The 2004 Southern Humanities Council Conference will this year be hosted by
UTC February 5-8 at the Holiday Inn Chattanooga Choo-Choo.  There are a
number of sessions dealing with black history, literature, and music, and
we have nearly two dozen novelists and poets scheduled to read their work,
headlined by Diane Glancy, a native American (Cherokee) novelist and author
of Pushing the Bear.  A Novel of the Trail of Tears and Stoneheart.  A
Novel of Sacajawea.  Various disciplines and professions will be
represented, including chemistry, medicine, political science,
communications, literary studies, classics, philosophy, religious studies,
rhetoric, history, architecture and landscape architecture.  The public is
invited  to all sessions free of charge.  The program for the conference
can be accessed by going to the Department of Philosophy and Religion
website at http://utc.edu/Units/PhilosophyandReligion, clicking on
"Students." and scrolling to "Events."  Hard copies are available by
contacting either John Phillips ([log in to unmask]) or Craig Barrow
([log in to unmask]).