2023 Conference Agenda Friday

Please note: the agenda presented here is a draft and subject to change. 
Indicated session will be live streamed.

Items marked with (RS) indicate the presentation is part of the Restoration Studies track.

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Time		Session	Presenter(s)	Location
Friday, September 22, 2023 F
Sunrise (7:24 a.m.)		Sunrise Memorial – advance registration required.	Barbara Walden	Zodiac Cemetery
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.		Light breakfast (included in registration fee)		Conference Center
8:30 a.m. Chair: Eric Rogers	Plenary 201	The Peacemaker Epic: An Iroquois Influence on Joseph Smith?	Dr. Thomas W. Murphy	Pacific Showroom
9:30 a.m.		Break		Conference Center
10:00 a.m. Chair: Bryon Andreasen	Breakout 211	Emma and Joseph Smith’s Kirtland, Ohio, Home: A Restoration Tale from Ohio’s Dust	Mark L. Staker	Conference Center
		Parley P. Pratt Papers: The Early Years Lorain County, Ohio 1826-1830	Robert Steve Pratt
10:00 a.m. Chair: Robyn Spears	Breakout 212	Evangelism and Church Planting (RS) “For the Express Purpose”: Power, Conflict, and Positioning in the Apostolic Quorum During their First Mission (1835)	Maclean Elon Heward	Quonset Hut A
		“To the Joy of the Little Flock”: Joseph Smith’s Prophecy of Enoch and Vision for Zion as Motive for Evangelism	Cade H. Alvey
		Restoration Tales from South Asian Trails	Nicole Issac Taunalyn Ford
10:00 a.m. Chair: Sherry Mesle-Morain	Breakout 213	“Organize Yourselves According to the Laws of Man”: Legal Recognition and Incorporation of the Church	Mark Tensmeyer	Quonset Hut B
		The Mormon Identity: The Crucible of Early Church Opposition	Jared Lambert
10:00 a.m. Chair: Sally Cook Roth	Breakout 214	A Tale of Two Brothers: The Hawley Family in Texas, at Utah’s Mountain Meadows Massacre, and in Various Restorationist Movements	Barbara Jones Brown	Pacific Showroom
11:15 a.m.		Break		Conference Center
11:45 a.m. Chair: Brian Hales	Breakout 221	“Come back again brother Lyman and dwell in Zion”: Wilford Woodruff and Lyman Wight’s Correspondence, 1857-1858	Alex Baugh	Pacific Showroom
11:45 a.m. Chair: Vickie Cleverly Speek	Breakout 222	“The golden harp”: Scandinavian poetry in Bikuben, 1876-1935	Michelle Graabek (pre recorded)	Quonset Hut B
		Mormon Women and Reproductive Medicine in Late-Nineteenth-Century Utah	Brooke R. LeFevre
11:45 a.m. Chair: Matt Christensen	Breakout 223	Cultural Origins of Mormon Racial Practices and Policies “We Must Purge Ourselves of Prejudice”: Hugh B. Brown’s Views on Race, Priesthood, and Civil Rights	Matt Harris	Conference Center
		“A Comparative Study of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young Regarding African American Mormons”	Samuel (Sam) Prose
11:45 a.m. Chair: Barbara Walden	Breakout 224	Critics Meet Author: Method Infinite: Freemasonry and the Mormon Restoration (with book signing)	Nicholas S. Literski, JD, PhD Jason R. Smith Lance Kennedy, JD Makoto Hunter	Quonset Hut A
1:00 p.m.		Break		Conference Center
1:15 p.m.		Awards Luncheon (included in registration fee) Nominated Books Nominated Articles	Megan Stanton	Pacific Showroom
2:15 p.m.		Break		Conference Center
2:45 p.m. Chair: Alex Baugh	Breakout 241	“Where Did All the Word Come From?” Investigating Joseph Smith’s Oral Performance that Produced the Book of Mormon	Brian C. Hales	Conference Center
		Making the Book of Mormon ‘Real’: Actualized Imaginaries and the Mormon Transformation of the American Past	Jaxon Washburn
2:45 p.m. Chair: Dan Whittemore	Breakout 242	A History of the Smith-Rigdon Movement in Texas—From a Texan’s Perspective	Mike LeCheminant	Quonset Hut A
		From the Dust of Texas to the Great Waters of Michigan: Bishop George Miller’s Search for Joseph Smith’s Successor	Vickie Cleverley Speek
2:45 p.m. Chair: Mark L. Staker	Panel 243	A product manager, a reference librarian, and an archivist walk into a bar…: How to use the Church History Catalog to research the wider Latter Day Saint tradition		Pacific Showroom
		John Taylor: A Man of Conviction	David R. Taylor
		Sidney Rigdon’s “New Bible” and the Incarnation of Scripture	Jay Burton
		Navigating the Church History Library Collections	W. Tyson Thorpe
2:45 p.m. Chair: Matthew L. Harris	Breakout 244	Profiles of Earliest Black Members 1830-1852	Rick C. Bennett	Quonset Hut B
		From a More Exalted Sphere: Latter-day Saint Pioneers in Space	Tyler J. Andersen
4:00 p.m.		Trolley Tour – advance registration required. Load times by group: 4:00 p.m. Red Group 5:45 p.m. White Group 6:00 p.m. Green Group		East Parking Lot

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