Conference Schedule at a Glance When What Where

Conference Schedule at a Glance When What Where Wednesday, June 3, 2015 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Registration Conference Center 3rd Floor Thursday, June 4, 2015 7:00 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, 2015 7:00 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

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, 2015 7:00 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 Petit-Lecture Margaret Jacob, 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, 2015 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Devotional Ballrooms 12:00 p.m. Post Conference Tour Bus Leaves Conference Center Parking Lot Monday, June 8, 2015 6:00 p.m. Post Conference Tour Bus Returns to Conference Center Conference Center Parking Lot

MHA 2015 Program Draft v 4.0 last updated 3/3/15 Opening Plenary - Friday 9:00-10:00 am Speaker: Colleen McDannell, University of Utah Concurrent Session 1 - Friday 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Session 1A. (50th Anniversary Session) A Retrospective on John Brooke, A Refiner s Fire (Cascade D) Chair: Ben Park, University of Missouri Participants: John Brooke, Ohio State University David Holland, Harvard University Susanna F. Morrill, Lewis & Clark College Stephen Fleming, University of California Santa Barbara Neil Kamil, University of Texas Austin Session 1B. Theology and Cosmology of Mormon Conceptions of Race (Cascade E) Chair and Comments: Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Washington University in St. Louis Nauvoo Temple Cosmology: Polygamy, Adoption, and the Priesthood Restriction, Jonathan A. Stapley, independent scholar Holy Race: Israelitism, Nauvoo Theology, and the Fluidity of Race in Early Mormonism, Joseph R. Stuart, University of Virginia Mamala and Mormonism: Millennial Movements in the Pacific, 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 Tait, LDS Church History Department The Balance Between Prescription and Practice: Young Women s Goals and the Church s Expectations in the Early Twentieth Century, Natalie K. Rose, Michigan State University Mormon Women and Feminine Ambition: Rhetorical, Cultural and Contemporary Tensions, Andrea Radke-Moss, BYU-Idaho What are Mormon feminists trying to do?: Mormon Feminist Theory, Nancy Ross, Dixie State University and Jessica Finnegan, Kings College London 1

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 Deseret Diaspora: Latino Saints and the Making of Complex Identities in Arizona, 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 Raquel Orona, enrolled member of Hoopa Valley Tribe Session 1E. Cultural Dynamics in Territorial Utah (Silver Creek) Chair and Comments: Richard Turley Misnaming the Walker War, Ryan Wimmer, Utah National Guard Pioneer Revelation: Brigham Young and the Word and Will of the Lord, Jeremy S. Parkin, Cypress California LDS Institutes of Religion A People Alien in All Their Sympathies : Elizabeth Kane and the St. George Mormons, Darcee D. Barnes, independent scholar Praying to go to Zion: Nineteenth-century Mormon Conversion and Immigration, Jeff Turner, Claremont Graduate University Session 1F. Roundtable: Cultural Mormons and Politics in the Nauvoo Period, 1839-1844 (Silver Creek) Chair: Geritt Dirkmaat, Brigham Young University Shattering American Idealism: The Misplaced Expectations of the 1839 Mormon Delegation to the Federal Government, Spencer McBride, Joseph Smith Papers Project Orson Hyde s political and religious perspective on Jews and Judaism, Andrew Reed, Brigham Young University The Mormons and the Election of 1843, 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 : Mormon uses of Collective Memory in the 1844 Presidential Election, Jeffrey Mahas, Joseph Smith Papers Project 2

Session 1G. Seeds of the Springville Art Movement (Hobble Creek) Chair and Comments: Rita Wright, Springville Museum of Art Philo Dibbles Plants Seeds for the Springville Art Movement, Devan Jensen, BYU Religious Studies Center C. C. A. Christensen s Heroic Vision of Mormon History, 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 12:00 Membership Luncheon Speakers: Past Presidents of MHA Concurrent Session 2 - Friday 1:30-3:00 pm Session 2A. (50th Anniversary Session - to be filmed) Exponent II: Present At the Creation (Cascade D) Chair: Claudia Bushman, American Antiquarian Society Origins and Development, Claudia L. Bushman, American Antiquarian Society Discovering the Woman s Exponent, Susan Kohler The Physical Process of Creation, Carrel Sheldon, Seattle, WA Negotiating Controversial Subjects, Nancy Dredge Key Turning Points in Exponent II s History, Judy Dushku 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, landscape designer "Mapping Deseret: Vernacular Mormon Mapmaking and Spiritual Geography 1847-1857," 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 3

Session 2C. Beyond the Binary: Multiplicity of Women s Voices in Mormon Culture (Cascade C) Chair: Barbara Jones Brown, South Jordan UT Comments: Andrea Radke-Moss, BYU-Idaho Relief Society Rhetoric versus Reality: The Diaries of Mormon Women, 1920-1940, Charlotte Hansen Terry, University of Utah Joining the Club: How Moving to Utah Affected LDS Young Women in the 1980s, Heather Stone, University of Utah See Jane Blog: Performing Femininity in a Mormon Context, Saskia Tielens, Dortmund University Something Extraordinary: The Relief Society Presidency of Elaine L. Jack, 1990-1997, Dave Hall, Department of History, California State University Fullerton Session 2D. Confronting the Sacred: Processes of Canonization (Cascade B) Chair and Comments: Steve Harper, LDS Church History Department "Canon and History: On D&C 25, Joseph M. Spencer, University of New Mexico Canonical and Popular Perceptions of the Condition of the Dead among Progressive Era Mormon Women, 1890 1940, Elizabeth J. 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: Ardis Parshall Comments: Angela Marie 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, independent researcher and editor 4

Session 2F. Mormonism Meets Asia: Cultural Perspectives in Asian Mormon History (Silver Creek) Chair: Brittany Chapman, LDS Church History Department Comment: TBA Taiwan and Thailand: A Tale of Two Cultures and its Impact on Missionary Work, P. N. Felipe Chou, LDS Seminaries and Institutes of Religion Walking Between Faith and Governance: Gender and Family Relations of Singaporean Mormon Women, 1980-1995, Keshia Lai, Ohio State University Thai Foundations: When a Missionary Arrived in 1854, Audrey Bastian, independent scholar Session 2G. New Research Outside the Mormon Mainstream (Hobble Creek) Chair and Comments: Susan Rugh, Brigham Young University " Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse : Stories from the Tithing and Financial Records in Pottawattamie, Maurine Ward, past editor of Mormon Historical Studies Meliton Gonzalez Trejo: a Former Catholic Performing 19th Century Mormon Temple Rituals, George Ryskamp, Brigham Young University A Lonely, Thankless Path : Thaddeus Stevens, Abolitionist, Reformer, and Mormon Defender, Kevin Folkman, independent historian Concurrent Session 3 - Friday 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 Participants: Nathan Florence and Matt Black, filmmakers Derek and Veloy Smith, other artists featured in the film Session 3B. 1954 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, Associate Professor of History, University of Utah 1954 A Critical Year: David O. McKay Confronts the Practice of Black Priesthood Denial, Newell G. Bringhurst, College of the Sequoias (Emeritus) 5

"Mark E. Petersen, J. Reuben Clark, and Civil Rights: Two Apostles Respond to Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas," Matthew L. Harris, Colorado State University Pueblo Session 3C. CHL #2 Meet the Mormons in Mexico: 40 Years of Cultivating Church History (Cascade C) Chair: Matt Geilman, Consultation Services, LDS Church History Department Presenters: LaMond Tullis Armando Ceballos Bradley Hill Respondent: Jeremy Talmage, Church History Specialist, LDS Church History Library Session 3D. Indian-Mormon Relations (Cascade B) Chair and Comments: Mark Miller, Southern Utah University A Navajo Account of the Death of Lot Smith, Corey Smallcanyon, Utah Valley University A Personal War: The Tangled Web of Indian-Mormon Relations, Sondra G. Jones, University of Utah Ganado Mucho and the Mormons, Todd Compton, independent scholar Session 3E. The Hijacking of the Mormon Trail Story by the Willie-Martin Disasters (Cascade A) Chair: Mel Bashore, West Jordan UT Captain Edward Bunker and his 1856 Handcart Company, William G. Hartley, BYU History Professor Emeritus To Be A Pioneer: Handcart Narratives and the Construction of Mormon Religious Identity, Julie Hartley-Moore, Utah State University Comments: Eric Eliason, Brigham Young University Session 3F. Settling the Valley, Converting the World: The First Presidency s General Epistles, 1849 1856 (Cascade A) Chair: D. Brent Rogers Nathan N. Waite, Joseph Smith Papers Project Reid L. Nielson, LDS Church History Department Respondent: Lincoln H. Blumell, Brigham Young University 6

Session 3G. The Cultural Complexity of Conversion: Examining Mormonism(s) in India (Hobble Creek) Chair: Lanier Britsch, Brigham Young University Comments: Eliza Kent, Skidmore College (via Skype) We Are Now One Family : RLDS Conversions in Rural Odisha, India, 1964-1980, David J. Howlett, Skidmore College We Have Left the Traditions Of Our Ancestors : The Complexity of Conversion among Latterday Saints in Hyderabad India, Taunalyn Ford Rutherford, Claremont Graduate University Kirtland, Nauvoo and now Looking Towards Stakes of Zion in India, John Santosh Murala, Hyderabad, India Concurrent Session 4 - Saturday 9:00-10:30 am Session 4A. (50th Anniversary Session) Legacies of Leonard Arrington (Cascade D) Chair: David Walker, University of California Santa Barbara Participants: Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Washington University in St. Louis John Turner, George Mason University Reid Neilson, LDS Church History Department 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 Explanatory Models for Book of Mormon Translation, Samuel Brown, University of Utah 7

Session 4C. The Unfamiliar Saints: Insights from the Joseph Smith Papers (Cascade C) Chair: Matthew C. Godfrey, Joseph Smith Papers Project Roundtable Participants: Brent Rogers, Volume Editor, Joseph Smith Papers Shannon Kelly, Production Editor, Joseph Smith Papers Elizabeth Kuehn, Volume Editor, Joseph Smith Papers Christian Heimburger, Volume Editor, Joseph Smith Papers Session 4D. Relief Society on the Periphery (Cascade B) Chair and Comments: Jenny 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, 1920 1970, R. Eric Smith, Joseph Smith Papers Project The Beginning of Better Days for African Sisters, Jennifer Brinkerhoff Platt, independent scholar (read in absentia) Session 4E. Gender, Sexuality and Family (Cascade A) Chair: Rebecca De Schweinitz, Brigham Young University Comments: Larry Foster, Georgia Institute of Technology Queer Mormon Historical Modes and Identity, Alexandria Griffin, Arizona State University The Household(s) of Brigham Young: Household Organization and Governance in the Nineteenth-Century American West, Megan Falater, University of Madison-Wisconsin Mormon Women and Power in Millard County in the Late 1870s, Sherilyn Farnes, LDS Church History Department Session 4F. Telling Mormon History (Silver Creek) Chair and Comments: Keith 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, Joseph Smith Papers Project Historiology and the Generation Before MHA: Brodie, Burgess, Morgan, Smith, Smith, Smith, and Others, Richard L. Saunders, Southern Utah University 8

Taking Mormon History into All the World, D. Brent Smith, NOAA Satellite and Information Service Session 4G. Masculinity and its Discontents: (Re)Constructions of Mormon Manhood, 1870-1940 (Hobble Creek) Chair and Comments: Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, University of Michigan Brothers in Arms: Mormons 19th Century Muslim Imaginary, 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 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 - Smitt-Pettit Lecture - Saturday 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Speaker: Margaret Jacob, University of Nebraska Concurrent Session 5 - Saturday 2:00-3:30 pm Session 5A. (50th Anniversary Session) Mormon History Journals Editors Panel Chair: Lavina Fielding Anderson, Independent Scholar Participants: Dialogue Kristine Haglund Sunstone Stephen Carter Journal of Mormon History Martha Taysom Mormon Studies Review Spencer Fluhman Mormon Historical Studies, Ron and Marilyn Barney BYU Studies Richard Bennett filling in for Jack Welch Exponent II, TBA Session 5B. Mormonism and Material Culture (Cascade E) Chair: Christine Elyse Blythe, Memorial University of Newfoundland Comments: Josh Probert Martyrdom Canes and Vernacular Mormonism, Christopher James Blythe, Utah State University 9

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: Jeff Johnson "Memory and the Dating of Joseph Smith s First Nauvoo Plural Marriages, Gary James Bergera, The Smith-Pettit Foundation "From Prayer to Visitation: Re-exploring the Vision of Christ to Lorenzo Snow in the Salt Lake Temple, John P. Hatch, Signature Books 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 Session 5D. Domesticating Provo: Relief Society, the Academy, & Home Economics (Cascade B) Chair: Connie Lamb, Brigham Young University Libraries Comments: Amy Harris, Brigham Young University From Hell to Happy Valley: The Taming of Provo, 1849 1905, Janelle M. Higbee, LDS Church History Department 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 and University of Alabama Work and Home: BYU Early Domestic Science Education, Kate Holbrook, LDS Church History Department Session 5E. Decentralizing Mormon History (Cascade A) Chair: Matthew K. Heiss, LDS Church History Department Participants: Jared Feller, LDS Church History Department Melanie Gapiz, Philippines International Area Church History Adviser Charles Sono-Koree, Ghana International Area Church History Adviser Nestor Esteban Curbelo Armando, Uruguay International Area Church History Adviser 10

Session 5F. Shifting the Boundaries of Identity in Mormon Culture (Silver Creek) Chair: Robin S. Jensen, LDS Church History Department Presenters: LeChele Gishi, LDS Church History Department Gregory Seppi, LDS Church History Department Trevor Alvord, Brigham Young University Libraries 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, Claremont Graduate University Latter-day Saints, Jesus Christ, and Christocentricity: The Meaning of Recent Developments, John Turner, George Mason University Concurrent Session 6 - Saturday 4:00-5:15 pm Session 6A. (50th Anniversary Session) Mormonism: Image and Identity (Cascade D) Chair and Comments: TBA Presiding in Love and Righteousness : Joseph Smith and Ideal Fatherhood in Contemporary LDS Visual Culture, Nathan 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, LDS Church History Museum Vikings of the West: Blood, Sex, and Sin in Balduin Mollhausen s Mormon Novels, Sarah Reed, University of Wisconsin-Madison Session 6B. Mormonism in Mexico and its Borderlands (Cascade E) (In anticipation of the forthcoming Just South of Zion: Mormons in Mexico and its Borderlands from U of New Mexico Press) Chair: Fernando 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, independent scholar 11

The Rise and Demise of Mormon Polygamy in Mexico, Barbara Jones Brown, independent scholar Quesos y Gusanos: Applying Carlo Ginzburg s theory of folk substratum to Margarito Bautista s Mormonism, Stuart Parker, University of British Columbia Solving Schism in Nepantla: The Third Convention Returns to the Fold, Elisa Pulido, Session 6C. The Rest of the Story: Mormon History and Culture on Display Outside the US (Cascade C) Chair: Elizabeth Heath Comments: Laura Hurtado, LDS Church History Museum Panel discussion consisting of Church History Advisers who have been involved in sharing Church history and culture from their areas and perspectives through cultural celebrations, exhibitions, and documentaries. May include presenters from Samoa, Puebla, Philippines, Africa, Caribbean, and/or Mexico City Session 6D. Perspectives on the St. George and other Historic Mormon Temples (Cascade B) Chair: Emily Utt, Curator, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Presenters: Elder Bruce C. Hafen, Emeritus Seventy, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Former President of the St. George Temple Elwin C. Robison, PhD, PE Kent State University Paul D. Monson, AIA, NCARB, Architect, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Session 6E. Mormons and Cultural Conflict (Cascade A) Chair and Comments: Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University We Aren t Africa: Mormonism in Nigeria, 1960-1964, Russell Stevenson, Salt Lake Community College I Will Soften the Hearts of the People : Mormon-Gentile Relations in Clay County, Missouri, 1833-1839, Alexander L. Baugh, Brigham Young University Cultural Cooperation Amid Conflict: Mormons and Catholics in the Restoration of Nauvoo, Scott C. Esplin, Brigham Young University 12

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 Smith, Joseph Smith Papers Project Medical Care in Nauvoo, Dr. Steven Dinger, Church Service Missionary, LDS Church History Library (retired physician) Joseph Smith s Role as Judge in Dana v. Brinks and the Expansion of Rights for Women, John S. Dinger, Deputy Prosecutor, Ada County Prosecuting Attorney s Office, Boise Idaho Jenny Reeder, title TBA, LDS Church History Department Session 6G. Mormon Libraries: Reflecting and Reinforcing Mormon Culture (Hobble Creek) Chair and Comments: David J. Whittaker Presenters: Cory L. Nimer, Brigham Young University Pat Frade, Brigham Young University Gerrit van Dyk, Brigham Young University Closing Plenary - Presidential Address - Saturday 6:45 pm Speaker: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Runaway Wives, 18401-1860 13