[Looks like a great program, including a smattering of JIers–always a good sign for a successful conference.]

Claremont Mormon Studies Conference
Community, Authority, and Identity
Claremont Graduate University
March 6-7, 2015

Albrecht Auditorium
925 N. Dartmouth Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711

FRIDAY, MARCH 6

4:00 Welcome and Introduction
Tammi J. Schneider?Claremont Graduate University

4:10-5:30 Mormon Authority and Tradition(s)

• Robert Couch?Willamette University: “Scripture and Authority in the Mormon Tradition”
• Shelby Hamm?Claremont Graduate University: “Conflicting Perceptions of Priesthood & Its Powers”
• Thomas G. Evans?Claremont Graduate University: “Priesthood, Prophecy, and the Failure of ?The Word of the Lord?”

Keynote Address ? 7:30 p.m.

• J. Spencer Fluhman?Brigham Young University: “Secrets and the Making of American Mormonism”

SATURDAY, MARCH 7

9:00-10:20 Mormon Identity in a Digital Age

• Hillary Kirkham?Claremont Graduate University: “Rebranding Mormonism: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? ?I?m a Mormon? Campaign and the Reclamation of Mormon Identity”
• Saskia Tielens?Technische Universität Dortmund: “Breaking the Mold: The Construction of Identity and Authority in an Online Christian Context”
• Rosemary Avance?University of Pennsylvania: “Shifting Mormon Identity and the Internet”

10:30-11:30 Community and Contested Reception

• Samuel Alonzo Dodge?Lehigh University: “God?s Wisdom or Man?s: Mormon Identity and Competing Interpretations of the Word of Wisdom Revelation”
• Steven C. Harper?LDS Church History Department: Identity, Community, and the Contest for Joseph Smith?s First Vision”

11:45-12:45 Community and Ritual in the 19th Century

• Justin Bray?University of Utah: “?That We May Be One?: The Lord?s Supper and Community Worship, 1850-1900”
• Kristine Wright?Independent Scholar: “?How discouraging to be sick so much?: Chronicity, Ritual Failure and Mormon Identity”

1:00 Lunch provided for all attendees

2:00-3:20 History as Identity

• Benjamin E. Park?University of Missouri: “The Gendered Politics of Mormon Identity: Two Nineteenth Century Examples”
• Rachel Hunt Steenblik?Claremont Graduate University: “Mormon Women Write: Reclaiming the Words of Those who have Slumbered in the Dust”
• J.B. Haws?Brigham Young University: “A Mentor and a Mentality: Shaping a Generation of Mormon Historians”