Please note: the agenda presented here is a draft and subject to change. Session times are Central Time Zone. Items marked with (RS) indicate the presentation is part of the Restoration Studies track.
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| Central Time | Session | Presenter(s) | |
Thursday, September 21, 2023 |
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| 7:00 p.m. | Plenary 101 |
Richard P. Howard Lecture The Council of Fifty and Latter-day Saint Interest in Texas |
Matthew J. Grow |
Friday, September 22, 2023 |
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| 8:30 a.m. Chair: Eric Rogers |
Plenary 201 |
The Peacemaker Epic: An Iroquois Influence on Joseph Smith? | Dr. Thomas W. Murphy |
| 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 |
| 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” | Alexander L. Baugh |
| 1:15 p.m. | |
Awards Luncheon (included in registration fee) Nominated Books Nominated Articles |
Megan Stanton |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
Saturday, September 23, 2023 |
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| 9:00 a.m. Chair: Rachel Killebrew |
Breakout 311 |
A Practitioner’s Perspective on the Smith Family “Holiness to the Lord” Parchment | Nicholas S. Literski, JD, PhD |
| “False Teaching in Regard to Lineage and Matrimony”: Lyman Wight and Reimagining the Latter Day Saint Tradition in Zodiac, Texas | Casey Paul Griffiths reading for Christopher Blythe | ||
| 10:45 a.m. Chair: Bill Morain |
Breakout 323 |
From Clueless Kid to a Theology of Love and Justice (RS) | William D. Russell |
| 6:30 p.m. | Keynote 331 |
Presidential Banquet and Address Saints in Space! |
Casey Paul Griffiths |
