As
of: 08/10/01
JWHA
Board Meeting 3:00 – 5:45 PM
Registration
6:00 – 7:00 PM
Opening
Session 7:30 – 8:30 PM
Chapel
Chair, Barbara Bernauer, Past President JWHA
Speaker, Paul Edwards, Director, Center for the
Study of the Korean War,
Graceland University, "Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Community of
Christ and War"
Questions and Answers
Social
Mixer in the Fellowship Hall 8:30 PM
Concurrent
Session #1 8:30 – 9:30 AM
Chapel
Chair, William D. Russell, JWHA Board Member
Speaker A, John Chatburn, Student Graceland
University, “Claiming Our Unique and Sacred Place: The Challenge of Assuming a
New Name for the RLDS Church.”
Speaker B, Mathew Bolton, Student,
Graceland University, Charles Neff.
Comment, Mark Scherer, Community of
Christ Church Historian
Fellowship Hall
Chair, Robert Wallace, Independence, MO.
Speaker A, Jefferson Livingston, “Motives West:
Comparing Oregon and Utah Emigrants.”
Comment, H. Michael Marquardt,
Researcher Sandy, UT.
Plenary
Panel Discussion 09:45 – 10:30 AM
Saints, Slaves and Blacks, An 1830s Reappraisal
Chair, Michael S. Riggs
Speaker, Lewis Perry, PhD., Cornell University, who holds the John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair as Professor of History at Saint Louis University, At the Core of Anti-Slavery.
Speaker, Newell Bringhurst, PhD. UC Davis, Instructor, College of the Sequoias, Visalia, CA., The Missouri Thesis Revisited: Early Mormonism, Slavery, and the Status of Blacks.
Question and Answers
Featured
Mini Sessions 10:45 – 11:30AM
Chapel
Chair, Steve LeSueur
Speaker, Kenneth H. Winn, Missouri
State Archivist, "New Discoveries in Old Records: Mormon History in Missouri Government Documents." .
Questions and Answers
Fellowship Hall
Chair, Iris Harris
Speaker, Biloine Young, “Kissing Cousins They Are
Not.” A paper exploring the source of hostilities between the Cutlerite and
Josephite factions of Mormonism.
Comment, Iris Harris
Lunch/Business
Meeting 11:45 – 1:15PM
Concurrent
Session #2 1:30 – 2:45
Chapel
Chair, Marjorie Keith-Riggs, Garnett, KS
Speaker A, Rev. William Main, “Two Cities On A
Hill.” A paper contrasting John Calvin’s Geneva with Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo.
Speaker B, Robert Gunderson, Artifacts Manager Community
of Christhirst, From
the Dust to the Dusty: The Rise and Pall of the Book of Mormon in the Later
Ministry of Joseph Smith, Jr.
Comment, Dale Broadhurst,
Researcher, Hilo Hawaii.
Fellowship Hall
Chair, Jeff Foli, Chillicothe, MO.
Speaker A, Ronald Romig, Archivist Community of
Christ, Prairie Branch Settlement, Jackson County, Missouri.
Questions and Answers
Concurrent
Session #3 3:00 – 4:15
Chapel
Chair
Speaker A, James C. Daugherty, “The
Conference of Restoration Elders”
Speaker B, William D. Russell, Professor of American History and Government
Graceland University, “The Remnant Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints.”
Fellowship Hall
Chair, Margie Miller, JWHA Board Member
Speaker A, Edward Warner, Professor Indiana State
University, Critical Commentary on Jan Shipps' Sojourner In The Promised land: On-Going Historiographical Issues.
Comment, Richard P. Howard,
Historian Emeritus, Community of Christ.
Banquet
7:00P M
Presidential
Address 8:00PM
Alma Blair, Professor Emeritus, Graceland University, The Faithful Historian: Odysseys of Mind and Spirit.
Sterling
McMurrin Lecture 8:30 – 9:15 AM
Chapel
Chair, Ronald E. Romig, Archivist Community of Christ
Speaker, Steve LeSuerur, The
Community of Christ and the End of History.
Worship
Service 9:30 – 10:00AM
Rev.
William Main Presiding, Feminist Spirituality from the Writings of Feminist
Historians from Inez Smith through Fawn Brodie and Beyond.
JWHA
Board Meeting 10:15AM