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Conference Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Provo, University, Young Brigham Center, Conference Thursday, March 1, 2018 2018 1, March Thursday, THE INTERSECTION OF BUSINESS AND RELIGION AND BUSINESS OF INTERSECTION THE FinancingFaith

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2:30–3:45p.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS 4 SESSION 4A, 2258 CONF SESSION 4B, 2265 CONF Self-Sufficiency in the Nineteenth Century Financial Endeavors in the Late Nineteenth Chair: Brett D. Dowdle (LDS Church History Department) Century • Striving for Obedience and Economic Improvement: Chair: Kenneth L. Alford (Brigham Young University) The Straw Braiding Home Industry (Patricia Lemmon • Proposed Funding of the Jackson County Temple and Spilsbury, LDS Church History Department) the “Redemption of Zion” and the Bullion, Beck, & • Archeological Signatures of the Trade and Exchange Championship Mining Company (R. Jean Addams, of Locally Produced Utah Pottery: Capitalism and Independent Historian) the Push for Self-Sufficiency in the Mormon Domain • Andrew Jenson’s Business Model in Publishing His Church (Christopher W. Merritt, Utah Division of State History) Chronology (Robin Scott Jensen, LDS Church History Department) • “We Cannot Sit Down Quietly and See Our Children Starve”: An Economic Portrait of Nineteenth-Century Mormon Polygamous Households in Utah (Sherilyn Farnes, Texas Christian University)

7:00–800 p.m. PLENARY KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 2254 CONF (AUDITORIUM)

“Financing Faith: Mormonism and Banking in the 1830s and 1840s.” (Dr. Sharon Murphy, Providence College) Sharon Ann Murphy is a professor of history at Providence College, where she specializes in US history and its organizations, entrepreneurs, marketing campaigns, and financial panics and depressions. Since 2011 she has been an associate editor for Enterprise & Society: The International Journal of Business History published by Cambridge University Press. Her book Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America (2010) won the 2012 Hagley Prize in Business History. She is also the author of Other People’s Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic (2017).

Friday, March 2, 2018 LDS Conference Center, Little Theater, , Utah

SESSION 1 THE AND ECONOMICS 9:00–10:30 Chair: Elizabeth A. Kuehn (LDS Church History Department) • “No One Will Feel Ashamed of the Utah Women’s Exhibit”: Mormon Women, Sericulture, and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (Andrea G. Radke-Moss, Brigham Young University–Idaho) • The Economics Behind Construction of the General Relief Society Building (Mary Jane Woodger, Brigham Young University) • From Gleaning Wheat to Protecting the Lives of Mothers and Children: The Public Health Legacy of Relief Society Grain Storage (Dave Hall, Cal State Fullerton) • Relief Society, Inc.: Practicing Mormon Femininity in the Marketplace, 1867–1942 (Kiersten Olson, University of Utah)

SESSION 2 PLENARY KEYNOTE ADDRESS 10:45–11:45 Gérald Caussé, Presiding Bishop (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Bishop Caussé received a master’s degree in business from ESSEC (1987). His career centered in the food industry, and at the time of his first call as a (Seventy) at age 44, he was the general manager of Pomona, a food distribution company in France. In his calling, Bishop Caussé works diligently to oversee temporal affairs of the Church such as building and maintaining Church properties, publishing books and manuals, helping members become self-reliant, and extending welfare support to refugees and others in need around the world.

11:45–1:00 Lunch (not provided) SESSION 3 THE ECONOMICS OF GATHERING 1:00–2:15 Chair: Robin Scott Jensen (LDS Church History Department) • He’s Been Working on the Railroad: A Case Study of Danish Mormon Immigrant Economies in the Utah Territory (Julie K. Allen, Brigham Young University) • The Economics of Gathering from “Hindustan” (Taunalyn Rutherford, Brigham Young University) • The Politics of Co-Operation: A History of the LDS and the United Farmers of Alberta (Brooke Brassard, University of Waterloo)

SESSION 4 THE UTAH WAR: COUNTING THE COST

2:30–3:45 Chair: Brent M. Rogers (LDS Church History Department) • The Mail and the Trail: Rise and Fall of the Y. X. Carrying Company (R. Devan Jensen, Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center) • Off-the-Books Warfare: Financing the Utah War’s Standing Army of Israel (William P. MacKinnon, Independent Historian) • Direct and Collateral Costs of the 1858 Move South (Kenneth L. Alford, Brigham Young University)