Audio of 2019 Conference Speakers

Audio of 2019 Conference Speakers

 

Plenary Sessions

OP

Opening Plenary

David Walker

Mormons, and Other Western Wonders: Tourist Interests in the Railroad Age

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ML

MHA Membership Luncheon

Mylo Fowler

Navajoland and the Male River

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SP

Smith-Pettit Lecture

Anthea Butler

An American Church in the Modernizing World: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Crucible of Change, 1950-1970

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PL

Plenary Luncheon

Jana Riess

The Mormon Family in the United States: Mapping Social Change from the 1960s to the Present

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SFP

Special Film Panel: Jane and Emma

Melissa Leilani Larson

Screenwriter

Danor Gerald

Actor

Arthur Van Wagonen

Executive Producer

Blair Hodges

Moderator

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PB

Presidential Banquet

W. Paul Reeve

Reconstruction Religion, and the West: The Great Impeacher Meets the Mormons

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SMD

Sunday Morning Devotional

Ignacio M. Garcia

Nancy Ross

Richard Elliot

Richard E. Turley, Jr.

Vinna Chintaram

Mylo Fowler

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Concurrent #1

1A

Restoration Traditions: Early and Modern Perspectives

R. Jean Addams

The Temple Lot in Independence: Its Acquisition, Early Buildings, and Other Uses

H. Michael Marquardt

The Temple Lot in Jackson County, Missouri, and Observations of Early Church Members

Patrick McKay and James McKay

Restoration Traditions from the RLDS “Position Papers” to the Present

Comments: Clair Barrus

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1B

Mormon Encounters in Conflict and Settlement: Potawatomi, Ute, Shoshone, and Mexican Encounters in LDS Settler Colonialism

Reilly Ben Hatch

“A Relic of Gadianton”: Race, Religion, and Assimilation in the Bluff and Posey Wars

Jeffrey D. Mahas

Interactions between Potawatomi and Latter-day Saints in the Nineteenth Century

Andrea G. Radke-Moss

“Nits Make Lice”: The Dehumanization of Children at the Haun’s Mill Massacre of 1838 and the Bear River Massacre of 1863

Nicholas Brian Shrum

“Let the Son Go”: Religious and National Identity of the Women of the Mormon Battalion

Comments: Elise Boxer

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1C

The Road to Isolation: Anti-Mormonism on the Mississippi

Brooke R. LeFevre

The Development of Anti-Mormonism in Iowa Territory

Alex D. Smith

The Threat of Mormon Violence: Prelude to Assassination

Brady Glen Winslow

“As Long as They are Good Citizens They Shall Not be Molested”: Mormonism and the Obligations of Citizenship in Antebellum Illinois, July 1844–October 1845

Comments: Bryon Andreasen

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1D

“The Evils of a Dole Abolished”: The Church Welfare Plan and Mormon Visions of Self Sufficiency

Dave Hall

Cooperating to Rescue Those in Need: Amy Brown Lyman and the Development of Federal Welfare Policy in Utah

Allison M. Kelley

Walking a Tightrope: Capitalism, Community, and the Church’s Twentieth- Century Economic Vision

Comments: Thomas Alexander

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1E

Environmental Histories from the First Vision to 21st-Century Saints

Dwain Coleman

The Environment and Early Latter-day Saints

Nathan Waite

“All Concerned Will Profit the Most”: John A. Widtsoe and the Dividing of the Colorado River

Rebecca Andersen

Looking for Mormons: Imagining a Land, Creating a People

Scott C. Esplin

Church and State in Sacred Space: The National Park Service and Latter-day Saint Historic Sites

Comments: Jedediah Rogers

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1F

Roundtable Discussion: English Translations of Mark L. Grover Interviews with Latter-day Saints in Brazil

Matthe J. K. Hill

James R. Krause

Marcelo Leme

Suzanna Shibuta

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1H

Author Meets Critics: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

Gary James Bergera

Claudia Bushman

Christine Talbot

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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Concurrent #2

2B

Integrating the Isolated: The Transcontinental Railroad

Fred E. Woods

The Latter-day Saints and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad

Jeffrey Paul Thompson

Minding the Store: Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution and the Coming of the Railroad

Sasha Coles

Reconstruction by Rail: Mormon Women, Silk Work, and the Politics of Fashion

COMMENTS: Rebecca Andersen

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2C

Century of Black Mormons: Recovering the Past, Informing the Future

Anna Neatrour

Century of Black Mormons: Technical Infrastructure and Workflows

Jeffrey J. Turner

Visualizing Past Mormons

Ardis E. Parshall

“That Which Was Lost”: Recovering the Memories and Voices of Black Latter-day Saints

COMMENTS: Robert Burch

COMMENTS: Jenny Reeder

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2D

Integration Through the Arts

Jake Johnson

Mormons, Musicals, and American Integration

Rebekah Westrup

Melding of Manhoods: A Visual Attempt to Integrate the Book of Mormon with American Culture

Hillary Kirkham

Exhibiting Cultures, Building the Kingdom: The Church History Museum, Diversity, and Art

Comments: Heather Belnap

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2E

Narrative, Myth, and Sacred Space in Latter-day Saint Culture

Scott D. Marianno

Temple of Temples: The Salt Lake Temple as Latter-day Saint Axis Mundi

Claire M. Haynie

Savior Seagulls: The Evolution of a Miracle

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2F

Panel Discussion: Parley P. Pratt Letters and Documents, Volume 1

Alexander Baugh

R. Steven Pratt

Mitchell Pratt

Moderator: Sharalyn Howcroft

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Concurrent #3

3B

Gender, Sexuality, and Mormonism in the Latter 20th Century

Chris Babits

Repairing Mormon Men and Women: Conversion Therapy in the LDS Ranks

Heather J. Stone

Trading Charity for Safety: Isolating Young Women in Mormon Homelands, 1975- 2000

Christine Talbot

“Out-Family-ing the Mormons”: Gender and Family in ERA Politics among the Mormons

Comments: Saskia Tielens

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3F

Roundtable: Indigenous and “Lamanite” Identities in the Twentieth Century

Farina King

Robert Joseph

Kaleb C. Miner

Elisa Eastwood Pulido

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3G

A Crossroads for the Canon: Scriptural Changes of the 1870s

Ryan S. Gardner and Nathan H. Williams

A Closer Look at the 1876/1879 Editions of the Doctrine and Covenants

John C. Thomas

Markers of Isolation and Integration: Interpreting the 1876/1879 Editions of the Doctrine and Covenants

Janiece Johnson

Altering the Book: Orson Pratt, the 1879 Book of Mormon, and Its Reception

Comments: Robin Scott Jensen

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3H

Author Meets Critics: Colleen McDannell, Sister Saints: Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy

Kristine Haglund

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp

David Walker

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Concurrent #4

4B

Better to Represent Ourselves: Latter-day Saint Women’s Activism in the U.S. and Europe

Rebekah Ryan Clark

“A More Universal Sisterhood”: Latter-day Saints in the National Council of Women, 1888-1987

Tiffany Taylor Bowles

Polygamy and Prejudice: The Effect of Plural Marriage on the National Perception of Latter-day Saint Suffragists

James Perry

Isolation and Acceptance: the Experiences of Selina Martin as a Latter-day Saint Suffragette in Britain

Grant P. Emery

The Shepherdess and the Informant: Contrasting Responses to Wartime Isolation in Nazi-Occupied Paris

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4F

Remembering and Forgetting: The Perils of Constructing Faithful History from a Human Past

Michael Scott Van Wagenen

Memory of the Mormon Battalion and the Formation of Latter-day Saint Identity

Rebecca A. Roesler

Jedediah’s 1856 Reformation and the Grant Legacy

Matthew Bowman

Correlation as Restoration: Sacralizing a Reform Movement

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4H

Author Meets Critics: Daniel P. Stone, William Bickerton: Forgotten Latter Day Prophet

Christopher Blythe

Benjamin E. Park

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Concurrent #5

5A

Polygamy Past, Polygamy Present

Darcee Barnes

Presidential Pardon for Polygamy

Richard E. Bennett

Mormon Fundamentalism on Trial: Recent British Columbia Rulings on Polygamy in Canada

Philippa Juliet Meek

From Loving to Obergefell and Beyond: Plural Marriage as the Next Sexual Justice Issue

Comments: Kathryn Daynes

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5B

Artifact in Mormon History: A Cross- Cultural Examination

Elise Boxer

Indigenous Cradleboards as Material Culture and History

Ian E. Barber

“A Strange and Interesting Document”: The Latter-day Saint Shaping of a Prophetic Māori Covenant

Barbara Jones Brown

A Stitch in Time: Using Artifact to Uncover Hidden Women’s History

Keith A. Erekson

Ain’t Nothin’ But a Forgery: “Elvis’s Book of Mormon” and 20th-Century Latter-day Saint Popular Culture

Comments: Alan L. Morrell

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5C

Latter-Day Saint Mission Studies in Historical Perspective

Korben Sharp-McBride

A Missionary in Maritime: The 1853 Voyages of William F. Carter

Austin Cary

The Effect of Negative Newsprint Media on Convert Baptism in County Durham

David Golding

Alien Engraving: The Search for Gold Plates and Hungarian Atlantis in the Ecuadorian Jungle

Ronald E. Bartholomew

From the Margins to the Center: Latter-day Saint Integration in the Mission Studies Academy

Comments: Matthew McBride

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5E

Masculine, Feminine, and Mormon Identity

Matthew DeSpain

“With Blood in Her Tracks and Meat Like Rawhide”: Clashing Masculinities and the Beginnings of Lakota-U.S. Hostile Relations

Boyd Jay Petersen

The Work of Mother Eve: Gender Identity and the Isolation and Integration of LDS Women

Taylor G. Petrey

“Masculine, Manly Men”: The Psychologization of LDS Approaches to Homosexuality

Comments: Stacilee Ford

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5H

Panel Discussion: Two Diaries, Two Eras – Telling the Story of Mormonism, 1951-1999

Gary James Bergera

Harvard Heath

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Concurrent #6

6F

The Challenge of Integrating Church History from the Periphery to the Center: Global Perspectives

Taunalyn Rutherford

Integrating the Isolated: The South Asian Experience

Joe M. Chelladurai

Once Upon a Time in Madras: Early Latter-day Saint Missionary Efforts, 1853-1854

Mark L. Grover

Integrating Church History from the Periphery to the Center: The South American Experience

Fernando Pinheiro da Silva Filho

Fragmented History: Challenges and Perspectives Writing the History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil

Comments: Ignacio Garcia

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