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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