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2016 Program The Twenty-Third Oxford Conference for the Book The University of Mississippi • Oxford, Mississippi March 2–4, 2016 www.oxfordconferenceforthebook.com OCB16Program.indd 1 2/12/16 4:45 PM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2016 THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2016 11:00 a.m. Welcome Lunch at Archives and Special 9:30 a.m. Tales of Youth, Activism, and Life in the Collections Mountain South Hosted by the Friends of the Library Rober Gipe, Jessica Wilkerson, and Catarina Passidomo Archives and Special Collections Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics 3rd Floor of the J. D. Williams Library 11:00 a.m. A Conversation with Bobbie Ann Mason 11:30 a.m. Opening Reading and Remarks Bobbie Ann Mason and David Wharton Margaret McMullan Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics Archives and Special Collections 3rd Floor of the J. D. Williams Library Lunch on your own Special Exhibition Entertainment Collectors, Authors, and Critics: Selections 1:30 p.m. Readings and Conversation from the Mamie and Ellis Nassour Arts & Entertainment, Julia Claiborne Johnson and Ariel Lawhon Stark Young, and Herschel Brickell Collections Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics Archives and Special Collections 3rd Floor of the J. D. Williams Library 3:30 p.m. Of Rivers: Photography by Young Suh, Poetry Edited by Chiyuma Elliott and Katie Peterson 1:00 p.m. Exploring Mississippi’s History Chiyuma Elliott, Derrick Harriell, Jericho Brown, Katie Minion “K. C.” Morrison, Dennis Mitchell, Peterson, and Young Suh and Curtis Wilkie University of Mississippi Museum Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics 4:30 p.m. Artist and Authors Reception 2:15 p.m. Growing Up in the South Sponsored by the University Museum Kiese Laymon, LaKisha Michelle Simmons, University of Mississippi Museum and Ted Ownby Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics 6:00 p.m. Thacker Mountain Radio Guest authors Julia Claiborne Johnson 3:30 p.m. Poetry Session and Ariel Lawhon Richard Katrovas, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Off Square Books on the Oxford Square and Caki Wilkinson Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2016 5:00 p.m. Readings and Conversation Taylor Brown and Matthew Griffin 9:00 a.m. Rethinking Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Off Square Books on the Oxford Square and Go Set a Watchman Vereen Bell and Joseph Crespino Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square 6:30 p.m. Opening Reception Barksdale-Isom House 1003 Jefferson Ave. 10:30 a.m. Southern Foodways Alliance Presents a (Advance Ticket Required) Conversation with Mark Essig Mark Essig and Sara Camp Milam Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square OCB16Program.indd 2 2/12/16 4:45 PM Noon Poetry Talk and Lunch Richard Katrovas, speaker/poet Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library Special Events 401 Bramlett Blvd. Sponsored by the Lafayette County Welcome Lunch—Wednesday, March 2, at 11:00 a.m. and Oxford Public Library Hosted by the Friends of the University of Mississippi Library, (Advance Registration Appreciated) this lunch in the J. D. Williams Library’s Archives and Special Collections is a wonderful kick-off event. 1:15 p.m. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Free. Storm-Ravaged Hospital Sheri Fink Opening Reception Benefiting the OCB—Wednesday, A Pulitzer Centennial Marquee Project Event March 2, at 6:30 p.m. Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square Held at the historic Barksdale-Isom House (1003 Jefferson Ave.), this much-loved opening reception is a lively fundraiser 2:30 p.m. The Scopes Trial in History and Folklore Edward J. Larson with wonderful food, drinks, and conversation between fellow A Pulitzer Centennial Marquee Project Event conference attendees and guest writers. A portion of the $50 Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square ticket proceeds is tax deductible. Reservations required. Purchase tickets through the conference website or at the door. 3:45 p.m. Reading/Remarks Rick Bass Thacker Mountain Radio—Thursday, March 3, at 6:00 p.m. Lafayette County Courthouse on the Oxford Square Thacker Mountain Radio will have a special OCB show at Off Square Books on the Oxford Square (129 Courthouse 5:00 p.m. Closing Reception and Book Signing Square). Off Square Books on the Oxford Square Free. Poetry Talk and Lunch—Friday, March 4, at noon Hosted by the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library Save the Date (401 Barmlett Blvd.), this talk on craft by poet Richard 2017 Oxford Conference for the Book Katrovas includes lunch. March 29 – March 31 (tentatively) Free. Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfires Initiative The Pulitzer Prize Board has launched a series of events American life today, to imagine their future, and to in- all across the United States to celebrate the 100th spire new generations to consider the values represent- anniversary of the prizes. The centennial celebra- ed by the body of Pulitzer Prize–winning work. For tion focuses on former Pulitzer winners, their prize- their generous support for the Campfires Initiative, winning work, and the journalistic and cultural val- we thank the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the ues that the prizes represent. On Friday during the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New Oxford Conference for the Book, Pulitzer Prizewinners York, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Sheri Fink (Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a the Pulitzer Prizes Board, and Columbia University. Storm-Ravaged Hospital) and Edward J. Larson (Summer for Many individual teachers, schools, libraries, book groups, the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over historical societies, and other organizations are planning Pulitzer- Science and Religion) will discuss their prize-winning work. themed programs independent of the humanities council This program is part of the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial initiative. It is not too late to join this movement. No funding Campfires Initiative, a joint venture of the Pulitzer Prizes Board is available, but the Pulitzer website includes a guide on how to and the Federation of State Humanities Councils in celebra- participate at www.pulitzer.org/campfire_guidelines. You may tion of the 2016 centennial of the prizes. The initiative seeks also contact the Pulitzer office for advice or assistance in event to illuminate the impact of journalism and the humanities on planning. OCB16Program.indd 3 2/12/16 4:45 PM The Speakers L OWRY Rick Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas, Taylor Brown grew up on the Georgia B the son of a geologist, and he studied ge- ASS coast. He has lived in Buenos Aires, San ology at Utah State University. He grew Francisco, and the mountains of west- up in Houston and started writing short ern North Carolina. His fiction has ap- stories on his lunch breaks while work- peared in more than twenty publications, ing as a petroleum geologist in Jackson, including the Baltimore Review, the North Mississippi. In 1987 he moved with his Carolina Literary Review, and storySouth. wife, the artist Elizabeth Hughes Bass, to He is the recipient of the Montana the remote Yaak Valley, where he worked Prize in Fiction and was a finalist in to protect his adopted home from roads both the Machigonne Fiction Contest and logging. Bass serves on the board of both the Yaak Valley and the Doris Betts Fiction Prize. An Eagle Scout, he lives in Forest Council and Round River Conservation Studies. In Wilmington, North Carolina. 2011 Bass moved from the Yaak area of Montana to Missoula, Montana. He is the author of sixteen books of nonfiction, four Joseph Crespino is Jimmy Carter novels, and five collections of short stories, including The Watch, Professor of twentieth-century American Where the Sea Used to Be, The Diezmo, The Lives of Rocks, and political history and southern history since his most recent book of short stories, For a Little While. Reconstruction at Emory University. He is author of Strom Thurmond’s Vereen Bell received his BA from America and In Search of Another Davidson College and his PhD from Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Duke University in 1959. He has taught Counterrevolution. He is also coeditor, at Vanderbilt for more than forty years, with Matthew Lassiter, of The Myth of where he has received several teaching Southern Exceptionalism. His published awards, including the Madison Sarratt work has examined the intersections of region, race, and Prize for excellence in undergraduate religion in American politics in the second half of the twentieth teaching and the Outstanding Graduate century. The argument that animates both of his books, as well Teaching Award. He teaches a range of as his coedited collection, is the notion that the struggles in the graduate and undergraduate courses on American South over race and modernization in the twentieth the modern British novel, the modern American novel, modern century should not be viewed in isolation, but rather as part of poetry, contemporary British and American poetry, Yeats and a broader series of transformations in national political life. In Irish history, poetry and interpretation, and literary theory. His 2009 Crespino was awarded the Emory Center for Teaching and books include Robert Lowell: Nihilist as Hero, The Achievement of Curriculum’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Cormac McCarthy, On Modern Poetry: Essays Presented to Donald Davie, and Yeats and the Logic of Formalism. Chiyuma Elliott is an assistant profes- J OHN sor of African American studies at the Jericho Brown is the recipient of the L University of California, Berkeley. A for- Whiting Writers Award and fellowships UCAS mer Stegner Fellow at Stanford University from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced and assistant professor of English and Study at Harvard University and the African American studies at the University National Endowment for the Arts.
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