Thursday, September 22
Registration will take place in the Joseph Smith
Historic Site (Community of
Christ) Visitor Center. The Annual Business Meeting, the McMurrin Lecture,
and the Opening Reception will take place in the Nauvoo Community of Christ
church.
Conference Registration, 4:30 pm – 7:00
pm
Annual Business Meeting, 7:00 pm – 7:30
pm
(1) Sterling M. McMurrin Lecture (Plenary), 7:30
pm – 8:45 pm
"Community of Christ and LDS Church Responses
to Social Issues of the Modern Era"
Presenter: F.
Ross Peterson, Utah State University, Logan, Utah; Editor Emeritus,
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
Opening Reception, 8:45 pm – 10:30
pm
Friday, September 23
Concurrent sessions labelled "A" will be held
in the Joseph Smith Historic Site Visitor Center; sessions labelled "B" will
take place in the Nauvoo Community of Christ church; sessions labelled "C" will
take place in the Nauvoo House (Riverside Mansion).
(2A) Concurrent, 8:00 am – 9:00 am
"On the Nauvoo Legion"
Presenter: Richard Bennett, BYU, Provo, Utah
"The Twelve Had Swallowed Up the Thirty-Eight:
Minority Views of the Council of Fifty"
Presenter: Christopher J. Blythe, Florida State University
(2B) Concurrent, 8:00 am – 9:00 am
"Early Canadian Converts Who Chose the
Midwest"
Presenter: Allen LeBaron, Logan, Utah
"Alpheus Cutler’s Role in the Succession
Crisis: Sustaining ‘Joseph’s Measures’"
Presenter: Danny L. Jorgensen, University of South
Florida
(2C) Concurrent, 8:00 am – 9:00 am
"Tales from the Stone House: A view of
Strangite hsitory from ‘The Stone House’ on Mormon Road in Voree,
Wisconsin"
Presenter: Lauren Rick, Voree, Wisconsin
"Debating Joseph Smith’s Legacy: An 1846
Brighamite-Strangite Debate and the Battle over Early Mormon
Theology"
Presenters: Benjamin E. Park, University of Cambridge and Robin S.
Jensen, Joseph Smith Papers Project
(3A) Concurrent, 9:30 am – 10:30 am
"Nauvoo's Inner Circle of 32 Men That Took
'Celestial Wives' Into the West"
Presenter: George D. Smith, Smith-Pettit
Foundation
"Rockland Ranch: A Case Study of Independent
Mormon Fundamentalism and the Development of Utopian Communities"
Presenter: Christine E. Blythe, Tallahassee, Florida,
(3B) Concurrent, 9:30 am – 10:30 am
"Oliver Olney"
Presenter: Richard G. Moore, LDS Church Educational
System
"Lyman Wight: Wild Ram of the
Mountains"
Presenter: Melvin Johnson
(3C) Concurrent, 9:30 am – 10:30 am
"The African American Experience in Mormon Nauvoo,
1839-1846"
Presenter: Joseph Johnstun, Hancock County,
Illinois
"Harvest Hills: From Pioneer Monoculture to
Heterogeneous Community"
Presenter: Bryan R. Monte, Tilburg University, The
Netherlands
(4A) Concurrent, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
"The Hymns of David Hyrum Smith, Nauvoo’s
Tragic ‘Sweet Singer’"
Presenter: Richard Clothier, Emeritus Professor of Music, Graceland
University, Lamoni, Iowa
(4B) Concurrent Panel Discussion,
11:00 am – 12:00 noon
"Life in Nauvoo"
Chair: William D. Russell
Panelists: To be
announced
(4C) Concurrent, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
"Presiding in Zion: The Almost Forgotten
Missouri Presidency, 1834-1838"
Presenter: Alex Baugh, BYU, Provo, Utah
"The Duty of the Lord’s Clerk: A Partial
Analysis of Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo Journals"
Presenter: Alex Smith, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City,
Utah
Lunch, 12:30 pm –
1:30 pm
Lunch will be served at the Camp Nauvoo Lodge,
and is included in the price of conference registration.
(5A) Concurrent, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
"John C. Bennett and Nauvoo ‘Spiritual Wifery’:
Sifting the ‘Cyprian Saints’"
Presenter: Brian Hales, Independent Researcher, Layton,
Utah
"Augustine Spencer"
Presenter: Richard Sadler, Weber State University, Ogden,
Utah
(5B) Concurrent, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
"The Church of Christ (Temple Lot): Its
geographical beginnings and historical settings"
Presenter: Jean Addams
"A Sneak Peak at Volume Two of
The Persistence of
Polygamy"
Presenters: Newell Bringhurst and Craig Foster
(5C) Concurrent, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
"Dealing with Religious Diversity at Kirtland
Temple: ‘Strategies’ and ‘Tactics’ since 1965"
Presenter: David J. Howlett, Bowdoin College
"Standing High Council"
Presenter: Gwendolyn Blue Hawks, Community of
Christ
(6A) Concurrent, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
"Law and The Prophet: William Law the
‘Reformer’ vs. Joseph Smith the ‘Restorer’"
Presenter: Adam Christing
(6B) Concurrent, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
"Sidestepping Revealed Truth"
Presenter: David Landrith, Milton, Massachusetts,
"On the Separation of ‘Church’ and ‘History’:
Proposing an Academic Name for the Movement"
Presenter: Steven L. Shields, Community of Christ, Lee’s Summit,
Missouri
(6C) Concurrent, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
"A Glimpse into the Dark Side of Nauvoo: How
Real and Imagined Mormon Stealing Affected the Mormon Diaspora from
Nauvoo"
Presenter: Bill Shepard, Burlington Wisconsin
"Looking After the First Family of Mormonism:
LDS Church Leaders’ Efforts to Support the Smith Family after the
Martyrdom"
Presenter: Kyle R. Walker
(7) Plenary Panel Discussion, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
This plenary session will take place in the
Nauvoo Community of Christ church.
"Roots of Division in the Nauvoo
Era"
Chair: Newell
Bringhurst
Panelists: To be
announced
(8) JWHA Awards Banquet, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Chair: John
Hamer, JWHA President
"The RLDS Church’s Anti-Polygamy Stance
Adapted/Canonized 1967-1972: The Specter of Impending Schism"
Presenter: Richard P. Howard, Church Historian Emeritus, Community of
Christ
Saturday, September 24
(9A) Concurrent, 8:30 am – 9:30 am
"Community of Christ’s Journey into the
National Council of Churches (NCC)"
Presenter: Dale Luffman, Council of Twelve Apostles, Community of
Christ
"Reforming the Reorganization: The impact of
the RLDS Leadership on Theological Changes, 1958–1970"
Presenters: Mitchell McClellan and Keith Wilson, BYU, Provo,
Utah
(9B) Concurrent, 8:30 am – 9:30 am
"Brahman Has Many Faces: Embracing Religious
Pluralism"
Presenter: Bob
Mesle, Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa
(9C) Concurrent, 8:30 am – 9:30 am
"Seven Secular Pre-Restoration
Prophets"
Presenter: Loftes Tryk, Frazier Park, California
"The ‘Rosetta Stone’ Discovery Leading to the
"Caractors’ (Anthon) Transcript Translation"
Presenter: Blair B. Bryant, Community of Christ
(10A) Concurrent, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
"Nauvoo During the Civil War: Different
Mormons, Different Joseph Smith, Different City"
Presenter: Kevin Bryant, Bowie, Maryland
"20th Century Nauvoo History"
Presenter: Scott Esplin, Brigham Young University
(10B) Concurrent, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
"Mobsters and Masons"
Presenter: Debra J. Marsh
"Arson and Mobocracy in Southern Hancock
County: The Burning of Yelrome as a Prelude to Expulsion from
Illinois"
Presenter: Doug Major
(10C) Concurrent, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
"Mark Hoffmann 25 Years Later"
Presenter: Steven L. Mayfield, Layton, Utah
"Shi’ite Mormons; We’ve been here
before"
Presenter: Michael L. Humiston, Vernal, Utah
(11A) Concurrent Tour, 11:30 am – 5:30 pm
Bus Tour of Hancock County Area Sites
A bus tour will visit the sites of Webster (formerly Remus), Warsaw, and
Carthage. (Note that pre-registration and an additional fee are required.)
(11B) Concurrent Tour, 11:30 am – 5:30 pm
Walking Tours of Joseph Smith Historic Sites
and Old Nauvoo
(on
your own)
(11C) Concurrent Tour, 11:30 am – 5:30 pm
Session at Nauvoo Illinois Temple
(special
arrangement for LDS recommend holders)
(12) Presidential Banquet (Plenary),
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
This plenary session will take place at the
Warsaw, Illinois, Brewery.
Chair: Steven
L. Shields
"Mapping Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint
Movement"
Presenter: John Hamer, JWHA President
Sunday, September 25
(13) Hymn Festival, 9:30 am – 10:30 am
This plenary session will take place in the
Nauvoo Community of Christ church.
