This year’s annual conference includes an exciting slate of interesting sessions certain to provoke discussion and expand interest in restoration history.
Note: the agenda presented here is not final and is subject to change. Times are CDT.
Click on the Session Numbers for Abstract & Bio.
| Time | Session | Presenter(s) | |
| Friday, October 22, 2021 | |||
| 6:00 p.m. CDT | Annual Business Meeting | President Jill Brim, presiding | |
| 6:45 p.m. CDT | Awards Ceremony | ||
| 7:30 p.m. CDT Moderator/Chair: Cheryl Bruno |
Panel 101
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On the Scriptural Periphery: Perspectives on Joseph Smith’s Egyptian Project | Christopher Smith Susan Staker David Bokovoy |
| Saturday, October 23, 2021 | |||
| 10:00 a.m. CDT Moderator/Chair: Christopher Smith |
Panel 201 | Author Meets Critics: Joseph and Lucy Smith’s Tunbridge Farm: An Archaeology and Landscape Study | Mark Staker Kyle Walker Michael Riggs Paul DeBarthe |
| 11:00 a.m. CDT | Break | ||
| 11:15 a.m. CDT Chair: Lachlan Mackay |
Session 202 | Translating the “Caractors”: The Quest for “Reformed Egyptian” | Steven L. Shields |
| John Beck’s Fabulous Mine: An Outpost in the Tintic Mountains of Early Utah Territory | R. Jean Addams | ||
| 12:15 p.m. CDT | Break | ||
| 1:15 p.m. CDT Chair: Sally Roth |
Session 203 | The Women’s Ordination Movement in the RLDS Church: Historical and Sociological Perspectives | Nancy Ross David J. Howlett Jacquie Bethel Vicki Beebe |
| RLDS Preaching Charts: History and Typology | William D. Moore | ||
| 2:15 p.m. CDT | Break | ||
| 2:30 p.m. CDT Chair: William Davis |
Session 204 | “Schisms, like Revolutions, Never Go Backward”: The Godbeites and the Anti Polygamy Debate | Brooke R. LeFevre |
| “Handling” the Gladdenites | Richard Saunders | ||
| 3:30 p.m. CDT | Break | ||
| 3:45 p.m. CDT Chair: Casey Griffths |
Session 205 | “Actors Wandering through the Desert to Brigham: The Strange, True Tales of Carter’s Dramatic Combination and their Spirit Guides, 1871” | Lee Krähenbühl |
| “Mormons, Danites, and Gentiles: Stereotypes on Stage in 19th Century America” | Emily Marie Crumpton | ||
| 7:00 p.m. CDT | Presidential Address 206 | Joseph’s Red Brick Store | Jill Brim |
