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October 6 – 9
USU Conference Center

Thursday (October 6)

Display of Book of Mormon Original Manuscript – 1:30 pm
Panel presentation: “Complexities of Conservation, Imaging, and Piecing together the Fragments of the Original Manuscript of the BoM for the Joseph Smith Papers,” by Emiline Twitchell, Tyler Thorsted, and Robin Jensen
Church History Library, Salt Lake City

The Psalm of Nephi: A Lecture-Recital of Sacred Text and Music – 7:30 pm
Lecture by Patrick Mason (Utah State University)
Songs performed by Chris Machado (M.A. student in choral conducting, USU)
Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall, USU campus
Free and open to the public

Friday (October 7)

Plenary Session: Book Review, 8:30 – 9:30 am
Revelations and Translations, Volume 5: Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon
Robin Jensen (Joseph Smith Papers), reviewing Richard L. Saunders, The 1920 Edition of the Book of Mormon
Jim Faulconer (Independent Scholar), reviewing Joseph M. Spencer, The Anatomy of Book of Mormon Theology (2 vols)

Plenary Session: Interview with Ann Taves, 9:45 – 10:45 am

Concurrent Sessions, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Room 1
Elizabeth Fenton (University of Vermont) – “The Book of Mormon and Book History”
Jenny Webb (Bangor University) – “‘Many words which were not understood’: Verbal Economies in Alma 19”

Room 2
Jordan Watkins (Brigham Young University) – “‘Neither should they be dimmed any more by time’: The Book of Mormon, the Bible, and the Radical Presence of the Past”
Nate Williams (Brigham Young University – Idaho) – “‘By that book…’: W.W. Phelps and the Printing of the Book of Mormon”

Concurrent Sessions, 2:00 – 3:30 pm

Room 1
Tyler Chadwick (Utah Valley University) – “Word-work as Arboreal Eco-Disposition: Alma’s Mother Tree Springing Up”
Zach Stevenson (Brigham Young University) – “Faith, Hope (& Charity): Moroni 10:30 as Evidence of Moroni’s Maturation”
Sydney Ballif (Brigham Young University) – “1 Nephi in Conversation with Robinson’s Gilead“

Room 2
George Handley (Brigham Young University) – “The Case for Social Morality in the Book of Mormon”
Sharon Harris (Brigham Young University) – “Intimacy in Christian life in the Book of Mormon”

Concurrent Sessions, 3:45 pm – 5:15 pm

Room 1
Jenny Champoux (Northeastern University) – “The Book of Mormon Art Catalog: Scope of the Project and Preliminary Analyses”
Margaret Olsen Hemming and Fatimah Salleh (Independent Scholars) – “The Silent Spaces and the Naming of God in the Book of Mormon”

Room 2
John Christopher Thomas (Pentecostal Theological Seminary, Bangor University) – “Implied Readers, the Bible, and the Book of Mormon: Soundings from Enos, Jarom, Omni, and Words of Mormon”
Kylie Nielson Turley (Brigham Young University) – “Reconsidering the Setting Forth of This and That in Mormon 7:9″

Saturday (October 8)

Business Meeting, 8:00 am – 8:30 am

Plenary Session: The Book of Mormon as Generative Scripture, 8:45 am – 10:15 am
Christopher Blythe (Brigham Young University)
Thomas Murphy (Edmonds College) – “Unsettling Scripture: A Neophyte Context for the Book of Mormon”

Plenary Session: Branches of the Restoration, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Patrick McKay (Apostle in the Joint Conference of Restoration Branches) – “Believe In the Prophecies Which Are to Come to Pass”
Nancy Ross (Utah Tech University, Pastor in Community of Christ)
Gary Whiting (Apostle in the Joint Conference of Restoration Branches)

Concurrent Sessions, 2:00 – 3:30 pm

Room 1
Daniel Becerra (Brigham Young University) – “Demonology in the Book of Jacob”
Jan Martin (Brigham Young University) – “‘Filthy This Day Before God’: The Prophet Jacob’s Appraisal of the Nephites and Lamanites”

Room 2
Nick Frederick (Brigham Young University) – “Could Brandon Sanderson Have Saved the Nephites?”
Kim Matheson (Maxwell Institute) – “Mormon(?)’s Sermon, Moroni(?)’s Edits: Interpolations in Moroni 7

Concurrent Sessions, 3:45 – 5:15 pm

Room 1
Joseph M. Spencer (Brigham Young University) – “On Opposition: A Lehite Theory of Affect”
Rosalynde Welch (Maxwell Institute) – “The Incarnational Vision of Ether 3: Spirit Bodies and the Scandal of the Particular”

Room 2
Morgan Davis (Maxwell Institute) – “Putting the Qur’anic Cycle of Moses Stories into Conversation with the Book of Mormon”
Joshua Sears (Brigham Young University) – “Deutero-Isaiah in the Book of Mormon: A Short History of Latter-day Saint Responses”

Keynote Speaker, 7:30 – 8:30 pm
David Holland (Harvard Divinity School) – “‘Condemn Me Not’: Matters of (Im)perfection in the Book of Mormon and Antebellum Literary Culture”