Could anything be more uncontroversial than to identify William Faulkner as a modernist writer? And yet—in a contemporary moment characterized by the renewal, expansion, diversification, and general flourishing of modernist studies scholarship, we can no longer take for granted what that modernism was, is, or might have been, or in what it might have inhered. Where was Faulkner’s modernism—amidst what competing or nested geographies of modernity should we locate it? When was that modernism—how should we periodize it? Which literary, artistic, or intellectual contemporaries, precursors, or successors best illuminate what Faulkner’s modernism was—and wasn’t? And what new approaches to modernist aesthetics might be generated by taking Faulkner as Exhibit A? The 48th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha conference will take up the venerable but also excitingly new question of Faulkner’s literary and other modernisms. In addition to five keynote lectures, the conference program will include panel presentations, guided daylong tours of North Mississippi and the Delta, and our ever-popular sessions on “Teaching Faulkner.”
The conference will begin on Sunday, July 17, with a reception at the University Museum, after which the academic program of the conference will open with a keynote address and the program’s first scholarly panel, followed by a buffet supper on the grounds of Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak. Over the next four days, a busy schedule of lectures and panels will also make room for teaching sessions, an afternoon cocktail reception, a picnic served at Rowan Oak, guided tours, and a closing party on Thursday afternoon, July 21. Throughout the conference, the University’s J. D. Williams Library will display Faulkner books, manuscripts, photographs, and memorabilia. The University Press of Mississippi will exhibit Faulkner books published by university presses throughout the United States, and there will be a display, with books for sale, by Faulkner collector Seth Berner, who will also give a brown bag lunch presentation on “Collecting Faulkner.”
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| Sunday, July 17th | ||
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Conference Participants University Museums 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| 2:30 PM |
Family, Nation, Sin: Faulkner in Conversation With Albert Wendt (Samoa) And Elif Shafak (Turkey) Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin Nutt Auditorium 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM |
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| 4:00 PM |
Divisions of Aesthetic Labor; Or, When Is Faulkner Not Modern? Julian Murphet, Adelaide University Nutt Auditorium 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
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| 7:30 PM |
Kathryn McKee, University of Mississippi Nutt Auditorium 7:30 PM |
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| Monday, July 18th | ||
| 8:00 AM |
Sascha Morrell, Monash University Nutt Auditorium 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM |
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| 9:30 AM |
Panel: Race, Region, And Modernism Ethan King, Boston University Nutt Auditorium 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Philosophical Underpinnings of Faulkner’s Modernism: Epistemology, Ontology, Ethics Kate Schnur, CUNY Queens College Nutt Auditorium 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
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| 12:30 PM |
Seth Berner Nutt Auditorium 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Mechanical and Human Factors in Faulkner Aviation Michael Zeitlin, University of British Columbia Nutt Auditorium 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Michael Wainright, Royal Holloway, University of London Nutt Auditorium 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
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| Tuesday, July 19th | ||
| 8:00 AM |
James B. Carothers Nutt Auditorium 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM |
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| 9:30 AM |
Panel: Faulkner’s Apprenticeship in Modernism Brooke P. Alexander, University of Mississippi Nutt Auditorium 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Erin Penner, Asbury University Nutt Auditorium 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
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| 12:30 PM |
Digitizing Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha in the Twenty-First Century Johannes Burgers, Ashoka University Nutt Auditorium 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Modernist Phenomonologies of Segregated Space: A Hypothesis Leigh Anne Duck, University of Mississippi Nutt Auditorium 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Panel: Working-Class Modernisms Amy Foley, Providence College Nutt Auditorium 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
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| Wednesday, July 20th | ||
| 8:00 AM |
Jennie Joiner, Keuka College Nutt Auditorium 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM |
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| 9:30 AM |
Panel: Aesthetic and Stylistic Dimensions of Faulkner’s Modernism Mason Golden Nutt Auditorium 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
John N. Duvall, Purdue University Nutt Auditorium 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
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| 12:30 PM |
Library Lecture. Shadows on the Wall: Colonel W. C. Falkner in Legend Jack D. Elliot Jr. Nutt Auditorium 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Panel: Faulkner’s Sensational Modernisms Randall Wilhelm, Anderson University Nutt Auditorium 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Panel: William Faulkner and Rural Modernism Ben Child, Colgate University Nutt Auditorium 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
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| 5:00 PM |
Conference Participants Departs from Parking Lot behind University Museums 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
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| 6:00 PM |
Conference Participants Rowan Oak 6:00 PM |
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| Thursday, July 21st | ||
| 9:00 AM |
Guided Tours of North Mississippi Jay Watson, University of Mississippi (All Tours Depart from the Parking Lot at the Inn at Ole Miss) 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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| 5:30 PM |
Conference Participants Off Square Books, 129 Courthouse Square, Oxford 5:30 PM |
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