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Keynote Address:
"Dear Friend: Life and Letters in and around Concord" by Robert N. Hudspeth
The Dana S. Brigham Memorial Lecture:
"The Making of The Illuminated Walden" by Ronald A. Bosco and John Wawrzonek
Workshops included:
- "Building a Foundation: An Introduction to Thoreau and Emerson's Influence on Him" by Tom Potter
- "Words Withdrawn: Thoreau Regarding Emerson" by Jennifer Gurley and David Justin Hodge
- "Emerson and Thoreau / Spirit and Matter" by Carolee Campbell and Beth Witherall
- "Walden and Nature: An Ecological Trip around Walden Pond" by Carolyn Mahan
- "Emerson's Life in the Woods at Walden" by W. Barksdale Maynard
- "Man the Reformer: The Transcendentalists and Anti-Slavery" by Richard Smith
- "Emerson, Thoreau and the Anarchists" by Donald M. Whaley
- "The Science of the Transparent: Emerson, Thoreau and Crystallography" by Eric Wilson
- "Student Research" chaired by Jennie Wollenweber
- "Emerson, Thoreau and Transcendentalism" chaired by Sterling Delano
Discussions included:
- "Research in Progress," chaired by Sandy Petrulionis
- Discussion of Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's "Walking," moderated by Bradley P. Dean
- "Intertextuality: Emerson and Thoreau in Dialogue," chaired by Elizabeth Addison
- Discussion of Emerson's Elegy "Thoreau," moderated by Len Gougeon
Other activities included:
- Interpretive Natural History Walk
- Walking Tour of Concord
- Bird Walk at Great Meadows
- Thoreau and Emerson Online at the Concord Free Public Library
- Memorial Walk at Walden Pond
- Canoeing on the Concord River
- A Hike Up Wachusett
And lots of food, fellowship, and networking among Thoreauvians of all kinds!
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