Heritage Studies Panel, Mockingbird Room

Moderated by Brady Banta

Lenore Shoults (Arkansas State University), "Fairy Godmothers of The Ozarks"

Jodi Morris (Arkansas State University), "The Seeger Connection: Pete Seeger and the Music of John Handcox, Poet of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union"

3:30-4:30

Concurrent Sessions

Delta Writers I, Mockingbird Room

Moderated by Catherine Calloway

Mike Spikes (ASU), "Sentimentality in Willie Morris"

Lisa Hickman, "Joan Williams's Old Powder Man"

Jennifer Majors-Stewart (ASU), "Memory and Myth in John Dufresne's Louisiana Power and Light and Deep in the Shade of Paradise"

ASU Student Panel: Legend and Belief in Three Delta Communities, Pine Tree Room
Moderated by Gregory Hansen

Daniel Felts, Colin Beineke, and Lindsey Hastings

4:45-5:30

Documentary Film:

When I Was Younger: A Weekend with the Beatles, by Michael Bowman (Arkansas State University) Mockingbird Room

8:00-9:30

Concert: Alvin Youngblood Hart (Auditorium)

Introduced by Richard Burns

Friday, 30 March

8:30-10:30

Concurrent Sessions

The Sixties in and out of the Delta, Pine Tree Room

Moderated by Janelle Collins

Brenda Bonner (University of West Alabama), "Influences of Fashion in the 1960s"

Clifton Kelly (University of West Alabama), "Revolution or Assimilation? The Legacy of Stonewall in 2000s America"

Lillie Fears (ASU), "Giving us a Fair Shake at the Newsstand: How Ebony Magazines Captured Black life, History in the 60s."

Alan Brown (University of West Alabama), "'Desolation Row': Bob Dylan's Wasteland"

Delta Icons in the Sixties, Mockingbird Room

Moderated by Marcus Tribbett

Douglas Robillard (University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff), "Electric Mud: Muddy Waters and Psychedelic Blues"

Nick Gorrell (University of Mississippi), "'The B-L-U-E-S': Son House's Category of Being"

Mitsutoshi Inaba (University of Oregon), "Melodrama in the Blues: Willie Dixon's Composition 'Tail Dragger' for Howlin Wolf"

Bill Stalnaker (Fairmont State University), "Cause and Effect: Stax Records' Impact and Reflection on the Turbulent Sixties"

11:00-12:30

Creative Writing I, Pine Tree Room

Moderated by Victoria Spaniol

CD Albin (Missouri State University@West Plains), Poetry

CD Mitchell (University of Alabama), Nonfiction

Guy Lancaster (Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture), Short Fiction

Civil Rights Struggles, Mockingbird Room

Moderated by Cherisse Jones-Branch

Eric Johnson (University of Iowa), "Civil Rights, Delta Blues, and the Contemporary Southern Imaginary"

Kelly Cantrell (University of Southern Mississippi), "Fighting Freedom: The Actions and Observations of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and the Citizens' Council"

Kerry Pimblott (University of Illinois), "'I Wouldn't do one thing that I thought would hinder such a righteous cause': Religiosity and Interracial Unionism in the STFU, 1934-1939"

Dedric Lee (Jefferson College), "'Seducin Our Women into Lesbianism': Camp Sister Spirit Vs. Ovette, MS"

2:00-4:00

Concurrent Sessions

60s Blues Beyond the Delta, Mockingbird Room

Moderated by Gregory Hansen

Patricia Robillard (University of Arkansas—Pine Bluff), "The Blues Swims Upstream: The Influence of the Butterfield Blues Band"

Ulrich Adelt (University of Iowa), "Trying to Find an Identity: Eric Clapton's Changing Conception of 'Blackness'"

Andrew Kellett (University of Maryland), "The Cult of the Delta Blues Singer: Robert Johnson and British Mythmaking"

Creative Writing II, Pine Tree Room

Moderated by Tom Williams

Jianqing Zheng (Mississippi Valley State University), Poetry

Darlin' Neal (Mississippi Valley State University), Fiction

4:30-5:30

Robert Gordon, Introduced by Gloria Gibson, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences

7:30-9:00

Readings: Poetry and Fiction, Grand Hall, Fowler Center

Natasha Trethewey, Introduced by Dr. Glen Jones, President's Assistant for Diversity Initiatives

Scott Ely, Introduced by Lonnie R. Williams, Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs