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 Z78321176 2004 and as an e-book.

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Schedule
2004
Sunday, July 25th
1:00 PM

Worth a Thousand Words; William Faulkner Exhibition and Museum Design Proposal

Bruce Newman
Mark Ueland
Joe Nicholson

University Museum

1:00 PM

2:30 PM

True and False Things: Faulkner's World of Goods

T. J. Jackson Lears, Rutgers University

Ford Center for the Performing Arts

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

The Philosophy of Furniture: Light in August and the Material Unconscious

Jay Watson, University of Mississippi

Ford Center for the Performing Arts

4:00 PM

5:30 PM

Buffet Supper

Conference Attendees

Memory House/University Avenue

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Welcome, Award Presentations, As I Lay Dying: A Folk Opera

Richard Howorth, City of Oxford
Joseph Urgo, University of Mississippi
Campbell McCool
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Donald M. Kartiganer, University of Mississippi
Reckon Crew

Ford Center for the Performing Arts

7:30 PM

Monday, July 26th
8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas
Theresa M. Towner, University of Texas, Dallas
Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska, Kearney
Terrell L. Tebbetts, Knox College

Multiple Locations

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

Of Clocks and Pistols, Anchovies, Horses, Automobiles, and Planes: Material Signs in Faulkner's Literary Imagination

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Emory University

Johnson Commons

10:30 AM

12:00 PM

Collecting Faulkner

Seth Berner

Johnson Commons

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

Dematerializing Culture: William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Gayle Jones

Patricia Yaeger, University of Michigan

Johnson Commons

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Panel

Ted Atkinson, Mississippi State University
Jeffrey Carroll, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Brannon Costello, Louisiana State University

Johnson Commons

3:00 PM

8:00 PM

Touch Me While You Look at Her: Stars, Fashion, and Authorship in Today We Live

D. Matthew Ramsey, Denison University

Johnson Commons

8:00 PM

10:00 PM

Faulkner on the Fringe

Conference Attendees

Southside Gallery

10:00 PM

Tuesday, July 27th
9:00 AM

Guided Tours of North Mississippi

Various Guides

Multiple Locations

9:00 AM

5:00 PM

Noyes/Smith/Kullman Party

Conference Attendees

604 Tyler Place

5:00 PM

8:00 PM

Order and Rebellion: Faulkner's Small Town and the Place of Memory

Miles Orvell, Temple University

Johnson Commons

8:00 PM

9:30 PM

Party

Conference Attendees

Square Books

9:30 PM

Wednesday, July 28th
8:00 AM

Light Breakfast

Conference Attendees

Special Collections, John Davis Williams Library

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

Flags in the Dust and the Material Culture of Class

Kevin Railey, State University of New York, Buffalo

Johnson Commons

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Faulkner and the Passing of the Old Agrarian Culture

Charles S. Aiken, University of Tennessee

Johnson Commons

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Faulkner, Photography, and a Southern Ethics of Form

Katherine R. Henniger, Louisiana State University

Johnson Commons

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Panel

Brandon Kempner, New Mexico Highlands University
Caleb Smith
Eileen O'Brien

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

Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write?

John Maxwell

Ford Center for the Performing Arts

8:00 PM

Thursday, July 29th
8:30 AM

Teaching Faulkner

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas
Theresa M. Towner, University of Texas, Dallas
Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska, Kearney
Terrell L. Tebbetts, Knox College

Johnson Commons

8:30 AM

10:30 AM

Panel

Barbara Ensrud
Jennifer Middlesworth, University of Virginia
Sharon Desmond Paradiso, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Johnson Commons

10:30 AM

1:30 PM

Discussion

Conference Attendees

Johnson Commons

1:30 PM

5:00 PM

Closing Party

Conference Attendees

Howorth Home/Old Taylor Road

5:00 PM