Norman Mailer Society/Conference/2020/Program

Norman Mailer Society Virtual Conference

October 15-17, 2020

Thursday October 15th

Note: All times are EST

10:30-11:30am

Project Mailer, 2020

Jerry Lucas

12:30-1:30pm

“Superman Comes to the Supermarket” Sixty Years On

Moderator: Matt Hinton

• Jason Mosser
• Jerry Lucas
• Sal Fallica
• Enid Stubin — “Vote the Rascals In”: Mailer's Candidacy for Mayor of New York City”
• Neil Abercrombie — “Channeling Superman 2020”

2:00-3:00pm

Norman Mailer and Joseph Ellis: Unsettling Dialogues on Democracy

Moderator: Bob Begiebing

• Neil Abercrombie
• Bob Begiebing
• Jerry Lucas
• Kevin Schultz
• Robert Saxe

3:30-4:30pm

Reflections on Armies of the Night

Moderator: Jason Mosser

• Scott Duguid, “Democracy as Intimate Encounter: Mailer, Whitman, and Armies”
• Raj Chandarlapaty, “Modernist Sensitivities in Norman Mailer’s Armies of the Night”
• Jasna Potočnik Topler, “Norman Mailer and the Spirit of Democracy-Armies of the Night”
• Walter Lewallen, “Mailer, Democracy, Television, Lynch”

Friday October 16th

Note: All times are EST

10:30-11:30am

Political Leanings and Ideologies

Moderator: Robert Saxe

• Kevin Schultz, “Norman Mailer’s Left Conservatism, Then and Today”
• Alex Hicks, “The Insights and Contradictions of Mailer’s Third Way”
• David Anshen, “Mailer, Malaquais, and Marxism: Record of a Missed Opportunity”

12:30-1:30pm

Mailer and Race: After the White Negro

Moderator: Matt Hinton

• Nicole DePolo
• Mike Lennon
• Maggie McKinley
• Jason Mosser
• Douglas Taylor

2:00-3:00pm

Mailer in Conversation: Philosophy, Film, and Literature

Moderator: Marc Triplett

• Vic Peppard, “Mailer and Philosophy”
• Phil Sipiora, “Norman Mailer, Film Critic”
• Ray Vince, “One of Us or the Ahab Within”? Conrad’s Lord Jim and Norman Mailer”
• Ann von Mehren, “Mailer and Baldwin”

3:30-4:30pm

Screening: Norman Mailer Memorial at Carnegie Hall, 2008

Footage courtesy of Lawrence Schiller

5:00-6:00pm

Virtual Happy Hour

Join us for an informal online social gathering. The drinks don't have to be virtual.

Saturday October 17th

Note: All times are EST

10:30-11:30am

Mailer’s Political Discourse Across the Decades

Moderator: Maggie McKinley

• Stephanie Redekop, “Norman Mailer, the Literary Essay, and 1960s Crisis Discourse”
• Bonnie Culver, “Mailer and Feminism”
• David Marks, “Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson on the 1972 Campaigns”
• Danny Marroquin, “Norman Mailer in Charlotte, NC: October 2001”

12:30-1:30

#NormanMailer

Moderator: John Buffalo Mailer

• Matt Hinton
• Mashey Bernstein

2:00-3:00

Wilkes Readers Theater

3:30-4:30

Norman Mailer Society Board Meeting

1. Approval of 2019 minutes: Maggie McKinley
2. Chris Busa Writing Award 2021: Maggie McKinley
3. Board Elections: Jerry Lucas
   • Online voting for re-elections
   • Board vacancy
4. Treasurer’s Report: Matt Hinton
5. Future Conference Sites
   • Long Branch re-schedule
   • Proposal from Bob Begiebing and Phil Sipiora
6. Announcements