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The Thoreau Society Annual Gathering

Thursday-Sunday, July 8-11, 2010

Final Draft Agenda: “Thoreau & Transcendentalism, Then and Now”

Thursday, July 8, 2010

9-10:00 am              Gayle Moore, Gallery Exhibit, Refreshments & Talk, Emerson Umbrella

9:30-3:30                 Registration

10:00-10:30             Refreshments

10:30-12:00             Workshop I at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA

1.        Panel Discussion (Main Floor)

·         Rochelle Johnson, Thoreau’s Late Thoughts on Perception: Lessons for 21^st-Century Environmental Thinkers

·         Albena Bakratcheva, The Delegated Intellect of Transcendental New England:  Then and Now
 

2.        Panel Discussion (Downstairs)

·         Robert Young, Walking to Wachusett – A Re-enactment of Thoreau’s “A Walk to Wachusett

Noon                      Lunch on your own

1:30-3:00 Workshop II at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA

1.        Presentation (Main Floor)

·         Peter Alden, What Would Henry Think of Today's Environmental Challenges Here and Around The World?
 

2.        Panel Discussion (Downstairs)

·         Paul J. Medeiros, From Train Rails to Jail Tales: Relativity Justifies Transcendentalist Morality!

·         Audrey Raden, Thoreau and John Brown

3:30-5 pm               Workshop III at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA

1.        Panel Presentations (Main Floor)

·         Tracey A. Cummings, Into the Thoreauvian Wild: Jon Krakauer’s Reimagining and Reconsideration of Thoreauvian Transcendentalism and American Masculinity in “Into the Wild”

·         Shinji Iwamasa, Thoreau's Double Vision in Terry Tempest Williams

·         Nikita Pokrovsky, Transcendental psychosemantics: Thoreau and Emerson on the meaning of Nature

2.        Presentation

·         Corinne Smith, Thoreau’s Minnesota Journey

5-7 pm                    Thoreau Farm Trust Picnic
Bring your own picnic.  Drinks provided.  341 Virginia Road in Concord

7:30-9 pm               Emerson Society Panel; co-sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society

• Transcendental Conversations, chair/moderator: Leslie Eckel, Suffolk University

• From Schoolroom to Cosmos: Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott in Conversation, Leslie Eckel, Suffolk University

• Transcendentalism's Private World: Fuller and Sturgis in Newport, Kathleen Lawrence, George Washington University

• Rich in Friends, Rich in Experiences, Rich in Culture: Notes on Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Friendship, Iuliu Ratiu, SUNY-Albany

• Margaret and Her Friends: Dall, Emerson, and the Gender Politics of Transcendental Conversation, Tiffany K. Wayne, independent scholar, Santa Cruz, CA

Friday, July 9, 2010

                                Walking Tours

6:45-9:15 am           To secret, huge Great Blue Heron colony near White Pond in south Concord

8:30-10 am              Janet Beck & Jayne Gordon, "A Transcendentalist Above All”:  A Walking Tour of John Brown’s

Concord.

9:30-3 pm               Registration

9:30-10:30               Refreshments

10:30-Noon            Workshop IV at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA

1         Panel Discussion (Main Floor)

·         Robert Thomas Klevay, Transcendental Quotation in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

·         Edward Mooney, Transcendentalism in “A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers”

1         Panel Presentations (Downstairs)

·         Linda Holt, The Zen Drawings of H.D. Thoreau

·         Iuliu E. Ratiu, Surveying (in) Thoreau's Walden

Noon                      Box Lunch

1-2:30     Workshop V at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA

2         Panel Discussion (Main Floor)
The Environment:  Thoreau as Transcendentalist Physician

·         K. P. Van Anglen, Transcendentalism and the Environment:  An Introduction to Thoreau’s Changing Stance

·         James Engell , A Physician not a Metaphysician:  Thoreau’s Diagnoses of the Heart

·         Brent Ranalli, The Native American Model: The Civic and Economic Virtues of a Healthy Relationship to Nature
 

2         Presentation (Downstairs)

·         Kit Bakke, A Bedlam Of Good Intentions: Modest Reflections on The Whys and Wherefores of Utopian Communes in The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

3-4:30      Workshop VI at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA

1.        Panel Discussion (Main Floor)

·         Thoreau, Laura Dassow Walls

·         Thoreau, Edward Mooney

·         Thoreau, Tom Potter
 

2         Presentation (CFPL)

·         Concord Free Public Library Discussion

5:30-7                      Dinner at the First Parish Church, 20 Lexington Road, Concord

7:30-9:00                 Concord Free Public Library

Saturday, July 10, 2010

                                Walking Tours
6:45-9:15 am           To Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Concord

7 am                        Corinne H. Smith, Walter Harding Memorial Walk at Walden Pond

8-9                           Refreshments

9-10:30                    Annual Business Meeting

10:45-Noon            Dana S. Brigham Memorial Keynote Address

Keynote Address by Megan Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism (2005) and a forthcoming biography of Ebe Hawthorne, Nathaniel's brilliant sister. More details

Noon                      Box Lunch

12:30-1 pm             Registration

12:30-2:00 pm        Performance: Kevin Radaker, Meet Henry D. Thoreau

2:30-4:00 pm          Workshop VIII at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA

1.        Presentation (Main Floor)

·         Barry Andrews, From Emerson to Obama: Transcendentalism Yesterday And Today
 

2         Presentation (Downstairs)

·         Robert M. Thorson, Walden as the Fourth Derivative of Local Geology

4:30 pm Pickup   Van Service from the Masonic Temple to the Thoreau Institute                               

5-6 pm                    Tour of Henley Library & the Thoreau Society Collections

5:30 Pickup          Van Service from the Masonic Temple to the Thoreau Institute               

6 pm Pickup         Van Service from the Thoreau Institute to the Masonic Temple

6-6:30 pm               Reception for Keynote Speaker Megan Marshall at the Thoreau Institute

6:30-8pm                Dinner Buffet:  Dining Room, Porch, Great Hall, and Yard

8-9:30 pm               Book Signing:  Living Room

9-9:30 Pickup      Van Service from the Thoreau Institute to the Masonic Temple               

Sunday, July 11, 2010

                                Walking Tours
6:45-9:15 am           To Fairhaven Bay, cliffs and beaver pond beyond Walden (with special parking on Fairhaven Hill).

7:30-10 am              Randall Conrad & Richard Lenat, Exploring the Pencil Factory Dam Site, Acton
Please gather promptly in the Masonic Temple parking lot for car pool!

10-11:30                  Workshop VIII at the Masonic Temple, 58 Monument Square, Concord, MA

1.        Presentation (Main Floor)

·         Peter MacInerney, Transcending Ideologies: Thoreau's Mather, Then and Now
 

2         Presentation (Downstairs)

·         Debra Enzenbacher, Thoreau, Transcendentalism and One Woman’s Search for Meaning at the South Pole

Noon-2 pm    Open House:  Thoreau Farm Trust

2:30-5 pm      School of Philosophy Building at Alcott House, 399 Lexington Road, Concord Directions

What Were We Born to Do?  The "New Women" of the Transcendental Era
A conversation with Phyllis Cole, Helen Deese, Megan Marshall, and John Matteson

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