Dear UU Fellowship of Athens (Ohio),
You are cordially invited to join Thoreau enthusiasts for four days of entertaining and informative events and outdoor activities in Concord, Massachusetts.
See Annual Gathering Agenda and Registration link herewith.
Sincerely yours,
The Thoreau Society Annual Gathering Team
| Agenda |
Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, Concord, Massachusetts, July 9-13. Visit the Thoreau Society page for information on lodging and planning your trip. Early bird registration is available through May 30th, 2014.
Registration Fee: $175(Early Registration starts at $150). |
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014 |
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| Dramatic Performances | ||
| 7-9pm | Sense: A Play Reading, Tamara Rose
Play: Einstein and Thoreau, Connie Baxter Marlow |
Masonic |
Thursday, July 10, 2014 |
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| Walden Pond State Reservation Program | ||
| 8-9:30 am | The Contemplative Connection: Linking Art, Science, and Higher Law in a Moment’s (or a Morning’s) Practice, Donald McCown | |
| 9-4 |
Registration |
Masonic |
| 10-Noon |
Workshop I |
Masonic |
Panel |
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| “Turning the Screw on Machine Culture; Thinking of Thoreau While Going Sixty Miles an Hour,” Michael Stoneham, Panel Moderator
Raising Cain: Activistic Antiheroism and Anarchist Agitation in Thoreau’s Life and Works, Adam Lashinsky “The Greatest American Anarchist” Henry David Thoreau and the Historiography of Anarchism, Daniel R. Vollaro The Paradox of Countercultural Virtue Ethics, Brent Ranalli |
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| Murder, Mayhem and the Higher Law: Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Response to John Brown’s Raid, Janet Beck, Panel Moderator
Thoreau and Violent Histories, Alexandra Manglis Title forthcoming, Nikita Pokrovsky “Ren” in Thoreau’s Spiritual Land, Xiujuan Yao |
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| Noon-1pm |
Lunch |
Masonic |
| New: Lunch offered at the Masonic Temple on Thursday this year. | ||
| 1-2 pm |
Workshop II |
Masonic |
Presentation |
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| Walden’s Shore: Henry David Thoreau and 19th Century Science, Robert M. Thorson | ||
Dramatic Performance |
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| Thoreau, Cynthia J. McGroarty | ||
| 2:15-3:45 |
Workshop III |
Masonic |
Panel |
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| “It Would Have Been Strange If He Had Lived:” Thoreau and the Law of Death, Kristi Lynn Martin
Thoreau and the Art of Dying, Howard Nelson Artoosiqu’: From Inanimate Matter to Mystical State in “The Maine Woods”, Audrey Raden |
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Panel |
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| Thoreau’s Creative Example Inspired Art, Paul H. Carr
“Henry’s brilliant sister”: The Relationship of Sophia Elizabeth and Henry David Thoreau, Kathy Fedorko Thoreau’s Views on Music, Michiko Ono |
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Concord Free Public Library |
CFPL | |
| “Thoreau’s Illustrated Atlas” and “Thoreau’s Field Notes of Surveys” plus Charles Davies” Elements of Surveying and Navigation: With Descriptions of the Instruments and the Necessary Tables” – January 1, 1851 as aids to decipher a letter to Thoreau from William Davis Tuttle December 1854, Allan H. Schmidt | ||
| 4-5:30pm |
Workshop IV |
Masonic |
Panel |
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| Who Cares about Seven Drafts? One Creative Writer’s Response to Thoreau’s Process, Corinne H. Smith
Henry David Thoreau: My Writing Teacher, Tom O’Malley Let Us Consider Active and Authentic Learning: Thoreau’s Creative Educational Philosophy, Karen Buckland |
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| Two Cultures Unvisited: Does Thoreau Force Consilience?, John F. Barthell
Henry David Thoreau as Historian, J. William T. Youngs Transatlantic Contexts: Coleridge and Thoreau, Samantha C. Harvey |
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| 6-7:30 pm |
Thoreau Farm Picnic |
Thoreau Farm |
| 7:30-9 pm |
Emerson Society Panel |
Masonic |
| Emerson’s Eclectic Creativity
Chair: Roger Thompson, SUNY at Stony Brook 1. “Between Tradition and Novelty, Emerson’s Progressive Religion,” Nicholas Aaron Friesner, Brown University 2. “Emerson and the Environment,” Michael Popejoy, Purdue University 3. “Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Gorham Palfrey, and the Influence of Free Soil” James Finley, University of New Hampshire |
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| 6-10 pm |
Emerson Society Social |
Masonic |
Friday |
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Morning WalksThe new heron colony at Sleepy Hollow and the Old North Bridge and Liberty Street. This will be a round trip circular walk of about two miles with frequent brief stops for birds and plants. Meet in front of Masonic Temple at 6:45 a.m. Return by 9:15 am (or sooner via Monument St.) Led by Concord naturalist Peter Alden. |
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PLEIN AIR ON THE SQUARE |
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| 10-Noon |
Workshop V |
Masonic |
Panel |
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“The solid earth! the actual world!”: Thoreau Studies and the Material Turn: A Roundtable Discussion |
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| (Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) | ||
| Kristen Case, University of Maine Farmington, “‘Try this experiment again’: Thoreau’s Journal, Science Studies, and the New Materialism”
Cristin Ellis, University of Mississippi, “Feeling What You See: Objectivity and Reflexivity in Thoreau’s Lively Science” James Finley, University of New Hampshire, “Is The Maine Woods to Object Oriented Ontology what Walden is to Ecocriticism?” Rochelle Johnson, College of Idaho, “‘The only real elysium’: Thoreau’s Meeting of Spirit and Matter” Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Northeastern University, “Thoreau’s Flute” Michelle Neely, Assistant Professor of English at Connecticut College, “Reading Thoreau’s Animals” |
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Panel |
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| Go Crimson: Harvard University in the Creative Imaginations of Phillis Wheatley and Henry David Thoreau, Ann Beebe
Thoreau in/and “Thoreau”: Genius of Life, Art, and Higher Laws, Albena Bakratcheva Rustic Heracles Confronts Rustic Admetus: Classical Hospitality in A Week on the Concord And Merrimack Rivers, Robert Klevay Thoreau’s Space Travels in the Writings of Kenji Miyazawa, Shinji Iwamasa |
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| Noon-1pm |
Lunch |
Masonic |
| 1-2 pm |
Workshop V |
Masonic |
Presentation |
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| The Maine Woods, Scot Miller and Ronald Hoag | ||
Dramatic Performance |
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| Hawthorne and Thoreau, Richard Smith and Rob Velella | ||
| 2:15-3:45 pm |
Workshop VI |
Masonic |
Panel |
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| “The Readers’ Thoreau” website, Paul Schacht, Panel Moderator
An introductory workshop on Walden: A Fluid Text Edition, Joe Easterly |
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Panel |
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| Mapping Armageddon: How Melville’s Literary Cartography Complicates Thoreau’s, Patrick Chura
Cryptic Conversations: Unwitting/Unwilling Indebtedness to Thoreau in Contemporary Environmental Criticism, Jonathan Butler Deeper into Thoreau’s Thicket: A Gazetteer of Names for Concord Places, Dennis Nooson Presentation given by Michael Berger. |
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| 4-5:30 pm |
Workshop VII |
Masonic |
Presentation |
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| Esther Anderson’s Thoreau Country, Leslie Wilson | ||
Panel |
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| “Thoreau. Wallace Stevens, “Sunday” and “Sunday Morning”, Ed Gillin
Clearing the Mind for Health and Serenity: Thoreau’s “Walking”, Christine Japely Into the Wild: In Search of Higher Law at the Sources of Civilization, Mark Howenstein |
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| 6-7:30 pm |
Dinner |
First Parish |
| 7:30-8 pm |
Musical Performance |
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Outrageous Fortune |
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Saturday |
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Morning WalkThe fabulous beavers of Hutchin’s Pond in the Estabrook Woods. |
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| 7-8:30 am |
Memorial Walk at Walden Pond, Corinne Smith |
Walden Pond |
| 9-10:30am |
Business Meeting |
First Parish |
| 10:45-Noon |
Keynote |
First Parish |
| Thoreau’s Evolution From ‘Civil Disobedience’ to John Brown, John Stauffer | ||
| Noon-1 pm |
Lunch |
First Parish |
| 1-2 pm |
Workshop VIII |
Masonic |
Presentation |
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| Seven Years In The Woods: In Search of a Higher Law, Michael Anthony Lorence, Innermost House, Diana Lorence | ||
Presentation |
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| Henry and Happiness, Ted David
Searching for Thoreau’s Compass, Jeff Hinich |
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| 2:15-3:15pm |
Workshop IX |
Masonic |
Presentation |
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| The Art of Amazement: Thoreau’s Macro Lens, Natasha Shabat | ||
Presentation |
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| “Adopting the Method of Nature”: Henry David Thoreau and John Joseph Matthews as Spiritual Stewards of the Land, Ryan Slesinger
“Thoreau: Reading Darwin,” Randall Fuller |
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| 3:30-4:30pm |
Workshop X |
Masonic |
Presentation |
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| Parallel Lives: Thoreau and Darwin–science, art, and spirit, Tom Potter | ||
Panel |
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| Creativity, Art and the Higher Law, Rev’d Dr Daniel Medina
Reading Walden by Moonlight: Thoreau’s “Moon” Lectures and the Other Side of Awakening, Brendan Mahoney |
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| 5-6 pm |
Thoreau Institute, 44 Baker Farm Rd |
Lincoln, MA |
| 6-7:30 pm |
Dinner |
First Parish |
| 7:30-9 pm |
Book-signing |
Masonic |
Sunday |
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Morning WalkSun July 13. Fairhaven Bay and the Wright Woods of the Concord Land Conservation Trust on the “back side” of Walden Woods. Sit on the top of a small cliff overlooking the Sudbury River where Henry often reflected. Meet and carpool from the Municipal Parking lot behind the banks on Keyes Road at 6:45 a.m.; return by 9:15 a.m. Led by Concord author Peter Alden. |
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| 7:30-10 am |
Exploratory Paddle |
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| Join Deborah Medenbach on a canoe/kayak on the Sudbury River from the South Bridge Boathouse toward Fairhaven Bay. Bring a spirit of open cooperation with nature to see what appears for our exploration. Set at the pace of a water meander as gentle as the currents below, pause to take photographs, make notes, draw or look more closely.
Deborah Medenbach is a writer, artist and avid kayaker based in the Hudson Valley area of New York. Meet at 7am, Concord Municiple Lot, Keyes Road, to carpool. |
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| 10-Noon |
Walk |
Thoreau Farm |
| Inspirational Morning Saunter at Thoreau Farm Birthplace, Corinne Smith | ||
| 10-Noon |
Workshop XI |
Masonic |
Panel |
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| An Experiment in Uncommon Schooling: Geneseo’s Thoreau-Harding Project Panel moderator: Ed Gillin, SUNY Geneseo | ||
Panel |
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| Thoreau’s view of arts and sciences in the service of a higher law, Reinhold J. Dooley
Thoreau and Religion, Richard Higgins Thoreau’s Poetical-Economy, Adam Ross Rosenthal |
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| Noon-2 pm |
Thoreau Farm Open House |
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| 2:30-5 pm |
Orchard House |
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Panel |
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| George Howe Colt ,Megan Marshall, and Phyllis Cole | ||
| Registration |
| Reserve Now |