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Annual Meetings

Each year JWHA holds two meetings that bring together the leading scholars in the fields of Latter Day Saint history and theology:

The Restoration Studies Symposium / Sunstone Midwest is our theology and religious studies conference, held in mid-April in Independence, Missouri. The conference is co-sponsored by the Community of Christ Seminary and the Sunstone Education Foundation.

The JWHA Annual Meeting is our history conference, held in late September at a different historic site each year.

Each of our conferences typically attracts between 125 and 200 attendees, in an intimate setting that allows you to hear and interact with the leading scholars in Latter Day Saint studies.

Follow the links below for details about upcoming conferences, or to read the reports and programs from past conferences.

2011 Annual Meeting — Nauvoo, Illinois — September 22-25, 2011
"E Unum Pluribus" (Out of One, Many)

2011 Restoration Studies Symposium — Independence, Missouri — April 15-16, 2011
"'A Woman’s Place...' Ideas, Impacts, and Experiences of Restoration Women"

Conference program

2010 Annual Meeting — Amboy, Illinois — September 23-26, 2010
"1860–2010: Sesquicentennial of the Reorganization"

Conference program

2010 Restoration Studies Symposium — Independence, Missouri — April 8-9, 2010
"How Christian are Mormons? How Mormon is the Community of Christ?"

Conference program

2009 Annual Meeting — Independence, Missouri — September 24-27, 2009
"Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Restoration"

2009 Restoration Studies Symposium — Independence, Missouri — April 17-18, 2009
"Examining the Origins of Scripture"

Conference program

2008 Annual Meeting — Voree (Burlington), Wisconsin — September 25-28, 2008
"1844-1859: A Time of Transition"

2008 Restoration Studies Symposium — Independence, Missouri — April 11-12, 2008

Conference program

2007 Annual Meeting — Kirtland, Ohio — September 27-30, 2007
"Communal Experiments Among Latter Day Saints & Other American Groups"

2006 Annual Meeting — Independence, Missouri — September 28-October 1, 2006
"Scattering of the Saints: The Diverse Expressions of the Restoration"

2005 Annual Meeting — Springfield, Illinois — September 29-October 2, 2005
"Joseph Smith and His Complex Legacy "

2004 Annual Meeting — Omaha/Council Bluffs — September 23-26, 2004
"Places of Decision: The Spatial and Metaphorical Geography of the Restoration"

2003 Annual Meeting — Far West, Missouri — September 25-28, 2003
"Mormonism and the Culture of Frontier Violence on the American Frontier"

2002 Annual Meeting — Nauvoo, Illinois — September 26-29, 2002

2001 Annual Meeting — Saint Louis, Missouri — September 28-30, 2001

2000 Annual Meeting — Independence, Missouri — Sept. 22-24, 2000

1999 Annual Meeting — Excelsior Springs, Missouri — Sept. 24-26, 1999

1998 Annual Meeting — Lamoni, Iowa — Sept. 25-27, 1998

1997 Annual Meeting — Kirtland, Ohio — Sept. 26-28, 1997

1996 Annual Meeting — Independence, Missouri — Sept. 27-29, 1996

1995 Annual Meeting — Kingston, Ontario, Canada — June 20-24, 1995 (held jointly with MHA)

1994 Annual Meeting — Nauvoo, Illinois — Sept. 23-25, 1994

1993 Annual Meeting — Independence, Missouri — Sept. 24-26, 1993

1992 Annual Meeting — Shenandoah, Iowa — Sept. 25-27, 1992

1991 Annual Meeting — Plano, Illinois — Sept. 27-29, 1991

1990 Annual Meeting — Independence, Missouri — Sept. 28-30, 1990

1989 Annual Meeting — Lamoni, Iowa — Sept. 22-24, 1989

1988 Annual Meeting — Nauvoo, Illinois — Sept. 23-25, 1988

1987 Annual Meeting — Independence, Missouri — Oct. 2-4, 1987

1986 Annual Meeting — Kirtland, Ohio — Sept. 26-28, 1986

1985 Annual Meeting — Lamoni, Iowa — Sept. 27-29, 1985

1984 Annual Meeting — Des Moines, Iowa — Sept. 28-30, 1984

1983 Annual Meeting — Independence, Missouri — Sept. 23-25, 1983

1982 Annual Meeting — St. Louis, Missouri — Sept. 24-26, 1982

1981 Annual Meeting — Lamoni, Iowa — Sept. 25-27, 1981