2011: King James Bible at 400

Registration begins

Conference Attendees

Barnard Observatory

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Exhibition and Lecture; Light lunch

Kathryn McKee, University of Mississippi
Peggy Whitman Prenshaw, Millsaps College
University of Mississippi. Libraries.

J. D. Williams Library

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Welcome

Daniel W. Jones, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Celebration of National Poetry Month

Beth Ann Fennelly, University of Mississippi
Michael McFee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Richard Tillinghast

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Readings/Remarks

W. Ralph Eubanks, Library of Congress
Natasha Trethewey, Emory University
Jesmyn Ward, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Reading in the Post-Gutenbergian Age

William Dunlap
Sven Birkerts, Bennington College
Sarah Kennedy, Mary Baldwin College
R. T. Smith, Washington and Lee University

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Thacker Mountain Radio

Jim Dees
Kevin Brockmeier
Téa Obrecht
Karen Russell

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Dinner wiith the Speakers (Reservation required)

Conference Attendees

Barksdale-Isom Place

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Literature for Young Readers 1

Rosemary Oliphant-Ingham, University of Mississippi
Jon Voelkel
Pamela Voelkel

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Literature for Young Readers 2

Susan Phillips, Lafayette County Literacy Council
Ally Condie

Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Poetry Craft Talk and Lunch (Reservation required)

Michael McFee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Readings

Lyn Roberts, Square Books (Oxford, MS)
Téa Obreht
Justin Taylor

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Narrative Nonfiction

Jamie Kornegay, Turnrow Book Company (Greenwood, MS)
Mark Richard, University of Mississippi
Curtis Wilkie, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Young Authors Fair

Conference Attendees

Square Books Jr. (Oxford, MS)

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Writing About Sports

Thomas Oliphant
Rick Cleveland, Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Wil Haygood, Washington Post
Wright Thompson, ESPN

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Artist's reception: William Gay, Claude Wilkinson

William Gay
Claude Wilkinson

Southside Gallery (Oxford, MS)

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Open Mike: Poetry and Fiction Jam

Dorothy Knight, University of Mississippi
Travis Smith, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Breakfast (No charge, reservtion required)

Conference Attendees

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Poetry Writing Workshop (Registration required)

Richard Tillinghast

Overby Center Room 206

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Texts and Technologies

Ivo Kamps, University of Mississippi
Jennifer Drouin, University of Alabama
Mary Hayes, University of Mississippi
Gregory Heyworth, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

The King James Bible at 400

Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
Norman W. Jones, Ohio State University
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch: Picnic celebrating books (Registration required)

Conference Attendees

Barnard Observatory

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Comic Book Authors

Jack Pendarvis, University of Mississippi
Joyce Farmer
Michael Kupperman
Joe Matt

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

City Lights: a Dialogue

Richard Howorth, Square Books (Oxford, MS)
Paul Yamakazi, City Lights (San Francisco, CA)

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Readings and Remarks

Tom Franklin, University of Mississippi
Kevin Brockmeier
Karen Russell

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Marathon Book Signing and Party

Conference Attendees

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM