2013: Remembering Evans Harrington

Brown Bag Lecture: How to Parse a Press

Walter Biggins, University Press of Mississippi
Steve Yates, University Press of Mississippi

Barnard Observatory

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Pitchapalooza

Arielle Eckstut, The Book Doctors
David Henry Sterry, The Book Doctors

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Optional Check-in Begins

Conference Attendees

J. D. Williams Library

10:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Lunch, Opening Talk

W. Ralph Eubanks, Library of Congress
University of Mississippi Libraries.

J. D. Williams Library

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Chancellor's Welcome

Daniel W. Jones, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Writing at the University: The University of Mississippi's Grisham Writers

Tom Franklin, University of Mississippi
Michael Knight, University of Tennessee
Brad Watson
Nic Brown, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM

Contemporary Poetry Readings and Discussion

Beth Ann Fennelly, University of Mississippi
Robert Griffith, University of Evansville
Nicole Cooley, City University of New York, Queens College

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Writing Southern Grit Lit

Kathryn McKee, University of Mississippi
Brian Carpenter
Alex Taylor

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Thacker Mountain Radio

Jim Dees
Jamie Quatro
Ron Rash, Western Carolina University

Lyric Theater

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Opening Reception (Registration required)

Conference Attendees

Barksdale-Isom House

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Young Readers Program: 5th Grade

Jewell Parker Rhodes, Arizona State University
Ruth Thompson

Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Evans Harrington Remembrance

Robert Hamblin, Southeast Missouri State University
Richard Howorth, Square Books (Oxford, MS)

J. D. Williams Library

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Young Readers Program: 9th Grade

Mary Amato
Meridith Wulff, Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library
Nancy Opalko, Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library

Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Poetry Craft Talk and Lunch (Registration required)

Nicole Cooley, City University of New York, Queens College

Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Reading presented by Square Books

Kristopher Jansma, Manhattanville College
Owen King

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

The Ecopoetry Anthology: A Reading and Discussion

Ann Fisher-Wirth, University of Mississippi
Laura-Gray Street, Randolph College
Juan Carlos Galeano, Florida State University
Forrest Gander

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Writing and Teaching

Chris Offutt, University of Mississippi
Alice Randall, Vanderbilt University
Skip Horack, Auburn University
Owen King

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Recent Civil Rights Movement Books

Curtis Wilkie, University of Mississippi
M. J. O'Brien
Michael V. Williams, Mississippi State University
Barbara Matusow, Washingtonian Magazine

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Identity Politics and Gua Bao: Eddie Huang in Conversation with John T. Edge

John T. Edge, University of Mississippi
Eddie Huang, Baohaus (New York, NY)

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

6:00 PM - 6:45 PM

Book Signing for Conference Authors

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

6:45 PM - 8:00 PM

Coffee

Conference Attendees

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Art Books: Their Purpose and Future

William Dunlap
Estil Curtis "Buck" Pennington
J. Richard Gruber, Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Judith H. Bonner, Historic New Orleans Collection
Leila W. Salisbury, University Press of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Literacy and the Language Barrier: Discussion of Literature and English as a Learned Language

Julie Cantrell
Ashley Fly, University of Mississippi
Lance Herrington, University of Mississippi
Robert M. Winkler, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Lunch (On your own)

Conference Attendees

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Music Biography in the Global South

Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi
Ben Sandmel
Vladimir Alexandrov, Yale University

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Reading and Writers Conversation presented by Square Books

Jamie Quatro
Jill McCorkle, North Carolina State University

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Book Signing for Conference Authors

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford, MS)

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM