2001 JWHA Program

As of: 08/10/01

 

Friday September 28

 

JWHA Board Meeting 3:00 – 5:45 PM

Registration 6:00 – 7:00 PM

 

Opening Session 7:30 – 8:30 PM

            Chapel

War And Peace Confronts The Community of Christ

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

 

Saturday September 29

 

Concurrent Session #1 8:30 – 9:30 AM

            Chapel

Sacred Names

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

Those Who Went West And Those Who “Hung” Around

Chair, Robert Wallace, Independence, MO.

Speaker A, Jefferson Livingston, “Motives West: Comparing Oregon and Utah Emigrants.”

Speaker B, William Shepard, Researcher, Burlington, WI., “The Tragedy of the Hodge Brothers at Nauvoo.”

            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

The Missouri State Archives, What’s in it For You?

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

Culerites and the RLDS Missionaries that Just Would Not Leave Them Alone

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

Joseph Smith’s Golden Years Examined

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

Little Branches on the Prairie…

Chair, Jeff Foli, Chillicothe, MO.

Speaker A, Ronald Romig, Archivist Community of Christ, Prairie Branch Settlement, Jackson County, Missouri.

Speaker B, Barbara Bernauer, Assistant Archivist Community of Christ, Biography of a Branch: Gallands Grove, Iowa

            Questions and Answers

 

Concurrent Session #3 3:00 – 4:15

Chapel

Two Wings of the Restoration Branch Movement

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

Jan Shipps

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.

 

Sunday September 30

 

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

 

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