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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
Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember |
| 2:30 | “IN CONFLICT WITH ITSELF”: FAULKNERIAN CONTEXT James B. Carothers Johnson Commons |
| 4:00 | [STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN ULYSSES AND AS I LAY DYING] Frank Lentricchia Johnson Commons |
| 5:30 | Buffet Supper
Howorth Home, 910 Old Taylor Road |
| 7:30 | WELCOME Richard Howorth, Mayor, City of Oxford Patrick Quinn, Chairman, Department of English WILLIAM FAULKNER SOCIETY FELLOW 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, INTERTEXTUALITY Thadious Davis Johnson Commons |
| 12:00 | COLLECTING FAULKNER
Seth Berner Johnson Commons (Box Lunch Available) |
| 1:30 | [INTERTEXTUAL GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION AND BIRACIAL IDENTITY IN 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 [THE UNVANQUISHED] Johnson Commons |
| 8:00 | FAULKNER ON THE FRINGE
Open Mike 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 | [NEW ORLEANS IN FAULKNER] ABSALOM, ABSALOM! et.al. 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 TEXTUAL PLANK IN “THE BEHOLDER’S EYE”: NARRATIVE VOICE IN THE FINAL NARRATION OF THE SOUND AND THE FURY Johnson Commons |
| 5:00 | NOYES/ KULLMAN PARTY
604 Tyler Place |
| 8:00 | LITERARY SALON: FAULKNER
Informal Discussion The Depot |
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 | [AFRICAN-AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LIFE IN THE SOUTH DURING THE HISTORICAL SETTING OF THE SOUND AND THE FURY] |
| 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 |
