2022 - The Haunted South
Featured Speakers
Margaret Renkl is the author of Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache in From the American South, winner of the Pen/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award For the Art of the Essay and Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, the 2020 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award and a finalist for the 2020 Southern Book Prize. A prolific writer of essays, Renkl is also a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
Sunny Eaton is the director of the Conviction Review Unit at the Davidson County District Attorney’s office, working to overturn wrongful convictions. An esteemed public defense attorney, Eaton has also practiced entertainment law on Music Row and is passionate about helping entrepreneurs.
T.R.C. Hutton (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2009) is an Associate Professor at Glenville State College and is the author of Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South, winner of the 2014 Weatherford Award from the Appalachian Studies Association. His most recent book is entitled, Bearing the Torch: A History of the University of Tennessee.
New York Times bestselling author Tom Franklin will offer two events. He teaches in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program. His novel Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger Award. His previous works include Poachers, Hell at the Breech, and Smonk. His latest novel, The Tilted World, was written with his wife, esteemed poet Beth Ann Fennelly.
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| 2022 | ||
| Monday, September 26th | ||
| 10:00 AM |
Sue Trout, Belmont University Janet Ayers Conference Room JAAC 4094 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Are the Ghosts Gone? College Football Recruiting and the Oppositional South Vaughn May, Belmont University Janet Ayers Conference Room JAAC 4094 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Golf Ghosts? The Rhetorical Hauntings of Augusta National Golf Club Jason Lovvorn, Belmont University Janet Ayers Conference Room JAAC 4094 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Wielding Religion: The (Mis)Use of God In Southern Sports Christie Kleinmann, Belmont University Janet Ayers Conference Room JAAC 4094 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM |
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| 12:00 PM |
“Of Graves, Of Worms, and Epitaphs”: Southern Shakespearean Ghosts Jayme Yeo, Belmont University Janet Ayers Conference Room JAAC 4094 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Ghosts and Deeds: Haunting and Historical Consciousness in Henry James’ “Richmond” Peter Kuryla, Belmont University Janet Ayers Conference Room JAAC 4094 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM |
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| 3:00 PM |
“Are You Still Watching?”: Analyzing the Soothing and Swaying Effects of Media Repetition Joel Overall, Belmont University Janet Ayers Conference Room JAAC 4094 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM |
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| Tuesday, September 27th | ||
| 9:30 AM |
Well, I Declare! How Sexually Transmitted Infections Haunt The South Jennifer Thomas, Belmont University Janet Ayers Conference Room JAAC 4094 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Mental Asylums In The 19th and 20th Centuries in America: Treatments of Oppression and Despair Bryce Sullivan, Belmont University Janet Ayers Conference Room JAAC 4094 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Migrating Ghosts in a Haunted South: A Conversation with Margaret Renkl Margaret Renkl Janet Ayers Conference Room JAAC 4094 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM |
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| 4:00 PM |
Where Is My Mind? How Parasites Shape Our Lives In The American South Matthew Heard, Belmont University Janet Ayers Conference Room JAAC 4094 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM |
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| 6:00 PM |
John Christian Phifer Johnson Theater 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM |
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| Wednesday, September 28th | ||
| 10:00 AM |
Mark Brown, Belmont Mansion Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 10:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Adelicia Acklen: The Woman Beyond the Belmont Lore Brenda Jackson-Abernathy, Belmont University Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 11:00 AM |
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| 12:00 PM |
Unprepared to Die: Murder Ballads, Gender Violence, and the Rhetoric of Country Music Sarah Blomeley, Belmont University Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 12:00 PM |
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| 1:00 PM |
Walking The Haunted Landscape: Belmont, Middle Tennessee and the History of Enslavement Douglas Murray, Belmont University Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 1:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Belmont’s Freedom Plaza Memorial: Acknowledging the Haunted Yearning for Justice Andy Watts, Belmont University Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 2:00 PM |
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| Thursday, September 29th | ||
| 11:00 AM |
The Haunting of Grettir or What We Can Learn From The Icelandic Sagas Maggie Monteverde, Belmont University Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 11:00 AM |
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| 1:00 PM |
Everything is on Fire: Why We Will Never Stop Wrongfully Convicting People Sunny Eaton Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 1:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Heather Finch, Belmont University Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 2:00 PM |
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| Friday, September 30th | ||
| 5:00 AM |
Student Panel: What The Folklore We Grow Up With Really Tells Us Maiah Farley, Belmont University Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 5:00 AM |
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| 10:00 AM |
How Appalachia Haunts the South Bob Hutton, Glenville State College Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 10:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Live Fiction Reading: “Americana” Jennifer Buentello Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 11:00 AM |
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| 1:00 PM |
Writing Contest Celebration/Reading Belmont University Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 1:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
The Haunting Nature of Lists for Creative Writers Tom Franklin, University of Mississippi Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 2:00 PM |
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| 6:00 PM |
Reading and Book Signing By Tom Franklin Tom Franklin, University of Mississippi Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094 6:00 PM |
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