This year’s annual conference includes an exciting slate of interesting sessions certain to provoke discussion and expand interest in restoration history.
Note: the agenda presented here is not final and is subject to change.
Items marked with (RS) indicate the presentation is part of the Restoration Studies track.
Click on the Session Numbers for Abstract & Bio.
| Time | Session | Presenter(s) | Location | |
Saturday, September 28, 2019 |
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| 7:30-9:15 a.m. | Light Breakfast (included in registration fee) | |||
| 8:00 a.m. Chair: Seth Bryant |
Plenary 301 | Author Meets Critics “Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo” |
Scott C. Esplin David Howlett Christin Mackay Mark Staker |
Conference Center |
| 9:00 a.m. | Break | |||
| 9:30 a.m. Chair: Daniel P. Stone |
Breakout 311 | Discovery of John Whitmer’s Lost 6th May 1877 Book of Mormon Testimony in Joseph R. Lambert Journal and Threat to Church Foundations By Failure To Embrace | Richard Warren Lipack | Cayuga |
| Kirtland, Nauvoo, and Zodiac: A Commentary on Early Mormon Temples | Melvin C. Johnson | |||
| 9:30 a.m. Chair: Sherman Feher |
Breakout 312 | Glass-Looking, Crystal-Gazing, Stone-Peeping, and Scrying: Joseph Smith’s Seering 1822-1844 | Brian C. Hales | Canandaigua |
| “[T]he story of the golden Bible and the miracle working spectacles”: Seeing the Restoration in the Histories of the Genessee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church | Jared K. Cook | |||
| 9:30 a.m. Chair: DeAun Young |
Breakout 313 | William Lyon Mackenzie: 19th Century Friend of the Church in Canada? | Helen K. Warner | Hemlock |
| The Life and Time of Pliny T. Sexton: Prominent Palmyra Citizen, Banker and Principle Owner of Hill Cumorah | Klaus D. Gurgel | |||
| 9:30 a.m. Chair: Joseph Geisner |
Breakout 314 | Mormons, Race, and Lineage: A New Look at an Old Question | Honeoye | |
| “I am getting a little fed up on the idea that so many people think I am responsible for the Negro not holding the priesthood”: Joseph Fielding Smith and the Mormon Priesthood Ban | Matt Harris | |||
| “Joseph Fielding Smith, Bruce R. McConkie, Russell M. Nelson: The Mechanics of Creating Racial Identity among 20th and 21st Century LDS Mormons” | Stirling Adams | |||
| 9:30 a.m. Chair: Erin B. Metcalfe |
Breakout 315 | The Art of Polygamy | Kelly McAfee | Conference Center |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break | |||
| 11:15 a.m. Chair: Joseph Geisner |
Breakout 321 | The Spirit, like a Fire: A World for Joseph Smith | Rick Grunder | Cayuga |
| Nurturing the Restoration: The Impact of the Second Great Awakening | Grant Underwood | |||
| 11:15 a.m. Chair: Paul DeBarthe |
Breakout 322 | “For Signs and For Seasons”: Environmental Phenomena and the Early Saints | Joseph Johnstun | Canandaigua |
| Listening to Nauvoo: An Aural History | Shalisse Lewis Johnstun | |||
| 11:15 a.m. Chair: Keith J. Wilson |
Breakout 323 | Leonora Cannon Taylor: A Manx Girl’s Dreams, and their Enormous Effect on the History of Mormonism | Marian Peck Rees | Hemlock |
| The Harris Family: Among the Restoration’s Earliest Believers | Richard G. Moore | |||
| 11:15 a.m. Chair: Alonzo L. Gaskill |
Breakout 324 | Joseph Smith and the Curse of Eve: Recreating the Prophecy | Lorraine P. Brown | Honeoye |
| Frances Mary Goodsell (1841 – 1915): ‘Josephite’ in the Woodpile | Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. | |||
| 11:15 a.m. Chair: William Shepard |
Breakout 325 | The Family That Built Canals | Vickie Cleverley Speek | Conference Center |
| Singing Our Story Part 2: The Hymnals of the New Organization | Kathy S. Fallon | |||
| 1:00-5:30 p.m. | Tours (pre registration required) | |||
| 6:30 p.m. | Keynote 331 | Presidential Banquet and Address Celebration of Women at the Restoration History Family Table |
Rachel Killebrew | Conference Center |
