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New Volume (Spring 2025) of Emerson Society Papers Published!
The Emerson Society is pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of the Emerson Society Papers (ESP): Vol. 26, Spring 2025! We want to thank our readers and give our heartfelt appreciation to our outgoing editor, Michael Weisenburg, whose years of steadfast dedication to and thoughtful stewardship of this publication have…
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2025 RWES Online Symposium – Graduate Students Works in Progress
Sunday, April 13 @ 10:00 AM – Noon (central time) Online via Zoom The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society welcomes all to attend the online symposium featuring graduate student works in progress on the subjects of Emerson and transcendentalism. Students will present their works followed by an open discussion. The symposium…
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CFP: 2025 RWES Symposium on Graduate Students Works in Progress
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society welcomes graduate students at all levels and in all fields of study to present their works in progress. The works can be a dissertation, thesis, journal article, term paper, or other creative academic work related to Emerson or transcendentalism broadly conceived. Each participant will have…
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CFP: 2025 Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (July 9-13)
The Emerson Society will sponsor a panel at the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering this summer in Concord, Mass. (July 9-13, 2025). This year’s conference theme is Thoreau’s Revolutions. We will consider papers both on the topic below and on the conference theme more generally. “Emersonian Revolutions Today” Bronson Alcott in…
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CFP: 2025 American Literature Association 36th Annual Conference (May 21-24)
CFP: American Literature Association 36th Annual Conference May 21-24, 2025 The Westin Copley Place 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116 The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites proposals for two panels at the upcoming ALA conference in Boston. “Emerson’s Like-Minded Transcendentalists.” There were many authors, ministers, artists, philosophers, activists, and free…
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CFP: Online Workshop on Emerson and Zhuang Zi
Dear Colleagues, You might be interested in the following workshop on Emerson and Zhuang Zi Due to rapid processes of urbanization and globalization, self-identity, which has once been closely related to places and cultures, is undergoing destruction. During this process, spiritual crises are taking place in many cultures around the…
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2024 Distinguished Achievement Award – Branka Arsić
We are delighted to announce that Branka Arsić is the recipient of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society’s 2024 Distinguished Achievement Award.
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Call for Applications for the 2024 Barbara L. Packer Fellowship
The Barbara L. Packer Fellowship is named for Barbara Lee Packer (1947-2010), who taught with great distinction for thirty years in the UCLA English department. Her publications, most notably Emerson’s Fall (1982) and her lengthy essay on the Transcendentalist movement in the Cambridge History of American Literature (1995), reprinted as The Transcendentalists by the University of Georgia…
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Call for Papers for 2024 Conferences
The Emerson Society and the William James Society will co-sponsor “Emerson & William James” at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2024. It is well known that William James considered himself to be Ralph Waldo Emerson’s spiritual heir. Their lives were intertwined: Emerson was James’s godfather, and Emerson was…
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PAMLA 2023 Los Angeles: “Shifting Perspectives” October 26–29, 2023
Emersonian Perspectives Sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Abstract The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites papers that explore the conference theme “Shifting Perspectives” in the context of Emerson’s work and reception. Contributions may address how perspective informs Emerson’s philosophy, aesthetics, poetics and politics. They may also explore in what…
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