CALL FOR PAPERS

Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War,
and Free Expression

November 11, 12, 13 1999
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

The steering committee of the seventh annual Symposium on the 19th Century
Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression solicits papers dealing with U.S.
mass media of the 19th century.  Selected papers will be presented during
the three-day conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday, November 11-13, 1999.

The purpose of the November conference is to share current research and to
develop a series of monographs on the 19th century press, the Civil War and
the press, and 19th century concepts of free expression.  The steering
committee is proud to announce that papers from the first five conferences
will be published as a book of readings in 2000.

The steering committee has selected from past conferences six papers to be
published in a book called: The Civil War in Fiction and History: From
Uncle Tom's Cabin to Scarlet O'Hara and Cold Mountain.  The committee hopes
to select as many as fourteen more papers on this topic from future
conferences to complete this volume, and so is particularly eager to
receive symposium papers on such topics as The Red Badge of Courage, The
Birth of a Nation, Gone With the Wind, and Glory.

The symposium is sponsored by the George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence
in Communication and Public Affairs and the UT-Chattanooga Department of
Communication and because of this sponsorship no registration fee will be
charged.

Symposium headquarters is Chattanooga's historic Read House hotel four
blocks from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus.  The hotel
and the university campus are only blocks from Union and Confederate
cemeteries, located within sight of both Lookout Mountain and Missionary
Ridge.

Deadline:  September 1, 1999

Papers should be able to be presented within 20 minutes, at least 10 to 15
pages long.
Send four copies of your paper and a 200-300 word abstract (sending the
abstract and paper on computer disk will indicate willingness to be
published in a future volume) to:

Dr. David Sachsman
George R. West, Jr. Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs
212 Frist Hall, Dept. 3003
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Ave.
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37403-2598
(423) 755-4219
FAX (423) 785-2199
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see http://www.utc.edu/commdept/conference/index.html

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Dr. Kittrell Rushing
Head, Department of Communication
311 Frist Hall
615 McCallie Avenue
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
Voice: (423) 755-4400   Facsimilie:  (423) 755-4695
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