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2008 SCHEDULE

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

10:00 REGISTRATION
Yerby Conference Center
1:00

RECEPTIONS FOR EXHIBITIONS
William Christenberry Site: Possession
Photographs and Drawings of the South
University Museum

Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember
Photographs by Melody Swaney Golding
Gammill Gallery in Barnard Observatory

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

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?”
ELEMENTS OF ELEGY IN FAULKNER’S AS I LAY DYING, ABSALOM, ABSALOM! AND REQUIEM FOR A NUN
Nehama Baker

BACKWATER RISING, MEN SINKING DOWN: READING FAULKNER’S “OLD MAN” WITH THE DELTA BLUES
Tim A. Ryan

[THE UNVANQUISHED]
Irene Visser

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         

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
James Harding

FAULKNER’S FIGURES: THE PRIMACY OFTHE TEXT IN THE MARIONETTES
Serena Haygood Blount

THE TEXTUAL PLANK IN “THE BEHOLDER’S EYE”: NARRATIVE VOICE IN THE FINAL NARRATION OF THE SOUND AND THE FURY
Sanders Creasy

Johnson Commons

5:00 NOYES/ KULLMAN PARTY


604 Tyler Place
8:00 LITERARY SALON: FAULKNER


Informal Discussion
The Depot
 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23

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]
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

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