2008 Woodie Awards
Forum highlights Civil War
Erin Murdoch
Issue date: 11/8/07 Section: Culture
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From journalism to history to film, the fifteenth annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression, Nov. 8-10, covers a wide range of topics, offering many opportunities for faculty and students.
The conference is sponsored by the West Chair of Excellence, the UTC communication and history departments, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, WRCB-TV Channel 3 and the Hazel Dicken-Garcia Fund for the Symposium.
All paper sessions are free and open to the public, according to the conference press release. The conference will begin Thursday night at the Read House and will continue Friday and Saturday in the Raccoon Mountain Room of the UC.
"This year's conference will be the biggest and best that we've ever had, with more than 40 speakers on the program," David Sachsman, director of the conference, said in the press release.
The conference began 14 years ago when Sachsman and Kittrell Rushing, department head of communications, contacted experts in journalism and history.
Eventually the conference evolved to include other aspects such as fiction and film during the Civil War, Sachsman said.
Marcia Noe, director of women's studies and professor of English, participated in a past conference, when she read a paper written by her and a student.
This paper, along with many others, was later published in a book, "Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' to 'Cold Mountain.'"
The fifteenth annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression consists of paper readings, panels and a guided tour, according to Sachsman.
To choose which papers will be featured in the conference, the submitted papers are sent to professors around the country to review, according to Ashley Hopkins, a first year graduate student in English literature from Dunlap, Tenn., who is working on the Symposium with Sachsman. These reviewers decide which papers are fit for the conference, she said.
The conference is sponsored by the West Chair of Excellence, the UTC communication and history departments, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, WRCB-TV Channel 3 and the Hazel Dicken-Garcia Fund for the Symposium.
All paper sessions are free and open to the public, according to the conference press release. The conference will begin Thursday night at the Read House and will continue Friday and Saturday in the Raccoon Mountain Room of the UC.
"This year's conference will be the biggest and best that we've ever had, with more than 40 speakers on the program," David Sachsman, director of the conference, said in the press release.
The conference began 14 years ago when Sachsman and Kittrell Rushing, department head of communications, contacted experts in journalism and history.
Eventually the conference evolved to include other aspects such as fiction and film during the Civil War, Sachsman said.
Marcia Noe, director of women's studies and professor of English, participated in a past conference, when she read a paper written by her and a student.
This paper, along with many others, was later published in a book, "Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' to 'Cold Mountain.'"
The fifteenth annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression consists of paper readings, panels and a guided tour, according to Sachsman.
To choose which papers will be featured in the conference, the submitted papers are sent to professors around the country to review, according to Ashley Hopkins, a first year graduate student in English literature from Dunlap, Tenn., who is working on the Symposium with Sachsman. These reviewers decide which papers are fit for the conference, she said.
