Elvis Conference schedule
Sunday, Aug. 9
7 p.m. - Kick-Off Party
Bill Kirchen and Too Much Fun
Blues City Cafe
Beale Street
Monday, Aug. 10
9 a.m. - Introduction: Why We Need This Conference
Dr. Vernon Chadwick
Institute for the Living South
9:30 a.m. - "I Move, Therefore I Am": Elvis, Rock 'n' Roll and the Liberation of the American Body
Richard Koenigsberg
Library of Social Science
11 a.m. - The Elvis Syndrome
John Q. Baucom
Human Resource Center
Chattanooga, TN
1:30 p.m. - Guitar Army Brat & Three Chord Murals
Mike Mosher
San Francisco, CA
2:30 p.m. - Limited Means, Resourceful Ways: Elvis and the Art of Mobile Home
David Perkes
Mississippi State School of Architecture
4 p.m. - Hot Rod Lincoln History of the Electric Guitar
Bill Kirchen
Owings, Maryland
8 p.m. - Bill Kirchen and Too Much Fun
Blues City Cafe
Beale Street
Tuesday, Aug. 11
9 a.m. - Elvis and Substance Abuse: Was it Inevitable? (Part 1)
Michael Cole
Rutgers University - Newark
10:30 a.m. - Elvis and Substance Abuse: Was it Inevitable? (Part 2)
Ann Milano - Cole
Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
1:30 p.m. - Panel: Soundz Like Memphis
Bill Kirchen, Jim Dickinson, others
3 p.m. - Behind the Red Curtain: Elvis as Warhead of the Nuclear Family
Mike Rodger
Berlin, Germany
4:30 p.m. - Elvis as Santa? Philanthropy, Bipolarity and Christmas at Graceland
Trent Booker
Senatobia, Mississippi
Wednesday, Aug. 12
9 a.m. - Redneck Diaspora: Surfing the South With Elvis
Edward Pickard
Cal Poly
10:30 a.m. - The Life of Elvis: A Cautionary Tale for the Modern South
Keith Dickson
Virginia Military Institute
1:30 p.m. - Absence Face to Face: Censoring Elvis from the Waist Down
Mike Doyle
University of Arkansas
3:30 p.m. - TBA
Kim Snow
Mississippi University for Women
4:30 p.m. - All in the Family: How the King Rocked the Big House
Dr. Vernon Chadwick
Institute for the Living South
