2025: Faulkner's Bodies
The fifty-first Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference will be held in person, with a remote option for international scholars prohibited from traveling to the US, from July 20 to July 24, 2025. 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 20.
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| 2025 | ||
| Sunday, July 20th | ||
| 1:00 PM |
Conference Attendees University Museum 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| 2:30 PM |
Keynote Lecture. Embodying Black Masculinities in the Works of William Faulkner and James Baldwin Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Brown University Nutt Auditorium 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM |
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| 4:00 PM |
Susan Scott Parrish, University of Michigan Nutt Auditorium 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
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| 5:30 PM |
Conference Attendees Rowan Oak 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM |
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| 7:30 PM |
Rebecca Lauck Cleary, University of Mississippi Nutt Auditorium 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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| Monday, July 21st | ||
| 8:00 AM |
Panel 1: Zombies, Ghosts, and Corpses Brock Rustin, Claremont Graduate University Nutt Auditorium 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM |
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| 9:30 AM |
Jennie Joiner, Keuka College Nutt Auditorium 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Panel 2: Faulkner’s Theatrum Anatomicum: The Body in Parts Solveig Dunkel, Université de Lille Nutt Auditorium 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
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| 12:30 PM |
Seth Berner, Berner Books Nutt Auditorium 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Keynote Lecture. Faulkner, Eugenics, and Mental Disability Maren Linett, Purdue University Nutt Auditorium 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Panel 3: The Sexualized Body: A Comparative Panel Jennie Joiner, Keuka College Nutt Auditorium 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
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| 5:30 PM |
Film Screening. “Faulkner’s Fusion”: The View From Japan Michael Modak-Truran Nutt Auditorium 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM |
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| Tuesday, July 22nd | ||
| 8:00 AM |
Teaching Workshop. Teaching As I Lay Dying: Bodies, Embodiment, and Identity in the Classroom Jaime Harker, University of Mississippi Music Building 153 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM |
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| 9:30 AM |
Concurrent Session. Panel 4: Labor History, Economics, And The Body Shanming Zhang, Zhejiang University Nutt Auditorium 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM |
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| 9:30 AM |
Concurrent Session. Panel 5: Narrative, Formalist, and Phenomenological Models of the Body Duncan Mccoll Chesney, National Taiwan University Music Building 153 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Concurrent Session. Panel 6: Visualizing the Body in Faulkner Brooke P. Alexander, University of Mississippi Nutt Auditorium 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Concurrent Session. Panel 7: Influences and Interlocutors: Borges, Fanon, Lombroso Luciana Colombo, New York University Music Building 153 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
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| 12:30 PM |
Conference Attendees 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Keynote Lecture. Breathing Faulkner Lisa Hinrichsen, University of Arkansas Nutt Auditorium 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Panel 8: Faulkner’s Body Politic: Disaster, Conflict, and Struggle Robert Jackson, University of Tulsa Nutt Auditorium 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
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| 5:00 PM |
The Future of Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha: A Listening Session Kathryn McKee, University of Mississippi Nutt Auditorium 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
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| Wednesday, July 23rd | ||
| 8:30 AM |
Concurrent Sessions. Panel 10: Entrapment and Recursivity Zhiyue Ding, New York University Music Building 153 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| 8:30 AM |
Concurrent Sessions. Panel 9: Technology, Popular Culture, and the Body Ben Child, Colgate University Nutt Auditorium 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
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| 10:00 AM |
Taylor Hagood, Florida Atlantic University Nutt Auditorium 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM |
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| 11:30 AM |
Reconstructing William Faulkner’s Library: A Collaborative Digital Humanities Project Michelle Emanuel, University of Mississippi Faulkner Room. J.D. Williams Library 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
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| 12:30 PM |
Library Lecture. Responsibility Politics: Faulkner’s 1952 Address to the Delta Council Ted Atkinson, Mississippi State University Faulkner Room. J.D. Williams Library 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Concurrent Sessions. Panel 11: Racial and Environmental Embodiment Timothy Howard, Kent State University Nutt Auditorium 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Concurrent Sessions. Panel 12: The Body and the Gaze Hannah Godwin, Clemson University Music Building 153 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Concurrent Sessions. Panel 13: Bodies at War Michael Zeitlin, University of British Columbia Nutt Auditorium 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Concurrent Sessions. Panel 14: Grotesquerie and Disembodiment Sarah Boykin Hardy, Hampden-Sydney College Music Building 153 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
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| 5:30 PM |
Walk Through Bailey Woods to Rowan Oak Conference Attendees University Museum 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM |
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| 6:00 PM |
Conference Attendees Rowan Oak 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM |
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| 7:30 PM |
Film Screening. Diamonds of the Night Jerry W. Carlson, City College, CUNY Nutt Auditorium 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
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| Thursday, July 24th | ||
| 9:00 AM |
Guided Tours Of North Mississippi Jay Watson, University of Mississippi Inn at Ole Miss 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM |
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| 5:30 PM |
Conference Attendees Off Square Books 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM |
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