Please note: the agenda presented here is a draft and subject to change.
Click on the session numbers for abstract and bio.
| Mountain Time | Session | Presenter(s) | Location | |
Saturday, September 14, 2024 |
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| 7:30-9:00 a.m. | Light Breakfast – included in registration fee. | Garden Room | ||
| 8:00 a.m. Chair: Rachel Killebrew |
Breakout 301 | Playing with the Enlightenment’s Shadows: 19th-Century Witchcraft Hysteria in Early Mormon History | Manuel W. Padro | Sunbrook A |
| Keep This from Vulgar Eyes: Mormonism’s Tradition of Hidden Books | Nicholas Literski | |||
| 8:00 a.m. Chair: Kyle Walker |
Breakout 302 | Restoration Eschatologies and their Conceptual Metaphors | Allegra Goldstraß | Sunbrook B |
| John Tanner Clark and the Enigma of the ‘One Mighty and Strong’ | Cyrus Simper | |||
| 8:00 a.m. Chair: Jason Smith |
Breakout 303 | RLDS Reunion Grounds: Change and Continuity | William D. Moore | Sunbrook C |
| RLDS Young Adults on Mission: Older Youth Service Corps, 1964-1973 | Katherine Pollock | |||
| 8:00 a.m. Chair: Bradley Armstrong |
Breakout 304 | Prelude to the Oregon and Mormon Trails: From the Secret of South Pass in 1813 to the Ultimatum Map of 1838 | Mark Goodmansen | Ballroom C & D |
| Scandal, Suicide, and Strife in a Small Southern Utah Community | David R. Taylor | |||
| 9:15 a.m. | Break & Exhibits | Ballroom A & B |
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| 9:30 a.m. Chair: Susan Staker |
Breakout 311 | John Beck’s Fabulous Mine an Outpost in the Tintic Mountains of Early Utah Territory | R. Jean Addams | Sunbrook A |
| Some Friends and Also Brethren: Religious “Outposts” in the Western Missouri Borderlands, 1825–1835 | Sherilyn Farnes | |||
| 9:30 a.m. Chair: Magen Edvalson |
Breakout 312 | Early Mormon Women and the Word of Wisdom | Sherrie Gavin | Sunbrook B |
| Sarah Maria Mousley Cannon: Making Peace with “the days of your poverty” | Marian Peck Rees | |||
| 9:30 a.m. Chair: William Morain |
Breakout 313 | Reconciliation with First Nations Peoples/Native Americans on the Eve of the Book of Mormon’s Bicentennial | John Hamer | Sunbrook C |
| Alex Joseph and Other Lesser-known Latter-day Prophets of Southern Utah | Mike LeCheminant | |||
| 9:30 a.m. Chair: Newell Bringhurst |
Panel 314 | New American Zion: Benjamin E. Park’s American Zion a New History of Mormonism | Benjamin E. Park David Howlett Nancy Ross Matthew Harris | Ballroom C & D |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break & Exhibits | Ballroom A & B |
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| 11:00 a.m. Chair: Sally Roth |
Panel 321 | Summers Well Spent: Reminiscing on Alma Blair and the Internship Program at Nauvoo and Kirtland | Barbara Walden Christine Blythe Christopher James Blythe Katherine Pollock Magen Edvalson |
Ballroom C & D |
| 11:00 a.m. Chair: Sherrie Gavin |
Breakout 322 | Rebecca Wheeler Wright | Barbara Morgan Gardner | Sunbrook A |
| The Women of the ‘Texas Epidemic’ Come to Pine Valley | Melvin Clarno Johnson | |||
| 11:00 a.m. Chair: Christin Mackay |
Breakout 323 | The Revelations of Heber C. Kimball | Clair Barrus | Sunbrook B |
| The End Times According to Latter Day Saint Joseph Smith Senior |
H. Michael Marquardt | |||
| 11:00 a.m. Chair: Mike Allen |
Breakout 324 | Joseph Hyrum Grant, Heber J. Grant, and the Passing of LDS Plural Marriage | Todd Compton | Sunbrook C |
| Heber Bennion: Heber J. Grant’s Rogue Brother-in Law | Newell Bringhurst | |||
| Hugh B. Brown confronts Polygamy within his own Family |
Matthew Harris | |||
| 12:30-5:30 p.m. | Bus Tours | Historical Sites Tours Mountain Meadows Massacre Short Creek Pre-registration Required. Box lunch included in registration fee. |
Off Site | |
| 6:30 p.m. | Keynote 331 | Presidential Banquet and Address Rupture and Reconciliation: Smith Family Interactions with Mountain Saints in the Midwest, 1846-1900 |
Kyle R. Walker | Garden Room |
| 2025 Board Installation | ||||
