| Friday, September 28,
2007 |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Registration |
| 3:30-4:15 |
Rebecca West Society Business Meeting |
| 4:30-4:45 |
Opening Remarks: Carl Rollyson |
| 4:45-6:00 |
West and Biography:
Carl Rollyson, Susan Erickson, J.J. Labon |
| 6:00-7:00 |
Wine and Hors D’Oeuvres |
| 7:00-9:00 |
Rebecca West in Person. Bill Moyers Interview, BBC program,
Harriet Hume selections read by West |
Saturday,
September 29, 2007 |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:30-10:45 |
Panel 1: West, Modernism, and Culture: Laura Cowan, Rosanne
Kennedy, Thaine Stearns |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Panel 2: West and Politics: Alexis Blane, Galina Dubova |
| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:00-1:45 |
Roundtable:The Return of the Soldier, genesis of
a critical edition. Bernard Schweizer moderator, with graduate
students Charles Thorne, Jamie Anderson, Michael Deserio,
and Nell Stewart |
| 2:00-3:00 |
Keynote address:Francine Prose
Introduction:Dennis Drabelle |
| 3:00-3:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:45-4:45 |
Panel 3:West and Feminism:
Jane Marcus, E. Brookes Little |
| 5:00-6:00 |
Panel 4: West’s Journalism:
Will Gravely, Loretta Stec |
6:00-6:45 |
Wine and Hors D’Oeuvres |
| 6:45-8:00 |
“Camp West”: Helen Atkinson, Debra Rae Cohen,
Ann Norton, Bernard Schweizer. Our July 2007 experience reading
in the Rebecca West Collection at the University of Tulsa. |
Sunday, September
30 |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Breakfast |
| 9:30-10:45 |
Panel 5: Editing and Translating West: Robert Planos, Caroline
Krzakowski, Francesca Frigerio |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Panel 6: West and Her Contemporaries:
Peter Christensen, Margaret Stetz |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Brainstorming: Where does the West society go now? |
