A selection of the essays presented at this year’s conference is available from the University Press of Mississippi. It is also available from the University of Mississippi Libraries at this call number: PS3511.A86 Z7778 1985.

Schedule

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1985
Sunday, July 28th
12:00 AM

Registration

Conference Attendees

12:00 AM

1:00 PM

Images of the Southern Woman

Various Artists

University Museums

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

Faulkner and His Women

Ntozake Shange, University of Houston

Fulton Chapel

2:00 PM

Premonitions of Yoknapatawpha and Other Premonitions

David McKay, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bradford Logan
Suzanne Oparowski

Fulton Chapel

2:00 PM

Welcome

Morris L. Marx, University of Mississippi

Fulton Chapel

2:00 PM

5:30 PM

Buffet Supper

Conference Attendees

Gary Home / South 11th Street

5:30 PM

8:00 PM

Black Women in the Works of William Faulkner

Sister Thea Bowman, Catholic Diocese of Jackson

Lafayette County Courthouse

8:00 PM

9:30 PM

Party

Conference Attendees

Square Books

9:30 PM

Monday, July 29th
9:00 AM

Faulkner's Critics and Women

John J. Duvall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Faulkner and the Charge of Antifeminism

Doreen Fowler, University of Mississippi

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Double Murder: The Women of Faulkner's "Elly"

Alice Hall Petry, Rhode Island School of Design

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Knowing William Faulkner

J. M. Faulkner

Education Auditorium

3:00 PM

8:00 PM

Life and Art

Joseph Blotner, University of Michigan

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

8:00 PM

Tuesday, July 30th
9:00 AM

Guided Tours of North Mississippi

Evans Harrington, University of Mississippi
Beckett Howorth III
Howard L. Bahr
Frank Childrey

Various Locations

9:00 AM

8:00 PM

From Okra to Greens

Festival of Southern Theatre

Fulton Chapel

8:00 PM

Wednesday, July 31st
9:00 AM

Meditations on the Other: Faulkner's Rendering of Women

Philip M. Weinstein, Swarthmore College

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Faulkner and Women Writers

Judith Bryant Wittenberg, Simmons College

Ole Miss Union Room 404

10:30 AM

1:00 PM

Reception

Conference Attendees

Barnard Observatory

1:00 PM

4:40 PM

Walk Through Bailey's Woods

Conference Attendees

Bailey's Woods

4:40 PM

5:30 PM

Picnic at Rowan Oak

Conference Attendees

Rowan Oak

5:30 PM

8:00 PM

Readings and Discussion

Toni Morrison, State University of New York, Albany

Fulton Chapel

8:00 PM

Thursday, August 1st
9:00 AM

Woman in Faulkner's Novels: Author's Attitude and Artistic Function

Sergei Chakovsky, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Woman and the Making of the New World: Faulkner's Short Stories

Alexandre Vashchenko, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Desire and Despair: Temple Drake's Self-Victimization

Robert R. Moore, State University of New York, Oswego

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Panel Discussion: Faulkner and Oxford

M. C. "Chooky" Falkner
Howard Duvall
Chester McLarty
William E. Stone

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

3:00 PM

8:00 PM

The Women of A Fable

Noel Polk, University of Southern Mississippi

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

8:00 PM

Friday, August 2nd
9:00 AM

Faulkner and Womankind: "No Bloody Moon"

Winifred L. Frazer, University of Florida

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Faulkner's Hen-House: Women as Bounded Text

Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Mothers and Daughters in Endless Procession: Faulkner's Use of the Demeter/Persephone Myth

Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas, El Paso

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

The Mutual Relevance of Faulkner Studies and Women's Studies

Ilse Dusoir Lind, New York University

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

3:00 PM

8:00 PM

In Praise of Helen

André Bleikasten, University of Strasbourg

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

8:00 PM

9:30 PM

Party

Conference Attendees

Holiday Inn

9:30 PM