[Other Upcoming Events]
Keynote Address: "Thoreau as a Model of Disobedience"
Dr. Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
Other Activities and Talks
Explore Walden Pond – led by Walter Brain House Replica
Donald Whaley Main Floor, “What’s a Transcendentalist To Do in the 21st Century? Zen
Anarchism as a Political Philosophy”
Theodore David, “Thoreau and the IRS: What Henry Would Want You to Know
About Today’s Tax System”
Richard Schneider & Albena Bakratcheva, “The Meanings of Civil Disobedience”
Paul J. Medeiros, “Thoreau’s ‘Fewest Possible Thoughts’ on Government”
Marthe Druska, “The Politics of Love: The Thoreau Brothers and Ellen Sewall”
Susan Gallagher & Mike Frederick, "A Digital Critical Edition of Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience”
Nikita Pokrovsky, “Henry Thoreau and Peter Kropotkin: Distrust for the Statehood”
Jayne Gordon, Walking Tour of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Shari Wilkins Downstairs, “Stranger in a Strange Land: The Political and Philosophical
Musings of Henry Thoreau and Chris McCandless”
Brianne Keith, “Primitive Cultures and the Politics of Walking”
THOREAU FARM TRUST PICNIC Birth House
Richard Smith as Henry David Thoreau delivering Civil Disobedience
Tour of White Pond led by Peter Alden
Pine Hill Walk/Henley Library Tour Shop steps
Walk led by Reservation Staff Shop steps
Sandra Petrulionis, “Radicals in Our Town: Concord & Antislavery Activism”
Paul Frederich, “Political Issues in Walden”
Tom Potter, “Thoreau, Darwin, and the Politics of Nature”
Bob Habich, “Thoreau 101: Independence and Politics in Thoreau’s Thinking”
Laura Walls, “A Constant New Creation: Thoreau and the Politics of Darwin”
Bonnie Dhall, “The Pursuit of Liberty According to H. D. Thoreau and Socrates”
Leslie Wilson and Robert Hall, Concord Free Public Library Presentation CFPL
Young Thoreauvians Get-together
“Emerson and Social Reform” – featuring Len Gougeon & Tiffany Wayne, moderated by Todd H. Richardson Sponsored by The Emerson Society
Ice Cream Social & Trivia Game Led by Corinne Smith
Memorial Walk led by Corinne Smith House Replica
Annual Business meeting, Tom Potter, Thoreau Society President
Dana S. Brigham Memorial Keynote Address Sanctuary
“Thoreau as a Model of Disobedience” Professor Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of
American Literature, Harvard University
Antonio Casada da Rocha, “Ay, It Divides the Individual: Thoreau’s Politically Mixed Soul”
Shinji Iwamasa, “Thoreau’s Dialectic Vision to Democracy: Terry Tempest Williams’ The Open Space of Democracy and Zen”
Panel discussion: “The Crucible of Politics: The Case of John Brown”
A) Sandra Petrulionis – “Dollars by the Hundred: Concord and the
Unlikeliest Raider’s Path to Harpers Ferry”
B) Florian Schweiger – “A Plea for Transcendental Historiography:
Thoreau, John Brown, and the Sublime Spectacle of History”
C) Bob Sattelmeyer – “The Politics of No Politics: Thoreau’s John Brown”
Dan Malachuk, “Perfect and Glorious: Thoreau as a Theorist of the State”
Reception for Keynote Speaker in Memory of John Mack
Book signing and wine & cheese
“Spirits, Legends & Lore of Concord” Front Steps, A walk around Concord led by John Chateauneuf
Exploring the Pencil Factory Dam Site in Acton led by Randall Conrad and Richard Lenat.
Charles Phillips “The Contemporary Peace Movement and the State: Current Views Compared with Thoreau’s”
OPEN HOUSE RECEPTION at TheThoreau Society Headquarters, 55 Old Bedford Road, Concord
Thoreau Farm Trust Open House Birth House
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