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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. |