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The Tenth Annual Tennessee Williams
Scholars'
Conference Schedule
March 31-April 1, 2005
Prince Conti Hotel
Conference Center
840 Conti
(corner Conti and Dauphine)
New Orleans, LA
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Thursday, March 31
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10:45-11:00 |
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Welcoming remarks
 Robert Bray, Conference Director |
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11:00-12:00 |
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“A Family Systems Approach to The Glass Menagerie”
Benjamin Opipari, Colgate University
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12:00-1:30 |
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Lunch on your own |
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1:30-2:30 |
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“Inventing Tennessee Williams: The Theatre Guild and His First Professional Production”
Claudia Case, Yale School of Drama |
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"The Function of Lighting in The Glass Menagerie”
Chris Bell, Georgia Military College
(Moderator:
Barton Palmer, Clemson University) |
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2:30-3:30 |
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“Tennessee vs. John Scopes: Blanche Jennings Bryan and Antievolutionism”
John Bak, University of Nancy, France |
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“Staging Suddenly Last Summer”
John Rindo, University of Puget Sound |
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“Encoding Desires: Re-inscribing Queer Desire in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly Last Summer”
Rachel Walsh, Stony Brook University
(Moderator:
Thomas Keith, New Directions Books) |
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3:30-4:30 |
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“Rise and Shine: Edwina Williams in Her Own Words and as Dramatized by Tennessee Williams”
A Performance by Christina Didericksen, University of Illinois
(Director: Thomas Mitchell, University of Illinois) |
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5:00-6:00 |
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Reception for Scholars’ Conference Presenters and Moderators
(Remarks by Margaret Sargent, Tennessee Williams’s portraitist) |
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Friday, April 1
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10:00-11:00 |
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“Reading Race in A Streetcar Named Desire”
Nick Moschovakis, Reed College |
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“Big Time Operators: The Story of Tennessee Williams’s Huey Long Play”
David Roessel, Stockton State University
(Moderator: Jack Barbera, University of Mississippi) |
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11:00-12:00 |
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“What Was He Reading? Tennessee Williams’s Favorite Authors”
Nancy Tischler, Professor Emerita, Penn State University
Allean Hale, The University of Illinois
(Moderator:
Virginia Spencer Carr, Georgia State University) |
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12:00-1:30 |
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Lunch on your own |
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1:30-3:00 |
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“Williams and the Grotesque”
Panel discussion with
Darrell Bourque, University of Louisiana-Lafayette
Brian Parker, University of Toronto
Philip Kolin, University of Southern Mississippi
Jacqueline O’Connor, Boise State University
(Moderator:
Annette Saddik, New York City College of Technology)
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3:00-4:30 |
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“Williams and His Contemporaries: Lillian Hellman”
Panel
discussion with
R. Barton Palmer, Clemson University
Will Brantley, Middle Tennessee State University
Deborah Martinson, Occidental College
(Moderator:
Robert MacDonald, Virginia Military Institute) |
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