2024: Anniversaries
The fiftieth anniversary Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference will be held in person, with a remote option for international scholars prohibited from traveling to the U.S., from July 21 to July 25, 2024. The Division of Outreach and Continuing Education will contact all remote registrants with an electronic newsletter containing digital links to all events on the conference program below. Remote registrants should be sure to upgrade to the most current version of Zoom software by July 21.
The conference will begin on Sunday, July 21, with a reception at the University Museum, after which the academic program of the conference will open with keynote addresses, 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 25. 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 and titles of related interest published by university presses throughout the United States, and Faulkner collector Seth Berner will give a brown bag lunch presentation on “Collecting Faulkner.”
All registrants, whether they are teachers or not, are welcome at these sessions.
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| Sunday, July 21st | ||
| 1:00 PM |
Panel 1. Circa 1924: Apprenticeships Brooke P. Alexander, University of Mississippi Nutt Auditorium 1:00 PM |
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Panel 2. Across Five Continents: International Comparisons Brian McDonald, School District of Lancaster (Penn.) Music Building 153 1:00 PM |
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| 1:00 PM |
Conference Participants University Museums 1:00 PM |
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| 2:30 PM |
Keynote Lecture. Of Demi-Gods and Influences: William Faulkner and African American Literature Trudier Harris, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa Nutt Auditorium 2:30 PM |
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| 4:00 PM |
Roundtable 1. The Conference History: Origins, Orientings, Outgrowths Peter Lurie Nutt Auditorium 4:00 PM |
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| 5:30 PM |
Conference Participants Rowan Oak 5:30 PM |
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| 7:30 PM |
Rebecca Lauck Cleary, University of Mississippi Nutt Auditorium 7:30 PM |
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| Monday, July 22nd | ||
| 9:30 AM |
James Carothers Nutt Auditorium 9:30 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Susan V. Donaldson, College of William and Mary Nutt Auditorium 11:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Panel 4. Translation And Biography Camille Le Gall, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès Music Building 153 11:00 AM |
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| 12:30 PM |
Lunch: Collecting Faulkner (Box lunches provided) Seth Berner, Berner Books Nutt Auditorium 12:30 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Keynote Lecture. Reflections on the Power of Evil in Faulkner’s Work Claude Romano, University of Paris-Sorbonne Nutt Auditorium 2:00 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Will Edmonstone, New School Nutt Auditorium 3:30 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Frédérique Spill, University of Picardy–Jules Verne Music Building 153 3:30 PM |
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| 5:00 PM |
Panel 7. New Approaches to Sanctuary Mary A. Knighton, Aoyama Gakuin University Nutt Auditorium 5:00 PM |
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| 5:00 PM |
Panel 8. Making Meaning in Public and Private: Sites of Antagonism and Aspiration in Faulkner Ted Atkinson, Mississippi State University Music Building 153 5:00 PM |
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| 9:00 PM |
Film Screening. Faulkner: The Past is Never Dead Anita Modak-Truran, Butler Snow Nutt Auditorium 9:00 PM |
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| Tuesday, July 23rd | ||
| 8:00 AM |
Panel 10. Gender and Ungendering Eva Gourdoux, University of Pau Music Building 153 8:00 AM |
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| 8:00 AM |
Panel 9. Aesthetics And Technique: New Approaches J. Gregory Brister, Valley City State University Nutt Auditorium 8:00 AM |
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| 9:30 AM |
Panel 11. Faulkner In Translation: Intercontinental Drifts Douglas Robinson, Chinese University of Hong Kong Nutt Auditorium 9:30 AM |
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| 9:30 AM |
Jaime Harker, University of Mississippi Faulkner Room. Archives & Special Collections. J. D. Williams Library 9:30 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Panel 12. Faulkner and the Global South Leigh Anne Duck, University of Mississippi Nutt Auditorium 11:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Panel 13. Law, Ethics, Justice Timothy T. Hsieh, Oklahoma City University Music Building 153 11:00 AM |
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| 12:30 PM |
Conference Participants 12:30 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Keynote Lecture. Universal Bones Catherine Gunther Kodat, Marist College Nutt Auditorium 2:00 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Panel 14. Go Slow Now, Or a Dream Deferred: William Faulkner and Civil Rights Sharon Monteith, Nottingham Trent University Nutt Auditorium 3:30 PM |
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| 5:00 PM |
Panel 15. Yoknapatawpha And Bois Sauvage: William Faulkner And Jesmyn Ward Anne Macmaster, Millsaps College Nutt Auditorium 5:00 PM |
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| 5:00 PM |
Panel 16. Circa 1954: A Fable and/in Its Time Michael Zeitlin, University of British Columbia Music Building 153 5:00 PM |
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| Wednesday, July 24th | ||
| 8:00 AM |
Panel 17. Teaching and Learning Faulkner in the Digital Age Joost Burgers, James Madison University Nutt Auditorium 8:00 AM |
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| 8:00 AM |
Roundtable 2. Reading Faulkner in Phoenix Deborah Clarke, Arizona State University Music Building 153 8:00 AM |
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| 9:30 AM |
Jennie Joiner, Keuka College Nutt Auditorium 9:30 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Panel 18. Faulkner in Asia, Asia in Faulkner, and Faulkner and Asian Writers Yuko Yamamoto, Chiba University Nutt Auditorium 11:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Savannah DiGregorio, Vanderbilt University Music Building 153 11:00 AM |
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| 12:30 PM |
Library Lecture. William Faulkner’s Wars with the Saturday Evening Post Theresa Towner, University of Texas, Dallas Faulkner Room. Archives & Special Collections. J. D. Williams Library 12:30 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Keynote Lecture. William Faulkner and Noir Fiction Koichi Suwabe, University of Tokyo Nutt Auditorium 2:00 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Panel 20. Faulkner And War: Perspectives From Japan Satoshi Kanazawa Nutt Auditorium 3:30 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Panel 21. Aesthetics and Genre: New Approaches Ben Robbins, University of Innsbruck Music Building 153 3:30 PM |
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| 5:00 PM |
Film Screening. Are You Walkin With Me?: Sister Thea Bowman Riché Richardson, Cornell University Nutt Auditorium 5:00 PM |
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| 6:15 PM |
Conference Participants University Museums 6:15 PM |
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| 6:30 PM |
Conference Participants Rowan Oak 6:30 PM |
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| 9:00 PM |
Ivan Delazari, Nazarbayev University Nutt Auditorium 9:00 PM |
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| Thursday, July 25th | ||
| 9:00 AM |
Guided Tours of North Mississippi (optional) Jay Watson, University of Mississippi Inn at Ole Miss 9:00 AM |
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| 5:00 PM |
Julia Phillips, Randolph College Off Square Books (129 Courthouse Square) 5:00 PM |
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| 6:30 PM |
Closing Party (with reading and signing) Robert W. Hamblin, Southeast Missouri State University Off Square Books (129 Courthouse Square) 6:30 PM |
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