2002: Faulkner and His Contemporaries

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 Z78321174 2002.

Posters are available for purchase from the University of Mississippi.

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Schedule
2002
Sunday, July 21st
1:00 PM

Kate Freeman Clark: A Southern Treasure

Kate Freeman Clark

University Museums

1:00 PM

1:00 PM

Ms. Booth's Garden: Photographs by Jack Kotz

Jack Kotz

Barnard Observatory

1:00 PM

2:30 PM

Opening Session: Welcome, Awards, Readings

Richard Howorth, City of Oxford
Joseph R. Urgo, University of Mississippi
Campbell McCool
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Selby Bateman, Hemispheres Magazine
Lisa Fann, Hemispheres Magazine
V. P. Ferguson
George Kehoe
Betty Harrington

Johnson Commons

2:30 PM

5:30 PM

Buffet Supper

Conference Attendees

Howorth Home / Old Taylor Road

5:30 PM

8:00 PM

Traveling with Faulkner

Houston Baker, Duke University

Johnson Commons

8:00 PM

Monday, July 22nd
9:00 AM

Getting Good at Doing Nothing: Faulkner, Hemingway, and the Fiction of Gesture

Donald M. Kartiganer, University of Mississippi

Johnson Commons

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Invisible Men: Faulkner, His Contemporaries, and the Politics of Loving and Hating the South

Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia

Johnson Commons

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Fixing the Southern Vernacular: The Contemporaneous Art of William Faulkner and Walker Evans

Thomas S. Rankin, Duke University

Johnson Commons

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Panel

Eoin F. Cannon, Boston University
Peter J. Ingrao, University of Texas at Dallas
Steven Weisenburger, University of Kentucky

Johnson Commons

3:00 PM

8:00 PM

Surveying the Postage-Stamp Territory: Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Spencer, and Ellen Douglas

Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, Louisiana State University

Johnson Commons

8:00 PM

10:00 PM

Faulkner on the Fringe

Colby Kullman, University of Mississippi
Milly Moorhead

Southside Gallery

10:00 PM

Tuesday, July 23rd
9:00 AM

Guided Tours of North Mississippi

Various Guides

Various Locations

9:00 AM

5:00 PM

Noyes/Smith/Kullman Party

Conference Attendees

604 Tyler Place

5:00 PM

8:00 PM

Cather's War and Faulkner's Peace: A Comparison of Two Novels and More

Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Drew University

Johnson Commons

8:00 PM

Wednesday, July 24th
8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner I: Faulkner and His Contemporaries, Influences, and Parallels: The Sound and the Fury

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

Johnson Commons

8:30 AM

8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner II: Faulkner, Writing, and Other Writers: Getting To and From "That Evening Sun"

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

Johnson Commons

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

Faulkner, Ford, and Automobility

Deborah Clarke, Pennsylvania State University

Johnson Commons

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Discussion

Deborah Clarke, Pennsylvania State University
Donald M. Kartiganer, University of Mississippi
Thomas S. Rankin, Duke University
Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, Louisiana State University
Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Drew University

Johnson Commons

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Faulkner in Oxford

M. C. Falkner
Will Lewis Jr.
Elizabeth Nichols Shiver

Johnson Commons

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

As I Lay Dying, A Folk Opera

Reckon Crew

Johnson Commons

8:00 PM

9:30 PM

Party

Conference Attendees

Square Books

9:30 PM

Thursday, July 25th
9:00 AM

Blacks and Other Very Dark Colors: Faulkner and Welty

Danièle Pitavy-Souques, Université de Bourgogne

Johnson Commons

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

William Faulkner and Other "Famous Creoles": Writers and New Orleans

W. Kenneth Holditch, University of New Orleans

Johnson Commons

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Panel

Sean K. Kelly, West Texas A&M University
Holly Hutton, City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center
Timothy S. Sedore, CUNY Bronx Community College

Johnson Commons

1:30 PM

8:00 PM

The Hemingway-Faulkner Log

George Monteiro, Brown University

Johnson Commons

8:00 PM

Friday, July 26th
8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas
Robert W. Hamblin, Southeast Missouri State University
Arlie Herron, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska, Kearney

Johnson Commons

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

William Faulkner and Guimarães Rosa: A Brazilian Connection

M. Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon College

Johnson Commons

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Discussion

W. Kenneth Holditch, University of New Orleans
M. Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon College
George Monteiro, Brown University
Danièle Pitavy-Souques, Université de Bourgogne

Johnson Commons

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Faulkner and North Mississippi

Arlie Herron, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Barnard Observatory

3:00 PM

5:00 PM

Closing Party

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books

5:00 PM