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 Z783211167 2019.

Posters are available for purchase from the University of Mississippi.

Schedule

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2016
Sunday, July 17th
1:00 PM

Gods and Men: Iconography and Identity in the Ancient World

Various Artists

University Museum

1:00 PM

2:30 PM

Mr. Faulkner's Indians: A Brief History of the Indians of Mississippi

Robbie Ethridge, University of Mississippi

Nutt Auditorium

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

Faulkner's Dialectical Indian: Modernity, Nativity, and Violence in the New South

Melanie Benson Taylor

Nutt Auditorium

4:00 PM

5:30 PM

Buffet Supper

Conference Attendees

Rowan Oak, Old Taylor Road

5:30 PM

7:30 PM

Welcome, Award Presentations, Keynote Address

Lee Cohen, University of Mississippi
George "Pat" Patterson, City of Oxford
James G. Thomas Jr., University of Mississippi
LeAnne Howe, University of Georgia

Nutt Auditorium

7:30 PM

Monday, July 18th
9:00 AM

Teaching Faulkner I. Faulkner's Native Aliens: Placed, Misplaced, Displaced

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

Nutt Auditorium

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Native Southern Transformations, or, Light in August and Werewolves

Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason University

Nutt Auditorium

10:30 AM

12:00 PM

Brown Bag Lunch Presentation

Maureen S. Meyers, University of Mississippi

Barnard Observatory. Tupelo Room

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

Another Mississippian's Indians: The Missionary Hope, 1886-1909

Patricia Kay Galloway, University of Texas

Nutt Auditorium

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Panel. Yakni Patafa: Faulkner, Land, and Indigenous Critical Perspectives

John Wharton Lowe, University of Georgia
Kirstin L. Squint, High Point University
Gina Caison, Georgia State University

Nutt Auditorium

3:00 PM

Tuesday, July 19th
9:00 AM

Teaching Faulkner II. Faulkner's Native Humor

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

Nutt Auditorium

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Brother, Is This Truth?: History, Fiction, and Colonialism in Faulkner's Mississippi

Katherine M. B. Osburn, Arizona State University

Nutt Auditorium

10:30 AM

12:00 PM

Digital Yoknapatawpha: A Progress Report on a Work in Progress

John Corrigan, National Chengchi University
Ren Denton, East Georgia State College
Theresa M. Towner, University of Texas, Dallas

Yerby Center Auditorium

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

Indian Axle-Grease: Re-Imagining Removal

Annette Trefzer, University of Mississippi

Nutt Auditorium

1:30 PM

3:00 PM

Panel. Native Soil North: Louise Erdrich's Reconfigurations of Faulknerian Space

Angela Jones, University of Wisconsin, Platteville
Melanie R. Anderson, Glenville State College
Phillip Gordon, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Nutt Auditorium

3:00 PM

5:30 PM

Cocktail Party

Conference Attendees

Oxford Depot

5:30 PM

Wednesday, July 20th
8:00 AM

Teaching Faulkner III. Faulkner in the AP/IB Classroom

Brian McDonald, Lancaster School District (Penn.)

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Tricksters and "Fathers": Native Figures in Faulkner and U. S. Literature

Leslie Walker Bickford, Winthrop University
Lin Bin, Xiamen University
Robbie Ethridge, University of Mississippi
Anne MacMaster, Millsaps College

Nutt Auditorium

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

A Chickasaw Homecoming

Brad Prewitt, Chickasaw Inkana Foundation

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM

12:30 PM

William Faulkner and Evans Harrington: A Study in Influence

Robert W. Hamblin, Southeast Missouri State University

Faulkner Room, J. D. Williams Library

12:30 PM

2:00 PM

Souths as Prologues: Indigeneity, Race, and the Temporalities of Land

Jodi A. Byrd, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

Panel. The Mississippi Choctaw Today: Language, Culture, and Contemporary Life

Amanda Bell, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
John Hendrix, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Fred Willis, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

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, Old Taylor Road

6:00 PM

Thursday, July 21st
9:00 AM

Guided tours of North Mississippi

Various Guides

Various Locations

9:00 AM

5:30 PM

Closing Party

Conference Attendees

Square Books

5:30 PM