International Conference of the Southern Studies Forum
(A Branch of the European Association for American Studies)
“SOUTHERN ETHNICITIES”
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Central Library Building, Conference Room
October 16-19, 2003
Program
Thursday, 16 October 2003
9:30
Welcome by the conference co-ordinator, Youli Theodosiadou
Opening of the conference by the vice-rector of Aristotle University
Chair: Jan Nordby Gretlund (University of Southern Denmark)
9:45-11:30
Reflections of Racial and Ethnic Identity
Sharon Monteith (University of Nottingham), "Foreign Students in the
1950s South: Philippe Labro and Susan Choi"
Nahem Yousaf (Nottingham Trent University), "Making an Impression:
New Immigrant Fiction in the Contemporary South"
Suzanne Jones (University of Richmond), "Rethinking the One-Drop
Rule: Race and Identity in Contemporary Southern Fiction"
11:30-12:00
COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Gayle Graham Yates (University of Minnesota)
12:00-13:10
Modernist Perceptions of Ethnicity
Geraldine Chouard (University Paris IX-Dauphine), "All the Truth But
Slant: The Eye of Eudora Welty"
Youli Theodosiadou (Aristotle University), "Ethnicity as Otherness in
Flannery O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person' "
13:10-15:30
LUNCH BREAK
Chair: Savas Patsalides (Aristotle University)
15:30-17:15
The Formation of Black/White Identity
Valinda Littlefield (University of South Carolina), "The Formation of
Black Identity/White Identity in Relation to Race"
Hana Ulmanova (Charles University), "Racial Misfits: How Is Black/
White Identity Formed Once the Race Is Unknown"
Bobby Donaldson (University of South Carolina), "Whiteness and the
Black Freedom Struggle: African American Writers Respond"
17:15-17:45
COFFEE BREAK
Chair:Yiorgos Kalogeras (Aristotle University)
17:45-19:15
Southern/Northern Geographies
Theodora Tsimpouki (University of Athens), "'Passing' as Trope: The
Twenties and Contemporary Racial Performance Discourse"
Cynthia Whitney Hallett (Bennett College), "Mules and Magnolias"
Thomas Aervold Bjerre (University of Southern Denmark), "Making
Sense of Murder: Emmett Till in the Imagination of Lewis Nordan and
Bebe Moore Campbell"
19:30
DINNER
Friday, 17 October 2003
Chair: Elizabeth Sakellaridou (Aristotle University)
9:30-11:15
Routes to Understanding Race
Robert Brinkmeyer (University of Arkansas), "Thomas Wolfe and the
Racial Historians"
Constante Gonzalez Groba (University of Santiago), "The Intersections
of Gender and Race in the Fiction of Carson McCullers"
M. Thomas Inge (Randolph-Macon College), "To Kill a Prejudice: Racial
Relations and the Lynch Mob in Twain, Faulkner, and Harper Lee."
11:15-11:45
COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Smatie Yemenetzi (Aristotle University)
11:45-13:30
Hybridity and the White Ethnic Identity
Apostolos Rofaelas (Aristotle University), "Southerners' Symbolic
Ethnicity in the 21st Century"
Celeste Ray (University of the South) "Clansmen of the New South:
Regionalism and Hybridity in Southern Configurations of ScottishAmerican Heritage"
Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (University of Vienna) "German Ethnicity in
the American South and the Permeability of Ethnic Borders"
13:30-15:30
LUNCH BREAK
Chair: Theodora Tsimpouki (University of Athens)
15:30-17:15
Faulkner: Southern Races/Other Places
Richard Godden (Keele University), "In Place and Out of Place--Faulkner
and the Migratory Body of African American Labor: A Reading of
'Pantaloon in Black' "
John T. Matthews (Boston University), "Reviving the Plantation: Go
Down, Moses, U.S. Empire, and American Souths"
Richard Gray (University of Essex) "The Burden of Southern History in
'Red Leaves' and 'A Justice' "
17:15-17:45
COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Suzanne Jones (University of Richmond)
17:45-19:30
Crossing Borders
Anastasia Stefanidou (Aristotle University), "Encountering the South:
Belonging and Cultural Fragmentation in Daphne Athas's Entering
Ephesus”
Philip Bracher (University of Heidelberg), "Changing Paradigms: Identity
and Alterity in U.S.-Mexican Border Literature"
Anneke Leenhouts (Independent Scholar), “ ‘Forget the Alamo’:
Attempts to Bridge the Ethnic Divides in John Sayles’s Lone Star”
21:00
Blues Concert
Saturday, 18 October 2003
Chair: Savas Patsalides (Aristotle University)
9:30-11:15
Boundaries and Marginality
Joseph Gratale (American College of Thessaloniki), "Demarcations
Within the Divide: William Byrd in the Backcountry"
Walter Edgar (University of South Carolina), "Multiculturalism in
Eighteenth Century South Carolina"
Kieran Quinlan (University of Alabama at Birmingham), "The Memory
of Defeat: Ireland and the American South"
11:15-11:45
COFFEE BREAK
11:45
Excursion to Vergina (boxed lunch)
16:00
Visit to a local winery
19:00
DINNER
Sunday, 19 October 2003
Chair: Yiorgos Kalogeras (Aristotle University)
10:00- 11:45 The Foreign in Southern Identity
Marcel Arbeit (Palacky University) “Why Is Alien So Alien? The Ethnic
Other in Harry Crews, Cormac McCarthy and Lewis Nordan”
Jan Nordby Gretlund (University of Southern Denmark) “Narrative
‘Natives’ and Fiction ‘Furiners’: Josephine Humphreys, Mary Hood, and
Other Southern Writers of Today”
Barbara Ladd (Emory University) “Migrations, Memory, and
Transfiguration of Place in Southern Literature”
11:45-12:15
COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Robert Brinkmeyer (University of Arkansas)
12:15-13:25
Postmodern Ethnicities
Gayle Graham Yates (University of Minnesota) “Linda Oxendine, North
Carolina Lumbee Intellectual”
Stuart Kidd (University of Reading) “Muhammad Ali: Southerner”
END OF CONFERENCE