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The following is the tentative program of our Kirtland
Conference. Any changes will be posted here prior to the conference. Click here
to see an alphabetical list of participants.
Although sessions are marked as JWHA, CSA or both, attendees
are free to attend any of the sessions.
Thursday, September 27th
1. Opening Banquet and Sterling M. McMurrin Lecture (JWHA+CSA)
TITLE: "Beyond Black Muslims and Reorganized Mormons: The
Transformation of Two New Religious Movements in America"
SPEAKER: Lawrence Foster, Professor of American
History, Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, September, 28th
2. "Modes of Community" (JWHA+CSA)
PRESIDING: Roger Launius, Chair, Division of
Space History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian
Institution
PANELISTS (BY COMMUNITY):
Religious community: Lawrence Foster, Georgia Institute
of Technology
LDS (Mormon) community: P. Warner Woodworth, The
Marriott School, Brigham Young University
Community of Christ: Ron Romig, Archivist, Community of
Christ
Secular community: Lyman Tower Sargent, University of
Missouri/St. Louis, Visiting Professor, Oxford University
3A. "Women Leaders: Mary Baker Eddy and Mary Purnell" (CSA)
TITLE: Mary Baker Eddy’s Households: Community Experiments
in Early Christian Science History
SPEAKER: Mike Hamilton, Principia
College
TITLE: In the Latter Days: Mary Purnell and the Spirit of
Shiloh
SPEAKER: Carla A. H. Johnson, Saint Cloud State
University
3B. "Communal Life in Latter Day Saint Branches in Southwestern
Iowa" (JWHA)
SPEAKER: Maurine Carr Ward, Independent
Researcher
SPEAKER: Ronald G. Watt, Independent
Researcher
3C. "Wasatch Cooperative Efforts and Shakers"
(JWHA+CSA)
TITLE: Wasatch County, Utah and Cooperative
Efforts
SPEAKER: Jessie L. Embry, Brigham Young
University
TITLE: Zion’s Travelers: Traveling to the Shaker
West
SPEAKER: Carol Medlicott, Northern Kentucky
University
3D. "Community in the Post-Petroleum Future"
(CSA)
TITLE: Communal Challenges in a Post-Petroleum
World
SPEAKER: Albert Bates, Ecovillage Training
Center, The Farm
TITLE: Toward a Post-Oil Future: Cooperative
Visions
SPEAKER: Tim Miller, University of Kansas
3E. "Community of Christ: A Visionary and Material
Culture" (JWHA)
TITLE: Earl Roy Curry: A Vision of Future Needs
SPEAKER: Kevin Bryant, Student, University of
Central Missouri
TITLE: The Smith House in Kirtland, Ohio
SPEAKER: Elwin Robison, Kent State
University
SPEAKER: Barbara Walden, Site Coordinator,
Kirtland Temple
3F. Mini-Tour: Historic Kirtland Sites
(JWHA+CSA)
4. Business Meeting and Lunch
(JWHA)
5A. "Healing and Unity" (CSA)
TITLE: Healing, Handkerchiefs and Community
SPEAKER: Robert S. Fogarty, Antioch
College
TITLE: Complex Marriage: The Theological Glue of
Oneida
SPEAKER: Casey Unwin, Student, Brigham Young
University
5B. "Aspects of the Reorganization in the 2nd Half of the 20th
Century" (JWHA)
TITLE: African Mormonism or Mormonism in Africa?: A Study
of the Presence of Latter Day Saints in Africa and the Interplay Between
Mormonism and African Culture, 1960-2005
SPEAKER: Emily Gray, Student, Graceland
University
TITLE: Kirtland: A Microcosm of RLDS Dissent,
1959-1990
SPEAKER: Bill Russell, Professor Emeritus,
Graceland University
5C. "The Family" (CSA)
TITLE: Intentional Communities among the "Other" Mormons:
Attempts at Zion-building by Lesser-Known Latter Day Saint Groups
SPEAKER: Jason Smith, Independent
Researcher
TITLE: Evolution of The Family International/Children of
God in the Direction of
a Responsive Communitarian Religion"
SPEAKERS: Gary and Gordon Shepherd, University of
Central Arkansas
5D. "The Church of Jesus Christ with Headquarters in Monongahela
and the Peaceful Reign" (JWHA)
TITLE: The Peaceful Reign: the final stage in the
development of the concept of gathering, as seen by The Church of Jesus Christ,
Headquarters, Monongahela, PA
SPEAKERS: Phil Jackson, Apostle of The Church of
Jesus Christ, and Mark Kovacic, Evangelist
TITLE: William Bickerton’s Communal Experiment in St.
John’s Kansas
SPEAKER: Gary Entz, McPherson College
5E. "Pietism and the Challenges of Community"
(CSA)
TITLE: Journeys from Harmony
SPEAKER: Eileen Aiken English, Old
Economy
TITLE: Conscientious Objectors or Conscientious
Participators? Zoar in the Civil War
SPEAKER: Phillip Webber
5F. Mini-Tour: Historic Kirtland Sites
(JWHA+CSA)
5G. Mini-Tour: Kirtland Temple and Cemetery (JWHA+CSA)
6A. "Recollections of Charles Anthon and Ezra Booth" (JWHA)
TITLE: A Newly Discovered Charles Anthon Letter – A
Synoptical Analysis
SPEAKER: Erin B. Jennings, Independent
Researcher
TITLE: Ezra Booth on Early Mormonism: A Look at His 1831
Letters
SPEAKER: H. Michael Marquardt, Independent
Researcher
6B. "Harmonist Hymns and Ohio Hymns"
(CSA)
TITLE: Ohio Hymns
SPEAKER: Christian Goodwillie, Curator, Hancock
Shaker Village
TITLE: Songs of the Saints: Divergent Paths from Kirtland
Beginnings
SPEAKER: Richard Clothier, Professor Emeritus,
Graceland University
6C. "The Present and Future of Communal Studies" (CSA)
PANELISTS:
Michael Barkun, Syracuse University
Mario DePillis, University of Massachusetts Amherst,
emeritus
Rod Janzen, Fresno Pacific University
Donald Pitzer, University of Southern Indiana
6D. "Plural Marriage Origins and the Morrisites" (JWHA)
TITLE: Fear or Faith? The fervor behind communal living:
The Tragic Tale of the Morrisites
SPEAKER: Larry Johnston, Independent
Researcher
TITLE: Parley P. Pratt’s Early Connections with Plural
Marriage
SPEAKER: Richard K. Behrens, Independent
Researcher
6E. "Property Rights among Shakers and Kirtland’s United
Order" (JWHA+CSA)
TITLE: Kirtland Lawsuits and the United Order: Land
Acquisition and Corresponding Litigation
SPEAKER: Jeffrey N. Walker, Joseph Smith Papers
Project
TITLE: Consecrated Ground: Property Rights, Shakers, and
Citizenship in the Early American Republic
SPEAKER: Polly Good, University of
Oregon
6F. Mini-Tour: Historic Kirtland Sites
(JWHA+CSA)
7. "Joint Banquet" (JWHA+CSA)
TITLE: "Building" the First Mormon Temple(s) at Kirtland:
Pilgrims, Practices, and Sacred Site Construction in America, 1991-2005
SPEAKER: David J. Howlett, PhD Candidate,
University of Iowa
TITLE: Joseph Smith, the Temple, and the Imagined Space of
Heaven
SPEAKER: Martha Bradley, The University of
Utah
Saturday, September, 29th
8A. "Community within Community: Visiting Twin Oaks as a School
Group" (CSA)
ORGANIZER: Richard A. Lynch, DePauw
Univeristy
TWIN OAKS PARTICIPANT: Bucket Von Harmony
STUDENT PARTICIPANTS: Katie Burpo, Ben "Otter" Gibson,
Julie Rooney
8B. "Lyman Wight and Pre-Culterites in 1830s Kirtland" (JWHA)
TITLE: Before Cutler and the Cutlerites: The Later
Cutlerites’ Involvements in Kirtland, Ohio, Mormonism
SPEAKER: Danny Jorgensen, University of Southern
Florida
TITLE: A Wild Ram Enters the Fold: Lyman Wight at Kirtland,
The Early Years
SPEAKER: Melvin Johnson
8C. "James Colin Brewster and Rodger McAfee"
(JWHA+CSA)
TITLE: Whatever Happened to James Colin Brewster:
Springfield’s Boy Mormon Prophet?
SPEAKER: Gary Vitale, Independent Scholar
TITLE: Our Land: Rodger McAfee and His Lifelong Quest for
Community in America
SPEAKER: Morgan Bowen, Utah State
University
8D. "The Raelians: A Documentary Critique and
Discussions" (CSA)
PRESENTATION: The Raelian documentary
TITLE: The Nation of Yahweh: Persecution, Violence, and
Millennialism in a Black Nationalist Religion
SPEAKER: Susan J. Palmer, Religious Studies,
Dawson College, Concordia University
8E. "Mobbers and Mormons" (JWHA)
TITLE: The Carthage Mob: A Socio-economic
Perspective
SPEAKER: Debra J. Marsh, Graduate Student,
University of Utah
TITLE: "Persecution in the most odious sense of the word":
Understanding the Anti-Mormon Mob’s Actions in Jackson County
SPEAKER: Thomas Spencer, Northwest Missouri State
University
8F. "Resources for Communal Historians"
(JWHA)
TITLE: Collections from the Family History Library of
Interest to Religious and Communal Historians
SPEAKER: Craig Foster, Research Specialist,
Family History Library
TITLE: Seer Stones and Native American Gorgets
SPEAKER: Michael Van Wagenen, Independent
Researcher
9A. "Zionic Communities in Jackson County, Missouri" (JWHA)
TITLE: Harvest Hills: Graying, Not Growing
SPEAKER: Bryan Robert Monte, Fontys University of
Applied Sciences
TITLE: The Remnant Church Answers the Call of Zion
SPEAKER: Fred Larsen, President/Prophet, The
Remnant Church of Jesus Christ
9B. "Directing and Cultivating Historic Communal
Villages" (JWHA+CSA)
PANELISTS:
Ray Shepard, Old Economy
Christian Goodwillie, Hancock Shaker Village
Lachlan Mackay, Community of Christ Historic
Sites
Patrick Harris, Aurora
9C. "Life in Community" (CSA)
TITLE: Gendered Conflict and Consensus in Shaker
Society
SPEAKER: Glendyne R. Wergland, Independent
Scholar
TITLE: Everyday Life in Community
SPEAKER: Lyman Tower Sargent, University of
Missouri/St. Louis, Visiting Professor, Oxford University
9D. "The Shaker Koreshansand and Marie Ogden"
(CSA)
TITLE: The Shaker Koreshansand a Continuing Saga for the
Search of Meaning
SPEAKER: R. Lynn Rainard, Tidewater Community
College
TITLE: Marie Ogden and the Home of Truth
SPEAKER: Brad Whitsel, Pennsylvania State College,
Fayette Campus
9E. "Precursors to Kirtland Communalism"
(JWHA)
TITLE: Approaching Zion 1828-1865: Isaac Morley’s Pursuit
of the Perfect Community from the "Family" to the United Order
SPEAKER: Allen Parrish, Ed. D., Brigham Young
University
SPEAKER: Doug Major, O.D., Independent
Scholar
TITLE: Ohio’s Kendall Community and the Genesis of Kirtland
Communalism
SPEAKER: Mark Staker, LDS Museum of Church
History and Art
9F. Mini-Tour: Kirtland Temple and Cemetery (JWHA+CSA)
10. "CSA/JWHA Auction"
(JWHA+CSA)
11A. "Urban Concerns in Community"
(CSA)
TITLE: Communal Aspects of Immigrant Enclaves in Late
19th/Early 20th Century Urban America
SPEAKER: Jacqueline S. May, Florida Atlantic
University at Boca Raton
TITLE: Zion City, Illinois: A Theocratic
Municipality
SPEAKER: Holly Folk, Indiana University
11B. "Communal Experiments among the Strangites" (JWHA)
TITLE: The Order of Enoch At Voree
SPEAKER: Bill Shepard, Old Strangite
Properties
TITLE: Conflict on Beaver Island
SPEAKER: Vickie Speek, Independent
Scholar
11C. "The Church of Christ (Temple Lot) and TBA" (JWHA+CSA)
TITLE: The Church of Christ (Temple Lot) and the Law of
Consecration
SPEAKER: R. Jean Addams, Independent Consultant
TITLE: TBA
SPEAKER: Ruth Lambach
11D. "Mormon Communalism" (CSA)
TITLE: Modern Mormon Communalism
SPEAKER: P. Warner Woodworth, Marriott School,
Brigham Young University
TITLE: Mormon Communalism
SPEAKER: Thomas Nelson
11E. "The Smith Family and Its Genes"
(JWHA)
TITLE: The Smith Family After the Martyrdom
SPEAKER: Kyle Walker, Brigham Young
University
TITLE: Joseph Smith’s DNA revealed: new clues from the
Prophet’s genes
SPEAKER: Ugo A. Perego
11F. Mini-Tour: Kirtland Temple and Cemetery (JWHA+CSA)
12. "Latter Day Saint Communalism: Scriptural Templates and
Comparisons with Contemporaries" (JWHA+CSA)
TITLE: Pentecost and All Things Common: Acts Chapter 2 and
4:31-33 as Template for Community in Kirtland, Ohio 1830-37
SPEAKER: Andrew Bolton, Apostle, Community of
Christ
TITLE: Early Nineteenth-Century Shaker and LDS Approaches
to Separation from the "World"
SPEAKER: Stephen C. Taysom, Indiana
University
13. JWHA Presidential Banquet
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: The Last Chapter of Mormonism in
Missouri in the 1830s: The Incarceration and Escape of the Mormon Prisoners from
Columbia, Boone County Jail
SPEAKER: Alex Baugh, President, John Whitmer
Historical Association
Sunday, September 30, 2007
14. "Singing Saints and Shakers"
(JWHA+CSA)
A musical festival held in the Kirtland Temple
COORDINATOR: Dick Clothier, Professor Emeritus,
Graceland University
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