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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Schedule
1998
Sunday, July 26th
1:00 PM

Oxford: A Kid's Eye View

Various Artists

University Museums

1:00 PM

2:30 PM

Welcome; Awards Presentation; Voices from Yoknapatawpha

Robert C. Khayat, University of Mississippi
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Nelson Eddy
Betty Harrington

Education Auditorium

2:30 PM

5:30 PM

Buffet Supper

Conference Attendees

Howorth Home / Old Taylor Road

5:30 PM

8:00 PM

Faulkner's Humor and American Orthodoxies

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas

Education Auditorium

8:00 PM

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

10:30 AM

The Portable Eclipse: Hawthorne, Faulkner, and Scribbling Women

Kathryn Burgess McKee, University of Mississippi

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

William Faulkner's Dialogue with Thomas Jefferson

Peter Nicolaisen, Padagogische Hochschule Flensburg

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Knowing William Faulkner

J. M. Faulkner
Meg Faulkner DuChaine

Education Auditorium

3:00 PM

8:00 PM

Twenty Will Not Come Again, and Scenes from Light in August

Voices of the South

Education Auditorium

8:00 PM

Tuesday, July 28th
9:00 AM

Guided Tours of North Mississippi

Various Guides

Various Locations

9:00 AM

5:00 PM

Noyes/Smith/Kullman Party

Conference Attendees

Tyler Place

5:00 PM

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

Wednesday, July 29th
8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner I: Absalom, Absalom!

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas
Robert W. Hamblin, Southeast Missouri State University

Ole Miss Union 404A

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner II: Faulkner, Race, and the Classroom

Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska, Kearney

Barnard Observatory

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

Where Was That Bird: Thinking America Through Faulkner

Joseph R. Urgo, Bryant College

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Faulkner and History

Noel Polk, University of Southern Mississippi
Peter Nicolaisen, Padagogische Hochschule Flensburg
Joseph R. Urgo, Bryant College

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM

1:30 PM

Faulkner and the Literary Tradition

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas
Kathryn Burgess McKee, University of Mississippi
Hortense J. Spillers, Cornell University

Barnard Observatory

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Faulkner in Oxford

M. C. Falkner
Mil' Murray Hopkins
Will Lewis Jr.
Patricia Young

Education Auditorium

3:00 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

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

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

10:30 AM

Carving Out a Man-Made Art: Wharton, Cather, and Faulkner

Candace Waid, Northwestern University

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM

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

9:30 PM

Party

Conference Attendees

Square Books

9:30 PM

Friday, July 31st
9:00 AM

Writing A Fable for America

Catherine Gunther Kodat, Hamilton College

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM

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

1:30 PM

Discussion: Faulkner in America

Richard Godden, University of Keele
Catherine Gunther Kodat, Hamilton College
Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska, Kearney
Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Candace Waid, Northwestern University
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM

5:00 PM

Closing Party at the Home of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Falkner

Conference Attendees

99 County Road 181

5:00 PM