10:30-11:45

ASU Undergraduate Panel: Placemaking Through Arkansas Folklife (Mockingbird Room, ASU Student Union)

Greg Hansen, moderator

1:30-3:30

A.  From the Mekong Delta to the Mississippi Delta: The Vietnam War and the American South (Pine Tree Room, ASU Student Union)

Catherine Calloway, chair

Jennifer Majors, "Imagining the Delta: The Vietnam War, the South, and Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country"

Monica Hooper,  "Larry Brown's Dirty Work and the Harmful Legacy of the Vietnam War in the Mississippi Delta"

Vanessa Adams-Merrell, "The Violent Vet in Larry Brown's Dirty Work"

Anna Westman, "Walter James' Transformation into 'The Great White Hope' in Larry Brown's Dirty Work"

B. Southern Literature Revised: Placing the Delta (Mockingbird Room, ASU Student Union)

Deborah Chappel, Ruth Hawkins, Van Hawkins

4:00

Delta Playwrights: Scenes from Plays by Tennessee Williams and Beth Henley

ASU Dept. of Theatre

(Black Box Experimental Theatre, Fowler Center)

8:00-9:15

  Concert: Little Milton
(Auditorium, ASU student Union)
Introduced by Rick Burns

8:30-10:00

A. The Hoxie 21-- Stories, New Voices, New Perspectives: Imagining Race in the Arkansas Delta (Hill Foundation/ASU Delta Studies Center)
(Mockingbird Room, ASU Student Union)

Peggy Wright, moderator

Panelists: Russell Wigginton, Fayth Hill Washington, Ethel Tompkins, Cherisse Jones

B. Religion and Literature in the Delta (Pine Tree Room, ASU Student Union)

Stacy Alley, chair

Carter Hillyer, "God, the Delta, and Louisiana Power & Light"

Wayne Narey, "God in the Delta"

C. Film & Discussion, "West Memphis Blues: Clides 'Bo Pete' Fleming" (Auditorium, ASU Student Union)

Clyde Milner, moderator

Simon Hosken and Caroline Redfearn

A. Delta Literature and Culture: ASU Heritage Studies
Graduate Students (Pine Tree Room, ASU Student Union)

Deborah Chappel, chair

Kathy Dillion, "Lily Peter: Delta Writer and Cotton Farmer"

Glinda Hall, "The Land of Contradictions: Margaret Jones Bolsterli's Delta"

Jo Ann Steed, "Octave Thanet's Arkansas Delta"

Sarah Waltermire, "Examining Regionalism: A Critique"

B. Folklore, Myth, and the Blues (Mockingbird Room, ASU Student Union)

Bryan Moore, chair

Blaine Waide,  "Robert Johnson at the Crossroads of African American and Popular American Memory"

Robert Webb Fry, "Blues and the Myth of Authenticity"

Mark Hoffman, "Myths and Reality in Delta Blues"

C. Documenting and Interpreting the Delta (Auditorium, ASU Student Union)

Brady Banta, chair

Jason Combs and Kelly Williams, "Mental Landmarks in the Delta"

Juliet Morrow, "Grave Wars in the Delta"

L. Renee Jefferson, "Cobb vs. Cash: Texts that Shaped the Delta's Image"

Jim Baird, "Frederick Ramsey Jr.: Pioneer in Imagining the Delta"

2:00-4:00

A. Delta Literature (Pine Tree Room, ASU Student Union)

Norman Stafford, chair

Courtney George, "Re-appropriating the Blues: Cornelia's Awakening in Ellen Douglas' Can't Quit You, Baby"

Alan Brown, "Breaking the Boundaries: Confronting the Social Restrictions in Ellen Douglas' A Lifetime Burning"

Raymond-Jean Frontain, "The 'Arkansas Ozark Way' in Tennessee Williams' Short Fiction"

Steve West, "Singing Those Postmodern, Late Twentieth Century Blues: The Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa"

B. Creative Writing (Mockingbird Room, ASU Student Union)

Carol O'Connor, chair

Jeane Harris

Guy Lancaster

Dick Lourie

8:30-10:30

A. Delta Literature (Pine Tree Room, ASU Student Union)

Victora Spaniol, chair

Mike Spikes, "Willie Morris and the Power of Memory"

Maria Kimberly, "Miranda and Rhoda: Southern Women and Body Image"

Jianqing Zheng,  "Sensibility to Nature in Richard Wright's Haiku" 

Catherine Calloway, "From the Mekong Delta to the Mississippi Delta: The Imagined Vietnams of Scott Ely and Robert Olen Butler"

B. Blues Beyond the Delta (Mockingbird Room, ASU Student Union)

Michael Nash, chair

Andrew Scheiber, "Rednecks in the Wrecking Crew: James Burton, Glen Campbell, Billy Lee Riley (among many others), and the Delta Pulse of West Coast Pop"

P. Dru Davidson, "A Place for Blues: Creative Improvisation in the Music Education Curriculum"

Clifford R. Murphy, "J. Mayo 'Ink' Williams: Politics and Production of Pre-War Blues"

Maria Johnson, "New Shades of Blue: Saffire & Uppity Women's Blues Today"

10:45-12:15

A. Tennessee Williams (Pine Tree Room, ASU Student Union)

Raymond-Jean Frontain, chair

UCA English Graduate Students

Leslie Johnson, "The Rose Tattoo and the Short Stories of Tennessee Williams"

Brad Holden, "Tennessee Williams and the Outcry of the Insane"

Jonathan Purliss, "Double Exposures: An Analysis of Tennessee Williams' Something Cloudy, Something Clear"

B. Land of the Blues (Mockingbird Room, ASU Student Union)

Joseph Key, chair

Cory Shaman, "Spicing Up the Blues"

Lindgren Johnson, "Drowning in Oxygen"

Dixon Bynum, "Mississippi Learning"

C. Simon Hosken and Caroline Redfearn, Film/Discussion: "West Memphis Blues: Clides 'Bo Pete' Fleming" (Auditorium, ASU Student Union)

1:30-3:30

4:00-5:00

Billie Jean Young, "Fannie Lou Hamer:  This Little Light . . ."

(Black Box Experimental Theatre, Fowler Center)

5:00-6:00

Delta Composers Concert

(Riceland Hall, Fowler Center)

Reception

(Grand Hall, Fowler Center)