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.
Items marked with (RS) indicate the presentation is part of the Restoration Studies track.
| Time | Session | Presenter(s) | Location | |
| Thursday, September 20, 2018 | ||||
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| Friday, September 21, 2018 | ||||
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| Saturday, September 22, 2018 | ||||
| 7:30-9:15 a.m. | Light Breakfast (included in registration fee) | Concourse I & II | ||
| 8:00 a.m. Chair: Richard G. Moore |
Plenary 301 |
William Bickerton Forgotten Latter Day Saint Prophet | Daniel P. Stone Vickie Cleverly Speek Steven L. Shields Jill Brim |
Salon D & E |
| 9:00 a.m. | Break | Concourse I & II | ||
| 9:30 a.m. Chair: Kyle Walker |
Breakout 311 | A Chaotic Collection of Claims Regarding a Curious Instrument: Interpreters, Urim & Thummim, and Seer Stones | Craig James Ostler | Salon A |
| Critical Thinkers, Faithful Disciples: Roy A. Cheville and Sidney B. Sperry | Casey Paul Griffiths | |||
| 9:30 a.m. Chair: Joseph Johnstun |
Breakout 312 | Minor Deming’s Experience in the Hancock County Militia, 1840-1844 | Bryon Andreasen | Salon C |
| Brigham Young’s Response to the Burning of the Morley Settlement, 1845-1846 | Bill Shepard | |||
| 9:30 a.m. Chair: Megan Stanton |
Breakout 313 | A Longitudinal Study of Explanations of the Origin of the Book of Mormon, 1829 to 2018 | Brian C. Hales | Salon F |
| The Widow’s House: Confessions of May 1842 | Meg Stout | |||
| 9:30 a.m. Chair: Melvin Johnson |
Breakout 314 | The Community of Christ and the Decline of American Religion: A Case Study of the Secularizing Consequences of Modernity (RS) | Danny L. Jorgensen | Salon B |
| The RLDS Identity Shift: Role of the 1960s Basic Beliefs Committee (RS) | Peter A. Judd | |||
| 10:45 a.m. | Break | Concourse I & II | ||
| 11:15 a.m. Chair: Beverly Thompson |
Breakout 321 | The Independence Missouri Merchants Versus the Saints of the New Jerusalem | Mark Goodmansen | Salon A |
| Reflections on a Quarter Century of Evolution of the Community of Christ (RS) | W. B. “Pat” Spillman | |||
| 11:15 a.m. Chair: Adam Brasich |
Breakout 322 | A Mountain Mormon Becomes Acquainted with Joseph III | Richard G. Moore | Salon C |
| Moses Chase: Strangite Visionary, and the Civil War Prophecy | Christopher James Blythe | |||
| 11:15 a.m. Chair: Andrew Bolton |
Breakout 323 | Stories of Violence and Peacemaking in the Latter Day Saints Movement | Matthew J. Frizzell David Pulsipher Bryce Taylor Katherine Hill |
Salon B |
| 11:15 a.m. Chair: Ryan C. Tittle |
Breakout 324 | “Order out of Chaos,” or Chaos out of Order,” a Polynesian Lesson | Paul DeBarthe Rina DeBarthe |
Salon F |
| Weaving Order Out of Chaos: One Thread at a Time | Russell Osmond | |||
| 12:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Historian 101 | How to Be a Better Historian & Midwest Genealogy Center Tour (pre registration required) | John Hamer | Salon A |
| 12:30-5:00 p.m. | Tours (pre registration required) | |||
| 6:00-8:00 p.m. | 331 | Presidential Banquet and Address: Carl Mesle: Pastor in a Time of Turmoil | Sherry Mesle-Morain | Salon D & E |
| Sunday, September 23, 2018 | ||||
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