Willa Cather, the Archival Chain, and the Making of a Literary Legacy (Read More)
This event is part of the 71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference on June 4-6, on the theme of "Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250." Click here for more information about the conference. Rebecca Romney's lecture on "Willa Cather, the Archival Chain, and the Making of a Literary Legacy" considers the effects of archival collections on the writing of literary history, with special emphasis on Cather’s posthumous legacy. Such collections are not formed accidentally. They exist through the efforts of individual people, archival agents who save material, become its long-term caretakers, and make it accessible for study. The decisions of archival agents, big and small, can cause ripple effects across the stories we tell. This event is free, but registration is strongly encouraged to reserve your spot and receive event updates by email! Click here for more information and to register. The talk will be broadcast live on YouTube and a recording will be available for two weeks after the event. Rebecca Romney is a rare book dealer and author of three books, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf, Printer’s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History), and The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books. As a generalist rare book dealer, Romney handles work in all fields, from first editions of Jane Austen to science fiction paperbacks to Shakespeare Folios. Since 2011, Romney has appeared on the HISTORY Channel’s television show Pawn Stars as the rare book specialist. Romney was also featured in The Booksellers, a documentary about the rare book trade in New York that premiered at the New York Film Festival. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Forbes, Variety, The Paris Review, and more. With a passion for discussing the enduring power of literature, the relevance of book collecting, and the preservation of history, Romney weaves together her experience and knowledge in captivating talks.
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Willa Cather Spring Conference: Kali Fajardo-Anstine (Read More)
This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, and is free and open to the public both in-person and online. Visit the event website to view the livestream. Kali Fajardo-Anstine will present an invited lecture "From Bookshelf to Dreamworld: Cather and the Underground Stream." Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the nationally best-selling author of the novel Woman of Light and the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina and Corina, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of an American Book Award.
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Willa Cather Spring Conference: Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting (Read More)
This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, and is free and open to the public, but free tickets must be reserved by May 31. See the event website for details on how to reserve tickets. Join Willa Cather Foundation leadership, project partners and supporters, Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason, and Nebraska Youth Poet Laureate Miranda Davis for a dedication and ribbon-cutting at the Willa Cather Childhood Home. Tours of the home and other Red Cloud sites are available after the dedication. Matt Mason is the Nebraska State Poet and has run poetry workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus for the U.S. State Department. Miranda Davis is the 2024-2025 Nebraska Youth Poet Laureate and a senior at Norris High School in Firth, Nebraska.
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Willa Cather Spring Conference: panel discussion on “Reading Cather Collectively” (Read More)
This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, and is free and open to the public both in person and online via livestream on the event page. Panelists Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Pat Leach, Arielle Zibrak, and Kari Ronning explore the Spring Conference topic, "Pleasures and Disruptions: Reading Cather Collectively." Moderated by Kelsey Squire of Ohio Dominican University, one of the Spring Conference Academic Directors, this traditionally unstructured panel allows for significant exchange and inquiry into the larger questions surrounding the conference: How has the experience of reading Cather's work evolved over time? What can the Cather community do to welcome new readers into the fold? Why does the pleasure of reading Cather's work endure? Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the nationally best-selling author of the novel Woman of Light and the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina and Corina, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of an American Book Award. Pat Leach is a former librarian and director of Lincoln City Libraries. Arielle Zibrak is a writer, researcher, editor, and Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wyoming.
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Willa Cather Spring Conference: Travis Hencey artist talk and reception (Read More)
This event is part of the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, and is free and open to the public. The Field, The Fire is a solo exhibition to be held in conjunction with the 69th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference. The conference, Cather and the Readerly Imagination, will focus on Cather's own books and reading habits, as well as her attention to the content and appearance of the books she created. The ideas of Cather as both reader and writer and her books as both story and substance seem a natural fit with Hencey's work. Travis Hencey was born and raised in Chadron, Nebraska, a small town in the northwestern panhandle of the state. Generally, Travis's work deals with themes of transience, memory, and family history in the Western Nebraska landscape with an eye toward materiality and mark-making.
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference (Read More)
The 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference will celebrate Willa Cather and reading. Cather herself was an avid reader as well as a writer; she enjoyed sharing her book recommendations with friends, and she was pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age, she established her “library,” with her books labeled and sometimes numbered in the back room of her father’s office. As our conference explores the many facets of Cather’s interactions with both her books and her readers, we hope attendees will be inspired to examine their own relationship to Cather's writing. The conference will begin the afternoon of Thursday, June 6, and conclude on the evening of Saturday, June 8. Please see the conference website for the schedule of events. Registration is required. In-person registration ($150 / $75 student) includes the full schedule, with a separate ticket needed for the Saturday evening banquet. Online-only registration ($100 / $50 student) includes limited access. Several conference events are free and open to the public. Those events are listed individually in the Humanities Nebraska calendar.
