1986: Faulkner and Race

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 1986.

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Schedule
1986
Sunday, July 27th
9:00 AM

Registration

Conference Attendees

Ole Miss Union

9:00 AM

1:00 PM

Mr. McCrady of La-fay-ette County

John McCrady

University Museums

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

Welcome; Faulkner and Race: A Spectrum

Morris L. Marx, University of Mississippi

Fulton Chapel

2:00 PM

5:30 PM

Buffet Supper

Conference Attendees

Lewis Home / 712 South 11th Street

5:30 PM

8:00 PM

Knowing William Faulkner

J. M. Faulkner
Jo Marshall

Lafayette County Courthouse

8:00 PM

9:30 PM

Party

Conference Attendees

Square Books

9:30 PM

Monday, July 28th
9:00 AM

Faulkner's Reivers: How to Change the Joke Without Slipping the Yoke

Walter Taylor, University of Texas, El Paso

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Who Killed Simon Strother, and Why? Race and Counterplot in Flags in the Dust

Pamela E. Rhodes, University of Durham

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Light in August and the Rhetorics of Racial Division

James A. Snead, Yale University

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Race, History, and Technique in Absalom, Absalom!

Frederick R. Karl, New York University

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

3:00 PM

8:00 PM

From Jazz Syncopation to Blues Elegy: Faulkner's Development of Black Characterization

Thadious M. Davis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

8:00 PM

Tuesday, July 29th
9:00 AM

Guided Tours of North Mississippi

Evans Harrington, University of Mississippi
Beckett Howorth III
Howard L. Bahr
Mary Hartwell Howorth
Thomas "Sparky" Reardon, University of Mississippi
Vadah Cochran

Various Locations

9:00 AM

5:00 PM

Party

Conference Attendees

Noyes House / 130 Leighton Road

5:00 PM

8:00 PM

Faulkner, Race, and the Forms of American Fiction

Eric J. Sundquist, University of California, Berkeley

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

8:00 PM

Wednesday, July 30th
9:00 AM

That Parchment-Colored Face: Race, Reading, and Writing in Faulkner's Fiction

Karl F. Zender, University of California, Davis

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Black History and Culture in the Works of William Faulkner

Sister Thea Bowman, Catholic Diocese of Jackson

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Faulkner and Other Authors: Panel Discussion

Thadious M. Davis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Michael Grimwood, North Carolina State University
Lothar Hönnighausen, University of Bonn
Blyden Jackson, National Humanities Center
Noel Polk, University of Southern Mississippi
Eric J. Sundquist, University of California - Berkeley
Walter Taylor, University of Texas, El Paso
Craig Werner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Karl F. Zender, University of California, Davis

Ole Miss Union Room 405

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

Faulkner in Oxford

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

Ole Miss Union Room 404

10:30 AM

4:40 PM

Walk Through Bailey's Woods

Conference Attendees

Bailey's Woods

4:40 PM

5:30 PM

Picnic

Conference Attendees

Rowan Oak

5:30 PM

8:00 PM

Minstrel Nightmares: Black Dreams of Faulkner's Dreams of Blacks

Craig Werner, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

8:00 PM

Thursday, July 31st
9:00 AM

The Indians of Yoknapatawpha

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

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Marginalia: Faulkner's Black Lives

Philip M. Weinstein, Swarthmore College

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Jim and Lucas Beauchamp: Mark Twain's Influence on William Faulkner

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

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

William Faulkner and the Vocational Liabilities of Black Characterization

Michael Grimwood, North Carolina State University

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

3:00 PM

5:00 PM

Catfish Supper

Conference Attendees

Taylor, MS

5:00 PM

8:00 PM

Black as White Metaphor: A European View of Faulkner's Fiction

Lothar Hönnighausen, University of Bonn

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

8:00 PM

Friday, August 1st
9:00 AM

Sorting Faulkner's Mail: March-April 1956

Louis Daniel Brodsky

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Ah Just Can't Quit Thinking: Faulkner's Black Razor Murders

Hoke Perkins, Davidson College

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Faulkner and Race

Noel Polk, University of Southern Mississippi

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Faulkner in Oxford

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

Ole Miss Union Room 404

3:00 PM

3:00 PM

Faulkner, Race, and Technique: Panel Discussion

Louis Daniel Brodsky
Sergei Chakovsky, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
Frederick R. Karl, New York University
Hoke Perkins, Davidson College
Pamela E. Rhodes, University of Durham
James A. Snead, Yale University
Alexandre Vashchenko, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
Philip M. Weinstein, Swarthmore College

Ole Miss Union Room 405

3:00 PM

3:00 PM

Mississippi Scenes

Jane Rule Burdine
Walter Liniger

Ole Miss Union, Multipurpose Room

3:00 PM

8:00 PM

Faulkner's Two Fictional Negroes

Blyden Jackson, National Humanities Center

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

8:00 PM

9:30 PM

Party

Conference Attendees

Syd & Harry's

9:30 PM