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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
Conference Center Parking Lot
8:30 a.m.
Utah County Women’s History
Tour bus leaves
Conference Center Parking Lot
1:00 p.m.
Pioneer Museum Tour shuttles
leave
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
Noon - 12:15 p.m.
Break
12:15 - 1:15 p.m.
Membership Luncheon
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
Conference Center 3rd Floor
Ballrooms
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 Pettit-Lecture
Margaret Jacobs, University of
Nebraska at Lincoln
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
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 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
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“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 UniversityIdaho
“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
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Session 1F. Roundtable: Cultural Mormons and Politics in the Nauvoo Period, 18391844 (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
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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
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“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,
1990-1997,” 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, 1890–1940,” 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
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“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, 1970-1995,” 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 (1844-1917): 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. 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, University of Utah
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“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
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Session 3F. Settling the Valley, Converting the World: The First Presidency’s
General Epistles, 1849–1856 (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, 19641980,” 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
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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, 1920–1970,” 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
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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, 1870-1940 (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
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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
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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, 1849‒1905,” 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
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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 protoChicanismo,” Stuart Parker, Simon Fraser University, Los Altos Institute
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“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, 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,” Alex Baugh, Brigham Young University
“Cultural Cooperation Amid Conflict: Mormons and Catholics in the
Restoration of Nauvoo,” Scott C. Esplin, Brigham Young University
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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, 1848 - 1960s,” 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, 1840-1860”
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