Norman Mailer Society/Conference/2020/Program
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Norman Mailer Society Virtual Conference
October 15-17, 2020
Thursday October 15th
Note: All times are EST
10:30-11:30am
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
- Approval of 2019 minutes: Maggie McKinley
- Chris Busa Writing Award 2021: Maggie McKinley
- Board Elections: Jerry Lucas
- Vote Online
- Board vacancy
- Treasurer’s Report: Matt Hinton
- Future Conference Sites
- Long Branch re-schedule
- Proposal from Bob Begiebing and Phil Sipiora
- Announcements