Conference Poster 2017

FAULKNER AND MONEY THE ECONOMIES OF YOKNAPATAWPHA AND BEYOND GLENNRAY TUTOR, GLENNRAY Will Varner's Grocery Will Varner's , oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches, 1994, Collection of M. Thomas Inge, Ashland, Virginia The University of Mississippi Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference Oxford, Mississippi, July 23–27, 2017 The University of Mississippi announces the Forty-Fourth Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. The conference is sponsored by the Department of English and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and coordinated by the Office of Outreach and Continuing Education. For more information: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Office of Outreach and Continuing Education, Post Office Box 879, The University of Mississippi. University, MS 38677-0879. Telephone: 662-915-7283. Fax: 662-915-5138. Internet: www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner Bronze busts of William Faulkner and Chickasaw chief Piomingo by William Beckwith; Photos by Robert Jordan / University Communications THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI ANNOUNCES - THE FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL FAULKNER & YOKNAPATAWPHA CONFERENCE Faulkner and Money The Economies of Yoknapatawpha and Beyond JULY 23–27, 2017 CONFERENCE PROGRAM SOUTHERN WRITERS, and Mystery” in 2009. Like many of his readers, William Faulkner SOUTHERN WRITING GRADUATE Gavin Jones is the Frederick P. Rehmus delighted in the various and often surprising STUDENT CONFERENCE Family Professor in Humanities at Stanford ways money changes hands: in complex University, where he has taught since 1999. The twenty-third annual Southern Writers, business transactions, handshake deals, A noted Americanist, Professor Jones is the Southern Writing Graduate Conference is set for and plus $3.50 postage $10.00 each for available (2006) are elaborate wagers, frauds and con games, author of Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect July 20–22, 2017, at the University of Mississippi. tainted payoffs, bad investments, and the Literature in Gilded Age America (1999), a Both critical and creative submissions will be like. At the forty-fourth annual Faulkner and Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title; accepted, dealing with all aspects of southern Yoknapatawpha conference, registrants will join American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in tour The Albany. Ripley and New from came to Oxford Falkners The culture. Submissions to the conference are not and other historic structures in the Faulkner-connected is a look at This scholars, educators, students, and other lovers of US Literature, 1840–1945 (2009); and Failure of Charleston, way by to Clarksdale drive tour consists of a circuitous This limited to literary studies—we are interested in all things Faulkner to follow the proverbial money and the American Writer: A Literary History and Lafayette/Yoknapatawpha Oxford/Jefferson throughout tour moves This interdisciplinary approaches to southern culture. in the author’s work, life, and career. Five days (2014), which received honorable mention from Deadline for submissions is 5:00 p.m., April 1, 2017. Commercial Appeal of lectures, panels, tours, exhibits, and other the Association of American Publishers for a Email [email protected] for more presentations will explore the multifaceted 2015 PROSE award in literature. A member of information. economies of Yoknapatawpha County, the the editorial board of American Literature, he Faulkner oeuvre, and the literary profession. is currently at work on a monograph, “Race, In addition to five keynote lectures, KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Species, Planet: John Steinbeck’s Experiments.” the conference program will include panel Marc Shell is the Irving Babbitt Professor of Oxford (overview): is required. Some walking group. Architecture with the Oxford lunch tour will have This County. Oxford (architecture): or visits inside three tour includes The with a side trip lunch. for community Oxford-University the the Square, the campus, are Also included of others. “curbside tours” homes and private four married. and Estelle Oldham were Faulkner where and the College Hill Church, cemetery, Oxford is required. Some walking New Albany and Ripley: participants where Museum and then on to the Ripley City Library, Albany to the New travels where to the Ripley cemetery, tour will go The background. the Ripley/Faulkner will hear about beside his is buried John Sartoris, and model for Old Colonel” “The great-grandfather, Faulkner’s statue. impressive The Mississippi Delta: but fiction on the hunting camps of Faulkner’s not only tour focuses The Tutwiler. and Sumner, is the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale The the Mississippi blues. of the Delta, also on the music return and usually to Oxford back wind our way we After lunch, centerpiece of our visit there. 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. between Bill Brown is the Karla Scherer Distinguished presentations, guided daylong tours of North Comparative Literature and Professor of English • • • • Martin one made by J. Faulkner, William of posters with duotone photographs two are Also available to the made payable of SouthernSend all ordersthe Study with a check Culture to the Center for Service Professor in American Culture at the July 27 OPTIONAL TOURS: Thursday, All tours depart an opportunity touring listed below. one of the areas to spend a day will be given You is limited space on There noted. where except and return 3:30 p.m. around 9:00 a.m. at Oxford from Tour is limited to 25 and the Architectural County and Lafayette the Oxford specifically, but all tours, of fee an additional for tours available optional and are The are is limited to 45. Tour Mississippi Delta tour fee The of $50. deposit registration in full along with the conference be prepaid must which $95, lunch. includes POSTERS FAULKNER Tutor Glennray by posters Conference with illustrations Yoknapatawpha and copies of Faulkner Flat (2007) and with photo Faulkner William and 2005), 2003, (1994, John McCrady 2017), (1989–1993, William 2014), (1998, Keating Bern 2000), Cofield (1997, Jack 2012), 2009, Martin by Dain (1996, graphs Henri Cartier-Bresson Eris Alfred (2010), Cerf (2008), Phyllis Studios (2002), Budd Odione (1990), Williams Library D. J. the the Cofield Collection (2001), and from 2016), Robert (2013, Jordan (2011), and the 2015), (2004, sales tax. 7 percent add Mississippi residents handling. and handling. poster costs $18.95 plus $5.00 postage Each Cofield. R. Colonel J. Dain and the other by sales tax. 7 percent add Mississippi residents calling 662-915-5993. be placed by orders card may Credit of Mississippi. University SPECIAL THANKS support the generous through poster is produced Conference Yoknapatawpha and 2017 Faulkner The Oxford. Visit of Program Partnerships and the Oxford of the City Oxford For tourist information, contact: Visitors Oxford Center Mississippi 38655 East • Oxford, Avenue 1013 Jackson 662-513-6104 800-758-9177 • Fax Telephone Email [email protected] visitoxfordms.com Mississippi and the Delta, and sessions on at Harvard University, where he also teaches in University of Chicago, where he also serves “Teaching Faulkner” led by James B. Carothers, the undergraduate literature concentration and University of Kansas, Terrell L. Tebbetts, as deputy provost for the arts. A co-editor of the graduate program in history of American www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner Lyon College, Brian McDonald, Lancaster, Critical Inquiry since 1993, he is the author civilization and was cofounder of the university’s 662-915-5138 Fax Pennsylvania School District, Charles Peek, of The Material Unconscious: American summer schools in Olympia, Greece, and 662-915-7283 Telephone University of Nebraska at Kearney, and Theresa Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Cascais, Portugal. Recipient of a John D. and 38677-1848 MS University, Economies of Play (1996), A Sense of Things: M. Towner, University of Texas at Dallas. Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, he is the Mississippi of University The • 1848 Box P.O. The Object Matter of American Literature The conference will begin on Sunday, author of The Economy of Literature (1978), Education Continuing and Outreach of Office (2003), and Other Things (2015), and the editor July 23, with a reception at the University Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and contact: conference, the concerning information more For of Reading the West: An Anthology of Dime Museum, after which the academic program Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to Novels (1997) and a special issue of Critical of the conference will open with two keynote the Modern Era (1982), Art and Money (1995), Inquiry on “Things,” which appeared in fall addresses, followed by a buffet supper on Wampum and the Origins of American Money 2001, won the CELJ award for the year’s best the grounds of Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak. (2013), and numerous other books on subjects special issue of a scholarly journal, and was Over the next four days, a busy schedule of ranging from nationhood, kinship, and disability expanded and published as a book in 2004. His lectures and panels will also make room for an studies to Jewish languages and literatures and afternoon cocktail reception, a picnic served essays have appeared in American Literary Canadian studies. 2017 23–27, July at Rowan Oak, the guided tours, and a closing History, American Quarterly, Representations, party on Thursday afternoon, July 27. Throughout Modernism/Modernity, PMLA, New Literary Myka Tucker-Abramson, lecturer in English Campus Oxford the conference, the University’s J. D. Williams History, and Critical Inquiry, among

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