Oliver Cowdery Symposium

Oliver Cowdery
Restoration Witness, Second Elder

Friday, November 10, 2006 • Noon–5:00 P.M.
Brigham Young University
Conference Center • Provo, Utah

Admission is free. • No registration is required. • For further information, please call (801) 494-9174.



Noon–12:50 P.M. General Session
Richard L. Bushman, "Oliver's Joseph"
(Keynote Speaker)

1:00–1:50 P.M. Concurrent Sessions
Susan Easton Black, "Oliver Cowdery in the Doctrine and Covenants"
John W. Welch, "The Contributions in BYU Studies and FARMS Relating to the Life and Mission of Oliver Cowdery"
Royal Skousen, "Oliver Cowdery as Book of Mormon Scribe"

2:00–2:50 P.M. Concurrent Sessions
Richard L. Anderson, "Financial Aspects of Oliver Cowdery's Conflict with the Church"
Keith J. Wilson, "Oliver Cowdery as Academic"
Steven C. Harper, "Oliver Cowdery: Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration"

3:00–3:50 P.M. Concurrent Sessions
Scott H. Faulring, "Oliver Cowdery's Richmond, Missouri, Experience, 1838, 1849–50"
Grant Underwood, "Oliver Cowdery's Early Correspondence with the Prophet Joseph Smith"
Mark L. Staker, "Oliver Cowdery and the Kirtland Economy"

4:00–4:50 P.M. Concurrent Sessions
Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Robert F. Schwartz, and
Stanley J. Thayne, "The Oliver Cowdery–Three Witnesses Monument, Richmond, Missouri"
Jeffrey N. Walker, "Oliver Cowdery, Ohio Attorney"
Larry E. Morris, "Oliver Cowdery Before His Association with Joseph Smith, 1828–1829"
Patrick A. Bishop, "Discovery and Identification of an Original Oliver Cowdery Daguerreotype"