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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
  PRESENTATION OF EUDORA WELTY AWARDS IN CREATIVE WRITING
Ted Ownby
  THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE
A Film of Faulkner’s Sanctuary
Nutt Auditorium
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
  “THE GRAY–HEADED BACHELOR”: GAVIN STEVENS AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MATRIMONIAL IMPERATIVE
Daniel Pecchenino
  SHADOWS AND MYSTERIES: VISION AND DETECTION IN LIGHT IN AUGUST
Randall Wilhelm
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
  CRITICAL INTRUDERS: NEGOTIATING RACE, CRIME, AND THE LAW IN INTRUDER IN THE DUST
Esther Sanchez–Pardo
  “TO SURVIVE WHAT LOOKED OUT”: BODILY ENCOUNTERS AND THE FORENSIC TRAIL IN “THE BEAR” AND INTRUDER IN THE DUST
Rachel Watson
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
  A MYSTERIOUS HEART: “PASSING” AND THE NARRATIVE ENIGMA IN LIGHT IN AUGUST AND ABSALOM, ABSALOM!
Marta Puxan
  READING FOR THE SHADOWS: REPETITION AND THE UNCANNY IN ABSALOM, ABSALOM! AND GO DOWN, MOSES
Rachel Walsh
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
  UNVANQUISHED UNCERTAINTY
Sarah Mahurin Mutter
  DRUNK AND DISORDERLY: ALCOHOL AND PROHIBITION IN SANCTUARY
Conor Picken
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)
  OXFORD AND LAFAYETTE COUNTY II
Jack Mayfield (Architecture)
  HOLLY SPRINGS
Ruth Kloha
  NEW ALBANY AND RIPLEY
Tommy Covington and Jill N. Smith
  MEMPHIS
(Including National Civil Rights Museum)
Kendra Meyers
  MISSISSIPPI DELTA
Thomas H. Freeland IV
5:00 p.m. CLOSING PARTY
Off Square Books

 

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