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==THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10th== | ==THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10th== | ||
===9:00-10:00=== | ===9:00-10:00=== | ||
====Business Meeting (Breiseth 107) | ====Business Meeting==== | ||
(Breiseth 107) | |||
# Announcements: Maggie McKinley | |||
# Minutes of 2018 Business Meeting: Marc Triplett | |||
# ''[[Mailer Review]]'': Phillip Sipiora | |||
# ''[[Project Mailer]]'': Jerry Lucas | |||
# Board Nominations: Jerry Lucas | |||
# Lucid Award Committee: Nicole DePolo | |||
# Treasurer’s Report: Jason Mosser | |||
# Mailer Writers’ Colony and Mailer Collection at Wilkes: Bonnie Culver | |||
# 2019 Conference Site: Maggie McKinley | |||
# New Business | |||
===10:15-11:15=== | ===10:15-11:15=== | ||
====The Politics of American Democracy==== | ====The Politics of American Democracy==== | ||
(Breiseth 106) | |||
* [[Bob Begiebing]], “Mailer and the Founders” | * [[Bob Begiebing]], “Mailer and the Founders” | ||
* Robert Saxe, “‘A Little Better Than They Should Have Been’: Norman Mailer and the Romance of the Kennedys” | * Robert Saxe, “‘A Little Better Than They Should Have Been’: Norman Mailer and the Romance of the Kennedys” | ||
* Alex Hicks, “Norman Mailer, White Working Class Male and ‘Left Conservatism’” | * Alex Hicks, “Norman Mailer, White Working Class Male and ‘Left Conservatism’” | ||
* Moderator: [[Nicole DePolo]] | * Moderator: [[Nicole DePolo]] | ||
===11:30-12:30=== | ===11:30-12:30=== | ||
====Session #1: Mailer in the Public Eye==== | ====Session #1: Mailer in the Public Eye==== | ||
(Breiseth 107) | |||
* [[Matthew Hinton]], “The Pugilist vs. The Publisher: Norman Mailer Takes On” | * [[Matthew Hinton]], “The Pugilist vs. The Publisher: Norman Mailer Takes On” | ||
* Chondell Villines, “Mailer and Celebrity” | * Chondell Villines, “Mailer and Celebrity” | ||
* Bill Lowenberg, “Mailer: A Life in Pictures” | * Bill Lowenberg, “Mailer: A Life in Pictures” | ||
* Moderator: Robert Saxe | * Moderator: Robert Saxe | ||
====Session #2: Philosophical Foundations & Political Connections (Breiseth 106) | ====Session #2: Philosophical Foundations & Political Connections==== | ||
(Breiseth 106) | |||
* Raj Chandarlapaty, “The Hipster” | * Raj Chandarlapaty, “The Hipster” | ||
* Alex Hicks, “Mailer’s Marxist Politics” | * Alex Hicks, “Mailer’s Marxist Politics” | ||
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===2:00-3:00=== | ===2:00-3:00=== | ||
====Session #1: Mailer and Journalism==== | ====Session #1: Mailer and Journalism==== | ||
(Breiseth 107) | |||
* [[Jason Mosser]], “Mailer’s Literary Journalism in Context” | * [[Jason Mosser]], “Mailer’s Literary Journalism in Context” | ||
* Sal Fallica, “In the Red Light: History Biding Its Time” | * Sal Fallica, “In the Red Light: History Biding Its Time” | ||
* [[Victor Peppard]], “Mailer and Breslin: Champions of the Little Man and the Outlaw” | * [[Victor Peppard]], “Mailer and Breslin: Champions of the Little Man and the Outlaw” | ||
* Moderator: [[Phil Sipiora]] | * Moderator: [[Phil Sipiora]] | ||
====Session #2: ''Of a Fire on the Moon'' After 50 Years==== | ====Session #2: ''Of a Fire on the Moon'' After 50 Years==== | ||
(Breiseth 106) | |||
* Carol Holmes-Alpern, “''Of a Fire on the Moon'': A Retrospective” | * Carol Holmes-Alpern, “''Of a Fire on the Moon'': A Retrospective” | ||
* Walter Lewallen, “That Sinking Feeling” | * Walter Lewallen, “That Sinking Feeling” | ||
* Moderator: Enid Stubin | * Moderator: Enid Stubin | ||
===3:15-4:15=== | ===3:15-4:15=== | ||
====Current Mailer Projects==== | ====Current Mailer Projects==== | ||
[[Mike Lennon]]; Jerry Lucas; [[Susan Mailer]]; [[Maggie McKinley]] | (Breiseth 106) | ||
[[Mike Lennon]]; Jerry Lucas; [[Susan Mailer]]; [[Maggie McKinley]] | |||
===4:30-5:30=== | ===4:30-5:30=== | ||
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===5:45-7:00=== | ===5:45-7:00=== | ||
====Opening Reception (Weckesser Hall) | ====Opening Reception==== | ||
(Weckesser Hall) | |||
Sponsored by Wilkes Maslow Family Creative Writing Program and the University Advancement Office | Sponsored by Wilkes Maslow Family Creative Writing Program and the University Advancement Office | ||
===7:00-8:00=== | ===7:00-8:00=== | ||
====Tour of Mailer Reading Room and Collection==== | ====Tour of Mailer Reading Room and Collection==== | ||
Dedication of Nancy Ellen Craig’s Mailer Portrait | (Farley Library, 2nd Floor) | ||
Dedication of Nancy Ellen Craig’s Mailer Portrait | |||
====Dinner on your own==== | ====Dinner on your own==== | ||
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===9:00-10:00=== | ===9:00-10:00=== | ||
====Mailer and McLuhan==== | ====Mailer and McLuhan==== | ||
Nicole DePolo; Jerry Lucas; Sal Fallica | (Breiseth 106) | ||
Nicole DePolo; Jerry Lucas; Sal Fallica | |||
===10:15-11:15=== | ===10:15-11:15=== | ||
====Norman Mailer and the Actor’s Studio==== | ====Norman Mailer and the Actor’s Studio==== | ||
John Buffalo Mailer; Timothy Nolan; Mike Lennon | (Breiseth 107) | ||
John Buffalo Mailer; Timothy Nolan; Mike Lennon | |||
===11:30-12:30=== | ===11:30-12:30=== | ||
====Session #1: Mailer and Violence==== | ====Session #1: Mailer and Violence==== | ||
Mark Olshaker; Marc Triplett; Maggie McKinley | (Breiseth 106) | ||
Mark Olshaker; Marc Triplett; Maggie McKinley | |||
====Session #2: Mailer’s French Connection==== | ====Session #2: Mailer’s French Connection==== | ||
(Breiseth 107) | |||
* Jeanne Fuchs, “Mailer in Translation” | * Jeanne Fuchs, “Mailer in Translation” | ||
* Jason Mosser, “Mailer and Malaquais in Conversation” | * Jason Mosser, “Mailer and Malaquais in Conversation” | ||
* Mike Lennon, “Mailer and Stendhal” | * Mike Lennon, “Mailer and Stendhal” | ||
* Moderator: Victor Peppard | * Moderator: Victor Peppard | ||
===12:30-1:45=== | ===12:30-1:45=== | ||
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===2:00-3:00=== | ===2:00-3:00=== | ||
====Session #1: ''Advertisements'' and Influences==== | ====Session #1: ''Advertisements'' and Influences==== | ||
(Breiseth 106) | |||
* Enid Stubin, “''Advertisements for Myself'': Mailer’s Workes” | * Enid Stubin, “''Advertisements for Myself'': Mailer’s Workes” | ||
* Ray Vince, “Angst, Authorship, and the Critics: ''Advertisements'', ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro,’ and ‘The Crack-Up’” | * Ray Vince, “Angst, Authorship, and the Critics: ''Advertisements'', ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro,’ and ‘The Crack-Up’” | ||
* [[Erik Nakjavani]], “Limit Situations: A Recurring Theme in Hemingway’s and Mailer’s Works” | * [[Erik Nakjavani]], “Limit Situations: A Recurring Theme in Hemingway’s and Mailer’s Works” | ||
* Moderator: Jason Mosser | * Moderator: Jason Mosser | ||
====Session #2: '''Art and Criminality'''==== | ====Session #2: '''Art and Criminality'''==== | ||
(Breiseth 107) | |||
* James Taylor, “Mailer and Jack Henry Abbott Revisited: Some Famous Writers and Their Convict Projects” | * James Taylor, “Mailer and Jack Henry Abbott Revisited: Some Famous Writers and Their Convict Projects” | ||
* Phil Sipiora; “Literary Rhetoric in ''The Executioner’s Song''” | * Phil Sipiora; “Literary Rhetoric in ''The Executioner’s Song''” | ||
* Edward Birzin, “Mailer and ''The Faith of Graffiti''” | * Edward Birzin, “Mailer and ''The Faith of Graffiti''” | ||
* Moderator: Matthew Hinton | * Moderator: Matthew Hinton | ||
===3:45-4:45=== | ===3:45-4:45=== | ||
====''The Executioner’s Song'': A 40th Anniversary Panel Discussion==== | |||
(Breiseth 107) | |||
* Featured speaker Larry Schiller | |||
* Moderator: Mike Lennon | |||
===5:00-6:30=== | ===5:00-6:30=== | ||
Dinner on your own | ====Dinner on your own==== | ||
===7:00-9:00=== | ===7:00-9:00=== | ||
Screening of ''The Executioner’s Song'' | ====Screening of ''The Executioner’s Song''==== | ||
followed by Q&A with Larry Schiller (Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, South St.) | |||
==SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12th== | ==SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12th== | ||
===9:00-10:00=== | ===9:00-10:00=== | ||
====Undergraduate Work on Mailer==== | |||
(Breiseth 106) | |||
John Buffalo Mailer and Nicole DePolo | |||
===10:15-11:30=== | ===10:15-11:30=== | ||
====Two Films on Beverly Bentley==== | |||
(Breiseth 107) | |||
* Stephen Mailer’s “Flaubrucht: A Celebration of Life” and Antonia Colodro’s “Beverly” | |||
* Introduced by Stephen Mailer | |||
===11:45-12:45=== | ===11:45-12:45=== | ||
====Wilkes Readers’ Theater: ''The Time of Our Time''==== | |||
(Breiseth 106) | |||
Bonnie Culver, Wendy Hinton, Matthew Hinton, Jason Miller and Jan Quackenbush | |||
===1:00-3:00=== | ===1:00-3:00=== | ||
====Luncheon & Keynote Address==== | |||
This year’s keynote address was funded by a generous donation from Mashey Bernstein. | Maggie Mailer (Henry Student Center Ballroom, 2nd Fl.) This year’s keynote address was funded by a generous donation from Mashey Bernstein. | ||
[[Category:2019 Program]] | [[Category:2019 Program]] | ||
Revision as of 06:34, 10 October 2019
17th Annual Norman Mailer Conference
Mailer on Politics, Public Life, and Pop Culture
Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
October 10-12, 2019
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10th
9:00-10:00
Business Meeting
(Breiseth 107)
- Announcements: Maggie McKinley
- Minutes of 2018 Business Meeting: Marc Triplett
- Mailer Review: Phillip Sipiora
- Project Mailer: Jerry Lucas
- Board Nominations: Jerry Lucas
- Lucid Award Committee: Nicole DePolo
- Treasurer’s Report: Jason Mosser
- Mailer Writers’ Colony and Mailer Collection at Wilkes: Bonnie Culver
- 2019 Conference Site: Maggie McKinley
- New Business
10:15-11:15
The Politics of American Democracy
(Breiseth 106)
- Bob Begiebing, “Mailer and the Founders”
- Robert Saxe, “‘A Little Better Than They Should Have Been’: Norman Mailer and the Romance of the Kennedys”
- Alex Hicks, “Norman Mailer, White Working Class Male and ‘Left Conservatism’”
- Moderator: Nicole DePolo
11:30-12:30
Session #1: Mailer in the Public Eye
(Breiseth 107)
- Matthew Hinton, “The Pugilist vs. The Publisher: Norman Mailer Takes On”
- Chondell Villines, “Mailer and Celebrity”
- Bill Lowenberg, “Mailer: A Life in Pictures”
- Moderator: Robert Saxe
Session #2: Philosophical Foundations & Political Connections
(Breiseth 106)
- Raj Chandarlapaty, “The Hipster”
- Alex Hicks, “Mailer’s Marxist Politics”
- Ann von Mehren, “Armies of the Night, Mitch Goodman, and the CPA”
- Moderator: Jerry Lucas
12:30-1:45
Lunch on Your Own
2:00-3:00
Session #1: Mailer and Journalism
(Breiseth 107)
- Jason Mosser, “Mailer’s Literary Journalism in Context”
- Sal Fallica, “In the Red Light: History Biding Its Time”
- Victor Peppard, “Mailer and Breslin: Champions of the Little Man and the Outlaw”
- Moderator: Phil Sipiora
Session #2: Of a Fire on the Moon After 50 Years
(Breiseth 106)
- Carol Holmes-Alpern, “Of a Fire on the Moon: A Retrospective”
- Walter Lewallen, “That Sinking Feeling”
- Moderator: Enid Stubin
3:15-4:15
Current Mailer Projects
(Breiseth 106)
Mike Lennon; Jerry Lucas; Susan Mailer; Maggie McKinley
4:30-5:30
Book Reading
Susan Mailer, In Another Place (Breiseth 107). Book Signing to Follow in Weckesser Hall at Opening Reception.
5:45-7:00
Opening Reception
(Weckesser Hall)
Sponsored by Wilkes Maslow Family Creative Writing Program and the University Advancement Office
7:00-8:00
Tour of Mailer Reading Room and Collection
(Farley Library, 2nd Floor)
Dedication of Nancy Ellen Craig’s Mailer Portrait
Dinner on your own
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11th
9:00-10:00
Mailer and McLuhan
(Breiseth 106)
Nicole DePolo; Jerry Lucas; Sal Fallica
10:15-11:15
Norman Mailer and the Actor’s Studio
(Breiseth 107)
John Buffalo Mailer; Timothy Nolan; Mike Lennon
11:30-12:30
Session #1: Mailer and Violence
(Breiseth 106)
Mark Olshaker; Marc Triplett; Maggie McKinley
Session #2: Mailer’s French Connection
(Breiseth 107)
- Jeanne Fuchs, “Mailer in Translation”
- Jason Mosser, “Mailer and Malaquais in Conversation”
- Mike Lennon, “Mailer and Stendhal”
- Moderator: Victor Peppard
12:30-1:45
Lunch on Your Own
Board Meeting & Lunch in Miller Room, Henry Student Center
2:00-3:00
Session #1: Advertisements and Influences
(Breiseth 106)
- Enid Stubin, “Advertisements for Myself: Mailer’s Workes”
- Ray Vince, “Angst, Authorship, and the Critics: Advertisements, ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro,’ and ‘The Crack-Up’”
- Erik Nakjavani, “Limit Situations: A Recurring Theme in Hemingway’s and Mailer’s Works”
- Moderator: Jason Mosser
Session #2: Art and Criminality
(Breiseth 107)
- James Taylor, “Mailer and Jack Henry Abbott Revisited: Some Famous Writers and Their Convict Projects”
- Phil Sipiora; “Literary Rhetoric in The Executioner’s Song”
- Edward Birzin, “Mailer and The Faith of Graffiti”
- Moderator: Matthew Hinton
3:45-4:45
The Executioner’s Song: A 40th Anniversary Panel Discussion
(Breiseth 107)
- Featured speaker Larry Schiller
- Moderator: Mike Lennon
5:00-6:30
Dinner on your own
7:00-9:00
Screening of The Executioner’s Song
followed by Q&A with Larry Schiller (Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, South St.)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12th
9:00-10:00
Undergraduate Work on Mailer
(Breiseth 106)
John Buffalo Mailer and Nicole DePolo
10:15-11:30
Two Films on Beverly Bentley
(Breiseth 107)
- Stephen Mailer’s “Flaubrucht: A Celebration of Life” and Antonia Colodro’s “Beverly”
- Introduced by Stephen Mailer
11:45-12:45
Wilkes Readers’ Theater: The Time of Our Time
(Breiseth 106)
Bonnie Culver, Wendy Hinton, Matthew Hinton, Jason Miller and Jan Quackenbush
1:00-3:00
Luncheon & Keynote Address
Maggie Mailer (Henry Student Center Ballroom, 2nd Fl.) This year’s keynote address was funded by a generous donation from Mashey Bernstein.