Thursday, June 9, 2016

7:00 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, 2016

9:00 - 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 (LDS Church History Department)

Kathleen Flake: “‘There is No End to Priesthood’: Nauvoo’s Marital

(University of Virginia) Sealings in Light of the Book of Abraham”

Jonathan A. Stapley: “Mormon Ordination: Texts, Powers, and

(Independent Scholar) Priesthoods”

Ryan G. Tobler: “Keeping the Books of Life: Rituals and Recording

(Harvard University) 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)

Jeffrey G. Cannon: “Practicing the Priesthood and Temple Ban in South

(LDS Church History Africa”

Department)

Russell W. Stevenson: “Prophets and Prosperity: The Growth of

(Michigan State University) Mormonism in Postcolonial Igboland, 1964-1981”

Jeremy Talmage: “Blurring the Ban: Brazil’s Pre-1978 Black

(LDS Church History Priesthood Ordinations”

Department)

Clinton D. Christensen: “Racial Perception and the Priesthood: Practice

(LDS Church History Among Latin American and Caribbean Saints”

Department)

Session #1C: Mormonism in Practice: Insights from CHD’s 2016 Releases

Room: Maybird

Chair and Discussant: R. Eric Smith (LDS Church History Department)

Matthew C. Godfrey: “A Season of Blessings: What We Learn about

(LDS Church History Ordination and Patriarchal Blessings in Kirtland,

Department) Ohio, from the Joseph Smith Papers”

Jeffrey D. Mahas: “‘As Good an Institution As We Should Want’: The

(LDS Church History Council of Fifty, the Whistling and Whittling

Library) Movement, and the Quest for a Theocratic

Government”

Jill Mulvay Derr: “How Women Created and Negotiated Their

(LDS Church History Institutional Presence: Emergent Narratives from

Department 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)

Alan J. Clark: “The LDS Antinomian Faith Crisis: Snuffer,

(Claremont Graduate Pontius, Kelly and the LDS Hunger for Spiritual

University) 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: “Home Manufacture and the Mormon Call to Dust

(Cedar City, UT) Off the Spinning Wheel”

Debi Brady: “Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do, Or Do

(Utah Tour Guide Without: Weaving as a Cause for Mormon

(Association) Frugality”

Shay Lelegren: “Tinsmithing in the Untamed West”

(Cedar City, UT)

Hadyn B. Call: “Interpreting the Past through the Lens of Living

(Utah State University/ History: The Material Culture of Mormon Pottery”

Davis School District)

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,

(LDS Church History and PR Man”

Department)

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: “Portals to the Past: Reflexivity and the Study of

(York College) Memorates”

Spencer L. Green: “Return with Bother: Awkward Dating Stories with

(Pennsylvania State Recently Returned Missionaries”

University, Harrisburg)

Jared S. Rife: “LDS Missionary Acclimation and Adjustment:

(Central Pennsylvania The Stories Fold Two by Two”

College)

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 (LDS Church History Department)

Chrystal Vanel (GRSL, Paris, France)

2:00 – 3:30pm Concurrent Session II

Session #2A: The Council of Fifty Minutes: An Initial Scholarly Appraisal

Room: Primrose A

Chair: Matthew Grow (LDS Church History Department)

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: “Have Done with Lesser Things: Foundations of

(Alexandria, VA) Nineteenth-Century Mormon Masculinity”

Maxine Hanks: “And Thou Shalt Be Ordained: Have Mormon

(Salt Lake City, UT) Women Been Ordained Since 1830?”

Lawrence Foster: “The Impact of the Great Mormon Trek West in

(Georgia Institute of 1846-47 on the Establishment of Polygamy and

Technology) New Forms of Family and Kinship Ties

among the Latter-day Saints”

Comments: Don Bradley (LDS Church History Department)

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 (LDS Church History Department)

Barbara Morgan and “Line Upon Line: Joseph Smith’s Growing

Devan Jensen: Understanding of Families and Heaven”

(Brigham Young University)

Laura Harris Hales: “Legal Briefs or Pastorals?: The LDS Church’s

(Layton, UT) Three Official Statements on Marriage and Family”

Jennifer Brinkerhoff-Platt: “Latter-day Saint Discourse on Eternal Families,

(Provo, UT) 1844-2015: A Cultural Perspective”

Comments: Jenny Reeder (LDS Church History Department)

Session #2E: Twentieth-Century Mormon Practices in Eastern Europe

Room: Magpie B

Chair and Discussant: Roger Minert (Brigham Young University)

Katherine Kitterman: “Undaunted: Austrian Mormon Experience”

(American University)

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, 1926-1929”

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,

(LDS Church History Descendancy, and Orson Hyde’s Shifting Jewish

Department) 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: “A Great Trek to Zion: Manifestations, Movements,

(Brandeis University) and Meanings of the LDS Presence in the Holy

Land, 1841-1989”

Session #2G: The Perils and Pitfalls of Mormon Biography

Room: Magpie A

Chair and Discussant: Martha Bradley-Evans (University of Utah)

John P. Hatch: “Lorenzo Snow: The Prophet of Paradox”

(Signature Books)

Devery Anderson: “Willard Richards: Crafting a Life”

(Signature Books)

John Sillito: “B.H. Roberts: Defender and Advocate of

(Weber State University) 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 19th-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: “Latter-day Milton: Speculations on an Early

(Yale University) Mormon Reading Practice”

Ian Barber: “A New Chapter to Us: A Novel View of Joseph

(University of Otago) 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: “Legitimizing Whiteness: John A. Widtsoe’s

(University of Utah) Correspondence with Eugenic Scientists in the

Early Twentieth Century”

Gregory Seppi: “’Our Interest in Eugenics’: The Latter-day Saints

(Brigham Young University) and Early 20th Century Perceptions of Race and

Class”

Session #3D: The Granite Mountain Records Vault

Room: Magpie A

Chair: Reid L. Neilson (LDS History Department)

Presenters:

Joseph P. Monsen (LDS Church History Department)

John H. Heath (LDS Church History Department)

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)

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, 2016

9:00 - 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: “‘To Read the Sound of Eternity’: Speech, Text,

(University of Utah) and Scripture in the Book of Mormon”

Terryl Givens: “The Book of Mormon and the Reshaping of

(University of Richmond) 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: “Did Joseph Smith Father Josephine Lyon? The

(Utah State University) Historical Evidence on a Reputed Child of Nauvoo

Polyandry”

Ugo Perego: “Was Joseph Smith the Biological Father of

(University of Perugia) 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

Room: Maybird

Chair: Alexander L. Baugh (Brigham Young University)

David W. Grua: “Joseph Smith’s 1838-1839 Missouri Jail Letters

(LDS Church History and Mormon Persecution Memory”

Department)

Brent M. Rogers: “Gendered Memories of the 1838 Missouri War”

(LDS Church History

Department)

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 (LDS Church History Department)

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: “Lifeline by Mail: Utah War Letters From the Field

(Independent Scholar) and Home Front”

William P. MacKinnon: “Rescued or Kidnapped: The Trans-Atlantic Saga of

(Independent Scholar) Henrietta Polydore”

Session #4E: Peoples, Places, and Businesses in Territorial Utah

Room: Magpie B

Chair and Discussant: Thomas Alexander (Brigham Young University)

Larry King: “Analyzing the Success of ZCMI in Pioneer Utah”

(Orem, Utah)

Linda Hunter Adams: “Archibald Gardner’s Lumber Mills in Big and

(Brigham Young University) Little Cottonwood Canyons”

Robert Haven Briggs: “Ira Hatch: Mountain Meadows Militiaman, Indian

(Fullerton, CA) Scout, Explorer and Colonizer on the Mormon

Frontier”

Session #4F: Women Writers and the Practice of Mormonism

Room: Wasatch A

Chair and Discussant: Lisa Olsen Tait (LDS Church History Department)

Saskia Tielens: “’When Men Were Men and Women Were

(TU Dortmund) Women’: An Exploration of the Regency Romance

Novel in a Mormon Context”

Sarah Reed: “Polygamy and Postmemory: Virginia Sorensen’s

(University of Wisconsin- Utah Novels

Madison)

Scott Hales: “The Poet and the Apostle: The Correspondence of

(LDS Church History Ina Coolbrith and Joseph F. Smith”

Department)

Session #4G: Practicing 21st Century Research

Room: Magpie A

Chair and Discussant: Jonathan Murphy (Brigham Young University)

Gerrit van Dyk: “Online Tools for Mormon Research”

(Brigham Young University)

Ryan Leavitt Combs: “Online Tools from the LDS Church History”

(LDS Church History

Department)

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)

Newell G. Bringhurst: “Ezra Taft Benson’s Quest for the U.S. Presidency”

(Visalia, CA)

Matthew L. Harris: “Ezra Taft Benson, Martin Luther King and the

(Colorado State University, ‘Communist Conspiracy’”

Pueblo)

Patrick Q Mason: “Twentieth-Century Environmental Politics in the

(Claremont Graduate Mormon Culture Region”

University)

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: “Deconversion Narratives in the Internet Age: The

(University of Utah) ‘I am an Ex-Mormon’ Campaign”

John C. Feinauer: “YouTube Mormonism: Arguing the Case of

(University of Utah) Mormon Fundamentalism”

Jordan F. Bratt: “Searching for Mormonism: Digital Religion in the

(George Mason University) Age of YouTube”

Kristine L. Wright: “’You are Hereby Called to Serve’: Opening the

(Independent Scholar) 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: “Mother’s Work: Organizing Mormon Motherhood

(Utah State University) in the Early Twentieth Century”

Kate Holbrook: “Mothers at Work: A Look at the 1970s”

(LDS Church History

Department)

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)

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: “When Did Joseph Smith Know What He Knew?

(Fallbrook, CA) 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: “Book of Mormon and Bhagavad Gita: Latter-day

(Claremont Graduate Saint Practice of ‘Translation’ in India”

University)

Session #5E: Sacred Geography, Sacred Artifacts, Sacred Sites

Room: Magpie B

Chair and Discussant: Emily Utt, LDS Church History Department

Jared Call: “The Geography of the Dissenters”

(Utah State University)

Charlotte Hansen Terry: “Documents and Properties for Furs: Wilford C.

(LDS Church History Wood and the Preservation of Church History”

Department)

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: “Mormon Feminist Social Networks in the Age of

(Houston, TX) Newsletters and Phone Calls”

Anja Tinajero: “The Rise of Women’s Blogs in the Early Twenty-

(Morelos, Mexico) First Century: Mormon Feminism, Secular

Feminism, and Mormon Mommies”

Gina Colvin: “Mormon Feminist Storytelling Through

(University of Canterbury) Podcasting”

Comments: Nancy Ross (Dixie State University)

Session #5G: The Public Side of Mormon Distinctiveness, 1831-49

Room: Magpie A

Chair and Discussant: Brent M. Rogers (LDS Church History Department)

Jeremy J. Chatelain: “The Practice and Practicing of Mormon Agenda

(University of Utah) Setting in the Times and Seasons, 1839-1842”

Andrew H. Hedges: “Practice in the Papers: News from Utah, 1847-49”

(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: “The Nose Knows: Mormons, Smell, and Sensory

(University of Utah) History”

Randal Powell: “’Beyond the Veil’: The Spirit World of Popular

(Claremont Graduate Mormonism”

University)

Nathaniel Wiewora: “‘Extreme Force of Language and Energy of

(Harding University) 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, 1839-

(Meridian, ID) 1845”

Kif Augustine-Adams: “BYU, Civil Rights, and Religious Exemption to

(Brigham Young University) Title IX”

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’:

(LDS Church History Church Historian Leonard J. Arrington’s Tour of

Department) 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: “‘The Matter is Having My Close Attention’:

(Keepapitchinin) 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: “In the World, but Not of It: The Drive for

(Claremont Graduate Mormon Uniqueness”

University)

Cristina M. Rosetti: “‘The Glory of God is Intelligence’: The Centrality

(University of California, of Religious Education in Mormon Identity

Riverside) 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

Session #6F: Nathaniel Baldwin and the Spread of Early Fundamentalist

Mormonism

Room: Wasatch A

Chair: David Watson (Independent Scholar)

Craig L. Foster: “Like Sparks of a Wildfire: The Spread of

(Layton, UT) Early Fundamentalist Mormonism”

Marianne T. Watson: “Nathaniel Baldwin: Key Figure in the

(Lehi, UT) 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: “‘An Ardent Desire to Speak Myself’: Early

(LDS Church History Women Missionaries and Gendered Separate

Department Spheres”

Kari Lynne Roueche: “Missionary Experiences in Great Britain after

(Kingsport, TN) the Call to Zion”

7:00 –9:00 pm Presidential Banquet

Room: Total Ballroom

MHA Presidential address by Pres. Laurie Maffly-Kipp 2015-2016

9:00 –10:00 pm Closing Reception

Room: Total Ballroom or Golden Cliff

Sunday, June 12, 2016

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.