Lonesome Dove Schedule 2025

Lonesome Dove at 40: McMurtry, Mythmaking, and the Reimagining of the American Southwest

November 14–15, 2025 | 红桃影视 Methodist University

Day 1: Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Hall 121

Day 2: Frances Anne Moody Hall


Presented by 红桃影视's Departments of English and History.

 

8:15-9:50 a.m. Coffee and Light Breakfast
9:00-9:15 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ariel Ron and Christopher González
9:15-10:30 a.m.

Panel 1: Age, Ability, and Embodiment in Lonesome Dove
Moderator: TBD
Abel F. Fenwick - "An Old Man Finally Dribbles, Same as a Fresh Calf: McMurtry's Masculine Metamorphosis from 'Streets of Laredo to Lonesome Dove'"
Brittany Maloy - "Disability in the American West: Streets of Laredo"
Cordelia Barrera - Marked on the Body: Towards a Borderlands Consciousness in Larry McMurty's Streets of Laredo
10:30-11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Panel 2: Marriage and Maternity in Lonesome Dove
Moderator: TBD
Clifford Earl Ramsey - "When I told Gus I was marrying Bob, he looked relieved: Clara Allen's "Non-Marriage Plots"
Derek Graf - "Death was no respecter: Broken Marriages and Shattered Kinships in Larry McMurty's 'Lonesome Dove'"
Noelle Buffo - The Quietness of Lorena: Exploring Silence and 'Proper' Womanhood in Lonesome Dove
12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch (provided)
1:15-2:30 p.m. Panel 3: Lonesome Dove on Film
Moderator: TBD
Richard Robinson - "Death of a Cowboy: Exploring (Family) History in Lonesome Dove
Susannah Broyles - Costumes, Cowboys, and Call Sheets: Inside the Lonesome Dove Television Miniseries
Bailey Nutter - The American West Through Lonesome Dove
2:30-3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:00-4:00 p.m.

Keynote Adress
Roger Walton Jones
 4:00-5:00 p.m. Reception

8:15-9:30 a.m. Coffee and Light Breakfast
9:30-9:45 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Ariel Ron and Christopher González
9:45-11:00 a.m.

Panel 4: The Fictionalized Figures of Larry McMurtry
Moderator:

Alex Hunt -Larry McMurtry’s Goodnight Doppelgänger
Andrew Graybill -The Beau Ideal ofLonesome Dove: Larry McMurtry, Charles Goodnight, and the Mythic West'
Deborah Liles -Augustus McCrae versus Oliver Loving: History, Fiction, and Larry McMurtry
11:00-11:30 a.m. Coffee Break
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Panel 5: Horsemen, Pass By— Larry McMurtry and the Cracked Lenses of Western Myth, History, Geography, and Fiction
12:30-1:45 p.m. Lunch (provided)
1:45-2:45 p.m.

Panel 6: Challenging Assumptions— Subversion in the Works of Larry McMurtry
Moderator:

Fabrizio S. Ciccone-Beyond Acknowledgement: MustLonesome DoveBe a Tragedy?
Arthur Monning-Light My Fire in Amarillo: Counterculture and Larry McMurtry's Texas
Darrell Hamlin-Take My Typewriter from the Wall: A Cultural Valediction of Larry McMurtry
2:45-3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:00-4:00 p.m.

Keynote Address
Marcela Fuentes
4:00-4:15 p.m.

Closing Reflections
Ariel Ron and Christopher González