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Civil War Press Symposium<\/h4>\n

What:<\/strong> 28th<\/sup> annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression<\/p>\n

When: <\/strong>Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 12-14<\/p>\n

Admission:<\/strong> Free and open to the public<\/p>\n

Registration:<\/strong> Email west-chair-office@utc.edu<\/a> with the following information: name, affiliation, email, cellphone number, Zoom ID (or name as it appears on a computer) and days planning to attend. A conference link will be emailed to all registered attendees 30 minutes before the first session on each day.<\/p>\n

Information:<\/strong> For the event\u2019s schedule and more, go to the symposium’s web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For more than a quarter of a century, Civil War researchers from across the country have annually descended upon the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus to share current research and develop a series of books as part of a formal academic conference.<\/p>\n

A pandemic might have prevented an in-person congregation this fall, but it hasn\u2019t slowed research pursuits.<\/p>\n

The university\u2019s 28th<\/sup> annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression will be held in a virtual format Nov. 12-14 via Zoom. The conference will feature 38 speakers from across the nation, many of whom will participate in panel discussions considering topics such as newspaper coverage of Civil War soldiers, ethnic and immigrant soldiers and the far Western press during the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been some talk in academic circles that COVID-19 could negatively affect academic performance and that people might not do good research during this time, but as you can see from all of these papers and panels, folks coming to our conference from all over the country are doing fabulous work at the very highest level\u2014even given these COVID-19 circumstances,\u201d said David Sachsman, director of the conference and holder of the UTC West Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs.<\/p>\n

Sachsman said one of the symposium\u2019s highpoint sessions will be \u201cNewspaper Coverage of Epidemics,\u201d an especially timely discussion about how the country, specifically the press, handled outbreaks in the past.<\/p>\n

The panelists\u2014Ayendy Bonifacio (University of Toledo), Deanne Stephens (University of Southern Mississippi), Ryan Ellis (Northeastern University), Daniel Goldberg (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) and Janice Hume (University of Georgia)\u2014will discuss cholera epidemics in 19th century New York City, the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic, public health policy in the 19th century and the 1918 influenza pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think that will be the center point to the conference because we would imagine that these folks, when they begin talking to each other and when questions start coming in, will compare how America handled these past influenzas to how we\u2019re handling the current one,\u201d Sachsman said.<\/p>\n

A staple of past sessions, \u201cPresidents and the Press\u201d returns with discussions on several Civil War generals who later became president\u2014Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and James Garfield.<\/p>\n

Sachsman said about 400 different scholars have delivered nearly 800 papers since the symposium\u2019s inception in 1992, resulting in eight books of readings from the conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the conference covers have produced another 20 books. So in these previous 27 years, this conference has supported the work of close to 30 different books and really created a niche field,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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