2012: Fifty Years After Faulkner

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 Z783243 2016.

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Schedule
2012
Friday, July 6th
6:30 AM

A William Faulkner Remembrance

Randall Kenan
Phillip M. Weinstein

Rowan Oak

6:30 AM

Saturday, July 7th
9:00 AM

Guided Tours of North Mississippi

Various Guides

Various Locations

9:00 AM

Sunday, July 8th
1:00 PM

Absalom, Absalom!

John Turner Shorb

University Museum

1:00 PM

2:30 PM

Born Again: Faulkner and the Second Birth

Hortense J. Spillers, Vanderbilt University

Nutt Auditorium

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

Panel. Cold War Faulkner

Deborah Cohn, Indiana University - Bloomington
Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky
Harilaos "Harry" Stecopoulos, University of Iowa

Nutt Auditorium

4:00 PM

5:30 PM

Buffet Supper

Conference Attendees

Howorth Home / 910 Old Taylor Road

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Welcome Session, Award Presentations, Writers' Panel

George "Pat" Patterson, City of Oxford
Deborah Clarke, Arizona State University
David Milch
Olivia Milch
Chris Offutt, University of Mississippi
Tom Franklin, University of Mississippi

Nutt Auditorium

7:30 PM

Monday, July 9th
8:00 AM

Teaching Faulkner I. The Things He Left Behind: The Proprietor's Own Commissary

Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska, Kearney
Terrell L. Tebbetts, Lyon College

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Virtualizing Native Soil: Faulkner and the Digital Humanities in the Twenty-First Century

Elizabeth Cornell, Fordham University
John B. Padgett, Brevard College
Stephen Railton, University of Virginia
Taylor Hagood, Florida Atlantic University

Nutt Auditorium

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

Panel. Faulkner and the Literary Canon

Deborah Clarke, Arizona State University
Jaime L. Harker, University of Mississippi
Mab Segrest, Connecticut College

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM

12:30 PM

Collecting Faulkner

Seth Berner

Yerby Center Auditorium

12:30 PM

2:00 PM

Ricky Bobby’s William Faulkner, Or, Talladega Nights as Cultural Critique

Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

Panel. Faulkner's Afterlives

David M. Earle, University of West Florida
Joseph Fruscione, Georgetown University
Terrell L. Tebbetts, Lyon College

Nutt Auditorium

3:30 PM

5:30 PM

Clark/Kullman Party

Conference Attendees

604 Tyler Place

5:30 PM

Tuesday, July 10th
8:00 AM

Teaching Faulkner II: Faulkner's Love Stories

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas
Theresa M. Towner, University of Texas, Dallas

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Faulkner's Afterlives: Parody and Adaptation

Phillip Davis, China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Frank P. Fury, Monmouth University
Michie Gleason

Nutt Auditorium

9:30 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Faulkner's Wars

Dotty J. Dye, Arizona State University
Jason D. Fichtel, Joliet Junior College
Andrew Leiter, Lycoming College

Yerby Center Auditorium

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

Panel. Reappraising The Reivers at Fifty

Cheryl Lester, University of Kansas
Richard Moreland, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge
François Pitavy, Université de Bourgogne

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM

2:00 PM

Faulkner and the World Culture of the Global South

Ramón Saldívar, Stanford University

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

Panel. Faulkner and the Civil Rights Movement: A Reassessment

Ted Atkinson, Mississippi State University
David A. Davis, Mercer University
Sharon Monteith, University of Nottingham

Nutt Auditorium

3:30 PM

5:30 PM

Walk Through Bailey's Woods

Conference Attendees

Bailey's Woods

5:30 PM

6:00 PM

Picnic at Rowan Oak

Conference Attendees

Rowan Oak

6:00 PM

8:30 PM

Faulkner on the Fringe

Conference Attendees

Southside Gallery

8:30 PM

Wednesday, July 11th
8:00 AM

Panel. Faulkner and Death

Victoria M. Bryan, University of Mississippi
Elizabeth Fielder, University of Mississippi
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 AM

8:00 AM

Panel. William Faulkner, The Francis Terry Leak Ledgers, and the Forms of History

Patrick E. Horn, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jessica Martell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Zackary Vernon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Yerby Center Auditorium

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Faulkner in Other Media

Edward Clough, University of East Anglia
Julie Beth Napolin, Eugene Lang College
Erik Redling, Martin Luther Universitat Halle-Wittenberg

Yerby Center Auditorium

9:30 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Faulkner's Afterlives, Literary Heirs

Beatrix Brockman, Austin Peay State University
Jolene Hubbs, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa
Sarah Perkins, Stanford University

Nutt Auditorium

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

Panel. The Arc of Yoknapatawpha

Danièle Pitavy-Souques, Université de Bourgogne
Erin Kay Penner, Cornell University
Gavan Lennon, University of Nottingham

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM

2:00 PM

Panel. Faulkner and the Visual

Peter Lurie, University of Richmond
Candace Waid, University of California, Santa Barbara
Randall S. Wilhelm, Clemson University

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

Panel. "Other" Faulkners

Michael P. Bibler, Manchester University
Ben Robbins, Freie Universitat Berlin
Sally Wolff-King, Emory University

Nutt Auditorium

3:30 PM

5:30 PM

Closing Party

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books

5:30 PM