2014: Faulkner and History

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 Z783173 2014.

Posters are available for purchase from the University of Mississippi.

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Schedule
2014
Sunday, July 20th
1:00 PM

Blues @ Home: Mississippi’s Living Blues Legends

H. C. Porter
Teena Clark

University Museum

1:00 PM

2:30 PM

Faulkner Networked: Indigenous, Regional, Trans-Pacific

Wai Chee Dimock

Nutt Auditorium

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

The Past Lives, But What Does It Do? William Faulkner, C. Vann Woodward, and the "Burden" of Southern History

James C. Cobb

Nutt Auditorium

4:00 PM

5:30 PM

Buffet Supper

Conference Attendees

Rowan Oak

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Welcome and Award Presentations

Daniel W. Jones, University of Mississippi
George "Pat" Patterson, City of Oxford
Deborah Clarke, William Faulkner Society
James G. Thomas, University of Mississippi

Nutt Auditorium

7:30 PM

7:45 PM

Visualizing Mississippi Histories: Two Short Films

Emma Knowles Lytle
Michael Ford
Andy Harper, University of Mississippi

Nutt Auditorium

7:45 PM

Monday, July 21st
8:00 AM

Teaching Faulkner I: Whose Faulkner and Whose History?

Charles A. Peek
Terrell L. Tebbetts

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Histories of Labor and Technology

Deborah Clarke, Arizona State University
Sean McCann
Rebecca B. Clark, University of California, Berkeley

Nutt Auditorium

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

Panel. History Makes Faulkner: Manufacturing a Mid-Century Reputation

Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University
David M. Earle, University of West Florida
Anna Creadick, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM

12:30 PM

Digital Yoknapatawpha: A Progress Report on a Work in Progress

Dotty Dye, Arizona State University
Theresa M. Towner, Univeristy of Texas, Dallas
Stephen Railton, University of Virginia

Yerby Center Auditorium

12:30 PM

2:00 PM

Torture, Southern Violence, and Faulkner in Context

W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

Panel. History, Fiction, and Interracial Intimacies in Faulkner

Lael Gold
Margaret Wrinkle
Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University
Sharony Green, University of Alabama

Nutt Auditorium

3:30 PM

8:00 PM

Faulkner on the Fringe: Open Mike at Southside Gallery

Conference Attendees

Southside Gallery

8:00 PM

Tuesday, July 22nd
8:00 AM

Teaching Faulkner II: Faulknerian History

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas
Brian McDonald, Pennsylvania State University
Theresa M. Towner, Univeristy of Texas, Dallas

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Thinking Literature and History Comparatively

Jason Fichtel, Joliet Junior College
Esther Sánchez-Pardo, Compultense Universidad de Madrid
Christopher Rieger, Southeast Missouri State University

Nutt Auditorium

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

Panel. Faulkner, Modern Art, and Modern War

Serena Blount, University of Alabama
Randall S. Wilhelm, Anderson University
Candace Waid, University of California, Santa Barbara

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM

2:00 PM

Salvific Animality, or Another Look at Faulkner's South

Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

How Faulkner Grappled with the Problem South

Natalie J. Ring, Univeristy of Texas, Dallas

Nutt Auditorium

3:30 PM

5:30 PM

Clark-Kullman Party

Conference Attendees

604 Tyler Place

5:30 PM

Wednesday, July 23rd
8:00 AM

Panel. Local and Regional Histories

Peter Froehlich, Pennsylvania State University at Hazleton
Charles Hannon, Washington and Jefferson Colleges
Elizabeth Steeby, University of New Orleans

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 AM

8:00 AM

Panel. Visions of History

Frank P. Fury, Monmouth University
Brooks E. Hefner, James Madison University
Satoshi Kanazawa, Kyoto Prefectural University

Yerby Center Auditorium

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Faulkner in the History of Modernity

Hannah Godwin, University of Oregon
Sara Gabler Thomas, University of Mississippi
Matthew Sutton, College of William and Mary

Nutt Auditorium

9:30 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Faulknerian Temporalities

Katherine Isabel Bondy, University of California, Berkeley
Jordan Burke, Yale University
George Porter Thomas, University of California, Davis

Yerby Center Auditorium

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

Panel. History, Power, and Gender

Jaclyn Crumbley Carver, University of Iowa
Rachel Watson, University of Chicago
Sarah Walker, University of Iowa

Yerby Center Auditorium

11:00 AM

11:00 AM

Panel. Staging Southern Histories

Daniel Ferris, De Anza College
Andrew Leiter, Lycoming College
Kristi Rowan Humphreys, Texas Tech University

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM

2:00 PM

Faulkner and Plantation

Jeremy Wells, Indiana University, Southeast

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

Panel. Deciphering Sutpen's Hundred: Ideology, Representation, and the Politics of Aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom!

Josh Jones, Fordham University
Jennifer Gilchrist, Hunter College, City University of New York
Mark Sursavage, University of Houston

Yerby Center Auditorium

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

Panel. Moonshine and Magnolias: A History of Spirits in Faulkner's Mississippi

Carrie Helms Tippen, Texas Christian University
Conor Picken, Bellarmine University
Meredith Kelling, University of Missouri, St. Louis

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

Thursday, July 24th
9:00 AM

Guided Tours of North Mississippi

Various Guides

Various Locations

9:00 AM

5:30 PM

Reading and Book Signing

Josh Weil

Off Square Books

5:30 PM

6:00 PM

Closing Party

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books

6:00 PM