Norman Mailer Society/Conference/2019 Wilkes-Barre, PA/Program

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==THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10th==
===9:00-10:00===
====Business Meeting====
(Breiseth 107)
# Announcements: Maggie McKinley 
# Mailer Review: Phillip Sipiora
# Board Nominations: Jerry Lucas
# Lucid Award Committee: Nicole DePolo
# Treasurer’s Report: Jason Mosser
# 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 Lowenburg, “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”
* 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.
Category:2019 Conference