Please note: the agenda presented here is a draft and subject to change.
Click on the session numbers for abstract and bio.
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Friday, September 25, 2026 |
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8:00 – 10:00 a.m. |
Light breakfast – included in registration fee |
Room B
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Memory and the Making of Joseph Smith |
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8:30 a.m. |
From Fawn Brodie to John Turner: Evolving Portrayals of Joseph Smith |
Newell G. Bringhurst |
Room H
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“The Choice of My Heart and the Crown of My Life: How Eliza R. Snow Remembered Joseph Smith” |
Jenny Reeder |
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Movement and Mission on the Latter Day Saint Frontier |
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8:30 a.m. |
Mormon Battalion: Relief and Extraordinary Service |
Glen Larson |
Room I
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No Purse or Scrip: The History of Full-time No Purse or Scrip Missionary Service in the California Mission (1948-1950) |
Trace Rogers |
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Benefits of Untold Stories |
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8:30 a.m. |
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Benefits of Untold Stories |
Paul DeBarthe |
Room J
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A New Day in Zion: The 1926 Conferences of the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) |
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A New Day in Zion: The 1926 Conferences of the Church of Christ (Temple Lot) |
Jason R. Smith |
Room K
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Otto Fetting, the Temple Lot and the Rise of the Elijah Message Church |
Adam Oliver Stokes |
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9:45 a.m. |
Break |
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Publishing Restoration Scholarship Today: Journals, Books, and the Future of the Field |
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10:15 a.m. |
Publishing Restoration Scholarship Today: Journals, Books, and the Future of the Field |
Ken R. Mulliken |
Room F
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11:30 a.m. |
Break |
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11:30 a.m. |
Meet the Author Book Signing |
JW Books Table |
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12:00 p.m. |
Awards Ceremony – included in registration fee |
Robin Jensen |
Room F |
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1:00 p.m. |
Awards Luncheon – included in registration fee |
Room B
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1:30 p.m. |
Break |
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Author Meets Critics–Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon |
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2:00 p.m. |
Author Meets Critics: Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon |
Thomas W. Murphy |
Room H
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Latter-day Saint Theologian Among Christian Theologians |
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2:00 p.m. |
Latter-day Saint Theologian Among Christian Theologians |
Kyle Beshears |
Room I
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Alternative Scriptures and Contested Inheritances in Restoration Traditions |
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2:00 p.m. |
Gnostic Mormonism: An Examination of the Scriptures of the Gnostic Temple of the Pearl |
Mike LeCheminant |
Room J
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Flat Earthers, Anglo-Israelism, and the Golden Plates Revisited: The Responses of Three Churches with Problematic Inheritances Compared |
John C. Hamer |
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Authority, Schism, and Identity in Restoration Traditions |
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2:00 p.m. |
Our Leader is Dead; Who has the Instruction Manual? |
Vickie Speek |
Room K
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The American Indian Movement (AIM) and the Occupation of the RLDS Kansas City Stake Office Building, 1978 |
David J. Howlett |
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3:15 p.m. |
Break |
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Joseph Smith in Political Thought and Practice |
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3:45 p.m. |
Was Joseph Smith a Utopian Socialist? |
Mark Skousen |
Room H
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Carrying the Candidate: Joseph Smith’s electioneers, Robert F. Kennedy’s campaigners, and Creating Political Community Before and After Assassination |
Derek R. Sainsbury |
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Forscutt, Hymnody, and the Making of RLDS Identity |
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3:45 p.m. |
“I Am Anxious to See My Children”: Marriage, Authority, and Family Rupture at the Crossroads |
Eric Paul Rogers |
Room I
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The Epic (Fail?) of Mark Hill Forscutt’s The Saints’ Harmony |
Rebecca Roesler |
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RLDS and Mormon Hymns 1860-1890: Authors, Hymns, and the Meaning of the Times |
Bradley Armstrong |
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Grief, Theology, and Interpretation in Restoration Texts |
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3:45 p.m. |
“Thou Wilt a Mother to It Be”: Grief, Sisterhood, and Resurrection Theology in an 1847 Letter to Helen Mar Whitney |
Emelia Manwaring Jensen |
Room J
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Seven Nephite Inversions of Jesus’ Sermon at the Temple |
Elray Henriksen (pre-recorded) |
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Advance Documentary Screening: “Brother Joseph Again, Restoring the Likeness of Joseph Smith Jr.” |
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3:45 p.m. |
Participants will view the documentary “Brother Joseph Again, Restoring the Likeness of Joseph Smith Jr.” |
Patrick A. Bishop |
Room F
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6:30 p.m. |
Banquet |
Presidential Banquet |
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Room B |
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“What the Present Owes the Past”: Or, What Historians Owe LDS Church History |
Matthew L. Harris |
Room F
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2026-2027 Board of Director’s Installation |
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