2023 Conference Agenda Saturday

Please note: the agenda presented here is a draft and subject to change. 
indicates session will be live streamed online.

Items marked with (RS) indicate the presentation is part of the Restoration Studies track.

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Time		Session	Presenter(s)	Location
Saturday, September 23, 2023
8:00-9:00 a.m.		Light Breakfast – included in registration fee.		Conference Center
9:00 a.m. Chair: Rachel Killebrew	Breakout 311	A Practitioner’s Perspective on the Smith Family “Holiness to the Lord” Parchment	Nicholas S. Literski, JD, PhD	Pacific Showroom
		“False Teaching in Regard to Lineage and Matrimony”: Lyman Wight and Reimagining the Latter Day Saint Tradition in Zodiac, Texas	Casey Paul Griffiths reading for Christopher Blythe
9:00 a.m. Chair: Makoto Hunter	Breakout 312	Urbanism and the early LDS movement	Andrew Ankersen (pre-recorded)	Quonset Hut B
		Cryptomnesia, Trances, and Other Psychological Phenomena That Can Explain the Translation of the Book of Mormon	Ellen C. Miller, Ed.D.
9:00 a.m. Chair: Taunalyn Ford	Breakout 313	The Lord’s Supper in the early Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RS)	Michael H. Nielsen	Quonset Hut A
		Who Was the First Female Latter-day Saint Baptized in England? Does It Even Matter?  (RS)	Robyn Spears
9:00 a.m. Chair: Myra Elliott	Breakout 314	Mormon presence determines 1867 Texas Supreme Court case	Katherine F. Peake	Conference Center
		A Book of Joseph–and Oliver: Collaborators for a Seer’s Autobiography	Susan Staker
10:15 a.m.		Break		Conference Center
10:45 a.m. Chair: Megan Stanton	Breakout 321	Bridging Various Restoration Groups	Rick C. Bennett Steve Pynaker David Boice	Conference Center
10:45 a.m. Chair: Janis Hales	Breakout 322	Policing Polygamous Women: Plural Wives, the “Raid,” and the Federal Regulation of Sexuality in the Early Progressive Era	Makoto Hunter	Quonset Hut B
		The Curtis family, companions on the journey	Daniel Kelty
10:45 a.m. Chair: William Morain	Breakout 323	From Clueless Kid to a Theology of Love and Justice (RS)	William D. Russell Original Co-Founder	Pacific Showroom
10:45 a.m. Chair: Robert Cook	Breakout 324	Meet one of the Authors of Hawn’s Mills Hamlet: A Phase III Archaeological Investigation (with book signing)	Paul DeBarthe	Quonset Hut A
12:00-5:30 p.m.	Bus Tours	Historical Sites Tours Pre-registration Required. Box lunch included in registration fee.		Off Site
6:30 p.m.	Keynote 331	Presidential Banquet and Address Saints in Space!	Casey Paul Griffiths	Pacific Showroom

• JWHA 2023 Conference Agenda At-a-Glance