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Virtual Emerson Society Panels
In lieu of meeting at ALA in San Diego, the Society will be hosting two virtual panel sessions this Friday, May 22, at 8:30 a.m. EST & 10:00 a.m. EST. To register email emerson.society.webmaster@gmail.com Panel Details are: Emerson and Resistance, 1: Politics, Religion, and Literature (8:30 am EST at Zoom…
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Awards Announcements 2019
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces four awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson. *Graduate Student 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 2019) or the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering…
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CFPs for ALA Boston 2019
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society will sponsor two panels at the annual meeting of the American Literature Association, to be held May 23-26, Boston, USA. Panel 1: Emerson and Pedagogy The Emerson Society are inviting proposals that examine or encourage strategies for teaching Emerson, informed by disciplines other than English…
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Emerson Society Panel at the Thoreau Gathering, Concord, July 2018
Waldo and Henry: Points of Parting The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is sponsoring one panel at annual Thoreau Gathering, 2018, in Concord, MA. With the theme ‘Waldo and Henry: Points of Parting.’ The influence of Emerson on Thoreau, and of Thoreau on Emerson, is well known. But this should not…
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Emerson Panels at the Poe and Hawthorne Societies’ Conference – Kyoto, Japan, June 21-24, 2018
Call for Papers Emerson Panels at the Poe and Hawthorne Societies’ Conference Kyoto Garden Palace Hotel—Kyoto, Japan, June 21-24, 2018 The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites proposals for the above conference. Depending on the number and quality of proposals, the Hawthorne and Poe societies will host up to 2 panels…
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Picturing Emerson Exhibition, Concord Free Public Library, 24 March 2017
The Trustees of the Concord Free Public Library cordially invite you to the formal opening of the exhibition Picturing Emerson: A Selection of Lifetime Portraits of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friday, March 24, 2017, 6:30-8:30 p.m., in the Concord Free Public Library rotunda, 129 Main Street, Concord, MA. The exhibition is…
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Call for Papers – ALA 2017, May 2017 & Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, July 2017
American Literature Association Call for Proposals The Emerson Society will sponsor two panels at the annual meeting of the American Literature Association, to be held in Boston, MA, from May 25-28, 2017. For information about the conference, see http://americanliteratureassociation.org/calls/annual-conference/. Emerson and Social Justice This panel examines Emerson’s influence…
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Transcendentalist Intersections at the University of Heidelberg
“Transcendentalist Intersections: Literature, Philosophy, Religion” University of Heidelberg, Germany, July 26 – 29, 2018 Sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, the Margaret Fuller Society, and the Anglistisches Seminar and Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg At its first meeting in 1836, the Transcendental Club declared an…
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Announcing “An Emerson Chronology,” 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, by Albert J. von Frank.
The long-awaited, much-expanded edition of this essential reference work is now available on Amazon in two volumes. For more info, visit www.studionontroppo.com/chronology An Emerson Chronology – Albert J. von Frank : studio non troppo The long-awaited, thoroughly revised, much-expanded second edition of this indispensable reference work will be available…
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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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