>To the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Community:
>
>The Department of Communication and the West Chair of Excellence
>invite you to the Eleventh Annual Symposium on the 19th Century
>Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression. The symposium will begin
>on Thursday night, October 30, 2003 and run through Saturday evening,
>November 1, 2003. All presentations will be held at the Read House in
>downtown Chattanooga. The formal presentations will end at 11:30
>Saturday morning and the conference will conclude with a tour of some
>of Chattanooga's historical Civil War sites and battlefields Saturday
>afternoon. If you are interested in attending the Friday luncheon or
>dinner, or the Saturday tour please contact Dr. David Sachsman at
>425-4219 or [log in to unmask] We look forward to seeing you.
>
>>An invitation to:
>>
>>Symposium on the 19th Century Press,
>>the Civil War, and Free Expression
>>
>>
>>Thursday, October 30, 2003 The Read House Hotel
>>8:00-10:00 p.m. Reception honoring conference speakers.
>>Coffee and dessert will be served.
>>Panel: "Are the Public's Images of the Civil War Based on Fiction or
>>History?" David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell
>>Rushing, Fran Bender, Verbie Prevost, UTC, Paul Ashdown, UTK, Gene
>>Wiggins, Southern Miss,
>>William E. Huntzicker, St. Cloud State University
>>
>>Friday, October 31, 2003 The Read House Hotel
>>9:00-10:45 a.m. Opening remarks from conveners and university officials
>>"Method, Memory and the Old Chesnut: Critics, Chroniclers, and
>>Conferencers, Forging Connections" Debra
>>Reddin van Tuyll, Augusta State University and Phebe Davidson,
>>University of South Carolina-Aiken
>>"Perishable News and Perishable Newspapers" Donald K. Brazeal,
>>University of Minnesota
>>"Dueling Editors: The Nullification Plot of 1832" Patricia G.
>>McNeely, University of South Carolina
>>10:45-11:00 Break
>>11:00-12:00 "No History So Unerring as a Bundle of Old Letters:
>>Clay's Alabama Letters Make Mud of the New York Tribune's 1844
>>Election Predictions" Gregory Alan Borchard, University of Nevada,
>>Las Vegas
>>"North Carolina Newspapers and Secession" T. Harrell Allen, East
>>Carolina University
>>
>>12:00-1:30 p.m. Luncheon
>>"Fighting Words, North and South: Newspaper Invective & the Coming
>>of the Civil War" Dwight Teeter,
>>University of Tennessee at Knoxville
>>1:30-3:30 "Works of Indiscretion: Violence against the Press
>>in Indiana during the Civil War" Stephen E. Towne,
>>Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
>>"The Hascall-Edgerton Dialogues: A free expression debate in Civil
>>War Indiana" David W. Bulla,
>>University of Florida
>>"Hurrah, I am a Conscript!: Maine, The Draft and the Kingfield
>>Rebellion" Crompton Burton, Athens, Ohio
> >"How Wicked and Cruel this Prejudice: Race, Class Gender in Civil
>>War Era-related Fiction of Frances Ellen
>>Watkins Harper" Linda Jean Kensicki and Hazel Dicken Garcia,
>>University of Minnesota
>>3:30-3:45 Break
>>3:45-6:00 Panel: "Not Just a Man's Fight: Two Recent Books about
>>Women Fighters in the Civil War Era" Ann Colbert, Indiana - Purdue
>>University, Hazel Dicken-Garcia, University of Minnesota, Barbara
>>Strauss Reed, Rutgers
>>"'One flag, one country': References to National Identity in
>>Selected Media During the Civil War" Hazel
>>Dicken-Garcia and Jennifer Moore, University of Minnesota and Sanjay
>>Asthana, MTSU
>>"Images of the U.S. Flag as a Symbol During the Civil War" Jennifer
>>Moore and Hazel Dicken-Garcia, University of Minnesota
>>6:00-8:00 Dinner
>>"What Can We Say of Such a Hero? Nathan Bedford Forrest and the
>>Press" Paul Ashdown and Edward Caudill,
>>University of Tennessee at Knoxville
>>
>>Saturday, November 1, 2003 The Read House Hotel
>>9:00-10:40 a.m. "The 'Haystack Excitement': Moral Panics and
>>the 'Hysterical style of the press' after Harper's Ferry" Brian
>>Gabrial, University of Minnesota
> >"The American and British Jewish Press Coverage of the First Wave of
>>Pogroms" Barbara Straus Reed, Rutgers
>>"Julia A. A. Wood, Minnesota territorial pioneer: Her anti-suffrage
>>rhetoric as editor of the New Era, 1860-
>>1861" Dianne Blake, University of Minnesota
>>"The Atlantic Cable and the 19th Century Press" Menahem Blondheim,
>>Hebrew University, Jerusalem
>>10:40-11:30 Brunch: Remarks James Ogden, Historian, Chickamauga &
>>Chattanooga National Military Park
>>11:30-7:00 p.m. Discussion continues while the group visits
>>Chattanooga's historic Civil War sites (includes dinner)
>>
>>
>>Sponsored by the West Chair of Excellence, the UTC Communication
>>Department, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, and WRCB-TV Channel 3.
All paper sessions are free and open to the public.
--
Chuck Cantrell
Assistant Vice Chancellor for University Relations
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
203 Founders Hall
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
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Voice (423) 425-4363
Fax (423) 425-5299
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