{"id":106006,"date":"2021-07-12T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=106006"},"modified":"2021-07-12T11:00:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T16:00:50","slug":"conference-to-explore-contributions-of-mississippi-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/conference-to-explore-contributions-of-mississippi-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference to Explore Contributions of Mississippi Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/conference-to-explore-contributions-of-mississippi-authors\/fy2021-poster-indd\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-106044\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-shareaholic-thumbnail wp-image-106044\" src=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/UCIMG-1858-640x481.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/UCIMG-1858-640x481.jpg 640w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/UCIMG-1858-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/UCIMG-1858-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/UCIMG-1858-1536x1155.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/UCIMG-1858.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Renowned Mississippi authors William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and Richard Wright are the focus of the <a href=\"https:\/\/olemiss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Mississippi<\/a>&#8216;s 47th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outreach.olemiss.edu\/events\/faulkner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference<\/a>, being conducted virtually July 18-21.<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on the theme &#8220;Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence,&#8221; the virtual international conference includes four days of lectures, panels and other presentations. All keynote presentations, panels, film screenings and teaching sessions will be held as Zoom meetings or webinars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the first time in the 47-year history of the Faulkner conference, we&#8217;re moving the event off its single-author footing in order to take on the work of two other giants of 20th century Mississippi literature,&#8221; said Jay Watson, Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and conference coordinator. &#8220;We think the possibilities for comparative perspectives on the work of the three authors are really exciting. They represent an entirely new direction for this conference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keynote speakers and topics for the conference include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Susan V. Donaldson, professor emerita at William and Mary University, who will speak on &#8220;the politics of invisibility&#8221; as it informs the three writers&#8217; engagements with Jim Crow segregation in the South<\/li>\n<li>Suzanne Marrs, professor emerita at Millsaps College, who will reflect on her professional and personal relationships with Eudora Welty as the author&#8217;s friend and biographer<\/li>\n<li>Jerry W. Ward Jr., professor emeritus at Dillard University, who will discuss what he calls &#8220;the tragicomedy of Mississippi&#8217;s histories&#8221; in novels by Faulkner and Wright, and a pair of short stories by Welty<\/li>\n<li>Library lecturer Carl Rollyson, professor emeritus at Baruch College, City University of New York, who will give a &#8220;biography&#8221; of his own recent two-volume biography of Faulkner, recounting some of the formative figures and scenes that led to the making of the work<\/li>\n<li>Malcolm Wright, grandson of Richard Wright, who will lead a screening and discussion of the 1976 film adaptation of his grandfather&#8217;s short story &#8220;The Man Who Was Almost A Man&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This year also marks the inaugural Ann J. Abadie Lecture in Southern Studies at the conference. This lecture series is sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/southernstudies.olemiss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for the Study of Southern Culture<\/a> and honors its longtime associate director, Ann Abadie, who was also a founding figure of the Faulkner conference and a co-editor of dozens of the volumes of conference proceedings published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.state.ms.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University Press of Mississippi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our first Abadie lecturer is the distinguished poet Natasha Trethewey, a Mississippi native and eminent writer who is supremely qualified to speak about the great trio of Mississippi writers who preceded her,&#8221; Watson said. &#8220;Professor Trethewey will read from her poetry and offer some remarks on the role that Faulkner, Welty and Wright have played in her life and work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watson said he hopes to deepen understanding of Faulkner&#8217;s work by placing it in the context of Mississippi literature itself, especially as represented by the two other major figures from the state&#8217;s literary history whose careers overlapped with Faulkner&#8217;s own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bringing the three together will give us a more prismatic view of Mississippi&#8217;s and the South&#8217;s \u2013 and the nation&#8217;s \u2013 history, society and culture than we could get from any of the three writers alone,&#8221; he said. &#8220;By summoning Welty and Wright to help illuminate Faulkner, we&#8217;ll also, of course, at the same time, be using Faulkner to illuminate Welty and Wright, and the latter two writers to illuminate each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Registration for the four days of events is $100 per person and $50 for students. It&#8217;s also possible to register for a single day of the conference, also for $50. Conference registrants are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of Zoom software before the conference begins.<\/p>\n<p>To register and for more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outreach.olemiss.edu\/events\/faulkner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.outreach.olemiss.edu\/events\/faulkner\/<\/a> or contact Jay Watson at <a href=\"mailto:jwatson@olemiss.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jwatson@olemiss.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Renowned Mississippi authors William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and Richard Wright are the focus of the University of Mississippi&#8216;s 47th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, being conducted virtually July 18-21. 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