March 21–23, 2013
subject to change
*The Mississippi Delta Cultural Tour will take place March 17-20. For more information, click here.
THURSDAY, MARCH 21
10:30 a.m. Optional check-in begins. Get your parking pass if you did not request and receive by mail.
3rd Floor of J.D. Williams Library
11:30 a.m. Lunch hosted by the University of Mississippi Library
Archives and Special Collections, 3rd Floor of J. D. Williams Library
Noon Opening Talk by W. Ralph Eubanks, Library of Congress
“Of Books and Libraries: Why Libraries, Publishing, and Storytelling Still Matter.”
Archives and Special Collections, 3rd Floor of J. D. Williams Library
1:30 p.m. Welcome by Dr. Ivo Kamps
Writing at the University: The University of Mississippi Grisham Writers
Tom Franklin, moderator
Michael Knight, Brad Watson, and Nic Brown
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
2:30 p.m. Contemporary Poetry Readings and Discussion
Beth Ann Fennelly, moderator
Robert Griffith and Nicole Cooley
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
4:00 p.m. Writing Southern Grit Lit
Kathryn McKee, moderator
Brian Carpenter, Alex Taylor, Ron Rash
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
6:00 p.m. Thacker Mountain Radio
Featuring readings by Jamie Quatro and Ron Rash
Lyric Theater on the Oxford Square
7:00 p.m. Opening Reception (advance registration required)
Barksdale-Isom Place
FRIDAY, MARCH 22
9:00 a.m. Young Readers’ Program: 5th Grade
Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ninth Ward
Ruth Thompson, interviewer
Gertrude C. Ford Center for Performing Arts
10:00 a.m. Evans Harrington Remembrance
Robert Hamblin and Richard Howorth
Archives and Special Collections, 3rd Floor of J. D. Williams Library
10:30 a.m. Young Readers’ Program: 9th Grade
Mary Amato, Guitar Notes
Meridith Wulff and Nancy Opalko, interviewers
Gertrude C. Ford Center for Performing Arts
Noon Poetry Talk and Lunch (advance registration required: call 662-234-5751 for reservations. Deadline of March 19)
Nicole Cooley, poet
Lafayette County Oxford Public Library, 401 Bramlett Blvd. Oxford
1:30 p.m. Reading presented by Square Books
Kristopher Jansma and Owen King
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
2:30 p.m. The Ecopoetry Anthology: A Reading and Discussion
Ann Fisher-Wirth, moderator
Laura-Gray Street, Juan Carlos Galeano, Forrest Gander
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
3:30 p.m. Writing and Teaching
Chris Offutt, moderator
Alice Randall, Skip Horack, and Owen King
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
4:30 p.m. Recent Civil Rights Movement Books
Curtis Wilkie, moderator
M. J. O’Brien, Michael V. Williams, Barbara Matusow
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
6:00 p.m. Identity Politics and Gua Bao: Eddie Huang in conversation
with John T Edge
Off Square Books
6:45 p.m. Book-signing for all conference authors
Off Square Books
SATURDAY, MARCH 23
8:30 a.m. Coffee in the lobby
9:00 a.m. Art Books, Their Purpose and Future
William Dunlap, moderator
Estill Curtis “Buck” Pennington, Rick Gruber, Judith Bonner, Leila Salisbury
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
10:30 a.m. Literacy and the Language Barrier: Discussion of Literature and English as a Learned Language
Julie Cantrell, Moderator
Ashley Fly, Lance Herrington, and Robert Winkler
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
11:30 a.m. Lunch on your own at Oxford’s fine local restaurants
1:30 p.m. Music Biography in the Global South
Ted Ownby, moderator
Ben Sandmel and Vladimir Alexandrov
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
3:00 p.m. Reading and Writers’ Conversation presented by Square Books
Jamie Quatro and Jill McCorkle
Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics
4:30 p.m. Book-signing for all conference authors
Off Square Books
