The Sacred and the Profane: Performing Mormon (Worcester State University) Identities in The Book of Mormon Megan Sanborn Jones: Testimony in the Muscles, in the Bone: Proxy (Brigham Young University) Performance at the Mesa Easter Pageant Session #2D: From Earthly to Eternal Families: Historical and Cultural Insights into Latter-day Saint Heaven Discourse Room: Wasatch B Chair: Kate Holbrook

6 Barbara Morgan and Devan Jensen: (Brigham Young University) Laura Harris Hales: (Layton, UT) Jennifer Brinkerhoff-Platt: (Provo, UT) Line Upon Line: Joseph Smith s Growing Understanding of Families and Heaven Legal Briefs or Pastorals?: The LDS Church s Three Official Statements on Marriage and Family Latter-day Saint Discourse on Eternal Families, : A Cultural Perspective Comments: Jenny Reeder Session #2E: Twentieth-Century Mormon Practices in Eastern Europe Room: Magpie B Chair and Discussant: Roger Minert (Brigham Young University) Katherine Kitterman: (American University) Undaunted: Austrian Mormon Experience Connie Lamb: A New Chapter: Recent History of the LDS (Brigham Young University) Church in Turkey Ronald Watt: Arther Gaeth: The Making of a Mission (West Valley City Historical President for Czechoslovakia, Society) Session #2F: Mormon Pilgrimages to (the) Holy Land(s) Room: Wasatch A Chair and Discussant: Andrew Reed (Brigham Young University) Mason Allred: Dr. Hirschell and Mr. Hyde: Restorationism, Descendancy, and Orson Hyde s Shifting Jewish Identity Brett D. Dowdle: Promised Gatherings to Promised Lands: Mormon (Texas Christian University) Gatherings, Early Zionism, and Orson Hyde s 1840 Mission to Jerusalem Amber Taylor: (Brandeis University) A Great Trek to Zion: Manifestations, Movements, and Meanings of the LDS Presence in the Holy Land, Session #2G: The Perils and Pitfalls of Mormon Biography Room: Magpie A Chair and Discussant: Martha Bradley-Evans (University of Utah)

7 John P. Hatch: (Signature Books) Devery Anderson: (Signature Books) John Sillito: (Weber State University) Lorenzo Snow: The Prophet of Paradox Willard Richards: Crafting a Life B.H. Roberts: Defender and Advocate of Mormonism Session #2H: Mormonism and Social Practice in Nineteenth-Century France Room: White Pine Chair and Discussant: Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University) Daryl Lee: Mormonism as a Secte Rouges in 19 th -Century (Brigham Young University) French Thought Heather Belnap Jensen: Romantic Socialism, La Nouvelle Femme, and (Brigham Young University) Representations of Mormon Women in Nineteenth- Century French Art and Literature Corry Cropper: Dangerous Similarities: Mormons in Nineteenth- (Brigham Young University) Century French Fiction 4:00 5:00pm Concurrent Session III Session #3A: 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) Room: Primrose A Chair: Stanley Thayne (University at North Carolina) Panelists: Sujey Vega (Arizona State University) Dominic Martinez (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Author-Respondent: Hokulani K. Aikau (University of Hawai i, Mānoa) Session 3B: The Intellectual and Theological World of Early Mormonism Room: Primrose B Chair and Discussant: Terryl Givens (University of Richmond) John Rogers: (Yale University) Latter-day Milton: Speculations on an Early Mormon Reading Practice

8 Ian Barber: (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 Session #3C: Faith and Science: The Intersection of Mormonism and Eugenics Room: Maybird Chair and Discussant: Michael MacKay (Brigham Young University) Cassandra L. Clark: (University of Utah) Legitimizing Whiteness: John A. Widtsoe s Correspondence with Eugenic Scientists in the Early Twentieth Century Gregory Seppi: Our Interest in Eugenics : The Latter-day Saints (Brigham Young University) and Early 20 th Century Perceptions of Race and Class Session #3D: The Granite Mountain Records Vault Room: Magpie A Chair: Reid L. Neilson (LDS History Presenters: Joseph P. Monsen John H. Heath Session #3E: Strangers in the Borderlands: An Unlikely Tale from the Mormon Mexican Colonies Room: Magpie B Chair and Discussant: Barbara Jones Brown (Independent Scholar) Presenters: John Gonzalez (Draper, UT) Dale Van Atta (Ashburn, VA) Session #3F: TBD Session #3G: Fundamentalist Mormon Apostolic United Brethren Room: Magpie A Chair and Discussant: Janet Bennion (Lyndon State College) Presenter: Joe Jessop (Hamilton, MT) Session #3H: That They May Dwell In a Place of Their Own : The Evolution of Deaf Latter-day Saint Worship and Gathering Places Room: White Pine Chair and Discussant: Blair Hodges (Brigham Young University)

9 Presenters: Doug Stringham (Utah Valley University) Anne Leahy (Salt Lake City, UT) 7:15 9:00 pm Awards Banquet Room: Total Ballroom 9:15 10:30 pm Student Reception Room: Golden Cliff Saturday, June 11, :00-10:00am Smith-Pettit Lecture Room: Ballroom 1 Speaker: Grant Wacker 10:30am - 12:00pm Concurrent Session IV Session #4A: The Book of Mormon: New Views of an Old Text Room: Primrose A Chair and Discussant: Rosalynde Frandsen Welch Samuel Brown: (University of Utah) Terryl Givens: (University of Richmond) To Read the Sound of Eternity : Speech, Text, and Scripture in the Book of Mormon The Book of Mormon and the Reshaping of Covenant Theology Session #4B: Joseph Smith, Josephine Lyon, and the Puzzles of Nauvoo Polyandry Room: Primrose B Chair and Discussant: Merina Smith (San Diego, CA) Don Bradley: (Utah State University) Ugo Perego: (University of Perugia) Did Joseph Smith Father Josephine Lyon? The Historical Evidence on a Reputed Child of Nauvoo Polyandry Was Joseph Smith the Biological Father of Josephine Lyon? The Genetic Evidence Brian Hales: Polyandry and the Offer Mentioned in D&C (John Whitmer Historical 132:51 Association) Session #4C: Contested Memories of the 1838 Missouri-Mormon War

10 Room: Maybird Chair: Alexander L. Baugh (Brigham Young University) David W. Grua: Brent M. Rogers: Joseph Smith s Missouri Jail Letters and Mormon Persecution Memory Gendered Memories of the 1838 Missouri War Andrea G. Radke-Moss: Sexual Violence and the Practices of Memory: (Brigham Young University- Competing Constructions of the Missouri Rapes in Idaho) LDS and non-lds Discourses Comments: Steven C. Harper Session #4D: On Active Duty: The Utah War s Women at Home and Afield Room: Wasatch B Chair and Discussant: Barbara Morgan Kenneth L. Alford: The Utah War s 1858 Move South Viewed (Brigham Young University) through Women s Eyes Audrey M. Godfrey: (Independent Scholar) William P. MacKinnon: (Independent Scholar) Lifeline by Mail: Utah War Letters From the Field and Home Front Rescued or Kidnapped: The Trans-Atlantic Saga of Henrietta Polydore Session #4E: Peoples, Places, and Businesses in Territorial Utah Room: Magpie B Chair and Discussant: Thomas Alexander (Brigham Young University) Larry King: (Orem, Utah) Analyzing the Success of ZCMI in Pioneer Utah Linda Hunter Adams: Archibald Gardner s Lumber Mills in Big and (Brigham Young University) Little Cottonwood Canyons Robert Haven Briggs: (Fullerton, CA) Ira Hatch: Mountain Meadows Militiaman, Indian Scout, Explorer and Colonizer on the Mormon Frontier Session #4F: Women Writers and the Practice of Mormonism Room: Wasatch A

11 Chair and Discussant: Lisa Olsen Tait Saskia Tielens: (TU Dortmund) Sarah Reed: (University of Wisconsin- Madison) Scott Hales: When Men Were Men and Women Were Women : An Exploration of the Regency Romance Novel in a Mormon Context Polygamy and Postmemory: Virginia Sorensen s Utah Novels The Poet and the Apostle: The Correspondence of Ina Coolbrith and Joseph F. Smith Session #4G: Practicing 21 st Century Research Room: Magpie A Chair and Discussant: Jonathan Murphy (Brigham Young University) Gerrit van Dyk: (Brigham Young University) Ryan Leavitt Combs: Online Tools for Mormon Research Online Tools from the LDS Church History Trevor Alvord: Preserving the Future of History: BYU s Web (Brigham Young University) Archive Session #4H: A Close Look at William B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet Room: White Pine Chair: Glen Leonard Presenters: H. Michael Marquardt (Sandy, UT) Megan Falater (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Response: Kyle Walker (Brigham Young University-Idaho) 12:30 2:00pm LUNCH ON YOUR OWN or PRE- ORDERED LUNCH from SNOWBIRD 2:30-4:00pm Concurrent Session V Session #5A: Ezra Taft Benson and the Rise of American Conservativism after 1960 Room: Primrose A Chair and Discussant: Robert A. Goldberg (University of Utah)

12 Newell G. Bringhurst: (Visalia, CA) Ezra Taft Benson s Quest for the U.S. Presidency Matthew L. Harris: Ezra Taft Benson, Martin Luther King and the (Colorado State University, Communist Conspiracy Pueblo) Patrick Q Mason: (Claremont Graduate University) Twentieth-Century Environmental Politics in the Mormon Culture Region Session #5B: YouTube as Historical Archive for Lived Religion and Digital Pedagogy Room: Primrose B Chair and Discussant: Joseph Stuart (University of Utah Jeff Turner: (University of Utah) John C. Feinauer: (University of Utah) Deconversion Narratives in the Internet Age: The I am an Ex-Mormon Campaign YouTube Mormonism: Arguing the Case of Mormon Fundamentalism Jordan F. Bratt: Searching for Mormonism: Digital Religion in the (George Mason University) Age of YouTube Kristine L. Wright: (Independent Scholar) You are Hereby Called to Serve : Opening the White Envelope, Performance and Collective Identity Session #5C: The Practice of Mormon Mothering Room: Maybird Chair: Susanna Morrill (Lewis and Clark College) Emily January Petersen: (Utah State University) Mother s Work: Organizing Mormon Motherhood in the Early Twentieth Century Kate Holbrook: Mothers at Work: A Look at the 1970s Dave Hall: Changing Realities for Mormon Women: The (California State University, Gospel Literacy Effort During the Presidency of Fullerton) Elaine L. Jack Comments: Claudia Bushman (Columbia University)

13 Session #5D: The Book of Mormon in Historical and Comparative Perspectives Room: Wasatch B Chair and Discussant: Ryan G. Tobler (Harvard University) Stephen J. Fleming: (Fallbrook, CA) When Did Joseph Smith Know What He Knew? Hints at Pre-Existence, Deification, and Eternal Marriage in the Book of Mormon Janiece Johnson: Becoming A People of the Books: Early Mormon (Brigham Young University- Converts and the New Word of the Lord Idaho) Taunalyn Ford Rutherford: (Claremont Graduate University) Book of Mormon and Bhagavad Gita: Latter-day Saint Practice of Translation in India Session #5E: Sacred Geography, Sacred Artifacts, Sacred Sites Room: Magpie B Chair and Discussant: Emily Utt, LDS Church History Department Jared Call: (Utah State University) The Geography of the Dissenters Charlotte Hansen Terry: Documents and Properties for Furs: Wilford C. Wood and the Preservation of Church History Scott C. Esplin: Changing Their Practice: Latter-day Saint and (Brigham Young University) Reorganized Church Approaches to Historical Session #5F: Mormon Feminist Social Networks in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries Room: Wasatch A Chair: Christina Duncan (Dixie State University) Kari Waters: (Houston, TX) Anja Tinajero: (Morelos, Mexico) Gina Colvin: (University of Canterbury) Mormon Feminist Social Networks in the Age of Newsletters and Phone Calls The Rise of Women s Blogs in the Early Twenty- First Century: Mormon Feminism, Secular Feminism, and Mormon Mommies Mormon Feminist Storytelling Through Podcasting

14 Comments: Nancy Ross (Dixie State University) Session #5G: The Public Side of Mormon Distinctiveness, Room: Magpie A Chair and Discussant: Brent M. Rogers Jeremy J. Chatelain: The Practice and Practicing of Mormon Agenda (University of Utah) Setting in the Times and Seasons, Andrew H. Hedges: Practice in the Papers: News from Utah, (Brigham Young University) Gerrit J. Dirkmaat: Agriculture, Adversaries, and Apostasy: Joseph (Brigham Young University) Smith s Unpublished Revelation and the Conflict Over Frederick G. Williams Consecrated Farm Andrew C. Reed: Finding Pathways and Practices for Religious (Brigham Young University) Tolerance in Early Mormonism Session #5H: Mormonism and Religious Sensibility Room: White Pine Chair and Discussant: Samuel Brown (University of Utah) Justin Bray: (University of Utah) Randal Powell: (Claremont Graduate University) Nathaniel Wiewora: (Harding University) The Nose Knows: Mormons, Smell, and Sensory History Beyond the Veil : The Spirit World of Popular Mormonism Extreme Force of Language and Energy of Action : Antebellum Evangelicals and the Fanaticisms of Mormonism 4:30 5:30pm Concurrent Session VI Session #6A: The Legal World of Early and Contemporary Mormonism Room: Primrose A Chair and Discussant: Nate Oman (College of William and Mary) John S. Dinger: Mormons and the Jury in Hancock County, (Meridian, ID) 1845 Kif Augustine-Adams: BYU, Civil Rights, and Religious Exemption to (Brigham Young University) Title IX

15 Session #6B: The Elections and Travels of Church Leaders in the Twentieth Century Room: Primrose B Chair and Discussant: TBD Kenneth L. Cannon II: Separation of Prophet and State? The 1914 (Salt Lake City, UT) Reelection of Reed Smoot Reid L. Neilson: A Fine Intellectual and Spiritual Opportunity : Church Historian Leonard J. Arrington s Tour of the LDS Church s Asian Area General Conferences, August 1975 Session #6C: Mormonism and World Leaders Room: Maybird Chair and Discussant: Jeff Johnson, Utah Historical Society Ardis E. Parshall: (Keepapitchinin) The Matter is Having My Close Attention : Discoveries into Winston Churchill s Investigation of Mormonism in Britain Gary James Bergera: Ezra Taft Benson Meets Nikita Khrushchev, 1959: (Smith-Pettit Foundation) Memory Embellished Session #6D: Mormon Uniqueness and Identity Formation Room: Wasatch B Chair and Discussant: Christine Talbot, University of Northern Colorado Taylor Kerby: (Claremont Graduate University) Cristina M. Rosetti: (University of California, Riverside) In the World, but Not of It: The Drive for Mormon Uniqueness The Glory of God is Intelligence : The Centrality of Religious Education in Mormon Identity Formation Session #6E: Teaching Mormon History: Pedagogy Workshop Room: Magpie B Chair: Benjamin E. Park, University of Missouri Presenters: Laurie Maffly-Kipp (Washington University in St. Louis) W. Paul Reeve (University of Utah) Additional participants TBD

16 Session #6F: Nathaniel Baldwin and the Spread of Early Fundamentalist Mormonism Room: Wasatch A Chair: David Watson (Independent Scholar) Craig L. Foster: (Layton, UT) Marianne T. Watson: (Lehi, UT) Like Sparks of a Wildfire: The Spread of Early Fundamentalist Mormonism Nathaniel Baldwin: Key Figure in the Emergence of the Fundamentalist Mormon Community Comments: Ken Driggs (Independent Scholar) Session #6G: Restriction-ism Unveiled! A Workshop on Research Access and Intellectual Property at the Church History Library Room: Wasatch B Session Leader: Keith A. Erekson, Director, LDS Church History Library Session #6H: The Practice of Mormon Missionary Work Room: White Pine Chair and Comments: TBD Matthew McBride: Department Kari Lynne Roueche: (Kingsport, TN) An Ardent Desire to Speak Myself : Early Women Missionaries and Gendered Separate Spheres Missionary Experiences in Great Britain after the Call to Zion 7:00 9:00 pm Presidential Banquet Room: Total Ballroom MHA Presidential address by Pres. Laurie Maffly-Kipp :00 10:00 pm Closing Reception Room: Total Ballroom or Golden Cliff Sunday, June 12, 2016

17 9:00 10:00 am Sunday Devotional Room: Combined Primrose or Total Ballroom Genesis Group and other selected speakers 10:30 11:00 am Post-conference Tour bus loading and departure from Snowbird Mining and Community Building in Zion overnight (Park City) bus tour returning to Snowbird Monday 5:00 pm.