Opening Plenary: "Shiviogoi and Cache Valley: Restoryation and Restoration"
Darren Parry
Former Chairman, Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation
Session 1A: "The End of the Twin Relics: How the Latter-day Saints Left behind Slavery and Polygamy"
Cristina Rosetti Chair
Utah Tech University
Sarah Barringer Gordon
University of Pennsylvania
Benjamin E. Park
Sam Houston State University
Patrick Mason Comments
Utah State University
Session 2A: "Revisiting 'Mormon Women and the Problem of Historical Agency'"
Kristine Wright Chair and Comments
Princeton University
Brooke R. LeFevre
Baylor University
Darren Parry
Katie Ludlow Rich
Saratoga Springs, Utah
Session 3A: "Inspirational Art in the Latter-day Saint Tradition"
Alex Baugh Chair and Comment
Brigham Young University
Anthony Sweat
Brigham Young University
Bridger Talbot
Payson, Utah
Nathan Tucker
Utah Valley University
Smith-Pettit Lecture "A Brief History of the Mormon Smile"
Kathryn Lofton
Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of History and Divinity; FAS Dean of Humanities, Yale University
Session 4A: "Deseret in a Digital Age: Symbolic and Literal Use of Landscape in Contemporary Mormon Art"
Laz
Megan Knoblauch Gellman
Provo, Utah
Conor B. Hilton
University of Iowa
Matt Page
Camilla Stark
Provo, Utah
Brad Kramer
Chair, Writ and Vision
Plenary & Luncheon "Fifteen going on Seventeen: Mutual Improvement in the 1950s"
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Session 5A: "Slavery, Race, and Priesthood in 1850s Utah Territory"
Jordan Watkins Chair and Comments
Brigham Young University
LaJean Purcell Carruth
Church History Library, Salt Lake City
W. Paul Reeve
University of Utah
Christopher Bowman Rich
University of Utah
Session 6A: "Surveying the Visual Arts Landscape, or, How to Frame a Retrospective of Latter-day Saint Art?"
Laura Paulsen Howe Chair and Comments
Church History Museum
Heather Belnap
Brigham Young University
Brontë Hebdon
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Ashlee Whitaker
Brigham Young University
Lands of Promise: Sacred Spaces in the Mormon Lit Blitz
Gerrit van Dyk Chair and Comments
Brigham Young University
Katherine Cowley
Kalamazoo, Michigan
James Goldberg
Church History Department
Nicole Wilkes Golberg
Brigham Young University
César Augusto Medina Fortes
Cabo Verde
Landscapes of Masculinity
Mary Jane Woodger Chair and Comments
Brigham Young University
Brad Armstrong
Logan, Utah
Hovan Lawton
Utah State University
Rob Pommerening
West Jordan, Utah
Early American Influences within Mormonism
Bruce Van Orden Chair
Brigham Young University, Emeritus
Mary Ann Clements
Millcreek, Utah
Jonathan E. Neville
Waldport, Oregon
Manuel W. Padro
Independent Scholar
Mark Ashurst-McGee Comments
Joseph Smith Papers Project
Landscapes of the Soul in Women’s Literature
Natalie Brown Chair and Comments
Boulder, Colorado
Tara Godwin
Pleasant Grove, Utah
Michelle Toxvaerd Graabek
European University Institute
Lynne Larson
American Fork, Utah
Three Prominent Saints as Religious Seekers
Christopher Blythe Chair and Comments
Brigham Young University
Newell Bringhurst
College of the Sequoias
Craig L. Foster
Layton, Utah
Marianne T. Watson
Mt. Pleasant, Utah
Our People and Their Mountains
Matthew C. Godfrey Chair and Comments
Joseph Smith Papers
Ann Call Leonard
Farmington, Utah
Glen Leonard
Farmington, Utah
James Swensen
Brigham Young University
Tensions between Latter-day Saints and their Neighbors within Diverse Ethnic Landscapes
Adille Rigoni Massimini Chair and Comments
ESPM (São Paulo, Brazil)
Joe Chelladurai
Madras, India
Joseph Soderborg
Independent Scholar
Brittany Romanello
Arizona State University
The Development of Latter-day Saint Iconography
Micah J. Christensen Chair and Comments
Anthony’s Fine Art & Antiques
Noel A. Carmack
Utah State University Eastern – Price
Jennifer Champoux
Centennial, Colorado
Laura Paulsen Howe
Church History Museum
Women of Authority
Sasha Coles Chair and Comments
Penn State University
Chrissy Carlson
University of Central Oklahoma
Ami Fullmer Chopine
South Jordan, Utah
Elizabeth Egleston Giraud
Salt Lake City, Utah
Millie Tullis
Utah State University
Imaginative Reception of the Book of Mormon
Rosalynde Welch Chair and Comments
Neal A. Maxwell Institute
Stephen Fleming
Independent Scholar
Kent Larsen
New York, NY
James Lucas
Salt Lake City, Utah
Gerrit van Dyk
Brigham Young University
Revisiting Carthage Jail: Crafting Martyrdom Narratives in Word, Imagery, and Cinema
Ron Esplin Chair and Comments
Church History Department
Michael J. Burnham
Tooele, Utah
Casey Paul Griffiths
Brigham Young University
Sam R. Weston
Building Zion in Latin America
Brittany Romanello Chair and Comments
Arizona State University
Jessie Christensen
Brigham Young University
Gabriel González Núñez
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Adille Rigoni Massimini
ESPM (São Paulo, Brazil)
“How Dare You Paint it if you Don’t Know”: Artist’s Depictions of Church History
Anne Berryhill Chair
Church History Department
Robert T. Barrett
Provo, Utah
Casey Childs
Julie Rogers
Glendale, Utah
Anthony Sweat
Brigham Young University
Marlena Wilding
Seattle, Washington
Laura Paulsen Howe Comment
Church History Museum
A Landscape of Family Relations
Nathan B. Oman
William & Mary Law School
Brynlee Emery
Vineyard, Utah
Steven Hill
Farmington, Utah
Diana Glissmeyer
Salt Lake City, Utah
Maggie Maxfield
Hurricane, Utah
Kif Augustine-Adams
Brigham Young University
Women, Art, and Advocacy: Connecting the Intermountain West with the World
Janelle Higbee Chair and Comments
Mormon Women’s History Initiative
Rebekah Clarke
Better Days
Tiffany Hunter Greene
Better Days
Lori Motzkus Wilkinson
Salt Lake Community College
The Changing Landscape of Oral History in the Church History Department
James Goldberg Chair
Church History Department
Christian Fingerle
Church History Department
Liz Heath
Church History Department
Javier Romero
Ciudad de México
Anne Berryhill
Church History Department
CRT and CTR: Fifty Years of Teaching the History of Race in Zion
F. Ross Peterson Chair
Utah State University
Ronald Coleman
University of Utah
Darius A. Gray
Salt Lake City, Utah
Larry Gerlach
Salt Lake City, Utah
A New Cache of Orson Pratt Letters: The Epistolary Art of Mormonism’s Most Prominent Exponent
Jeff Turner Chair and Comments
University of Utah
Brigitte Brown
Smithfield, Utah
Linda Duffield
Orcas, Washington
Breck England
Bountiful, Utah
Art and Architecture in Global Mormon Temples
Nicole Isaac Chair
Neal A. Maxwell Institute
Amanda Buessecker
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Taunalyn Ford
Neal A. Maxwell Institute
Aubrie Mema
Tokyo, Japan
Josh Probert Comments
Neal A. Maxwell Institute
Mormons in America: Westward Movement, Courts, and Politics
Rosalynde Welch
Neal A. Maxwell Institute
Wesley Constandse
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Nathan B. Oman
William & Mary Law School
Nicholas B. Shrum
Yale Divinity School
Shaping Landscape in Fiction
Natalie Brown Chair and Comments
Boulder, Colorado
Rosalyn Eves
Cedar City, Utah
Todd Robert Peterson
Southern Utah University
Problems of Community and Colonialism
Tevita O. Ka’ili Chair
Brigham Young University-Hawaii
Sione Manupuna U.H. Funaki
University of Hawai’i at Mánoa, Brigham Young University, Hawai’i
Charlotte Hansen Terry
University of California, Davis
Warner Woodworth
Brigham Young University (Emeritus)
Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu Comments
University of California, Santa Cruz
Gay Mormon Literature Project: Analysis of Key Texts and Illumination of a Larger Legacy
Gregory A. Prince Chair and Comments
Potomac, Maryland
Gerald Argetsinger
Rochester Institute of Technology
Adam McClain
University of Connecticut
Kristin Perkins
New York
Kingdoms, Images: Interpretations of landscape by contemporary LDS artists
Maddison Colvin
Orem, Utah
Ron Linn
Madeline K. Rupard
New York, NY
Lindsey Webb
Suburban Landscapes in Contemporary Mormon Literature
Kristine Haglund Chair and Comments
St. Louis, Missouri
Lisa Van Orman Hadley
Salt Lake City, Utah
Angela Hallstrom
Salt Lake City, Utah
Darlene L. Young
South Jordan, Utah
The Influence of “Mormon Country”: Saints from Logan and Las Vegas
Bryon Andreasen Chair and Comments
Church History Museum
Alex Baugh
Brigham Young University
Steven Hepworth
Church History Library
Fred E. Woods
Brigham Young University
Thinking with Things: Recent Works by Charles Inouye and James Faulconer
Richard Bushman Chair
Columbia University (Emeritus)
James Faulconer
Neal A. Maxwell Institute
Charles Shirō Inouye
Tufts University
Katharina A. Paxman
Brigham Young University
Losses and Gains for Latter-day Saints Settling the Bear Lake Valley
Andrea Radke-Moss Chair and Comments
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Kathryn Burnside
Church History Department
John S. Dinger
Meridian, Idaho
Faith, Race, and Place: Forming Racial Landscapes in Utah
Christopher Bowman Rich Chair
University of Utah
P. Makoto Hunter
Brigham Young University
Tonya Reiter
Salt Lake City, Utah
Amy Tanner Thiriot
Harleysville, Pennsylvania
Janelle Higbee Comments
Mormon Women’s History Initiative
Restoration Scriptures: Critical Editions Project
Janiece Johnson Chair and Comments
Woodland Hills, Utah
Robin Scott Jensen
Joseph Smith Papers
David Golding
Church History Department
Colby Townsend
Indiana University Bloomington
Between the Kingdom and the World: Question-Answer with the General Editors of Saints, Volume 3: Boldly, Nobly, and Independent
Jed Woodworth Chair
Church History Department
Scott Hales
Church History Department
Angela Hallstrom
Salt Lake City, Utah
Lisa Olsen Tait
Church History Department
Where Belief Wanders: Poetic Topographies in the New West and Beyond
Susan Elizabeth Howe
Ephraim, Utah
Lance Larsen
Brigham Young University
Dave Nielsen
Salt Lake City, Utah
Elisa Eastwood Pulido
Claremont Graduate University
Canyons and Castles: Evolving Identities through Western Landscapes
Nathan Waite Chair and Comments
Church History Department
Marianne Hales Harding
Springville, Utah
Diane Livingston
Utah State University
William Morris
Maple Grove, Minnesota
Sounding the Depths: Testing the Aesthetic Boundaries of Mormonism
Brad Kramer Chair and Comments
Writ & Vision
Liz Busby
Highland, Utah
Maddie Blonquist Shrum
Yale Divinity School
Race and Whiteness in Mormon Art
Rebekah Westrup Chair and Comments
Provo, Utah
Heather Belnap
Brigham Young University
Emily Larsen
Springville Museum of Art
Nathan Rees
University of West Georgia
Approaches to Mormon Thought: A Roundtable Discussion
Alison Syring Chair
University of Illinois Press
Michael Austin
University of Evansville
Matthew Bowman
Claremont Graduate University
Kristine Haglund
St. Louis, Missouri
George Handley
Brigham Young University
Cristina Rosetti
Utah Tech University
Joseph M. Spencer
Brigham Young University
The Restored Gospel and the Art of Ecological Maintenance: Responses and Provocations Inspired by Charles Inouye's Zion Earth Zen Sky
Garrett Maxwell Chair and Comments
Brigham Young University
Kristen Blair
Boston, MA
George Handley
Brigham Young University
Anna Thurston
Yale Divinity School
Charles Shiro Inouye Comments
Tufts University
Influential Women of the Beehive and Lion House
Kiersten Olsen Chair and Comments
Church History Department
Andrea H. Maxfield
Church History Department
Lisa Olsen Tait
Church History Department
Emily Utt
Church History Department
Jonathan A. Stapley Comments
Bellevue, Washington
Dealing with the Desert
David Golding Chair and Comments
Church History Department
Amanda Katz
Carnegie Mellon University
Ben Spackman
Claremont Graduate University
Camilla Stark
Provo, Utah
Projects and Problems of 20th-century LDS assimilation
Charlotte Hansen Terry Chair and Comments
University of California, Davis
Randy Powell
Bingham Memorial Hospital
P. Mike Rattanasengchanh
Midwestern State University
Christine Talbot
University of Northern Colorado
Westward Ho!: Religiosity of Non-LDS Emigrant Groups, Finding a Lost Battalion Woman, and Mormon Battalion Myths
Greg Christofferson Chair
Lehi, Utah
Steve Allison
South Jordan, Utah
Mary Ann Kirk
Mormon Battalion Association
Kevin Henson
Mormon Battalion Association
Travis Bohle Comments
Oregon-California Trails Association
When Women Choose the Questions
Taunalyn Ford Chair and Comments
Neal A. Maxwell Foundation
Jennifer Black
Boise State University
Holly Miller
New Plymouth, New Zealand
Bonnie Young
Issaquah, Washington
New Views on Race and Mormonism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries
Janiece Johnson Chair and Comments
Woodland Hills, Utah
Vinna Chinteram
University of North Carolina
Christopher Cannon Jones
Brigham Young University
Grace Soelberg
Neal A. Maxwell Institute
Literature of Transition: The Landscapes of Susa Young Gates, Nephi Anderson and Virginia Sorensen
Michael Austin Chair and Comments
University of Evansville
Natalie Brown
Boulder, Colorado
Scott Hales
Church History Department
Sarah Reed
Brigham Young University