Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Web of Culture: A Multi-disciplinary Conference

FAIN: RZ-50545-06

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (Hartford, CT 06105-3243)
Stephen Railton (Project Director: November 2005 to April 2008)

A conference exploring the meaning and significance of Uncle Tom's Cabin for American culture, with presentations that will ultimately be posted on the project director's website devoted to Uncle Tom's Cabin and American culture. (12 months)

The Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture project (University of Virginia) and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center request funding for a June 2007 conference in Hartford CT. 12 nationally-known scholars from 11 universities and 7 different academic disciplines will explore the meaning of Stowe's famous novel as a cultural phenomenon. Scholars will deliver newly-prepared papers focused on issues like race, slavery, religion and popular entertainment in a format designed to allow interactions among scholars and with the audience of students and teachers. Revised presentations will be published in the "Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture" online archive, an NEH-sponsored We the People project visited by 1500 visitors a day.

Associated Products

Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive -- Interpret Mode (Web Resource)
Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive -- Interpret Mode
Author: various
Abstract: After the June 2007 "Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Web of Culture" conference, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and presented by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (Hartford, CT) and the Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture Project at the University of Virginia, the papers by the eleven participating scholars were tagged, illustrated and published in the INTERPRET section of the Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture archive.
Year: 2007
Primary URL: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/interpret/intexhp.html
Primary URL Description: This URL leads to the essays published in the UTC site's interpret mode. The eleven essays sponsored by NEH are by Hedrick, Winship, Kelley, Hill, Morgan, Root, Stevenson, Frick, Brown, Turner and Railton.
Secondary URL: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu
Secondary URL Description: This is the URL of the larger *Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: Multi-Media Archive.*

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