2019: Faulkner's Families

A selection of the essays presented at this year’s conference is forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi.

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Schedule
2019
Sunday, July 21st
1:00 PM

Meditations on the Landscape in Art and Literature; The Art of Identification; Visual Abundance: Realism in Watercolor

William Dunlap
David Allen Sibley
Laurin McCracken

University Museum

1:00 PM

2:30 PM

The Family, Our Beloved Crisis: Faulkner's Version

Hortense J. Spillers, Vanderbilt University

Nutt Auditorium

2:30 PM

4:00 PM

Beasts in the Mississippi Jungle: Ike McCaslin's Queer Animal Kinship

John N. Duvall, Purdue University

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

Ivo Kamps, University of Mississippi
Jason Bailey, City of Oxford
Jenna Grace Sciuto, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Rebecca Lauck Cleary, University of Mississippi

Tallahatchie Oxford Missionary Baptist Church, 20 Hwy 334, Oxford

7:30 PM

8:00 PM

A Conversation with Kenyatta Berry

Kenyatta D. Berry
Jodi Skipper, University of Mississippi

Tallahatchie Oxford Missionary Baptist Church, 20 Hwy 334, Oxford

8:00 PM

Monday, July 22nd
8:00 AM

Teaching Faulkner I. Faulkner's Genealogies

James B. Carothers, University of Kansas
Terrell L. Tebbetts, Lyon College
Theresa M. Towner, University of Texas, Dallas

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Affinities and Affiliations, Familial and Otherwise

Sage Gerson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Aili Pettersson Peeker, University of California, Santa Barbara
Maite Urcaregui, University of California, Santa Barbara
Madeleine Roepe, University of California, Santa Barbara

Nutt Auditorium

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

Panel. Daughters and Siblings

Julie Beth Napolin, The New School
Josephine Adams, University of Virginia
Thomas L. McLaughlin Jr., Villanova University

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM

12:30 PM

Digital Yoknapatawpha Update

Joost Bergers, Ashoka University
Erin Penner, Asbury University
Jenna Grace Sciuto, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

Nutt Auditorium

12:30 PM

2:00 PM

Faulkner’s Age, Age in Faulkner’s Work

Caroline Levander, Rice University

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

Panel. Faulkner's Black Families in Oxford and Lafayette County

Kenyatta D. Berry
Jeffrey T. Jackson, University of Mississippi
Garry Bertholf, Duke University
Rhondalyn Peairs, HISTORICH

Nutt Auditorium

3:30 PM

8:00 PM

The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928): Screening and Discussion

Elevator Repair Service

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 PM

Tuesday, July 23rd
8:00 AM

Teaching Faulkner II

Brian McDonald, School District of Lancaster (Penn.)

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Breeding, Feuding, and Forging Families

Isadora J. Wagner, U. S. Military Academy at West Point
Wallis H. Tinnie, Miami-Dade College
Jeff Allred, Hunter College, City University of New York

Nutt Auditorium

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

Panel. Toxic, Contagious, and Stressed: Family Pressures in Faulkner

Geri Harmon, Georgia Gwinnett College
Margaret Mauk, Florida State University
Michael Wainright, Royal Holloway, University of London
Maxwell Cassity, Syracuse University

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM

12:30 PM

Felling and Pining: Mortality, Inequality, and Impiety in Deep South Woodlands

John Howard, King's College London

Nutt Auditorium

12:30 PM

2:00 PM

Panel. Space, Place, and Race: Geography and Genealogy in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha

Taylor Hagood, Florida Atlantic University
Jennie J. Joiner, Keuka College
Rebecca S. Nisetich, University of Southern Maine

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

Cocktail Party

Conference Attendees

Nutt Auditorium

3:30 PM

5:30 PM

Panel. Family as Fate and Fantasm

Kristi Rowan Humphreys, Baylor University
Maude Hines, Portland State University
Anne MacMaster, Millsaps College

Oxford Depot

5:30 PM

Wednesday, July 24th
8:00 AM

Panel. Family Beyond Fiction

Tyler Mercer, Live Source Theater Group
Chris Dieman, Live Source Theater Group
Yuko Yamamoto, Chiba University
Mariana Sonntag Whitmer

Nutt Auditorium

8:00 AM

9:30 AM

Panel. Subversive, Transnational, and Functional Genealogies

George Porter Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Hyoseol Ha, State University of New York, Buffalo
Terrell L. Tebbetts, Lyon College

Nutt Auditorium

9:30 AM

11:00 AM

Library Lecture. Faulkner Family Reading and the Compsons

Tom McHaney

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM

12:30 PM

Whiteness, Childhood, and the Faulknerian Gothic

Katherine Henninger, Louisiana State University

Faulkner Room, Archives and Special Collections, J. D. Williams Library

12:30 PM

2:00 PM

Panel. The Region, The Globe, The Cosmopolitan

Sarah Gleeson-White, University of Sydney
Pardis Dabashi, University of Nevada, Reno
Robert Jackson, University of Tulsa
Michael Zeitlin, University of British Columbia

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM

3:30 PM

Walk Through Bailey's Woods

Conference Attendees

Nutt Auditorium

3:30 PM

5:30 PM

Picnic at Rowan Oak

Conference Attendees

Bailey's Woods

5:30 PM

6:00 PM

Guided Tours of North Mississippi

Various Guides

Rowan Oak, Old Taylor Road

6:00 PM

Thursday, July 25th
9:00 AM

Closing Party and Signing

Conference Attendees

Various Locations

9:00 AM