Mormon History Association: Calgary Conference

Mormon History Association Conference

"Mormonism In Its Expanding Global Context: Invitations to New Interpretations and Understanding"

DATES: June 28-July 1, 2012
PLACE: MacEwan Conference and Event Centre, University of Calgary, Canada

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Presentations:

• Lynn A. Rosenvall: "The Transfer of Mormon Culture to Southern Alberta"
• J. B. Haws: "Marching Off Relief: Mormons and the Media During the Great Depression"
• Thomas G. Evans: "Cross-Cultural Case Studies: The 'Mormon Jesus' in Mexico and in Cyberspace"
• Matthew B. Bowman: "The Mormon People: The Making of an American People"
• Mary Anne Prater: "How Does Juvenile Literature Portray the Mormon 'Crossing the Plains' Experience?"
• Boyd Jay Petersen: "'Redeemed from the Curse Placed upon Her': Dialogic Discourse on Eve in the Woman's Exponent, 1872-1900"
• Susanna Morrill: "From Lu Dalton to Stephenie Meyer: Dream Inspiration Among LDS Women Writers"
• Margaret Blair Young and Darius Aidan Gray: "Into Africa: Perspectives on Mormonism in Africa from the 1960s to the Present"
• Jeffrey G. Cannon: "There are Certainly No People in the Whole World Who are so Truly God-fearing as the Afrikaner: Afrikaner Religion and the Mormon Experience in the Cape Colony, 1853-1865"
• Michael H. MacKay: "Examining the Documents: The Letters of Addison Everett"
• Robin Scott Jensen: "Contextualizing the Revelations: An Initial Analysis of the Introduction of Joseph Smith's Revelations."
• Gerrit J. Dirkmaat: "Searching for 'Happiness': Joseph Smith's Alleged Authorship of the 1842 Letter to Nancy Rigdon"
• Lloyd Knowles: "Sidney Rigdon: A Frustrated Restorationist in Pursuit of 'The True Church'"
• Richard T. Hughes: "A Restoration Paradox: The Stone-Campbell Movement and the U.S.A."
• Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye: "Truth Made in China: The True Jesus Church and the Cultural Context for Restoration"
• Klaus Gurgel: "Mapping the Growth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) and the Community of Christ (RLDS) in Canada: A Brief Historical Geography, 1830-2010"
• Allen LeBaron: "On Identifying Canadian Converts: An Experiment"
• Richard E. Turley Jr.: "Decentralizing Church History: A Shift in Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing the Mormon Past in a Global Setting"
• Lawrence Foster: "Why Polyandry Isn't the Right Term to Describe Joseph Smith's Marriages to Women Who Remained Legally Married to Other Men: Reflections on a Difficult and Challenging Issue"
• Brian C. Hales: "Joseph Smith's Sexual Polyandry and the Emperor's New Clothes: On Closer Inspection, What do We Find?"
• Claudia L. Bushman: "A First Hand Look at Life in Alberta, 1899-1917"
• Gary L. Boatright Jr.: "Theodore Brandley and the Settlement of Sterling, Alberta"
• Richard S. McFarlane: "The Stevens and Rodeback Families"
• David J. Howlett: "Despite Our Differences: Cooperating and Contemporary Religious Diversity at the Kirtland Temple"
• Melvin L. Bashore: "Handcarts to Zion"- A Modern Rite of Passage"
• R. Jean Addams: "The Bullion, Beck and Champion Mining Company and the Physical Redemption of Zion (Jackson County, Mo.)"
• Grant Underwood: "Roger Williams in the Historical Imagination of Restoration Churches"
• J. Spencer Fluhman: "Textbook Mormons: Mormons in the Crucible of American Historical Narrative"
• Stephen S. Francis: "The Image of John Calvin within Mormonism"
• Benjamin E. Park: "The Theology of a Career Convert: Edward W. Tullidge's Evolving Identities"
• Amanda Lee Hendrix-Komoto: "To Forsake Thy Father and Mother: Mary Fielding Smith and the Familial Politics of Conversion"
• Christopher C. Jones: "Tying Methodism to Mormonism: A Comparative Analysis of Three Early Mormon Converts"
• Lisa Clayton: "In Conversation with God: LDS Women's Perspectives"
• Taunalyn Ford Rutherford: "Relief Society: Perspectives from Daughters in the Kingdom"
• Elizabeth J. Mott: "Becoming Mormon in America and Abroad: First-Generation Female Converts' Adoptions of a New Religious Identity in the Twentieth-Century"
• Thomas Wayment: "From Palmyra to Damascus: Joseph Smith and the Apostle Paul"
• Legrand Richards and Brian Ricks: "Brigham Young University and the LDS Adoption of 'Secular Knowledge'"
• Lincoln Blumell: "Joseph and Josephus: How Far the Influence?"
• Konden R. Smith: "'Sympathy of Religion': The Scientific Study of 'Comparative Religion' and the Entrance of Mormonism at the 1893 World's Fair"
• Michael Harold Paulos: "'Justice is Never Permanently Defeated Anywhere:' Reed Smoot's Confrimation Vote
• Kenneth L. Cannon II: "Isaac Russell: Mormon Muckraker, 1909-1920s"
• Bradford Westwood: "A Grand Convergence of Intentions: The Interior Design and Supporting Building of the Salt Lake Temple, 1887-1893"
• Paul L. Anderson: "Making a Modern Masterpiece: Influences and Innovations in the Design for the Cardston Temple"
• Linda Hunter Adams: "LeConte Stewart, Temple Murals Artist for the Cardston Temple"
• Mark Ashurst-McGee: "Zion Nationalism and the Ecclesiological Status of Bishop-Judge Edward Partridge, 1831-1832"
• Matthew C. Godfrey: "'Seeking After Monarchal Power and Authority': Joseph Smith's Implementation of Leadership Structure in the Church of Christ, 1831-1832"
• Jeffrey S. Tucker: "Shedding Light on the Bishop: X-Ray Spectroscopy and the Nuanced Meanings of the Edward Partridge Bishop's Recommend/License, 1831-1832"
• Sarah Pearsall: "Monstrous Notions: Polygamy Controversies of the 1780s"
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich: "Polygamy and Divorce: Another Look at Udney Hay Jacob, The Peacemaker"
• Sarah Carter: "A Serious Moral and National Ulcer: Combating Polygamy in Southern Alberta to 1900"
• Elwin C. Robison: "Understanding the Beehive and Lion Houses"
• Emily Utt: "Understanding the Stand: Evolution in LDS Meetinghouse Design"
• W. Ray Luce: "Landmark LDS Buildings and the Expansion and Redefinition of Zion, (1900-1950)"
• Philip Barlow, Rosalynde Frandsen Welch, Susanna Morrill: Author Meets Critics: In Heaven as It is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death (Oxford)
• Lynne H. Wilson: "Choose to be Chosen"- Joseph Smith on Election"
• Susan Easton Black: "The Doctrine of Baptisms for the Dead in Nauvoo, 1841-1845"
• J. Chase Kirkham: "World's Without End: The Cosmological Theodicy of Brigham Young"
• Ronald K. Esplin: "'The Joseph Smith Papers Project'- Where Does It Now Stand and From Here Where?"
• Walter E. A. van Beek: "The United States and the European Mormon Church"
• David Hall: "Ministering to the Saints Amidst the Gathering Storm: Amy Brown Lyman's Mission in Europe, 1936-1938"
• Sarah Clement Reed: "Ordained Spellbinders: Joseph Smith, Martin Stephan, and German-American Cultural Exchange"
• Stephen J. Fleming: "A New Look at Joseph Smith's Marital Practices"
• George D. Smith: "Another Nauvoo Wife of Brigham Young"
• Kenneth L. Alford: "The Legality of Joseph Smith's 1838 Court-Martial"
• Alexander Baugh: "Purchasing Zion: Mormon Land Acquisition in Jackson County, Missouri, 1831-1833"
• Allen LeBaron: "Canadian Participants in the 1838 Mormon-Missouri War"
• Craig Manscill : "Hyrum Smith's Contribution to Building the Kirtland Temple"
• Richard O. Cowan: "Temples and the Gathering"
• Ronald W. Walker: "The U. S. Presidential Campaign of 1856: Prelude to the Utah War"
• Brent Rogers: "What Think Ye of Imperium in Imperio? Mormons, Sovereignty, and the Distribution of Power"
• David Pulsipher: "Mormon Women and Peace Activism"
• Andrea Radke-Moss: "Nineteenth-century Birthday Celebrations"
• Jenny Reeder: "Salt Lake City 20th Ward Quilt Shows"
• Susan W. Howard: "William Jarman: Apostate Polygamist and Founder of the British Anti-Mormon Society"
• Fred Woods: "Mormon Migration and the Canadian Mounties in the Late Nineteenth Century"
• Brooke Kathleen Brassard: "Playing Lawyer with the Case of Plural Marriage in Canada: Rethinking Past Papers and Arguments in Favour of Decriminalization"
• David B. Marshall: "The Latter Day Saints, the 'Doughnut,' and Post-Christian Canada"
• Charles Schmalz: "Mormon Sugar in Alberta II: The Struggle to Re-establish the Industry"
• Jessie L. Embry: "Bringing Mormonism and America to Canada"
• Mary Jane Woodger: "Frontier Prophetesses: The Gift of Tongues as Manifest by Latter-day Saint Women in Southern Alberta, 1894-1930"
• Farina King Smith: "Mormon Navajos at the Intermountain Indian Boarding School, 1949-1984"
• Barbara Jones Brown: "Four Years Among the Indians: Missionary Work on Western Canada's Reserves, 1964-1968"
• Alexander Baugh, Polly Aird. Response: Matthew J. Grow; Author Meets Critics: Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism (Oxford)
• Joann Follett Mortensen: "King Follet: His Death, Funeral, and Burial"
• Mitchell K. Schaefer: "The Law . . . Could Not Be Kept Here: Consecration in Nauvoo, 1840-1842"
• John H. McBride et al: "Assessment of Archaeological Resources in Old Nauvoo Using Ground-Penetrating Radar"
• Lisa Olsen Tait: "Susa Young Gates: The Hawaii Years, 1879-1889"
• Chad M. Orton: "A Stranger in Paradise: George Q. Cannon and the Hawaiian Mission (1850-1854)"
• J. Sherman Feher and Douglas Pike: "Noah Rogers: A View of Early Mormons and Global Expansion."
• Lawrence G. Coates: "Healing Bitterness: The Mountain Meadows Massacre"
• Mina Estevez: "Murdering History: Literature and the Mountain Meadows Massacre"
• Cristine Hutchison-Jones: "Viewing Mormons from the Inside Out: Popular American Writers from the Intermountain
• Natalie K. Rose: "'Be Pure, Be Wise, Be Prudent and True': Mormon Girlhood and the End of Polygamy"
• Kate Holbrook: "Learning to Play with Fire: 100 Years of Cooking at Girls' Camp"
• Kristine Wright: "'We Baked a Lot of Bread': Re-conceptualizing Mormon Women and Ritual Objects"
• Aimee Evans Hickman: "Crafting While My Toddler Sleeps"
• Craig L. Foster: "The Prophet's Wives and Children"
• Newell G. Bringhurst: "Where Have all of Brigham Young's Wives Gone?"
• Jeffery O. Johnson: "Children of the Harem: A Look at the Children of Brigham Young"
• Joseph Trevor Antley: "The Treasure Quest: Recapturing the Supernatural in Early America"
• Jonathan A. Stapley: "Pouring in Oil: Magic and Mormon Healing"
• Rachel Gostenhofer: "John Dee and Joseph Smith"
• Martha Taysom, editor, Lavina Fielding Anderson, copy editor, Boyd Jay Petersen, book review editor: "An Introduction to the Journal of Mormon History: Everything You've Wanted to Know but Didn't Know Whom to Ask"
• Reid L. Neilson: "Errand to the World: The 1852 Mormon Missionary Conference"
• Kahlile B. Mehr: "To the House of Israel: Mormon"-Jewish Missionary Efforts in the 1970s"
• James B. Allen: "Invisible Half-Century, 1950-2000: The Significance for the Latter-day Saints of the Last Half of the 20th Century, A Personal Interpretation"
• Stanley J. Thayne: "Wandering Significance: The Figure of Hagoth and the Many Migrations of Latter-day Lamanite/Nephite Identity"
• Barbara Morgan: "The 1978 Official Declaration: A Revolution on Cultural Emphasis in the International Church"
• W. Paul Reeve: "Race, Marriage, and 'Negro Blood in My Veins': Scipio A.Kenner and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness"
• Jiro Numano: "'The Angel and the Dragon': The Expanding Presence of the LDS Church in China"
• Dennis Phillips: "Planting and Harvesting the Seeds: The Growth of the LDS Church in Hong Kong, 1955-2004"
• Elder Marlin K. Jensen: "Reflections of a Church Historian and Recorder"