Thoreau
Country Today: A Summer Sojourn
An
On-Site Program for High School Students
July
19-27, 2008
Students will spend seven full
days in Thoreau Country with a host family. They will
be introduced to Thoreau's timeless ideas while exploring
historic Concord, Cambridge, Boston, and the harbor islands.
What
is it exactly? This July, twenty
students from across the country will have the chance to
spend a full week rediscovering the town, city, and countryside
that inspired Thoreau’s sense of “living deliberately.”
What
will I do? Some
mornings we will gather at various indoor and outdoor locations
to explore how enduring and relevant Thoreau’s greatest
ideas are today. Afternoons and some full days will
be spent seeing Walden Pond, Cambridge and Harvard Square,
Beacon Hill, the Harbor Islands, and other spots that helped
to identify Greater Boston as a center for ideas, music,
art, and discovery.
Where
will I stay? Participants
will enjoy the comfort and support of room and board with
a Concord family, whose complete profile will be made available
to them before the program begins.
What
will I take back with me? This
experience will leave you with a better understanding of
what Thoreau’s ideas mean to us now. You will also
find great inspiration and entertainment in the cityscape
and countryside where the seeds of a nation were planted.
And, as an option, we can arrange with your high school
for you to earn academic credit for the time you spend here.
What
does it cost? Tuition:
$850.00
Application fee
10.00
Registration/Insurance 85.00
How
do I get involved? The
program is open to students who have successfully completed
one year of high school English and/or history. Applicants
will be considered on a first come/first serve basis.
Once twenty students have been accepted, any additional
applicants will be placed on a waiting list.
To
apply, you will need to submit:
Click on
the highlighted links to access copies of these Word documents.
For
more information, contact
John Chateauneuf, Program Director, at jchat@thoreausociety.org
(978-369-5310).
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American
Literature Association
May 22-25, 2008, at the San Francisco Embarcadero Center
Thoreau
Society Sessions:
Thursday,
May 22, 2008
3:00
– 4:20pm
Session
5-K Thoreau: Boundaries, Crossings, Passages (Seacliff C)
Chair: David M. Robinson, Oregon State University
1. “Thoreau in the Revue des Deux Mondes: France,
September 1887,” Veronica Kirk-Clausen, University
of California, Santa Cruz
2. “The Arc of the Scimitar and Rainbow in Walden:
The Bhagavad Gita’s Unity of Science and Literature,”
John R. Davidson, Central Michigan University
3. “Walking as Transgression: Henry David Thoreau’s
‘Walking’ and Mary Austin’s ‘The
Walking Woman,’” Lorianne R. DiSabato, Keene
State College
Saturday,
May 24, 2008
2:00 – 3:20 pm
Session
19-A “From Freshman Composition to Graduate Seminars,
from Digital Editions to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Into
the Wild, and Bartleby: A Round Table on Teaching Thoreau
in the Twenty-First Century” (Pacific B/C)
Moderator: Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Pennsylvania State
University, Altoona
1. Ryan C. Cordell, University of Virginia
2. Linda Frost, University of Alabama, Birmingham
3. Michael J. Frederick, The Thoreau Society and Susan E.
Gallagher, University of Mass Lowell
4. Andrew Black, University of Memphis
5. Leslie Eckel, Suffolk University
6.
Rebecca Chamberlain, The Evergreen State College and Saint
Martin’s University
2008
Hawthorne
Society meeting
Nathaniel
Hawthorne: Starting Over
June
12-15, 2008
Bowdoin College, Brunswick,
Maine
The Hawthorne Conference organizers offer
this wide-ranging rubric to include such topics as: Hawthorne's
new start at Bowdoin; his beginnings as a tale writer; his
"new" career as a novelist; his new (and constantly
renewed) reputation; his interest in the beginnings of things
(biblical, historical, personal); his new friends; his sense
of the "new" vs. the "old"world; his
definition of the "new" woman -- and new man ("New
Adam and Eve"); Hawthorne and the New Romanticism;
Hawthorne and the New Classroom; Hawthorne and the (new)
State of Maine; Hawthorne and the (new) structure of allegory;
and Hawthorne in the new (21st) Century. Please send paper
topics by January 30, 2008, to Sam Coale, 39 Pratt Street,
Providence, RI 02906 or samcoale@cox.net.
Beyond
Thoreau: American and International Responses to Nature
Tsinghua
University, Beijing, China
October 10-12,
2008
The first conference
on ecocriticism in Beijing, "Beyond Thoreau: American
and International Responses to Nature," will be held
at Tsinghua University, October 10-12, 2008.
Keynote speakers
for the conference will be Scott Slovic (University of Nevada),
GretaGaard (University of Wisconsin-River Falls), and Serenella
Iovino (University of Turin).
The conference,
which is jointly sponsored by the Fulbright Commission and
Tsinghua University, welcomes papers on topics related to
literature and the environment from diverse international
theoretical, cultural, social, scientific, and interdisciplinary
perspectives. Papers or presentations are specifically encouraged
on the following topics:
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The impact of Thoreau globally, Thoreau's continued relevance
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Chinese environmental writers
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New theoretical approaches
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Urban issues
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Agarian issues
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Postcolonial responses
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Social responses
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Gender issues
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Food production and consumption
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New nature writing, including science fiction
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The future of ecocriticism
- Responses through
art, dance, film, music, gardens
Click
here for a detailed description of the conference, the
call for papers, and a registration form. The deadline
for abstracts is April 30, 2008. With half
of the conference participants coming from China and the
other half from the US and the world at large, the opportunities
for discussing the environment and literature from these
multiple perspectives will be envigorating. The conference's
official language will be English, and arrangements are
being made for selected papers to be published in special
issues of an international journal as well as in book form.
"Beyond Thoreau: American and International Responses
to Nature" will provide accommodations on Tsinghua
University's extensive and beautiful campus as well as side-trips
to the Great Wall and the Summer Palace. Special sessions
will be held in one of Beijing's new contemporary art galleries.
Please address further questions to Wang Ning (wangning@tsinghua.edu.cn)
or Elizabeth Schultz (eschultz@ku.edu).
Modern
Language Association
December 27-30, 2008, San Francisco,
California
Calls
for Papers (on behalf of the Hawthorne Society):
"Hawthorne
as Storyteller" and "Hawthorne and Emerson "
Send paper topics
or inquiries to Sam Coale, 39 Pratt Street, Providence,
RI 02906 or samcoale@cox.net.
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