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beyond nebraska: Willa Cather’s the 16th international willa cather seminar | June 11–17, 2017 | Duquesne University

detailed Program Wcf memBerShiP A fi nal schedule will be available in May 2017. Membership in the Willa Cather Foundation is required for those presenting at the International Seminar. airPort A $25 introductory membership to the WCF is available Conference-goers should plan to fl y into Pittsburgh for those who are new to our organization. International; the airport is roughly 30 minutes from Duquesne’s campus. information tranSPortation Tracy Tucker, Willa Cather Foundation Complete information on transportation from Pittsburgh [email protected] or 402-746-2653 International Airport to Duquesne can be found at www.WillaCather.org for more information ? http://fl ypittsburgh.com/transportation. Cost for a taxi from the airport to Duquesne is roughly $50-60; shuttle

costs are roughly $35 (reservations are available but cover: Willa Cather, during her years in Pittsburgh. Courtesy of the Nebraska State not required); public transportation is $3.75 but requires Historical Society/Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation Collection exact change and can be diffi cult with baggage.

the willa cather foundation presents beyond nebraska Willa Cather’s Pittsburgh the 16th international willa cather seminar June 11–17, 2017 | Duquesne University

seminar sponsors include the Willa Cather Foundation, Duquesne University’s McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts and the Department of English, Penn State Greater Allegheny, the Cather Project at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, California University of Pennsylvania,

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CatherSemnr2017_mailer.indd 1 1/29/17 10:14 AM “The essays selected for the volume—in all cases substantial and thoughtful, in some cases exhilarating in their intellectual richness and scope—valuably deepen, complicate, and extend the account of the precise nature of Cather’s modernism.” —Richard Millington, coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne cather studies, volume 11 Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux edited by ann moseley, john j. murphy, and robert thacker

“Essential reading in the field. . . . These essays point the way toward a new generation of Cather scholarship.”—Daryl Palmer, author of Writing Russia in the Age of Shakespeare

Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux examines Willa Cather’s position in time, in aesthetics, and in the world. Born a Victorian in 1873, Cather made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. Beginning with a prologue locating Cather’s position, this volume of Cather Studies offers three sets of related essays. The first section takes up Cather’s beginnings with her late nineteenth-century cultural influences. The second section explores a range of discernible direct connections with contemporary artists (Howard Pyle, Frederic Remington, and Ernest Blumenschein) and others who figured in the making of her texts. The third section focuses on The Song of the Lark, a novel that confirms Cather’s shift westward august 2017 and elaborates her emergent modernism. An epilogue by the editors of The Selected $40.00 • paperback • 978-0-8032-9699-2 Letters of Willa Cather addresses how the recent availability of these letters has 366 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 •1/2 18 photographs, 1 index transformed Cather studies. Altogether, these essays detail Cather’s shaping of the world of the early twentieth century and later into a singular modernism born of both inherited and newer cultural traditions. ann moseley is the William L. Mayo Professor and professor emerita of literature and languages at Texas A&M University–Commerce. john j. murphy is professor emeritus at Brigham Young University. robert thacker is the Charles A. Dana Professor of nebraskapress.unl.edu | unpblog.com Canadian Studies and English at St. Lawrence University.

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**For domestic orders, please add a shipping charge of $6.00 for the first book and $1.00 for each additional book. All prices subject to change without notice. ***Nebraska, North Carolina, and Tennessee residents, please add sales tax according to your state and local rate. Saturday, June 17 Set in the ancestral home of the Cather family, and taking place during the centennial of My Ántonia, the seminar 7:00-9:00 Breakfast - Towers Dorm multi-purpose room will explore themes deeply resonant in Willa Cather’s life and work: migration and immigration; family legacy and For those joining us for the tour of Frank Lloyd inheritance; and religious identity. Wright’s Fallingwater 9:30 Charter coach boards on Bluff Street The symposium aims to unite established and new Cather enthusiasts with local scholars and the Limavady 10:30-11:30 Arrive at Kentuck Knob, another Frank community, who have expressed great interest in the event. Visits to Cather family sites, along with social events Lloyd Wright property involving local music and storytelling, will be part of the program. The Roe Valley area offers sublime coastal cliffs, Explore the woodlands and modern sculpture mountains and ancient forests, historic churches, museums, and much more. Look for more information soon! garden with work from Andy Goldsworthy, Sir Anthony Caro, and more. Spoil your lunch with hand-dipped Hagan ice cream in the Greenhouse Café! 12:30 Arrive at Fallingwater, lunch on the grounds Cather Symposium 1:30 Fallingwater tours begin We will go in several groups, leaving six minutes apart; once our tour times are called, tour staff will not admit latecomers! June 28–July 1, 2018 3:00 Depart Fallingwater 4:30 Arrive at Duquesne Limavady, Northern Ireland

Willa Cather, circa 1912, New York City. The Mildred Bennett Collection, the Willa Cather Foundation. Bennett Collection, The Mildred City. New York 1912, circa Willa Cather, Directors: Willa Murphy, Ulster University, and Aaron Callan, Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council The Willa Cather Foundation The New York announces the 63rd annual Hosted by Ulster University and the Limavady Arts and Cultural Center Willa Cather Spring Conference world of Red Cloud | www.WillaCather.org Sponsored by the Willa Cather Foundation and Todd Richardson, University of Nebraska Omaha, willa CaTher and Kelsey Squire, Ohio Dominican University, the University of Nebraska - Lincoln Spring Conference co-directors Celebrating the publication centenary of October 23, 2017—August 31, 2018

My Ántonia and exploring the novel’s relevance to contemporary issues. A call for papers will be announced Autumn 2017. The Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery 53 East 79th Street, NYC nysoclib.org

Willa Cather joined New York City’s oldest library in 1927 and remained a member until her death in 1947. This exhibition traces her life in the city and its influence on her fiction, with illuminating details about her twenty years with the Library. The exhibition is open Save the Date! to all during the Library’s regular hours. MAY 31 - JUNE 2, 2018 Friday, June 16 (cont’d) 17th International 5:30-7:00 Seminar Banquet - Africa Room, Duquesne Union 7:15-8:30 Selections from Paul’s Case with Q&A - PNC Music Hall in the Mary Pappert Music Building Willa Cather Seminar Music and commentary by: American tenor Jonathan Blalock, acclaimed for his work in 20th and 21st century opera, has appeared in a number of world premieres, including Huang Ruo’s An American Soldier with Washington National Opera, Jorge Martin’s Before Night Falls with Fort Worth Opera, and Paul’s Case with UrbanArias in Virginia and New York City. Recent Virginia | Summer 2019 performances include Harry in Michigan Opera Theatre’s La Fanciulla del West and Lt. Cable in South Pacific for Southern Opera Theater. Co-Directors: Marilee Lindemann, University of Maryland Amanda Crider, mezzo-soprano, has won national attention for her “gleaming vocalism” ( Globe). She makes her Los Angeles Opera debut this fall in Keeril Makan’s opera Persona in the role of Alma, which she created in the Ann Romines, George Washington University, emerita work’s world premiere with Beth Morrison Projects. She appeared in the UrbanArias production of Paul’s Case in Arlington, Virginia, and at the Prototype Festival in New York City. Other opera engagements include Boston Lyric Site Director: John Jacobs, Shenandoah University, emeritus Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Dallas Opera, and the Florentine Opera. Jane Dressler is a Professor of Voice at Kent State University, in Kent, Ohio. At the 2000 International Cather Seminar, she performed the premiere of My Ántonia, a song cycle written for her by Minneapolis composer Libby Sponsored by the Willa Cather Foundation and Larsen. Dr. Dressler’s interest in American music has led her to publishing articles and giving presentations based on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Cather’s writings about classical singers. Dressler’s research has focused on the lives and careers of Olive Fremstad, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, David Bispham, and Lillian Nordica.

Pianist Anna Kovalevska has won numerous national and international competitions and festivals throughout the Ukraine, Czech Republic, Italy, and France. She has made solo appearances with the Yalta Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kherson National University Symphony Orchestra, and the Duquesne University Symphony Orchestra. While studying in Kiev, Ukraine, she served as staff accompanist at the Kiev Music School. She graduated from Duquesne University’s Mary Pappert School of Music and is staff accompanist at Pittsburgh Concert Society.

Soprano Erin Sanzero made an important role debut last season in Lucia di Lammermoor with Livermore Valley Opera. She made her LA Opera debut as Emmie in Albert Herring conducted by James Conlon and appeared in the same production at the Santa Fe Opera under Sir Andrew Davis. She has appeared in Adriana Lecouvreur with Washington Concert Opera and a workshop of Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters. With her performing colleagues tonight, she appeared in the UrbanArias production of Paul’s Case in Arlington, Virginia, and at the Prototype Festival in New York City.

Writer and editor Steve Smith has been involved with music and media for nearly thirty years, most recently as director of publications at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. Smith is the former assistant arts editor of the Boston Globe, music editor at Time Out New York, and reviewer for the New York Times.

Award-winning composer Gregory Spears adapted, with Kathryn Walat as co-librettist, Cather’s classic story “Paul’s Case” for his first opera in 2013. His work on “Paul’s Case” was called “coolly entrancing” by the Boston Globe and “ravishing” by the New York Times. His opera Fellow Travelers, based on a 2007 novel by Thomas Mallon, made its world premiere in 2016 at the Cincinnati Opera.

Melissa Wimbish, soprano, recently performed Györgi Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre with Maestro Ed Polochick and Concert Artists of Baltimore. A frequent interpreter of new music, she appeared in the UrbanArias production of Paul’s Case and made her Carnegie Hall recital debut in 2016 in an evening of works of living American composers including Jake Heggie, Tom Cipullo, Gregory Spears, and Jessica Meyer. Her operatic roles include Micaëla in Carmen, Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte), Manon (Manon), and Nella (Gianni Schicchi). Seminar Leadership Directors: Dr. Timothy Bintrim, Saint Francis University, and Dr. James Jaap, Penn State Greater Allegheny Site Director: Dr. Faith Barrett, Duquesne University Willa Cather Foundation Staff: Ashley Olson, Executive Director, and Tracy Tucker, Education Director

Image courtesy of the George Cather Ray Collection, Archives & Special Collections, Cather Ray Collection, Image courtesy of the George University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries A special thank you to Dr. Kim and Brett Vanderlaan and Thomas Reese Gallagher Thursday, June 15 8:30-10:30 Roundtable - Teaching the Difficult Aspects of “Paul’s Case”- Law School 303 SEMINAR SCHEDULE Steve Shively, Utah State University Sunday, June 11 Michael Schueth, Collin College 1:00-4:00 Check in for all conference-goers: Nalini Bhushan, Smith College Duquesne Towers, Duquesne University Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska-Kearney (ret.) 1345 Vickroy Street 10:30-10:45 Coffee break Pittsburgh PA 15219-2115 10:45-12:15 Roundtable - Pittsburgh Art - Law School 303 - Richard Harris, chair 1:30 and 2:30 Cather’s Pittsburgh tours Guy Reynolds, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vans and walking groups will depart from the front of Duquesne Towers Louise Lippincott, Carnegie Museum of Art 4:00 August Wilson House tour, with Paul Ellis, Esq., Wilson’s nephew 4:30-6:00 Dinner served at “The Incline,” Duquesne’s dining hall, 1st floor of the Union 12:15-1:00 Lunch - The Incline, Duquesne Union Seminarians who linger at the August Wilson home may wish to make alternate dinner plans 1:00-7:30 Tours and free time in the Oakland neighborhood 6:30 Refreshments served in Bayer Learning Center rotunda Vans will depart from the Duquesne Union at 1:15, 3:30, and 5:45. You may also choose to take an Uber to Oakland at a time that’s convenient to you, or to return to campus prior to the Carnegie symphony Late arrivals may pick up seminar registration packets here performance. Seminarians will receive free admission to the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History All seminarians need to sign up for the week’s tour times with Tracy Tucker between 3:00 and 8:00 p.m.; a list of restaurants and attractions will be available. 7:00-7:30 Welcome and introductions - Bayer Learning Center auditorium 4:30-6:00 Dinner served - Duquesne dining, or stay in the Oakland neighborhood for dinner on your own Ashley Olson, Willa Cather Foundation 8:00-9:30 Willa Cather’s Iron City Music - Carnegie Music Hall - 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA Dr. James Swindal, Dean of McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Director Yugo Ikach leads the Washington (PA) Symphony Orchestra in a performance that gives a glimpse 7:30-8:30 Keynote address by Rick Sebak - Bayer Learning Center auditorium into Cather’s musical world in Pittsburgh. Those in attendance will hear a symphonic concert much like those Keynote speaker Rick Sebak has written, produced, and narrated more than forty engagingly quirky Cather attended in this very hall, including some of the music that she reviewed. documentaries about the people, places, and institutions of Pittsburgh, including the 22 programs in the “Pittsburgh History Series.” His scrapbook documentaries educate and entertain in equal measure. Friday, June 16 9:00-10:30 Plenary - John Murphy - “Why Willa Cather? A Retrospective” - Africa Room, Duquesne Union Monday, June 12 10:30-11:15 Coffee & Crossword Competition - Africa Room, Duquesne Union 9:00-11:00 Roundtable - Cather’s Life in Fin de Siecle Pittsburgh - Bayer Learning Center auditorium 11:15-12:30 Lunch - The Incline, Duquesne Union Tim Bintrim, St. Francis University and seminar co-director 12:30-2:15 Concurrent sessions James Jaap, Penn State Greater Allegheny and seminar co-director 8A. Industry & Art - Law School 303 - Charmion Gustke, chair Kim Vanderlaan, California University of Pennsylvania 11:30-12:30 Lunch - The Incline, Duquesne Union Kelsey Squire, Ohio Dominican University - “Echoes of Pittsburgh: Industry and Industriousness in Cather’s ‘The Willing Muse’” 12:30-2:00 Concurrent sessions Lt. Col. Elizabeth Mathias, University of Utah - “Plaster of Pittsburgh: Andrew Carnegie, 1A. Cather as Poet and Journalist - Bayer 102 - Matthew Lavin, chair the Cast Collection, and Willa Cather” Robert Thacker, St. Lawrence University - “A Poet in Pittsburgh, 1896-1906” Kim Vanderlaan, California University of Pennsylvania - “‘The Professor’s Commencement’ and Jane Dressler, Kent State University - “The ‘Star System,’ Operas, and Critics: Willa Cather The Professor’s House: Two Failed Romantics” Reviews Opera in Pittsburgh” Hunter Plummer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - “Playing the Newspaperwoman” 8B. Early Stories and Prototypes - Law School 308 - Rick Millington, chair Mark Robison, Union College - “Editor and Author at The Home Monthly: Cather Boosts Her Writing Career” 1B. Eco/feminism - Bayer 103 - Angela Conrad, chair Barbara Hustwit, College of Wooster (ret.) - “Just Who Were These People? Willa Cather’s Jeanette Schollaert, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - “Ecofeminist Ethics of Care on the Narrative Pittsburgh Prototypes” Margins of Cather’s The Professor’s House and Death Comes for the Archbishop” Abandon Schuman, Penn State Greater Allegheny - “Hide and Seek: A Modernist Reading of 2:30-4:00 Concurrent sessions Willa Cather and Gertrude Stein’s Portrayal of Queerness” 9A. Pittsburgh and Social Class - Law School 303 - Kelsey Squire, chair Tracy Tucker, Willa Cather Foundation - “The Vanishing Indian: Grave-Robbing, Relic-Hunting, James Jaap, Penn State Greater Allegheny - “Cather, Henry Nicklemann, and Pittsburgh’s New Middle Class” and Native Americans in Cather’s World” Charmion Gustke, Belmont University - “‘The Glaring Affirmation of the Omnipotence of Wealth’: 2:00-2:25 Coffee break - Bayer Learning Center rotunda Big Steel and Class Consciousness in ‘Paul’s Case’” 2:30-4:00 Concurrent sessions Angela Conrad, Bloomfield College - “Cather’s Pittsburgh and the Alchemy of Social Class” 2A. International Influences - Bayer 102- Sherrill Harbison, chair 9B. Bicycles & Automobiles - Law School 308 - Mark Robison, chair Diane Prenatt, Marian University - “The Pittsburgh ‘French Soirées’: Orality and Translation in Virgil Albertini, Northwest Missouri State (ret.) (read by Steve Shively) - “Cather and Her Bicycle Cather’s Fiction” in Nebraska and Pittsburgh” JoAnne Katzmarek, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point - “‘You Will Write About Your Own Barry Hudek, University of Mississippi - “Willa Crasher: Speed, Modernism, and Crash Aesthetics Country’: Anton Chekhov and Willa Cather” in Cather’s Fiction” Peter Sullivan, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (ret.) - “Cather’s Soldier Protagonist in One of Ours and Daryl Palmer, Regis University - “Writing Red Cloud in and through Pittsburgh: Why ‘Tommy,the ’s The Maid of Orleans: Cather’s Connections to the Joan of Arc Narrative in Unsentimental’ is the Most Interesting Early Work by Willa Cather” Pittsburgh and New York” 5:00-5:30 Nancy Savery plays selections from Ethelbert Nevin - Union Ballroom 2B. Over in Allegheny - Bayer 103 - Julie Olin-Ammentorp, chair Wednesday, June 14 Morgan Shawfield, Penn State Greater Allegheny - “The Artist Among Machines: Willa Cather’s 9:00-11:00 Roundtable - The Complete Letters of Willa Cather Project - Law School 303 Depiction of Naturalism in an Industrial Age” Andrew Jewell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Joe Murphy, Fu Jen Catholic University - “The Venetian Window: Pittsburgh Glass and Modernist Melissa Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Community in Cather’s ‘Double Birthday’” Kari Ronning, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Todd Richardson, University of Nebraska-Omaha - “‘The Most Exciting Attractions are Between Emily Rau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Two Opposites That Never Meet’: Willa Cather and Andy Warhol” Gabrielle Kiriloff, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 4:30-6:00 Dinner served - The Incline, Duquesne Union Lori Nevole, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 6:00 North Side tours starting at 6:00 11:30 - 12:30 Lunch - The Incline, Duquesne Union Vans depart from the Duquesne Towers at 5:30 and 6:00; tours start at 906 Cedar Street. Others may choose to leave early and eat in the North Side neighborhood before the performance 12:30-2:00 Concurrent sessions 7:30 Organ recital - Calvary United Methodist Church - 971 Beech Ave., Pittsburgh PA 5A. The Song of the Lark - Law School 303 - John Flannigan, chair Cather’s first musical event in Pittsburgh was Frederic Archer’s organ recital, June 27, 1896. Cather Sherrill Harbison, University of Massachusetts Amherst - “Vital Thea Kronborg” attended this concert at Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland the day after her arrival in the city. The modern Elizabeth Hartswick, Penn State Greater Allegheny - “Cather: Giving Voice to the Female Artist” performance will be played on the 1895 Farrand & Votey organ—the same builder who provided the Marvin Friedman, “Seminar Serendipity: The Wieners as Prototypes of the Nathanmeyers in Carnegie’s organ. Archer also played the dedication of the Calvary organ in 1895. Calvary Methodist is also The Song of the Lark” known for its impressive collection of Tiffany stained glass windows. A brief history of the church will be included in the presentation. 5B. Sapphira and the Slave Girl - Law School 308 - Ann Romines, chair Sarah Clere, The Citadel - “Sapphira’s Use of Nancy in Sapphira and the Slave Girl” Jeanne Collins, “The Underground Railroad: Some of its History, and its Connection to Tuesday, June 13 Sapphira and the Slave Girl” 9:00-10:30 Plenary – Ann Romines - “Becoming ‘Miss Cather from Pittsburgh’” - Law School 303 Jon Mark Mikkelsen, Missouri Western (ret.) - “‘Africanism’ and ‘Race’ in Sapphira and the Slave Girl”

10:45-12:15 Concurrent sessions 2:15-3:45 Concurrent sessions 3A. Musical Friendships - Law School 303 - Kim Vanderlaan, chair 6A. One of Ours and A Lost Lady - Law School 303 - Max Frazier, chair John Flannigan, Prairie State College (ret.) - “Discovering a Vital Friendship: Willa Cather and Richard Harris, Webb Institute - “Willa Cather and Claude Wheeler Go to Church: A Close Ethel Herr Litchfield” Reading of the St. Ouen Passage in One of Ours” Margaret Brucia, Temple University Rome (ret.) - “A Passing Acquaintance: Willa and Julie in Pittsburgh” Elisabeth Bayley, Loyola University - “Ideological Frameworks and the Construction of Jane Dressler, Kent State University - “Lillian Nordica (1857-1914): ‘Valiant Countrywoman’ and Masculinity in One of Ours” Cather’s Inspiration from Nebraska to Pittsburgh and Beyond” Emily Leahy, Glendon College of York University, Ontario - “‘Repressed Memory’: Masculinity, Modernity, and Indigenization in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady” 3B. Revisiting the Archives - Law School 308 - Robert Thacker, chair Mark J. Madigan, Nazareth College - “Were Myra, Oswald, and Nellie Once Mabel, Calvin, and 6B. Revelations in Letters & Scrapbooks - Law School 308 - Mark Madigan, chair Margie?: On a Cather Manuscript Fragment” Melissa Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - “Bonfires of Our Vanities: Separating the Courtney Lawton, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - “Cather and ‘The Bother of Business:’ Outsized Myths from the Modest Realities of Destruction of Cather’s Letters” A Critical Overview of the Houghton Mifflin Company Archives” Laurie Weber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - “Roscoe Cather: Willa’s First Middlebrow Reader” Matthew Lavin, - “Willa Cather and ‘Modern’ Vocabulary: A Lexical Approach” Sandra Hanna, “Cather’s Pittsburgh Life: Her Friendship with Ethelbert Nevin, ‘My Own Dear Boy’” 12:15-1:15 Lunch served - The Incline, Duquesne Union 3:45-5:15 Concurrent sessions 1:15-2:45 Concurrent sessions 7A. “Paul’s Case” in the 21st Century: Teaching Cather - Law School 303 - Tracy Tucker, chair 4A. Chinese Stories - Law School 303 - Joseph Murphy, chair Julie Olin-Ammentorp, LeMoyne College, and Charles Johanningsmeier, University of Nebraska Omaha - “‘Paul’s Case’” in the 21st Century: Developing Online Teaching Materials” Michael Gorman, Hiroshima City University - “China, Christianity, and Cather’s ‘The Conversion of Sum Loo’” Charles A. Peek, University of Nebraska-Kearney (ret.) - “Case Studies in Everyone’s Paradise Lost: Andrew Wu, Fu Jen Catholic University - “‘A Son of the Celestial’ and ‘The Conversion of Sum A Reflection on the Principal Story Line in Cather’s Major Fiction” Loo’: Pre- and Post-Pittsburgh Texts” Timothy Bintrim, St. Francis University - “The ‘Conversion’ of Yee Oi, Wife of ‘Pittsburgh’s 7B. Performance & Reality - Law School 308 - Sarah Clere, chair Richest Chinaman’” Guy Reynolds, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - “The Theater of the Real: Cather, Modjeska, Sontag” Olivia Tracy, Regis University - “‘Coming in with the Tide’: Negotiating Immigrant Experience 4B. My Ántonia - Law School 308 - Peter Sullivan, chair in Cather’s Dancing Bodies” Max Frazier, U.S. Air Force Academy (ret.) - “Cather’s First War Novel: My Ántonia and the Great War” Elaine Smith, University of South Florida - “In Defense of Family Values: Privacy and Performance Josh Dolezal, Central College - “‘Brushed by the Wing of a Great Feeling’: The Embodied Mind in in Willa Cather’s ‘Old Mrs. Harris’” My Ántonia” John Jacobs, Shenandoah University (ret.) - “My Ántonia, a Storyteller’s Story” 5:15-6:30 Dinner - The Incline, Duquesne Union, or leave early and eat at the Red Ring before Cather Trivia! 3:00 Enjoy the rest of your day exploring Pittsburgh! 7:00-9:00 Cather Trivia - Red Ring - Power Center, 1015 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 4:30-6:00 Dinner served at The Incline or explore downtown Pittsburgh restaurants and shops, The Red Ring serves fresh, locally sourced, made-from-scratch foods, including delicious house the Warhol Museum, Heinz History Center, the National Aviary, or a sporting event! macs, unique sandwiches, hand-crafted burgers, fresh salads & more!