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The 13th Annual Tennessee Williams Scholars'
Conference Schedule

March 28, 2008

The Historic New Orleans Collection’s Williams Research Center
410 Chartres St. New Orleans, Louisiana

Dr. Robert Bray, Conference Director

  9:30-10:30  

“The Returning Vet’s Experience in A Streetcar Named Desire: Stanley as the Decommissioned Warrior Under Stress”
Dr. Larry Blades, independent scholar

“Williams-Faulkner Dialogue on Women of the New South, Desire, and Decay”
Dr. Bernadette Clemens, Case Western Reserve University

“The Conversions of T. Lawrence Shannon in The Night of the Iguana
Dr. Brian Parker, The University of Toronto

Moderator: Dr. Stuart Noel, Georgia Perimeter College

 
         
10:30-11:30

“’The Time and World That I Live In’: Artists, Power, & Revolutionaries in Camino Real
Michael Paller, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco

“Tennessee Williams and the Mummers of St. Louis: The Birth of a Playwright”
Dr. Thomas Mitchell, University of Illinois

“The Semiotics of Rape in the Work of Tennessee Williams”
Dr. John Bak, Université Nancy, France

Moderator: Dr. Jack Barbera, University of Mississippi

         
  11:30-1:00   Lunch  
         
  1:00-2:00  

“The Significance of Place in Williams’s Work”
Prof. Allean Hale, University of Illinois
Dr. Colby Kullman, University of Mississippi
Dr. Robert Bray, Middle Tennessee State University

Moderator: Dr. Annette Saddik, New York City College of Technology

 
         
2:00-2:45

“’Fine Furs and Feathers’: Dressing and the Performance of Identity in A Streetcar Named Desire” (multimedia presentation)
Dr. Jacky O’Connor, Boise State University

Moderator: Dr. Will Brantley, Middle Tennessee State University

         
  3:00-3:30  

The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, by Tennessee Williams
(Special performance sponsored by the Scholars Conference)
Location: Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter St.

Cast
Mrs. Hardwicke-Moore…………………………..Joi Hoffsommer
The Writer……………………………………………….Lenny von Dohlen
Mrs. Wire…………………………………………………Sandy Zeilinski

Directed by James Still

 
         

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