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Mississippi
Delta Tennessee Williams Festival
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The 12th annual Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams
Festival is scheduled to take place in Clarksdale
on October 15-16, 2004. Williams’s 1955 play Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof will be a focus of this year’s
festival. As in the past, the program will include
presentations by Williams authorities and friends,
several performances, a session with papers by
scholars, and tours of the house and neighborhood
where the playwright lived as a child. Also scheduled
in conjunction with the festival are workshops
for teachers and for student actors and a drama
competition, with prizes totaling $4,000.
Williams authorities confirmed to participate
in the festival are W. Kenneth Holditch and Colby
Kullman. New York actor Anthony Herrera and others
will present a stage reading of Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof. Actress and director Erma Duricko will perform
as well as conduct an acting workshop for high
school students. Williams’s brother, Dakin, will
also make his annual appearance. Other participants
will be announced soon.
Scholars are invited to submit papers for possible
presentation at the festival. Papers on any topic
related to Williams and his work are eligible
for consideration. Presentations should be 20
minutes maximum. Authors whose papers are selected
for presentation will receive free lodging during
the festival and a waiver of the registration
fee. The deadline for submissions is August 30,
2004. To enter, send a completed paper (7-8 pages)
or an abstract (250 words) to Colby H. Kullman,
Department of English, The University of Mississippi,
University, MS 38677.
The Tennessee Williams Festival Acting Competition,
hosted by Coahoma Community College, is open to
high school students in Mississippi. The competition
includes two acting categories, monologues and
scenes. All material must be drawn from the plays
of Tennessee Williams. Each monologue is to be
two minutes or less, and each scene is to be between
five and ten minutes and involve any number of
characters.
Cash prizes are given for winning monologues and
scenes, which will be performed for the festival
audience. Prize money will go to schools of the
winners for use with drama activities or library
books related to theater and literature. Students,
with their teacher-sponsors, will be given the
opportunity to decide how the prize money will
be spent.
For information on the 2004 festival and drama
competition, write Tennessee Williams Festival,
P.O. Box 1565, Clarksdale, MS 38614-1565; telephone
662-627-7337.
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Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha
July 24-28, 2005
“Faulkner’s Inheritance”
The 32nd annual conference will attempt to take
the measure of Faulkner’s “inheritance”: the varied
elements that went into his making and the making
of his work. We are inviting both 50-minute plenary
addresses and 15-minute papers for this conference.
For details, visit the Web (http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/)
or e-mail Donald Kartiganer (dkartiga@olemiss.edu).
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History
Symposium to Study Manners
Manners, it is easy to agree, are important to understanding
Southern history, whether one is studying family
life, violence, definitions of race, voting, speaking,
eating, or drinking. But it is less clear how we
should study manners. Nine scholars will have that
opportunity when the Porter Fortune Jr. History
Symposium, cosponsored by the History Department
and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture,
addresses Manners and Southern History, October
6-8, 2004.
Speakers will include Catherine Clinton, author
and editor of 16 books, including Harriet Tubman,
The Plantation Mistress, and Tara Revisited; Joseph
Crespino, of Emory University, author of works on
social and political life in civil rights-era Mississippi;
Lisa L. Dorr, of the University of Alabama and author
of White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia,
1900-1960; Anya Jabour, of the University of Montana,
author of Marriage in the Early Republic; Valinda
Littlefield, of the University of South Carolina,
author of works on Southern education; Jennifer
Ritterhouse, of Utah State University, author of
works on raising children in Southern history; and
Charles F. Robinson II, of the University of Arkansas,
author of Dangerous Liaisons: Sex and Love in the
Segregated South. Commenting will be Jane Dailey,
Johns Hopkins University, author of Before Jim Crow:
The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia,
and John Kasson, of the University of North Carolina,
author of works such as Rudeness and Civility: Manners
in 19th-Century Urban America and Houdini, Tarzan,
and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the
Challenge of Modernity in America.
Events, to be held in the Yerby Center, will be,
as in the past 28 symposia, free and open to the
public. More details about the symposium are available
at olemiss.edu/depts/history/symposium/Events_Symposium.htm.
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