Program
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Wednesday, May 22
7:00 - 9:00 pm - Cream Soda Reception at Scripps College Dorms
Thursday, May 23
8:00 - 9:00 am - Registration and Welcome
9:00 - 10:20 am - Session 1
Vox Scripturae, Vox Dei
Angie Allred, Joseph Green, David Paxman
Moderator: Rachel Helps
10:30 - 11:50 am - Session 2
2a - Refreshing the Restoration
Catie Nielsen, Christian Van Dyke, Diana Brown
Moderator: Diana Brown
2b - Plates, Science, & Other (Im)material Sources
James Egan, Nathan Rockwood, Benjamin Peters
Moderator: Tod Robbins
12:00 - 1:20 pm - Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:50 pm - Session 3
3a - Poetry as Secondary Source to Inspiration
Darlene Young, Meg McManama, Alixa Brobbey, Susan Howe
Moderator: Kristine Haglund
3b - Gnosticism & Practice
Alex Criddle, Brandon Wilson, Clifton Jolley
Moderator: Benjamin Peters
3:00 - 4:20 pm - Session 4
4a - History as Witness
Joseph Everett, Elizabeth Bingham Thomas, Andrew Petersen
Moderator: David Paxman
4b - Literature as Witness
Samuel Brown, John Cutler, David Gore
Moderator: James Egan
4:30 - 5:50 pm - Session 5
Mormon Literature as Witness
Scott Hales, Rachel Helps, Emma Tueller Stone
Moderator: John Cutler
6:00 - 7:15 pm - Keynote Presentation
Identifying the Unidentified: How Mormons Created Aliens
Matthew Bowman
7:30 - 9:00 pm - Dinner
Friday, May 24
8:30 - 9:00 am - Gather & Late Registration
9:00 - 10:20 am - Session 6
Sources of Authority (Zoom)
Frederik Kleiner, El Call, Garrett Maxwell
Moderator: Emma Tueller Stone
10:30 - 11:50 am - Session 7
7a - The Witness of Poetry
Kent Larsen, Meg McManama, George Handley
Moderator: David Gore
7b - Alternative Traditions
Brigham Barnes, Makoto Hunter, Steven Peck
Moderator: Catie Nielsen
12:00 - 1:20 pm - Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:50 pm - Session 8
Global Sources, Local Eyewitnesses (Zoom)
Nicole Issac, Peter Eubanks, Bob Rees
Moderator: Tod Robbins
All sessions will be held at Claremont Graduate University or over Zoom.