2003 Conference Schedule of Events
FRIDAY, 25 APRIL 2003
8:30-9:00
Registration
9:00-9:15
Welcome
Ronald A. Bosco (University at Albany, State University of New York), Joel Myerson (University of South Carolina), and others.
9:15-11:00
Panel I: The Construction of Emerson
Commentator: Sterling F. Delano (Villanova University)
Lawrence Buell (Harvard University): "Saving Emerson for Prosperity"
Robert D. Habich (Ball State University): "Building Their Own Waldo: Holmes, Cabot, Edward Emerson, and the Challenges of Biography in the 1880s"
Robert N. Hudspeth (University of Redlands): "Later Emerson 'Intellect' and The Conduct of Life'"
11:00-11:15
Break
11:15-1:00
Panel II: Emerson the Reformer
Commentator: Linck C. Johnson (Colgate University)
Phyllis Cole (Penn State University, Delaware County): "The New Movement's Tide: Emerson and Women's Rights"
T. Gregory Garvey (State University of New York, College at Brockport): "Emerson, Garrison, and the Value of the Radical Associations"
Len Gougeon (University of Scranton): "The Legacy of Reform: Emersonian Idealism and the Civil Rights Movement"
Panel III: Emerson's Poetic Language
Commentator: Douglas Emory Wilson (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Robert E. Burkholder (Pennsylvania State University): "(Re)Visting The Adirondacs': Emerson's Confrontation with Wild Nature"
Joseph M. Thomas (Pace University): "Poverty and Power: Revisiting Emerson's Poetics"
Barbara Packer (UCLA): "History and Form in 'Fate'"
1:00-2:30
Lunch on your own
2:30-4:30
Panel IV: Emerson and the World of Ideas I
Commentator: Conrad Wright (Harvard Divinity School, emeritus)
Wesley T. Mott (Worcester Polytechnic Institute): "'The Power of Recurring to the Sublime at Pleasure': Emerson and Feeling"
Susan Roberson (Alabama State University): "Emerson, Columbus, and the Geography of Self-Reliance: The Example of the Sermon"
David Robinson (Oregon State University): "Experience, Instinct, and Emerson's Philosophical Reorientation"
4:30-6:00
Reception
SATURDAY, 26 APRIL 2003
8:30-10:15
Panel V: Emerson's Audience
Commentator: Helen R. Deese (The Journals of Caroline Dall)
Robert D. Richardson, Jr.: "Emerson and William James"
Nancy Craig Simmons (Virginia Polytechnic Institute, emerita): "Emerson's New England Lectures"
Sarah Wider (Colgate University): "'Chladni Patterns, Lyceum Halls, and
Skilful Experimenters: Emerson's New Metaphysics for the Listening Reader"
Panel VI: Emerson and the World of Ideas II
Commentator: Ralph H. Orth (University of Vermont, emeritus)
Gustaaf Van Cromphout (Northern Illinois University): "Emerson on Language as Action"
Albert J. von Frank (Washington State University): "Emerson and Gnosticism"
Laura Dassow Walls (Lafayette College): "'If Body Can Sing': Emerson's Scientific Naturalism"
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-12:00
Panel Discussion: The Future of Emerson Studies
Chair: Daniel Shealy (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
Charles Capper (Boston University)
Robert A. Gross (College of William & Mary)
Thomas Wortham (University of California, Los Angeles)
Commentator: Philip F. Gura (University of North Carolina)
1:00
Bus leaves for Concord
2:30-3:30
Emerson exhibition, Concord Free Public Library. Introduction by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson
3:45-5:00
Tour of the Emerson House
5:00-6:30
Reception at the Concord Museum
6:30
Bus returns to Boston
RELATED EVENT
Thursday, 24 April 2003, 4:00 PM
Houghton Library at Harvard University welcomes all with an interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson to a lecture by Professor Robert Pinsky (Boston University), the former Poet Laureate of the United States. The talk will take place at Emerson Hall 105, Harvard University. A reception will follow at Houghton Library.
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