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,. I Ill: llNIVI RSII Y 01 '\1ISS1SSIPI)1 "FAULKNER AND THE ECOLOGY OF THE SOUTH" Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha July 20~24, 2003 he heart of ecology is relationship: at the fullest and most complex level, the relations between human beings and the entire array of their physical and social environments. Much of our attention ro Faulkner's fiCt.ion has been, not surprisingly, on the individual. His work is filled with memorable characters, many of whom ::lare memorable precisely because of their uniqueness, often their isolation, within the community. Now, as our concern with ecology grows, our recognition that in many ways the determination of the quality of our lives lies in how we relate to each other and to the world at large, we begin to see how Faulkner's work, his Yoknapatawpha world, is about relationship: How his distinct communities, black and white, town and country, native and foreign, relate to each other. How characters necessarily encounter natural and built environments that always precede them, structuring their actions. How person and place become virtually a single, inseparable unit of being. Some of the topics of "Faulkner and the Ecology of the South" that will be taken up by nine lecturers and six panelists will be the significance of the highly varied places of Absalom, Absalom!, the representation of labor in The Hamlet, comparison of the representations of Yoknapatawpha and Lafayette County in Faulkner's novels and John McCrady's paintings, Faulkner's Native Americans and the plantation economy. In addition to the formal lectures and panel discussions, Tom Franklin will give a reading from his new novel Hell at the Breech. There will also be sessions on Teaching Faulkner, tours of North Mississippi, announcement of the winner of the 14th Faux Faulkner Contest, readings from Faulkner, and an assortment of social gatherings, including a buffet supper at historic Isom Place, a picniC at Rowan Oak, and a closing party at Square Books. For more information about the conference, contact the Oxford on the Hill, by John McCrady (1911-1968), is used as the Office of Professional Development and Non-Credit Education, illustration for the 2003 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference Post Office Box 879, The University of Mississippi, University, poster and program courtesy of the City of Oxford, owner of the MS 38677-0879; telephone 662-915-7283; fax 662-915-5138; painting. Flat copies of this poster and another one with a McCrady e-mail [email protected]; www.outreach.olemiss.edu or painting, Political Rally, are available for $10.00 each plus $3.50 www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/faulkner/index.htm. postage and handling. Mississippi residents add 7 percent sales tax. Send For information about participating in the conference through all orders to the Center for the Study of Southern Culture with a check Elderhostel, call 877 -426-8056 and refer to the program number 5760, or contact Carolyn Vance Smith by telephone (601-446-1208) or made payable to the University of Mississippi or with Visa or e-mail ([email protected]). MasterCard account number and expiration date. Credit card orders DONALD M. KARTlGANER also may be made by calling 800-390-3527. DIRECTOR'S COLUMN Southern Remster with a lovely graduation day ceremony, PublishedQuarterly by The spring semester ended The Center for the Study of Southern Culture sandwiched between unusually stormy days in Mississippi. The ritual end of the The University of Mississippi academic year and the coming of spring have caused me to reflect on Center work in Telephone 662-915-5993 recent months and to look ahead to what is coming next. Fax: 662-915-5814 It was a lively semester, punctuated by several major events. The Southern Studies E-mail:[email protected] Faculty Forum showcased the research of our core faculty, showing the range of interests Internet: http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/south and achievement of their work. As interdisciplinary scholars, they drew from theoretical literature, diverse primary sources, and provocative ideas. It was work in progress, and IN THIS ISSUE those in attendance caught glimpses of future major studies. As part of the Center's 25th Spring/Summer 2003 anniversary celebration, the Faculty Forum represented a new dialogue among our faculty, which we hope will always continue. 2003 F&Y Conference The first "Blues Today Symposium" took place in February, a new extension of the Center's long interest in studying blues music. It brought together academics, music 2 Director's Column critics, and performers, in an altogether distinctive and stimulating forum. African 3 Southern Studies Faculty News American critic Stanley Crouch gave the keynote address, and one panel featured blues 3 First International Conference on Race musicians Little Milton, Willie King, and Bobby Rush talking about the blues-this after performing a concert the night before. Commentators talk too much about the 4 Student Photography Exhibition death of the blues. Anyone in Mississippi knows it is alive and well, different from the 5 Bertolaet Exhibition past surely, but supported by a new generation of performers and new venues in festivals and in clubs, such as Isaac Byrd's 630 Blues Cafe in Jackson and Morgan Freeman and 5 Gammill Gallery Exhibition Schedule Bill Luckett's Ground Zero in Clarksdale. Living Blues magazine is now involved in 6 2004 F&Y Call for Papers efforts to bring increased appreciation of the blues through working with other parties throughout the state to promote the blues as part of cultural tourism. 6 Teacher Seminars The Oxford Conference for the Book quietly celebrated its 10th anniversary in 7 Brown Bag Schedule April, with a meeting that honored novelist, dramatist, and critic Stark Young. It also highlighted bright young novelists like Calvin Baker and Scott Morris, wild men like 8 History Symposium George Singleton (read The Half-Mammals of Dixie and you will know why he is wild), 9 Tennessee Williams Festival and the prolific Percival Everett. Ted Ownby moderated one of my favorite sessions, a panel on "Writing Memoirs" that included the typical diversity of three seemingly 10 Mississippi Traditional Music Project unrelated memoirists, whose commonalities and differences made for fascinating 12 Living Blues Symposium listening. The conference every year also features local talent, as this year with David 13 Reading the South Galef and students in the University's creative writing program. The Oxford Conference for the Book has become a community mainstay, and this year brought 19 Southern Foodways Alliance News people from two dozen states to enjoy one of the South's premier literary festivals. 21 2003 Oxford Conference for the Book Our next conferences will draw attention to our new initiative to study the environment in the South. The initiative is not entirely new, as we began this effort 23 Tennessee Williams Tribute and Tour several years ago with a year-long Southern Studies Colloquium on the environment, 24 Ella King Torrey: A Remembrance during which we brought in Scott Slovic, director of the Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities at the University of Nevada, as consultant to think about ways to 25 Regional Roundup highlight our interest in the environment. This year's Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 25 Notes on Contributors Conference, July 20-24, will focus on "Faulkner and the Ecology of the South," and the theme of the Porter L. Fortune History Symposium, September 17-19, will be "The 26 Ensley Gives Meredith Photo to Center Environment and Southern History." These two meetings will bring scholars to campus 27 Southern Culture Catalog Items to explore literary and historical dimensions on a topic with broad interdisciplinary appeal. 28 Address Section/Mailing List Form/ Much of the study of the environment has been in the West, but we hope these Friends Information and Form meetings, and the Center's continued interest in the environment, will give new REgISTER STAFF momentum to a field of Southern environmental studies. As part of this initiative, Editor: Ann J. Abadie David Wharton, director of Documentary Studies, is working with the Audubon Society in Mississippi to launch a new documentary fieldwork project at Strawberry Graphic Designer: Heather Chappell Plains, a major environmental preserve in Marshall County, Mississippi. Finally, we are Design Assistant: Jill Yoe working with Bob Haws, chair of the Department of History and the Center's foreign secretary, and Joe Urgo, chair of the Department of English, to attract international MailingList Manager: MaryHartwell Howorth scholars to the University to take part in these environmental-focused events and other Lithographer: RR Donnelley MagazineGroup projects. The University complies with all applicable laws We invite all the readers of the Southern Register to take part in our conferences as regarding affirmative action and equal opportunity in all we pursue long interests in the blues and literature and as we build on our new interest its activities and programs and does not discriminate against anyone protected by law because of age, in the Southern environment. co!or,disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or CHARLES REAGAN WILSON status as a veteran or disabled veteran. Page 2 Spring/Summer 2003 The Southern Register Southern Studies Faculty News The Center's two McMullan Professors in Southern Studies who hold joint appointments in Liberal Arts-Robbie Ethridge (anthropology) and Kathryn McKee (English)-were awarded tenure this spring. Congratulations to these two outstanding teachers and scholars! Robbie Ethridge, McMullan assistant professor of Southern Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, is the recipient of a 2003 University of Mississippi Office of Research Faculty Research Fellowship, which will fund her research project titled "Chickasaw Slaving: Responding in a Shatter Zone." The fellowship will support two months of summer research in the Archives Nationales de France (French National Archives), examining French colonial documents for evidence of the Chickasaws' participation in the slave trade with Europeans during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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