Home >> Annual Meetings >> 2004 Annual Meeting Program   2004 Annual Meeting Program Please note that many of the sessions listed below run concurrently.   Thursday, September 23 REGISTRATION (3:00-7:45pm)     BOOK DISPLAY (5:00-8:00pm)     SESSION 1 (8:00pm) Sterling M. McMurrin Lecture PRESENTER: “Rethinking the Restoration Vision” — Richard T. Hughes, Director, Center for Faith and Learning, Pepperdine University CHAIR: Robert Flanders, Southwest Missouri State University     Friday, September 24 SESSION 2 (8:30-10:20am) A Conversation about Restoration as a Theological Category in the Community of Christ, the Latter-day Saint, and the Campbellite Traditions PARTICIPANTS: Don Compier, Community of Christ Seminary, Graceland University Roseanne Benson, Brigham Young University Richard Hughes, Pepperdine University and the Audience MODERATOR: Jan Shipps, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis   SESSION 3 (8:30-10:20am) The Midwest Was the Place PRESENTERS: “Council Bluffs/ Kanesville: A Hub For Mormon Settlements, Operations, and Emigration, 1846-1852” — William G. Hartley, Brigham Young University   “The Mormon Prophet’s Illinois Legacy as Revealed in the Community of Christ’s Historic Restoration in Nauvoo” — Joyce Shireman, Joseph Smith Historic Site, Nauvoo, Illinois RESPONSE: Richard E. Bennett, Brigham Young University CHAIR: Jeanne Murphy , Glen Carbon, Illinois   BREAK (10:20-10:40am)     SESSION 4 (10:45-11:45am) Distinguished Senior Scholar Plenary Session PRESENTER: “A New Look at Mormonism’s Quest for Empire” — Klaus Hansen, Queen’s University CHAIR: Kenneth E. Stobaugh, Independence, Missouri   LUNCH (12:00-1:00pm)     SESSION 5 (1:15-2:30pm) The Academy Challenges Orthodoxy PRESENTERS: “The Role of the University Bulletin in the Life of the Church” — Barbara Higdon, Graceland University   “Courage Challenges the Establishment” — Biloine Young, St. Paul, Minnesota RESPONSE: William D. Russell and the Audience CHAIR: Alex Baugh, Brigham Young University   SESSION 6 (1:15-2:30pm) Symbols and Questions PRESENTERS: “Impressions With A Purpose: A Quest for Truth: Omissions, Discrepancies, and Real Origins of the Church Seal” — Larry Tyree, Director of International Resources, Community of Christ   “Joseph Smith, Jr.: A Fallen Prophet?” — James Everett, Independence, Missouri RESPONSE: Pat Spillman, JWHA Journal Editor CHAIR: Norma Derry Hiles, Lamoni, Iowa   SESSION 7 (2:45-4:10pm) Military Matters and the Restoration: A Panel. “The Nauvoo Legion within Its American Context.” PANELISTS: Richard E. Bennett, Brigham Young University Susan Easton Black, Brigham Young University Donald Cannon, Brigham Young University MODERATOR: Michael S. Riggs, Far West Cultural Center   SESSION 8 (2:45-4:10pm) History and Literature in the RLDS Context PRESENTERS: “Romance and Realism in the Quest for Timelessness” — Sandra Petree, Northwestern Oklahoma State University   “Zion as Fiction: Gender, Early RLDS Novels, and the Politics of Place” — David J. Howlett, University of Missouri, Kansas City   “The Struggles of Charles Jensen: The Homosexual Friend of an Early RLDS Poet” — Lewis M. Weigand, Council Bluffs, Iowa RESPONSE: Barbara Higdon, Graceland University, Independence CHAIR: Craig Foster, LDS Family History Library   BREAK (4:10-4:30pm)     SESSION 9 (4:30-6:00pm) An Author Meets the Critics Plenary Session: Dan Vogel’s Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet. PANELISTS: Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University Scott H. Faulring, Brigham Young University Paul M. Edwards, Emeritus, Church of Christ Temple School RESPONSE: Dan Vogel, Westerville, Ohio MODERATOR: Newell G. Bringhurst, College of the Sequoias   DINNER (6:30-7:30pm)     SESSION 10 (8:00pm) The Significance of Place Revealed in Words and Maps PRESENTERS: “Galland’s Grove: Microcosm of the Early RLDS Church in Southwest Iowa” — Barbara Bernauer, Community of Christ Archives   “Mapping Mormonism” — John Hamer, Ann Arbor, Michigan CHAIR: Lachlan Mackay, Community of Christ Historic Sites Coordinator     Saturday, September 25 SESSION 11 (8:30-9:40am) Revisioning History: Three Pioneers PANELISTS: James E. Lancaster, West Bloomfield, Michigan Robert B. Flanders, Southwest Missouri State University Richard P. Howard, Graceland University MODERATOR: Elbert Peck, Salt Lake City, Utah   SESSION 12 (8:30-9:40am) Remembering Temple Lot PRESENTERS: “Otto Fetting, John the Baptist, and Building the Temple” — Jason R. Smith, Duncan Oklahoma   “Zion’s Gallows: The Sacred and Profane Geography of the Mormon Temple Lot” — Richard D. Ouellette, University of Texas at Austin RESPONSE: Ron Romig, Community of Christ Archives CHAIR: Barbara Walden, Community of Christ Historic Sites   BREAK (9:40-10:00am)     SESSION 13 (10:00-11:30am) Building Strang’s Kingdom and Preserving His Family PRESENTERS: “Strangite Proselyting in the Camp of Israel” — Jerry L. Gorden, Johnston, Iowa   “Witnessing the Plates: The Voree Plates as seen by Aaron Smith” — Robin Jensen, Brigham Young University   “Elizabeth (Betsy) McNutt: James Strang’s Third Wife and the Last to Deny Him” — Vickie Speek, Minooka, Illinois RESPONSE: Bill Shepard, Old Voree Strangite Properties CHAIR: Henry H. Goldman, Huntington Beach, California   SESSION 14 (10:00-11:30am) Old and New Accounts of Hyrum Smith PRESENTERS: “Writing about the Mormon Prophet’s Brother: A Biographer’s Reflections” — Jeff O’Driscoll, Salt Lake City, Utah   “The Cosmos and Chronos of Mormon Thought: An Intellectual View of Joseph Smith through the Eyes of His Brother Hyrum” — Richard K. Behrens, Midway, Utah RESPONSE: Val Avery, Northern Arizona University CHAIR: Lyman F. Edwards, Kansas City, Missouri   SESSION 15 (10:00-11:30am) Assessing Clyde Forsberg’s Arguments about Early Mormonism PANELISTS: Susan Curtis, Purdue University Roger Launius, Smithsonian Institution Alfred Bush, Princeton University RESPONSE: Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., Queen’s University CHAIR: Philip Barlow, Hanover College   BUS TOUR of area historic sites (12:00–6:00pm)     ANNUAL BANQUET (7:00pm) Business Meeting, Conferral of Awards PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: “As Neither Apologist nor Cynic: Filling the Gap and Keeping the Theologians Honest” — Mark A. Scherer, Community of Christ Church Historian     Sunday, September 26 SESSION 17 (9:00-10:00am) Religious Education in the Church, 1958-1970 PANELISTS: Richard Lancaster, Carmel, Indiana Don Landon, Southwest Missouri State University Lloyd Young COMMENT: Paul Edwards, Emeritus, Community of Christ Temple School CHAIR: William Russell, Graceland University, Lamoni   WORSHIP SERVICE (10:00-11:00am)     All contents copyright ©2003-2008 by John Whitmer Historical Association