Faculty and Students to Participate in Humanities Conference
Rhetoric in Culture: Relations, Rights, and
Responsibilities will be
the theme of the 2004 Southern Humanities Council Conference to be held
February 5-8 at the Holiday Inn, Chattanooga Choo-Choo. All events
are free and open to the public.
Two UTC faculty members, Dr. Craig Barrow, Connor Professor in the Department
of English and John Phillips, professor of philosophy and religion are
serving as hosts for the event.
Diane Glancy, author of Pushing the
Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, will present a plenary session
on February 6. Numerous UTC faculty and several graduate students are
participants
in the conference.
A listing
of events
will
follow; however, if you need more information, please call (423) 698-6249
or
(423) 886-6749 or e-mail Craig
Barrow or John Phillips.
Dr.Eileen Meagher, professor of English, will serve
as Session I-A chair on Friday, February 6 from 9-10:30 a.m. for “ Rhetorical Insights
into Cultural Artifacts.” UTC graduate students will make these
presentations:
- Jacqueline Boals, “Speaking in the Open Forum and Stopping by Burke’s Parlor: Negotiating Theory Talk”
- Stephen Brasher, “Derrida’s Encomium to Levinas: Transgressing the Limits of Neo-Aristotelian Rhetoric”
- Lynne Macias, “A Reading of Herbert’s Windows Using Kenneth Burke”
In concurrent sessions, Dr.
Joyce Smith, assistant professor of English
will present “Constructing Masculinity in Southern Literature,
Or ‘So What Do You Do with Good Ol’ Boys…?” and
Dr. Tom Rybolt, UC Foundation Professor, chemistry
will be a participant in a poetry and fiction reading.
Session 2-A will feature a panel of UTC professors who will discuss “Creative
Writing and its Role in the University.” Dr. Richard
Jackson, UC
Foundation Professor, English will serve as session chair. Also participating
will be Earl Braggs, UC Foundation Professor, English; Helene
Littmann,
assistant professor, English; Ken Smith, UC Foundation Professor.
In a concurrent session, Dr. Chris Stuart, UC Foundation
Assistant Professor, English will present “Rhetorical Uses of Literary
Texts: England and America” “Henry James and the Rhetoric
of the Sacred in the Late Fiction.”
Jennifer Beech, Director of the UTC Writing Center and assistant professor,
English will begin Session III from 2-3:30 p.m. with “Reconstructing
an Archaeology of Memory with Work(ing-Class) Stories: Rhetorics of the
Every Day,” followed by Dr. Charles Lippy, Martin Distinguished
Professor, philosophy and religion who will present “Ragged Dick
Amid Acres of Diamonds: Horatio Alger, Russell Conwell, and the Popular
Rhetoric of Male Spirituality in Industrializing America.”
Dr. Richard Jackson will participate in “Rhetorical Uses of Literary
Texts in World Culture,” 4-5:30 p.m., by presenting “What
Do We Read/Teach When We Read/Teach Translation?” In concurrent
sessions Dr. Tom Rybolt will present “The Conflict of Coexistence
of Science with a Transcendent Worldview” and John Jones will present “Same
Old Story: The Ideology of Saving Private Ryan.”
In the plenary session from 7:30-8:30 p.m., The Genesis of Pushing
the Bear (Penn Station) will feature Diane Glancy,
Macalester College, author
of Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears. Dr.
Nick Honerkamp,
Director of the Archeology Institute at UTC will present “Pre-History
and History of Native Americans in the Chattanooga Area.”
In the first session on Saturday, February 7, Earl Braggs will be a
featured poet during the Anhinga Press Poetry Reading from 9-10:30
a.m. In concurrent
sessions, Dr. Elizabeth Gailey, assistant professor of communication
will present “Objects of Faith: Shopping, Spiritual Sustenance,
and the Cult of the Self in Women’s Simplicity Lifestyle Magazines” and
Tom Griscom, publisher and executive editor of the Chattanooga
Times-Free Press will
follow Gailey with a discussion “On Editing a Polarized Newspaper;” Dr.
Gavin Townsend, professor of art history, will present “Is ‘Less’ More
or a Bore? The Rhetoric of Modernism and Postmodernism in Twentieth
Century Architecture” and Dr. Thomas Ware, professor of English
will discuss “A
Framework of Memory: Aesthetics and Rhetoric at the Chattanooga National
Cemetery.”
Dr. Hunter Huckabay, director of GEAR UP and adjunct faculty, English,
and Ken Smith, UC Foundation Professor, English will be readers in
the Poetry and Fiction Reading scheduled for 11-12:30 p.m.
In concurrent sessions, Dr. Bill McClay, professor and SunTrust Chair
of Excellence in the Humanities will present “Sermons in Stone:
The Rhetoric of Ralph Waldo Emerson” and graduate student Sidney
Blaylock will discuss “African American Children and the Civil
Rights Movement.”
Dr. Richard Jackson will read in the Poetry and Fiction
session from 2-3:30 p.m., and during a concurrent session Dr.
Craig Barrow will discuss “A Native American Renaissance: House Made of
Dawn to the Present.”
Helene Littmann will participate in the poetry and fiction reading
from 4-5:30 p.m.
4:00-5:30 p.m., while Dr. Robert Swansbrough, Associate Dean of Arts
and Sciences presents “The Rhetoric of War: The Fearful 9/11 Prism” in
a concurrent session. In a third concurrent session, graduate student
Chris Rackard will present “The Transformation of Jazz in the Fifties,
Sixties, and Seventies: A Generic Criticism of the Loss of Structure
in Jazz.”
Roland Carter, Holmberg Professor of Music will be featured in the
plenary session from 7:30-8:30 p.m. with “Protest Rhetoric in Selected
African American Art Songs”: Piano and Voice (Penn Station).