The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (Hartford, CT) and the "Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture" project at the University of Virginia announce a two-day conference, June 1-2, 2007, at the Wilde Auditorium, Gray Conference Center, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the conference will bring together nationally known scholars from eight different academic fields - history, African American studies, women's studies, children's literature, art history, music history, drama and literature - to explore the story of Stowe's story as a cultural phenomenon. The presentations will address the larger meanings of Uncle Tom's Cabin in many media and over many periods of America's cultural history. This multi-disciplinary approach will give the participants a rare chance to reach past the boundaries of their fields, and to share their expertise with a wide audience, which in turn will have many chances to interact with the presenters. Presenting scholars and their topics are:
Joan D. Hedrick, Trinity College, "Stowe's Life and Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin, "History of Uncle Tom's Cabin as a Book"
Mary Kelley, University of Michigan, "Uncle Tom's Cabin and Women's Writing"
Patricia R. Hill, Wesleyan University, "Uncle Tom's Cabin as a Religious Text"
Richard Yarborough, University of California, Los Angeles, "African American Responses to Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Jo-Ann Morgan, Coastal Carolina University, "Illustrating Uncle Tom's Cabin"
John W. Frick, University of Virginia, "The Ante Bellum Dramatizations of Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Deane L. Root, University of Pittsburgh, "The Songs of Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Louise L. Stevenson, Franklin & Marshall College, "The 'Tomitudes': The Novel in the Parlor"
Patricia A. Turner, University of California, Davis, "The Tom Shows"
Violet J. Harris, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "Uncle Tom's Cabin as a Children's Book"
Stephen Railton, University of Virginia, "Uncle Tom's Cabin on Film"
To be placed on the email list for the conference, contact Info@StoweCenter.org with full address, including email. Reference UTC Symposium in subject line. Registration fee will be $80 ($60 for students) for both days and $50 ($40 for students) for one day. On line registration and more conference details will be available in the near future at www.HarrietBeecherStowe.org.