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Emerson Society at the Thoreau Annual Gathering July 2021
The Emerson Society sponsors a panel at the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering each summer in Concord, MA (July 8-12, 2021). For information on the conference theme, please visit www.thoreausociety.org. We will consider papers both on the topic below and the conference theme more generally. “Other Views of Emerson’s Writing and Activism” The…
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The Transparent Eyeball Blog Announcement
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces The Transparent Eyeball, a blog devoted to a collaborative study of Emerson and the innumerable circles of conversation in which he participated and in which we continue to find him. We welcome short—500-1,000 word—submissions from undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, independent scholars, early career…
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Awards Announcements, 2022
Awards Announcements 2022 The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces two awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson *Graduate Student Paper Award* Submissions are invited for the Graduate Student Paper Award, which provides up to $750 of travel support for one graduate student to present a paper on an…
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Barbara L. Packer Fellowship, 2017
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…
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RWES 2015 Special Awards
Kristina West, a PhD candidate at the University of Reading, UK, is the recipient of the Graduate Student Paper Award for her paper “#Emerson in 140 characters or less” which was part of a roundtable on Digital Emerson studies. Kristina is working on a dissertation about Emerson’s constructions of childhood.…
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Joel Myerson Memorial
In Memoriam: JM, compiled by Al J. von Frank, includes the memories of forty-one distinguished contributors, photos of Joel Myerson (courtesy of Greta Little and Wes Mott), and a Joel Myerson Bibliography. If you would like to receive a copy of the memorial, please contact Michael Weisenburg michaelweisenburg@gmail.com.
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The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces 2023 awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson
*Graduate Student Conference Paper Award* Provides up to $750 of travel support to present a paper on an Emerson Society panel at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (May 2023) or the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (July 2023). Please submit a carefully crafted 1-2-page single-spaced conference paper proposal by January…
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Transcendentalist Geographies
PAMLA 2022 Los Angeles: “Geographies of the Fantastic and the Quotidian” November 11–13, 2022 Transcendentalist Geographies Sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Abstract The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites proposals for a panel on Transcendentalist ways of thinking and writing place and space. Contributions may address how…
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CFP Geographies of the Fantastic and the Quotidian
PAMLA 2022 Los Angeles: “Geographies of the Fantastic and the Quotidian” November 11–13, 2022 Transcendentalist Geographies Sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Abstract: The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites proposals for a panel on Transcendentalist ways of thinking and writing place and space. Contributions may address how figures such…
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Emerson Society Web Panel “‘The Way to Mend the Bad World, Is to Create the Right World’: The Transcendentalists and Forms of Righting the World”
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic this year’s Thoreau Annual Gathering will take place online through video conference. Please join us for a 90-minute program beginning at 9 am EST on July 9, including the following presenters: Welcome by Joseph Urbas (Université Bordeaux – Montaigne) Panel: “‘The Way to Mend the…
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