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'''Screening: Norman Mailer Memorial at Carnegie Hall, 2008'''
'''Screening: Norman Mailer Memorial at Carnegie Hall, 2008'''
:Footage courtesy of Lawrence Schiller
: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==
==Saturday October 17th==

Revision as of 19:48, 17 September 2020

Norman Mailer Society Virtual Conference

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October 15-17, 2020

Thursday October 15th

Note: All times are EST

10:30-11:30am

Project Mailer

Jerry Lucas

12:30-1:30pm

“Superman Comes to the Supermarket” Sixty Years On

Moderator: Matt Hinton
  • Neil Abercrombie
  • Sal Fallica
  • Jerry Lucas
  • Jason Mosser
  • Enid Stubin

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

Reflection 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 Potocnik Topler, “Norman Mailer and the Spirit of Democracy-Armies of the Night
  • Walter Lewallen, “Mailer, Democracy, Television, Lynch”

Friday October 16th

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Note: All times are EST

10:30-11:30am

Political Leanings and Ideologies

Moderator:
  • 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
  • Doug 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

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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