1999: Faulkner and Postmodernism

A selection of the essays presented at this year’s conference is available from the University Press of Mississippi.

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Schedule
1999
Sunday, July 25th
1:00 PM

Phil Mullen: Oxford Photographer, 1949-1951

Phil Mullen

University Museums

1:00 PM

2:30 PM

Opening Session: Welcome, Awards, Readings

Robert C. Khayat, University of Mississippi
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Nelson Eddy, University of Mississippi
University of Mississippi. Gospel Choir
Betty Harrington
George Kehoe

Education Auditorium

2:30 PM

5:30 PM

Buffet Supper

Conference Attendees

Howorth Home / Old Taylor Road

5:30 PM

8:00 PM

A Reading

John Barth, Johns Hopkins University

Education Auditorium

8:00 PM

Monday, July 26th
9:00 AM

Postmodern Yoknapatawpha: William Faulkner as a Usable Past

John Duvall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Faulkner and Southern Postmodernisms: The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!

Doreen Fowler, University of Kansas

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Faulkner by the Light of a Pale Fire: Postmodern Textual Scholarship and Faulkner Studies at the End of the Twentieth Century

Philip Cohen, University of Texas, Arlington

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

The Privations of Postmodernism: Faulkner as Exemplar

Ihab Hassan, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Education Auditorium

8:00 PM

9:30 PM

Party

Conference Attendees

Square Books

9:30 PM

Tuesday, July 27th
8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner I

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

Yerby Center Auditorium

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner II

Arlie Herron, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska, Kearney

Barnard Observatory Lecture Hall

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

Postvomiting: Pylon as Faulknerian Spew

Joseph R. Urgo, Bryant College

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Discussion

Philip Cohen, University of Texas, Arlington
John Duvall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Doreen Fowler, University of Kansas
Ihab Hassan, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Joseph Urgo, Bryant College

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Faulkner in Oxford

M. C. Falkner
Will Lewis Jr.
Patricia Young

Education Auditorium

3:00 PM

5:00 PM

Noyes/Smith/Kullman Party

Conference Attendees

604 Tyler Place

5:00 PM

8:00 PM

Postmodern Imitations: Musings on Invisibility in Faulkner, Wright, and Ellison

Philip Weinstein, Swarthmore College

Education Auditorium

8:00 PM

Wednesday, July 28th
9:00 AM

Now We're Going to Talk About Love: Models of Transference, Reception, and Postmodern Intertextuality in Absalom, Absalom! and Beyond

Martin Kreiswirth, University of Western Ontario

Education Auditorium

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Make Room for Elvis

Cheryl Lester, University of Kansas

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM

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

Design, Fatality, Conspiracy: Faulkner and Pynchon

Molly Hite, Cornell University

Education Auditorium

8:00 PM

Thursday, July 29th
8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner I

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

Yerby Center Auditorium

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner II

Arlie Herron, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska, Kearney

Barnard Observatory Lecture Hall

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

I'm the Man Here: Go Down, Moses and Masculine Identity

Terrell L. Tebbetts, Lyon College

Education Auditorium

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Discussion

Molly Hite, Cornell University
Martin Kreiswirth, University of Western Ontario
Cheryl Lester, University of Kansas
Terrell L. Tebbetts, Lyon College
Philip Weinstein, Swarthmore College

Education Auditorium

1:30 PM

5:00 PM

Closing Party at the Home of Dorothy Lee Tatum

Conference Attendees

637 North Lamar

5:00 PM

Friday, July 30th
9:00 AM

Guided Tours of North Mississippi

Various Guides

Various Locations

9:00 AM