2016: Poetic Responses to Langston Hughes

Welcome Lunch, Opening Reading and Remarks

Margaret McMullan, Stony Brook Southhampton

J. D. Williams Library

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Exploring Mississippi's History

Minion "K. C." Morrison, Mississippi State University
Dennis Mitchell, Mississippi State University, Meridian
Curtis Wilkie, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Growing Up in the South

Kiese Laymon, University of Mississippi
LaKisha Michelle Simmons, State University of New York, Buffalo
Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM

Poetry Session

Richard Katrovas, Western Michigan University
Rebecca Morgan Frank, University of Southern Mississippi
Caki Wilkinson, Rhodes College

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Readings and Conversation

Taylor Brown
Matthew Griffin, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Off Square Books (Oxford Square)

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Opening Reception (Advance Ticket Required)

Conference Attendees

Barksdale-Isom House

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Tales of Youth, Activism, and Life in the Mountain South

Rober Gipe, Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, Cumberland
Jessica Wilkerson, University of Mississippi
Caterina Passidomo, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

A Conversation with Bobbie Ann Mason

Bobbie Ann Mason
David Wharton, University of Mississippi

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Lunch on your own

Conference Attendees

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Readings and Conversation

Julia Claiborne Johnson
Ariel Lawhon

Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Of Rivers: Photography by Young Suh, Poetry Edited by Chiyuma Elliott and Katie Pierson

Chiyuma Elliott, University of California, Berkeley
Derrick Harriell
Jericho Brown, Emory University
Katie Peterson, University of California, Davis
Young Suh

University of Mississippi Museums

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Artist and Authors Reception

Conference Attendees

University of Mississippi Museums

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Thacker Mountain Radio

Jim Dees

Off Square Books (Oxford Square)

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Rethinking Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman

Vereen Bell, Vanderbilt University
Joseph Crespino, Emory University

Lafayette County Courthouse (Oxford Square)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Southern Foodways Alliance Presents a Conversation with Mark Essig

Mark Essig
Sara Camp Milam, Southern Foodways Alliance

Lafayette County Courthouse (Oxford Square)

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Poetry Talk and Lunch

Richard Katrovas, Western Michigan University

Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Sheri Fink, New York Times

Lafayette County Courthouse (Oxford Square)

1:15 PM - 2:30 PM

The Scopes Trial in History and Folklore

Edward J. Larson, Pepperdine University

Lafayette County Courthouse (Oxford Square)

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Reading/Remarks

Rick Bass

Lafayette County Courthouse (Oxford Square)

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Closing Reception and Book Signing

Conference Attendees

Off Square Books (Oxford Square)

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM