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2009 SCHEDULE
| SUNDAY, JULY 19 | |
| 10:00 a.m. | REGISTRATION Yerby Conference Center |
| 1:00 p.m. | RECEPTION FOR EXHIBITION Original Stone Lithographs and Etchings by Boyd Saunders of Faulkner’s “The Bear” and The Sound and the Fury University Museum |
| 1:00 p.m. | RECEPTION FOR EXHIBITION Mississippi Delta Photographs and Other Recent Work Maude Schuyler Clay Gammill Gallery Barnard Observatory |
| 2:30 p.m. | FAULKNER’S PLOTS Michael Gorra Nutt Auditorium |
| 4:00 p.m. | THE BLACKNESS OF ABSALOM, ABSALOM! Donald Kartiganer Nutt Auditorium |
| 5:30 p.m. | Buffet Supper Howorth Home/910 Old Taylor Road |
| 7:30 p.m. | WELCOME Richard Howorth, Owner, Square Books Ivo Kamps, Chairman, Department of English |
| WILLIAM FAULKNER SOCIETY FELLOWS Donald M. Kartiganer |
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| PRESENTATION OF EUDORA WELTY AWARDS IN CREATIVE WRITING Ted Ownby |
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| THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE A Film of Faulkner’s Sanctuary Nutt Auditorium |
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| MONDAY, JULY 20 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | TEACHING FAULKNER I: SOME MYSTERIES OF FAULNER’S SHORT STORIES James B. Carothers and Theresa Towner Nutt Auditorium |
| 10:30 a.m. | “NICE BELIEVING”: MYSTERIES AND MYSTERY IN LIGHT IN AUGUST Sean McCann Nutt Auditorium |
| 12:00 p.m. | COLLECTING FAULKNER Seth Berner Nutt Auditorium (Box Lunch Available) |
| 1:30 p.m. | AND YOU ARE–?: FAULKNER’S MYSTERIES OF RACE AND IDENTITY Philip Weinstein Nutt Auditorium |
| 3:00 p.m. | PANEL I Nutt Auditorium |
| FAULKNER’S BLOWING “SMOKE”: THE MYSTERIOUS POWER OF VOICE Kelley Hayden |
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| “THE GRAY–HEADED BACHELOR”: GAVIN STEVENS AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MATRIMONIAL IMPERATIVE Daniel Pecchenino |
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| SHADOWS AND MYSTERIES: VISION AND DETECTION IN LIGHT IN AUGUST Randall Wilhelm |
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| 8:00 p.m. | WRITING “CRIME” FICTION Ace Atkins Jere Hoar Daniel Woodrell Nutt Auditorium |
| 10:00 p.m. | FAULKNER ON THE FRINGE Open Mike at Southside Gallery Colby Kullman, Vickie M. Cook, and Wil Cook, hosts |
| TUESDAY, JULY 21 | |
| 8:30 a.m. | TEACHING FAULKNER II: AS I LAY MISSING: MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES FROM THE TEXTS Charles A. Peek Terrell L. Tebbetts Nutt Auditorium |
| 10:30 a.m. | “THE LEG,” “BEYOND,” “MISTRAL”: UNSOLVED, UNSOLVABLE Noel Polk Nutt Auditorium |
| 1:30 p.m. | READING “RED LEAVES” Richard Godden Nutt Auditorium |
| 3:00 p.m. | PANEL II Nutt Auditorium |
| CELLS, CATACOMBS, AND COFFINS: CHARTING THE DESTINY OF RACE RELATIONS IN INTRUDER IN THE DUST Margaret Rayburn Kramar |
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| CRITICAL INTRUDERS: NEGOTIATING RACE, CRIME, AND THE LAW IN INTRUDER IN THE DUST Esther Sanchez–Pardo |
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| “TO SURVIVE WHAT LOOKED OUT”: BODILY ENCOUNTERS AND THE FORENSIC TRAIL IN “THE BEAR” AND INTRUDER IN THE DUST Rachel Watson |
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| 5:00 p.m. | CLARK/ KULLMAN PARTY 604 Tyler Place |
| FREE EVENING | |
| WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 | |
| 9:00 a.m. | REIMAGINING THE FEMME FATALE REQUIEM FOR A NUN AND THE LESSONS OF FILM NOIR Susan Donaldson Nutt Auditorium |
| 10:30 a.m. | PANEL III Nutt Auditorium |
| READING BETWEEN THE LINES: FAULKNER’S “OTHER” DETECTIVE STORIES John Padgett |
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| A MYSTERIOUS HEART: “PASSING” AND THE NARRATIVE ENIGMA IN LIGHT IN AUGUST AND ABSALOM, ABSALOM! Marta Puxan |
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| READING FOR THE SHADOWS: REPETITION AND THE UNCANNY IN ABSALOM, ABSALOM! AND GO DOWN, MOSES Rachel Walsh |
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| 1:30 p.m. | THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE COLD WAR IMAGINARY: FAULKNER’S INTRUDER IN THE DUST and PAUL BOWLES’S THE SHELTERING SKY Hosam Aboul–Ela Nutt Auditorium |
| 3:00 p.m. | PANEL IV Nutt Auditorium |
| OPEN SPACES, OPEN SECRETS: SANCTUARY’S MYSTERIOUS “SOMETHING” Lisa Hinrichsen |
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| UNVANQUISHED UNCERTAINTY Sarah Mahurin Mutter |
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| DRUNK AND DISORDERLY: ALCOHOL AND PROHIBITION IN SANCTUARY Conor Picken |
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| 5:00 p.m. | WALK THROUGH BAILEY WOODS (Meet in University Museum Parking Lot) |
| 5:30 p.m. | PICNIC AT ROWAN OAK |
| 8:00 p.m. | TEACHING FAULKNER III James A. Carothers, Charles A. Peek Terrell L. Tebbetts, Theresa M. Towner Nutt Auditorium |
| THURSDAY, JULY 23 | |
| 9:00 a.m. | GUIDED TOURS OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI |
| OXFORD AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY I Donald M. Kartiganer (Overview) |
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| OXFORD AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY II Jack Mayfield (Architecture) |
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| HOLLY SPRINGS Ruth Kloha |
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| NEW ALBANY AND RIPLEY Tommy Covington and Jill N. Smith |
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| MEMPHIS (Including National Civil Rights Museum) Kendra Meyers |
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| MISSISSIPPI DELTA Thomas H. Freeland IV |
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| 5:00 p.m. | CLOSING PARTY Off Square Books |