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The conference will open with registration at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 20, in the E. F. Yerby Conference Center. The opening session is set for 1:00 p.m. at the University Museum, followed by the first lectures at 2:30, at Johnson Commons. The conference will conclude with the closing party scheduled for 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 24. A detailed program will be provided with our conference acknowledgment letter.
Titles of lectures in brackets are topics only. Full titles will be added later in the spring.
SUNDAY, JULY 20 |
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| 10:00 | REGISTRATION Yerby Conference Center |
| 1:00 | RECEPTIONS FOR EXHIBITIONS
William Christenberry Site: Possession Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember |
| 2:30 | “IN CONFLICT WITH ITSELF”: FAULKNERIAN CONTEXT James B. Carothers Johnson Commons |
| 4:00 | THE SECRET MACHINERY OF
TEXTUALITY, OR, WHAT IS
BENJY COMPSON REALLY
THINKING? Taylor Hagood Johnson Commons |
| 5:30 | Buffet Supper
Howorth Home, 910 Old Taylor Road |
| 7:30 | WELCOME Richard Howorth, Mayor, City of Oxford Gloria Kellum, Vice Chancellor for University Relations University of Mississippi WILLIAM FAULKNER SOCIETY FELLOWS Donald M. Kartiganer PRESENTATION OF EUDORA WELTY AWARDS IN CREATIVE WRITING Ted Ownby BROTHER WILL AND COLONEL JIM Video Interviews with Jimmy Faulkner Chris Cranford Johnson Commons |
MONDAY, JULY 21 |
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| 8:30 | TEACHING FAULKNER I James B. Carothers Johnson Commons |
| 10:30 | VISUALIZING LIGHT IN AUGUST: TEXT, AUTHOR, TEXTUALITY, AUTHORITY Thadious Davis Johnson Commons |
| 12:00 | COLLECTING FAULKNER
Seth Berner Johnson Commons (Box Lunch Available) |
| 1:30 | INTERTEXTUAL GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION AND BIRACIAL IDENTITY: LIGHT IN AUGUST AND NELLA LARSEN’S QUICKSAND Martyn Bone Johnson Commons |
| 3:00 | Panel I
"HOW? TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND STILL TOMORROW. HOW?” BACKWATER RISING, MEN SINKING DOWN: READING FAULKNER’S “OLD MAN” WITH THE DELTA BLUES ON PLOTS AND MONSTERS IN THE UNVANQUISHED Johnson Commons |
| 8:00 |
THE MAKING OF THE SOUND AND THE FURY (APRIL SEVENTH, 1928) John Collins, Director Johnson Commons |
| 10:00 | FAULKNER ON THE FRINGE
Open mic at Southside Gallery Colby Kullman, Vickie M. Cook, and Wil Cook, hosts |
TUESDAY, JULY 22 |
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| 8:30 | TEACHING FAULKNER II
Charles A. Peek Terrell L. Tebbetts Johnson Commons |
| 10:30 | THAT CITY FOREIGN AND PARADOXICAL: WILLIAM FAULKNER AND THE TEXTS OF NEW ORLEANS Owen Robinson Johnson Commons |
| 1:30 | WEIRD STUFF [SHORT STORIES: “HONOR,” “DR. MARTINO.’
“FOX HUNT,” “ARTIST AT HOME,” "DIVORCE IN NAPLES,” AND PYLON] Theresa M. Towner Johnson Commons |
| 3:00 | PANEL II SANCTUARY’S REVERSIBLE BODIES FAULKNER’S FIGURES: THE PRIMACY OFTHE TEXT IN THE MARIONETTES THE BEAM IN "THE BEHOLDER'S EYE": VOICE AND SUBJECTIVITY IN THE FINAL SECTION OF THE SOUND
AND THE FURY Johnson Commons |
| 5:00 | NOYES/ KULLMAN PARTY
604 Tyler Place |
| 8:00 | LITERARY SALON: FAULKNER
Informal Discussion Bouré Restaurant |
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 |
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| 8:00 | LIGHT BREAKFAST Special Exhibition: William Bacher/ William Faulkner Correspondence Collection Archives and Special Collections John Davis Williams Library |
| 9:00 | FLAGS IN THE DUST: THE BIRTH OF FAULKNER'S POETICS Arthur F. Kinney Johnson Commons |
| 10:30 | "I SEES THE LIGHT, EN I SEES THE WORD": RACIAL LIMINALITY AND TRANSCENDENCE IN FAUKNER'S FICTION Ethel Young-Minor Johnson Commons |
| 12:00 | FAULKNER GENEALOGY
Willie Faulkner Johnson Commons (Box Lunch Available) |
| 1:30 | THE IMPENETRABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING: MISCEGENATION IMAGERY AND THE ANXIETY OF WHITENESS IN
GO DOWN, MOSES Ted Atkinson Johnson Commons |
| 4:40 | WALK THROUGH BAILEY WOODS
(Meet in University Museum Parking Lot) |
| 5:30 | PICNIC AT ROWAN OAK |
| 8:00 | TEACHING FAULKNER James A. Carothers, Charles A. Peek Terrell L. Tebbetts, Theresa M. Towner Johnson Commons |
THURSDAY, JULY 24 |
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| 9:00 | GUIDED TOURS OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI OXFORD AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY I (Overview) OXFORD AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY II (Architecture) HOLLY SPRINGS NEW ALBANY AND RIPLEY MEMPHIS (National Civil Rights Museum et. al.) MISSISSIPPI DELTA |
| 5:00 | CLOSING PARTY Off Square Books |
