The 2004 Southern Humanities Council Conference will this year
be hosted by UTC February 5-8
at the Holiday Inn Chattanooga Choo Choo.    A number of sessions
deal with black history, literature,
and music, and we have nearly two dozen fiction writers and poets
reading from their work.    Diane
Glancy, a Cherokee poet, playwright, and novelist, will be presenting
her work, "Pushing the Bear:
a Novel of the Trail of Tears" as well as "Stone Heart: a Novel of
Sacajawea".     Various disciplines
and professions will be represented at the conference, 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/Philosophyand Religion, 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]).