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2004 Annual Meeting Program
Please note that many of the sessions listed below run concurrently.

Thursday, September 23

REGISTRATION (3:00-7:45pm)

BOOK DISPLAY (5:00-8:00pm)

SESSION 1 (8:00pm) Sterling M. McMurrin Lecture

PRESENTER:	“Rethinking the Restoration Vision” — Richard T. Hughes, Director, Center for Faith and Learning, Pepperdine University
CHAIR:	Robert Flanders, Southwest Missouri State University

Friday, September 24

SESSION 2 (8:30-10:20am) A Conversation about Restoration as a Theological Category in the Community of Christ, the Latter-day Saint, and the Campbellite Traditions

PARTICIPANTS:	Don Compier, Community of Christ Seminary, Graceland University Roseanne Benson, Brigham Young University Richard Hughes, Pepperdine University and the Audience
MODERATOR:	Jan Shipps, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

SESSION 3 (8:30-10:20am) The Midwest Was the Place

PRESENTERS:	“Council Bluffs/ Kanesville: A Hub For Mormon Settlements, Operations, and Emigration, 1846-1852” — William G. Hartley, Brigham Young University “The Mormon Prophet’s Illinois Legacy as Revealed in the Community of Christ’s Historic Restoration in Nauvoo” — Joyce Shireman, Joseph Smith Historic Site, Nauvoo, Illinois
RESPONSE:	Richard E. Bennett, Brigham Young University
CHAIR:	Jeanne Murphy , Glen Carbon, Illinois

BREAK (10:20-10:40am)

SESSION 4 (10:45-11:45am) Distinguished Senior Scholar Plenary Session

PRESENTER:	“A New Look at Mormonism’s Quest for Empire” — Klaus Hansen, Queen’s University
CHAIR:	Kenneth E. Stobaugh, Independence, Missouri

LUNCH (12:00-1:00pm)

SESSION 5 (1:15-2:30pm) The Academy Challenges Orthodoxy

PRESENTERS:	“The Role of the University Bulletin in the Life of the Church” — Barbara Higdon, Graceland University “Courage Challenges the Establishment” — Biloine Young, St. Paul, Minnesota
RESPONSE:	William D. Russell and the Audience
CHAIR:	Alex Baugh, Brigham Young University

SESSION 6 (1:15-2:30pm) Symbols and Questions

PRESENTERS:	“Impressions With A Purpose: A Quest for Truth: Omissions, Discrepancies, and Real Origins of the Church Seal” — Larry Tyree, Director of International Resources, Community of Christ “Joseph Smith, Jr.: A Fallen Prophet?” — James Everett, Independence, Missouri
RESPONSE:	Pat Spillman, JWHA Journal Editor
CHAIR:	Norma Derry Hiles, Lamoni, Iowa

SESSION 7 (2:45-4:10pm) Military Matters and the Restoration: A Panel. “The Nauvoo Legion within Its American Context.”

PANELISTS:	Richard E. Bennett, Brigham Young University Susan Easton Black, Brigham Young University Donald Cannon, Brigham Young University
MODERATOR:	Michael S. Riggs, Far West Cultural Center

SESSION 8 (2:45-4:10pm) History and Literature in the RLDS Context

PRESENTERS:	“Romance and Realism in the Quest for Timelessness” — Sandra Petree, Northwestern Oklahoma State University “Zion as Fiction: Gender, Early RLDS Novels, and the Politics of Place” — David J. Howlett, University of Missouri, Kansas City “The Struggles of Charles Jensen: The Homosexual Friend of an Early RLDS Poet” — Lewis M. Weigand, Council Bluffs, Iowa
RESPONSE:	Barbara Higdon, Graceland University, Independence
CHAIR:	Craig Foster, LDS Family History Library

BREAK (4:10-4:30pm)

SESSION 9 (4:30-6:00pm) An Author Meets the Critics Plenary Session: Dan Vogel’s Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet.

PANELISTS:	Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University Scott H. Faulring, Brigham Young University Paul M. Edwards, Emeritus, Church of Christ Temple School
RESPONSE:	Dan Vogel, Westerville, Ohio
MODERATOR:	Newell G. Bringhurst, College of the Sequoias

DINNER (6:30-7:30pm)

SESSION 10 (8:00pm) The Significance of Place Revealed in Words and Maps

PRESENTERS:	“Galland’s Grove: Microcosm of the Early RLDS Church in Southwest Iowa” — Barbara Bernauer, Community of Christ Archives “Mapping Mormonism” — John Hamer, Ann Arbor, Michigan
CHAIR:	Lachlan Mackay, Community of Christ Historic Sites Coordinator

Saturday, September 25

SESSION 11 (8:30-9:40am) Revisioning History: Three Pioneers

PANELISTS:	James E. Lancaster, West Bloomfield, Michigan Robert B. Flanders, Southwest Missouri State University Richard P. Howard, Graceland University
MODERATOR:	Elbert Peck, Salt Lake City, Utah

SESSION 12 (8:30-9:40am) Remembering Temple Lot

PRESENTERS:	“Otto Fetting, John the Baptist, and Building the Temple” — Jason R. Smith, Duncan Oklahoma “Zion’s Gallows: The Sacred and Profane Geography of the Mormon Temple Lot” — Richard D. Ouellette, University of Texas at Austin
RESPONSE:	Ron Romig, Community of Christ Archives
CHAIR:	Barbara Walden, Community of Christ Historic Sites

BREAK (9:40-10:00am)

SESSION 13 (10:00-11:30am) Building Strang’s Kingdom and Preserving His Family

PRESENTERS:	“Strangite Proselyting in the Camp of Israel” — Jerry L. Gorden, Johnston, Iowa “Witnessing the Plates: The Voree Plates as seen by Aaron Smith” — Robin Jensen, Brigham Young University “Elizabeth (Betsy) McNutt: James Strang’s Third Wife and the Last to Deny Him” — Vickie Speek, Minooka, Illinois
RESPONSE:	Bill Shepard, Old Voree Strangite Properties
CHAIR:	Henry H. Goldman, Huntington Beach, California

SESSION 14 (10:00-11:30am) Old and New Accounts of Hyrum Smith

PRESENTERS:	“Writing about the Mormon Prophet’s Brother: A Biographer’s Reflections” — Jeff O’Driscoll, Salt Lake City, Utah “The Cosmos and Chronos of Mormon Thought: An Intellectual View of Joseph Smith through the Eyes of His Brother Hyrum” — Richard K. Behrens, Midway, Utah
RESPONSE:	Val Avery, Northern Arizona University
CHAIR:	Lyman F. Edwards, Kansas City, Missouri

SESSION 15 (10:00-11:30am) Assessing Clyde Forsberg’s Arguments about Early Mormonism

PANELISTS:	Susan Curtis, Purdue University Roger Launius, Smithsonian Institution Alfred Bush, Princeton University
RESPONSE:	Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., Queen’s University
CHAIR:	Philip Barlow, Hanover College

BUS TOUR of area historic sites (12:00–6:00pm)

ANNUAL BANQUET (7:00pm) Business Meeting, Conferral of Awards

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:

“As Neither Apologist nor Cynic: Filling the Gap and Keeping the Theologians Honest”
— Mark A. Scherer, Community of Christ Church Historian

Sunday, September 26

SESSION 17 (9:00-10:00am) Religious Education in the Church, 1958-1970

PANELISTS:	Richard Lancaster, Carmel, Indiana Don Landon, Southwest Missouri State University Lloyd Young
COMMENT:	Paul Edwards, Emeritus, Community of Christ Temple School
CHAIR:	William Russell, Graceland University, Lamoni

WORSHIP SERVICE (10:00-11:00am)