Conferences
The Road Home: Cormac McCarthy's Imaginative Return to the South
April 25-28, 2007
Knoxville, Tennessee
Cormac McCarthy is one of the major authors of contemporary Southern and American literature. After twenty years of novels set in the southwest borderlands, McCarthy has revisited the Appalachian setting of his first four novels in his new work, The Road. In response, this conference will reconsider the relationship of the McCarthy canon to the contemporary Southern and American literary tradition.
Location & Accommodations
The conference will be held in room 400A of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Conference Center, 600 Henley Street. Knoxville, TN 37902. For more information about the center and its services, please visit www.outreach.tn.edu/conferencess.
We have secured a group booking of 25 rooms at the Knoxville Hilton, at a
rate of $89 per night plus tax. State that you are booking a room for the Cormac
McCarthy conference, and please quote reference UTE when making your
reservation. The deadline to receive the group booking rate is March 26, 2007.
It is important to note that registering for the conference does not
automatically guarantee you a room; the booking must be done separately.
The hotel is 12 miles from Knoxville’s Tyson McGhee Airport, and it is easily
accessible from I-40 and I-75. The hotel is connected to the UT Conference
Center building by a covered walkway, and it is within a few minutes' walk of
downtown Knoxville and the Old City. The contact details for the hotel are as
follows:
Hilton Knoxville
501 West Church Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37902.
Phone: (865) 523-2300
www.hiltonknoxville.com
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