1998: Faulkner in America
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 Z78321186 1998.
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| 1998 | ||
| Sunday, July 26th | ||
| 1:00 PM |
Various Artists University Museums 1:00 PM |
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| 2:30 PM |
Welcome; Awards Presentation; Voices from Yoknapatawpha Robert C. Khayat, University of Mississippi Education Auditorium 2:30 PM |
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| 5:30 PM |
Conference Attendees Howorth Home / Old Taylor Road 5:30 PM |
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| 8:00 PM |
Faulkner's Humor and American Orthodoxies James B. Carothers, University of Kansas Education Auditorium 8:00 PM |
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| Monday, July 27th | ||
| 9:00 AM |
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Driver the Flower: Faulkner and American History Noel Polk, University of Southern Mississippi Education Auditorium 9:00 AM |
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| 10:30 AM |
The Portable Eclipse: Hawthorne, Faulkner, and Scribbling Women Kathryn Burgess McKee, University of Mississippi Education Auditorium 10:30 AM |
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| 1:30 PM |
William Faulkner's Dialogue with Thomas Jefferson Peter Nicolaisen, Padagogische Hochschule Flensburg Education Auditorium 1:30 PM |
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| 3:00 PM |
J. M. Faulkner Education Auditorium 3:00 PM |
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| 8:00 PM |
Twenty Will Not Come Again, and Scenes from Light in August Voices of the South Education Auditorium 8:00 PM |
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| Tuesday, July 28th | ||
| 9:00 AM |
Guided Tours of North Mississippi Various Guides Various Locations 9:00 AM |
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| 5:00 PM |
Conference Attendees Tyler Place 5:00 PM |
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| 8:00 PM |
Faulkner Adds Up: Reading Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury Hortense J. Spillers, Cornell University Education Auditorium 8:00 PM |
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| Wednesday, July 29th | ||
| 8:30 AM |
Teaching Faulkner I: Absalom, Absalom! James B. Carothers, University of Kansas Ole Miss Union 404A 8:30 AM |
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| 8:30 AM |
Teaching Faulkner II: Faulkner, Race, and the Classroom Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska, Kearney Barnard Observatory 8:30 AM |
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| 10:30 AM |
Where Was That Bird: Thinking America Through Faulkner Joseph R. Urgo, Bryant College Education Auditorium 10:30 AM |
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| 1:30 PM |
Noel Polk, University of Southern Mississippi Education Auditorium 1:30 PM |
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| 1:30 PM |
Faulkner and the Literary Tradition James B. Carothers, University of Kansas Barnard Observatory 1:30 PM |
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| 3:00 PM |
M. C. Falkner Education Auditorium 3:00 PM |
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| 4:40 PM |
Conference Attendees Bailey's Woods 4:40 PM |
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| 5:30 PM |
Conference Attendees Rowan Oak 5:30 PM |
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| 8:00 PM |
Comparative Idiocy: A Phenomenological Reading of The Hamlet as a Rebuke to the "American Century" Richard Godden, University of Keele Education Auditorium 8:00 PM |
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| Thursday, July 30th | ||
| 9:00 AM |
Faulkner, the South, and the American Way of Life Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi Ole Miss Union Ballroom 9:00 AM |
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| 10:30 AM |
Carving Out a Man-Made Art: Wharton, Cather, and Faulkner Candace Waid, Northwestern University Education Auditorium 10:30 AM |
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| 8:00 PM |
Go Down Moses: Faulkner's Ironic Revival of the American Dream Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill J. D. Williams Library, Baxter Room 8:00 PM |
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| 9:30 PM |
Conference Attendees Square Books 9:30 PM |
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| Friday, July 31st | ||
| 9:00 AM |
Catherine Gunther Kodat, Hamilton College Education Auditorium 9:00 AM |
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| 10:30 AM |
A-Laying There, Right Up To My Door: As American As I Lay Dying Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska, Kearney Education Auditorium 10:30 AM |
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| 1:30 PM |
Discussion: Faulkner in America Richard Godden, University of Keele Education Auditorium 1:30 PM |
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| 5:00 PM |
Closing Party at the Home of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Falkner Conference Attendees 99 County Road 181 5:00 PM |
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