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Conference Schedule |
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The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and the "Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture" project at the University of Virginia present
Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Web of Culture: A Multi-Disciplinary Conference
Friday and Saturday June 1-2, 2007 | 8:30 AM - 5 PM
Location: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT. Conference sessions will be held in the Lincoln Financial Group Auditorium at the Mark Twain Education Center, immediately adjoining the Stowe Center.
Synopsis: Twelve nationally known scholars from eight academic fields will explore the story of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin as a cultural phenomenon, in many media and over many periods of America's cultural history. Disciplines included will be history, African American studies, women's studies, children's literature, art history, music history, drama and literature.
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.
For questions about the symposium, call Sonya Noble, Stowe Center Program Coordinator at 860 522-9258 ext 302, or email snoble@StoweCenter.org
Funding for the symposium is provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities.
Conference Schedule
Friday, June 1, 2007
8:30 AM
Coffee and Welcome
Katherine Kane (Harriet Beecher Stowe Center)
9 AM
Joan Hedrick (Trinity College), "Stowe's Life and Uncle Tom's Cabin"
10 AM
Michael Winship (University of Texas), "Uncle Tom's Cabin: History of the Book in the 19th-Century U.S."
11 AM
Mary Kelley (University of Michigan), "Uncle Tom's Cabin and Women's Writing"
12 NOON Lunch (Included for all registrants)
1:30 PM
Patricia Hill (Wesleyan University), "Uncle Tom's Cabin as a Religious Text"
2:30 PM
Richard Yarborough (University of California, Los Angeles), "African American Responses to Uncle Tom's Cabin"
3:30 PM
Jo-Ann Morgan (Western Illinois University), "Illustrating Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Saturday, June 2, 2007
8:30 AM
Coffee and Welcome
Katherine Kane (Harriet Beecher Stowe Center)
9 AM
John Frick (University of Virginia), "The Ante Bellum Dramatizations of Uncle Tom's Cabin"
10 AM
Deane Root (University of Pittsburgh), "The Songs of Uncle Tom's Cabin"
11 AM
Louise Stevenson (Franklin & Marshall College), "The Novel in the Parlor"
12 NOON Lunch (Included for all registrants)
1:30 PM
Violet Harris (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Uncle Tom's Cabin as a Children's Book"
2:30 PM
Stephen Railton (University of Virginia), "Uncle Tom's Cabin on Film"
3:30 PM
Patricia Turner (University of California, Davis), "The Rise and Fall of Eliza Harris: From Novel to Tom Shows to Quilts"
4:15 PM
Final Discussion, led by Stephen Railton
Note: Each paper presentation will be followed by Q&A discussion.
Optional events:
Thursday, May 31, 2007
5 PM Guided tour of the Uncle Tom's Cabin -themed tour of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House. See the award-winning exhibit in the Stowe Visitor Center "Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Moral Battle Cry for Freedom" (N.B.: Tours of the Stowe House will be available to all registrants Friday, Saturday and Sunday, during public hours)
6 PM Wine and light hors d'oevres at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Pre-Conference Reception for Scholars and Attendees
Place: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, in the Katharine Seymour Day House
Additional fee for attendees: $20 per person
Scholar participants will be signing copies of their recent publications, available for purchase.
Stowe Center curatorial staff will display additional "Uncle Tom's Cabin"-related artifacts and items from the collections of the Stowe Center
(N.B. Attendance at reception is limited: please reply early)
Accommodations and Directions
Overnight accommodations information
For information on Hartford area accomodations, go to www.enjoyhartford.com or www.enjoycentralct.com
Directions
Driving by car to the conference
Interstate 84 to Exit 46, Sisson Ave, Turn right onto Sisson Ave., Right at light onto Farmington Ave., Continue three blocks (2/10 mile) to entrance to the parking lot for The Mark Twain House. Enter Visitor Center from parking lot entrance and proceed to the Auditorium on the first level. Signs will be posted for the Uncle Tom's Cabin Symposium.
To reach the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center from the Twain Visitor Center, go to the second level and exit next to the Café and cross the bridge next to the carriage house, proceeding to the right. The Stowe Visitor Center will be on your right, (Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Moral Battle Cry for Freedom) is in the gallery at the Stowe Visitor Center. In addition, tours of the Stowe House start at this location. The Thursday evening pre-conference reception will be held in the Stowe Visitor Center and the Katharine Seymour Day House next to the Stowe House.
Scholar Biographies
Joan D. Hedrick, Trinity College.
Stowe's Life and Uncle Tom's Cabin
Hedrick is the Charles A. Dana Professor of History, Trinity College Works include Pulitzer Prize winning Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life, (Oxford University Press, 1994) and The Oxford Harriet Beecher Stowe Reader (Oxford 1999)
Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin
Uncle Tom's Cabin: History of the Book in the 19th-Century U.S.
Winship is Iris Howard Regents Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin. Works include American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields (Cambridge, 1995) and Bibliography of American Literature, Vols. 7-9 (Yale, 1983-91). Recent articles include two published and one forthcoming on Uncle Tom's Cabin and its publisher, John P. Jewett.
Mary Kelley, University of Michigan
Uncle Tom's Cabin and Women's Writing
Kelley is the Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies and Chair, Dept. of History, University of Michigan Works include Private Woman, Public Stage : Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford, 1985; rev. ed. 2002). Co-author of The Limits of Sisterhood : The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere (North Carolina, 1988) Her latest book is Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic (Chapel Hill: Institute for Early American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
Patricia R. Hill Wesleyan University.
Uncle Tom's Cabin as a Religious Text
Hill is Professor of History and American Studies, Wesleyan University. Works include The World Their Household: The American Woman's Foreign Mission Movement and Cultural Transformation, 1871920 (Michigan, 1985) Currently working on a cultural biography of Stowe.
Richard Yarborough , University of California, Los Angeles
African American Responses to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Yarborough is Associate Professor of English and a Faculty Research Associate with the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the Associate General Editor of the Heath Anthology of American Literature (4th. ed., 2002), and since 1988 he has been the editor of The Library of Black Literature reprint series, currently issued by the University Press of New England. His publications on American literature and culture include "Strategies of Black Characterization in Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Early Afro-American Novel."
Jo-Ann Morgan, Western Illinois University
Illustrating Uncle Tom's Cabin
Morgan is Associate Professor of Art History with dual appointment in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Art at Western Illinois University. She is the author of "'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as Visual Culture" (University of Missouri, 2007) and has published several articles on images from Stowe's story: "Picturing Uncle Tom with Little Eva--Reproduction as Legacy" (2004), "Winslow Homer Visits Aunt Chloe's Old Kentucky Home" (2005), and "Thomas Satterwhite Noble's Mulattos--From Barefoot Madonna to Maggie the Ripper" (2007).
John W. Frick, University of Virginia
The Ante Bellum Dramatizations of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Frick is Professor of Drama at the University of Virginia and is President-Elect of the American Theatre and Drama Society. Books include Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (Cambridge, 2003) and New York's First Theatrical Center (1985)
Deane L. Root, University of Pittsburgh
The Songs of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Root is Professor and Chair, Department of Music, University of Pittsburgh, and Director of the Center for American Music. He is General Editor of the Garland series, Nineteenth Century American Musical Theatre (1994 - ), co-editor of The Music of Stephen C. Foster: A Critical Edition (Smithsonian, 1990) and American Popular Stage Music: 1860-1880 (1967)
Louise L. Stevenson, Franklin & Marshall College
The "Tomitudes": The Novel in the Parlor
Stevenson is Professor of History at Franklin & Marshall College.
Her recent publications include The Victorian Homefront: American Thought and Culture, 1860-1880 (1991, rpt. Cornell Univ. Press, 2001) and articles that analyze the material culture of intellectual life in The Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 116(2006), and The History of the Book in America, vol. 3, (2007).
Patricia A. Turner, University of California, Davis
"The Rise and Fall of Eliza Harris: From Novel to Tom Shows to Quilts"
Turner is the Interim Dean, College of Letters and Sciences, and Professor of African American and African Studies, University of California, Davis. She is the author of Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture (Anchor, 1994; rpt. 2002)
Violet J. Harris University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Uncle Tom's Cabin as a Children's Book
Harris is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the Editor of, Using Multi-Ethnic Literature in the K-8 Classroom (Christopher Gordon, 1997) and is currently working on a study in authors, illustrators and genres in children's literature.
Stephen Railton, University of Virginia
Uncle Tom's Cabin on Film
Railton is Professor of English, University of Virginia and the Project Director of the conference. He is the creator of *Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive* (1998 - ). Among his publications on American literature are four articles on Uncle Tom's Cabin, and an edition of Stowe's novel (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007).
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