2008: Zora Neale Hurston

Registration begins

Conference Attendees

Oxford Conference Center

10:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Exhibition and Performance; Light lunch

Tricia Walker
Jennifer Ford, University of Mississippi
Mississippi Hall of Writers
University of Mississippi. Libraries.

J. D. Williams Library

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Welcome

Richard Howorth, Mayor of Oxford

Oxford Conference Center

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Zora Neale Hurston: Her Work and Legacy

Erin D. Chapman, University of Mississippi
Deborah Plant, University of South Florida

Oxford Conference Center

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Zora Neale Hurston and Her Friends at Yale

Jan Murray, University of Mississippi
Patricia Willis, Yale University

Oxford Conference Center

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Zora Neale Hurston and Folk Culture

Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
Adam Gussow, University of Mississippi
Anne Goodwyn Jones, University of Florida
John Lowe, Louisiana State University

Oxford Conference Center

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Thacker Mountain Radio

Jim Dees
Kevin Brockmeier
Christopher Paul Curtis

Powerhouse Community Arts Center

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Dinner, Meet the Speakers (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Isom Place

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Open Mike: Poetry and Fiction Jam

Conference Attendees

Bouré (Oxford, MS)

9:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Welcome

Conference Organizers

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Literature for Young Readers 1

Rosemary Oliphant-Ingham, University of Mississippi
Christopher Paul Curtis

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Literature for Young Readers 2

Kathryn McKee, University of Mississippi
Margaret McMullan, University of Evansville

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch (box lunch available)

Conference Attendees

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Poetry: Readings and Remarks

Beth Ann Fennelly, University of Mississippi
Rob Griffith, University of Evansville
A. Van Jordan, University of Texas, Austin

Oxford Conference Center

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

From the Page to the Stage and Beyond

Rhona Justice-Malloy, University of Mississippi
Rebecca Eaton, WGBH

Oxford Conference Center

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children

Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Jerry W. Ward Jr., Dillard University

Oxford Conference Center

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

40th Anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death

Curtis Wilkie, University of Mississippi
Hank Klibanoff, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Houston Roberson, University of the South

Oxford Conference Center

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Readings by Russian Writers

Doug Robinson, University of Mississippi
Vasily Chepelev
Dmitry Danilov
Zakhar Prilepin
Olga Zondberg

Oxford Conference Center

9:00 PM - 10:30 PM

The Endangered Species: Readers Today and Tomorrow

Elaine H. Scott, Reading is Fundamental, Inc.
Claiborne Barksdale, University of Mississippi
Daniel Born, Great Books Foundation
Pamela Pridgen, Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County

Nutt Auditorium

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Book Reviews

Jonathan Miles
Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review
Frederick Koeppel, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
J. Peder Zane, News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)

Nutt Auditorium

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Readings and Remarks

Patrick Quinn, University of Mississippi
Michael Schmidt, University of Glasgow

Nutt Auditorium

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch (on your own)

Conference Attendees

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Readings and Remarks

William Dunlap
Sallie Bingham
Ellen Gilchrist, University of Arkansas

Nutt Auditorium

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Readings and Remarks

Tom Franklin, University of Mississippi
Susan Choi
Jack Pendarvis, University of Mississippi

Nutt Auditorium

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Considering the Legacy: Hurston's Influence on Contemporary Writers

Ethel Young-Minor, University of Mississippi
Jeffrey Renard Allen, City University of New York. Queens College
Nichelle D. Tramble

Nutt Auditorium

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Book Signing

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM