Please note: the agenda presented here is a draft and subject to change.
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| Mountain Time | Session | Presenter(s) | Location | |
Friday, September 13, 2024F |
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| 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Light breakfast (included in registration fee) | |||
| 8:30 a.m. Chair: Reid Neilson |
Plenary 201 |
The Truth Shall Make You Free | Marlin K. Jensen | |
| 9:30 a.m. | Break | |||
| 10:00 a.m. Chair: Casey Paul Griffiths |
Breakout 211 Special Student Session |
Birth Control: A Case Study of the Relationship between Doctrine, Policy, and a Changing World | Sean Magoffin | |
| Evolving Practice and Policy in Latter-day Saint Missionary Work | Carly Blewster | |||
| 10:00 a.m. Chair: |
Breakout 212 | The Arrival and Activities of Reorganized Latter Day Saints in Southwest Utah | Mike Nielsen | |
| If the Past is a Foreign Country, Who’s Teaching Kids the Language? | Shalisse Johnstun | |||
| 10:00 a.m. Chair: Nancy Ross |
Breakout 213 | A “Newsie Messiah”: the Lives and Teachings of Israel A. J. Dennis | Kirk Watson | |
| The Role of a Prophet’s Wife: Telling the Stories of Emma Hale Smith and Lucy Woodruff Smith | Louisa Fowler Packham | |||
| 10:00 a.m. Chair: Matthew C. Godfrey |
Panel 214
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The Life and Faith of William Clayton: Insights from His Nauvoo Journal | Alex Smith Shannon Jorgensen Jeffrey David Mahas Robin Jensen |
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| 11:15 a.m. | Break | |||
| 11:45 a.m. Chair: Sherry Mesle-Morain |
Breakout 221 Scholarship Recipient’s Session |
Transportation | Hunter Bouverette | |
| “World Religions and Historical Imagination in Exploring the Book of Mormon: Teaching Scriptural Pasts and Presents to Twentieth-century Reorganized Youth” | Makoto Hunter | |||
| 11:45 a.m. Chair: Gary Boatright |
Breakout 222 | The Latter-day Saint Shoshone town of Washakie, Utah | Darren Parry Derek Sainsbury | |
| “From Parowan to the Pacific: The overland travel of China missionaries from Southern Utah to Southern California in 1852” | Reid Neilson | |||
| 11:45 a.m. Chair: Deb Luce |
Breakout 223 | Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict the Skills Needed to Reproduce the Book of Mormon | Brian C. Hales | |
| Off The Stand, But Standing Up: A Contemporary View of Latter-day Saint Women’s Power and Authority | Zachary Brady Student Session |
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| 11:45 a.m. Chair: |
Breakout 224 |
“Hyrum Smith and Nauvoo Freemasonry” | Ken Alford | |
| “Telling the Truth: A Journey in Documentary History of the Church of Christ (Temple Lot)” | Jason Smith | |||
| 1:00 p.m. | Break | |||
| 1:15 p.m. | Awards Luncheon (included in registration fee) Nominated Books Nominated Articles |
Eric Rogers | ||
| 2:15 p.m. | Break | |||
| 2:45 p.m. Chair: |
Breakout 241 | Hamblin Missions from St. George to Hopi Villages | Ryan Combs Brandon Plewe |
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| “Creating Micro Economic Peace Settlement with the United Orders (1873-1877): Knab, Orderville, and St. George Settlements” | Glen Larson | |||
| 2:45 p.m. Chair: |
Breakout 242 | Both RLDS and LDS Churches Erred in Their Method of Presidential Succession | William Russell read by Mike Nielsen | |
| Alex Joseph and Other Lesser-known Latter-day Prophets of Southern Utah | Mike LeCheminant | |||
| 2:45 p.m. Chair: |
Session 243 |
“Armed Men, Furious Men, With Murder In Their Hearts”: The Men Who Killed Joseph and Hyrum Smith—Claims, Accusations, and Pus-filled Wounds | Joseph Johnstun | |
| Did Joseph Smith Really Faint? —The June 25, 1844, Militia Review in Carthage, Illinois | Bryon Andreasen | |||
| 2:45 p.m. Chair: Melvin Clarno Johnson |
Breakout 244 | Beehive Girls and the Priesthood: Reactions to Women’s Ordination and Feminism in LDS Church Curriculum in the 1970s and 1980s | Nancy Ross David Howlett | |
| The Influence of Juanita Brooks on Restoration History | Teresa Bell Sharla Moody | |||
| 5:00 p.m. | Walking Tours – advance registration required. Downtown St. George Juanita Brooks Property |
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