Southern Studies Forum:
The South As Another Place

The 2002 Southern Studies Forum -- Friday, 25 October 2002 through Monday, 28 October at the University of South Carolina's Capstone Conference Center -- will bring together more than 30 scholars from various countries and universities to present papers on a variety of topics related to the American South. For more information, please call 803-777-2340 or email bobellis@sc.edu.

Schedule

Friday, 25 October 2002

0900-0915 -- Welcome by Dr. Jerome D. Odom, Provost & Executive Vice President (University of South Carolina) and Walter B. Edgar (University of South Carolina)

0915-1030 -- The South As Another Place, Part I

• Lothar Hoennighausen, Session Chair
• Helen Taylor (University of Exeter), "A Transatlantic South"
• Anneke Leenhouts, "A South for Our Time?"

1030-1100 -- BREAK

1100-1145 -- The South As Another Place, Part II

• Lothar Hoennighausen, Session Chair
• Robert Brinkmeyer (University of Arkansas), "A Transatlantic South"

1315-1500 -- Violence

• Lothar Hoennighausen, "Southern Violence: Literary Perspectives"
• Vivian Miller (Middlesex University), "Executing Women: Gender & the Death Penalty in the 20th Century South"
• Clive Webb & William Carrigan (University of Sussex), "South by Southwest: A New Look at Lynching"

1500-1515 -- BREAK

1515-1700 -- Cormac McCarthy

• Jan Gretlund (University of Southern Denmark), Session Chair
• Richard Godden (University of Keele), "Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the East"
• Hans Skei (University of Oslo), "Recent Southern Writers & Their Debt to Faulkner"
• Marcel Arbeit (Palacky University), "Three Different Forms of the Quest for the Positive: Fred Chappell, Lewis Nordan, and Cormac McCarthy"

Saturday, 26 October 2002

0930-1115 -- Who IS the Southern Woman?

• Youli Theoldisiadou, Session Chair
• Constante Gonzalez (University of Santiago), "Configurations of Domestic Space in the Fiction of Contemporary Southern Writers"
• Suzanne Jones (University of Richmond), "Southern Women Writers & the Big Picture: Place, Space, Race & Community"
• Anne Firor Scott (Duke University), "Who Is the Southern Woman?"

1230-1415 -- Sex, Relationships and Slavery

• Tom McHaney, Session Chair
• Peter Nicolaisen (University of Flensburg), "'Rescuing America's Future at Monticello: Sally Hemmings, Thomas Jefferson, and the Changing Attitudes Toward Historical Evidence"
• Larry Hudson (University of Rochester), "'Beyond Good Hope':Herbert Gutman in South Carolina"

1415-1430 -- BREAK

1430-1615 -- Contemporary Southern Literature

• Waldemar Zacarsiewicz, Session Chair
• Richard Gray (University of Essex), "'With Us Western Civilization Ends': Exceptionalism & Endings in the Literature of the South
• Danielle Pitavy-Souques (Universite de Bourgogne), "Directions in Contemporary Southern Fiction: Changing Definitions of Race"
• M. Thomas Inge (Randolph-Macon College), "Agrarians All!! Or Southerners Without Masters"

Sunday, 27 October 2002

1400-1530 -- Mirrors for Race

• Francois Pitavy (Universite de Bourgogne), Session Chair
• Charles Joyner (Coastal Carolina University), "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Flag in South Carolina"
• Jonathan Bell (University of Reading), "Representations of Southern Liberalism: Ideology and the Peppers-Smathers 1950 Primary in Florida"
• Ted Ownby (University of Mississippi), "Party Switching & Manhood in the South, 1960s and 1970s"

1530-1545 -- BREAK

1545-1700 -- Members' Forum

Monday, 28 October 2002

0930-1115 -- Instruments of Change

• Stuart Kidd, Session Chair
• Mark Newman (University of Derby), "The Catholic Church & Desegregation in Mississippi, 1963-1973"
• Bobby Donaldson (University of South Carolina), "The Mountain Path to Canaan: W. E. B. DuBois & Black Intellectuals in the Jim Crow South"
• Valinda Littlefield (University of South Carolina), "African-American School Teachers: Contexts, Challenges, & Possibilities, 1880-1954"