The Mormon History Association has posted preliminary program for its annual conference. Scheduled for May 26-29, the conference will focus on Joseph Smith and will be held in Vermont (for an earlier post on this conference, see here). Also, it appears that several Bloggernacle members/participants are participating this year.

A plenary speaker, Charles L. Cohen, who will be giving the Tanner
Lecture, will speak on “The Importance of Old Testament
and Jewish Imagery in the Construction of Mormons’ Self-Identity as a
Distinctive People during the Period 1825-55.” Richard L. Bushman, emeritus professor of history at Columbia University, will be giving a plenary address on his forthcoming
biography. His address is entitled “The Inner Joseph Smith.” But my favorite paper title is undoubtedly “A Culture of Theatrical
Cross-Dressing at BYU: Mormon Student Bodies, 1910-1970.” Outside of
that, there are many other presentations that sound interesting to me:

“Reconstructing Joseph Smith’s Y Chromosome and Genealogical Applications”
Ugo A. Perego, Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation
Note: Perego may discuss issues related to
possible children of Joseph Smith by women other than Emma.

“The Colony: Mormons in New York City, 1900-1916″
Ardis E. Parshall, independent scholar

“A Review of Hyrum Smith’s Experiences in Moor’s School at Dartmouth College”
Richard K. Behrens, Midway, Utah

“Brother Brigham’s Divorce Policies”
Lowell “Ben” Bennion, professor emeritus, Humboldt State University

“The Civil Side of Divorce in Utah County”
Lisa McCasline, Brigham Young University

“Breaking the Seal: Analysis of Cancellations of Sealing by Brigham Young”
Kathryn M. Daynes, Brigham Young University

“‘I Have Something Better for You’: The Religious and Social Context of Joseph Smith’s Organization of the Relief Society”
Carol Cornwell Madsen, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History

“Joseph Smith’s Close Associates and His Evolving Views on Race”
Newell G. Bringhurst, College of the Sequoias

“A Mormon Bigfoot: David Patten’s Cain and the Conception of Evil in LDS Folklore”
Matthew Bowman, Georgetown University

“Singular Phenomena: Mormon UFO Sightings in the Nineteenth-Century”
Michael Scott Van Wagenen, University of Utah

“A Nessie in Mormon Country: The Bear Lake Monster in Nineteenth-Century Utah”
Alan Morrell, University of Utah

“Joseph Smith Walking on Water Stories and other Susquehanna River Folk Tales”
J. Taylor Hollist, professor emeritus, SUNY Oneanta

“The Mormon Mummies: A Study in Evidences”
S. J. Wolfe, American Antiquarian Society

“Research in the History of the Book of Abraham”
Brian L. Smith, Orem Institute, CES

“Tracking the Missing Mormon Mummies and Papyri”
Edgar Snow, Burr & Forman LLP, Atlanta, Georgia

“‘I Have Found a Key!’: Joseph Smith and the Lost Word”
Nicholas S. Literski, independent scholar
Note: Literski is working on a book concerning Masonry and Mormonism.

“The Travail of the Southern Emigrant Trains of 1857″
Ronald W. Walker, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History

“John D. Lee and the Initial Attacks at Mountain Meadows”
Glen M. Leonard, LDS Museum of Church History and Art

“John Cradlebaugh’s 1859 Southern Tour”
Richard E. Turley Jr., LDS Family and Church History Department
Note: Walker, Leonard, and Turley provide their latest findings regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

“Mobbed Martyrs or Lustful Louts? Anti-Mormon Violence in the Southern States, 1870-1900″
Patrick Q. Mason, University of Notre Dame

“Evaluating Parallels to the Book of Mormon: A Proposed Methodology”
Ralph D. Wagner, independent scholar

“What Made a Stone a Seer Stone?”
Mark Ashurst-McGee, Arizona State University

“Joseph Smith and the Revelations: From Manuscripts to Publication”
Robert J. Woodford, CES retired

“Contemporary Mormon Women in Social Science Literature: Where Are They?”
Marie Cornwall, Brigham Young University

“Self-Consciously Constructed Theologies or Creative Attachment to One’s Tradition:
A Comparative Look at Mormon and Evangelical Women”
Melissa Proctor, Brown University

“Mormon Women in the History of Second-wave Feminism”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University

In Pursuit of the Elusive Joseph Smith: A Forty-Year Biographical Quest

Roger D. Launius, National Air and Space Museum
D. Michael Quinn, independent scholar
Grant Underwood, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History

Songs of Eliza R. Snow: Creating and Celebrating Mormon Identity

Karen Lynn Davidson, Salt Lake City
Jill Mulvay Derr, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History
Kristine Haglund Harris, Swampscott, MA
Jennifer Reeder, New York University

“Muscular Mormonism”
Richard Ian Kimball, Brigham Young University

“BYU and the Body”
Jed Woodworth, University of Wisconsin

Setting the Record Straight: Historical Insights and Discoveries from the Joseph Smith Papers, 1834-38

Alexander L. Baugh, Brigham Young University
Max L. Parkin, CES, retired
Steven C. Harper, Brigham Young University

“Remembering Brother Joseph: Iconography of Joseph Smith in LDS Worship Spaces”
Josh Probert, Yale University

“Joseph Smith in LDS Folk Art”
Richard Oman, LDS Museum of Church History and Art

“A Visual Portrait of Mormonism in New England”
William W. Slaughter, LDS Church Archives

“David O. McKay and the Rise of International Mormonism”
Gregory A. Prince, Rockville, Maryland

“The MX Missile in Zion?: A Case Study of Special Interests and the Church in National Politics”
Jacob W. Olmstead, Brigham Young University

Joseph Smith Online: Current Developments and Online Resources

Kevin Nielson, Joseph Smith Website, LDS Church
Val Edwards, LDS Church Public Affairs
John W. Welch, BYU Studies