NEH LANDMARKS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE 2009:
“Concord, Massachusetts: Center of Transcendentalism and Social Action in the 19th Century
Schedule of Daily Activities:
Sunday/Registration and Opening Session
4:00-6:00PM Registration/Colonial Inn Thoreau Room
6:00-8:30 Welcome/Introductions/Workshop Overview
Thoreau Room, Colonial Inn
Dinner (provided)
Dr. Robert Gross, University of Connecticut, “Why Concord?”
Sunday Readings in Concord Reader: Robert Gross. “The Celestial Village” and “'That Terrible Thoreau': Concord and Its Hermit." See also “Commemorating Concord,” common-place, vol. 4, no. 1 (October 2003) http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-01/gross/
Monday/Focus: Concord: Center of Reform and Innovation
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/Concord Museum
8:30-10:00 Dr. Robert Gross, "Transcendentalism and Reform"
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Dr. Gross and David Wood, Director of the Concord Museum, “Using Material Culture in the Classroom: A Special Tour of the Concord Museum”
12:15-1:45PM Lunch at personal discretion
1:30 - 3:00PM Leslie Wilson, Director of Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library, “The Resources of the Concord Free Public Library: Social Action and Transcendentalism.” (Meet in Special Collections, CFPL.)
3:30 – 5:30 Visit Walden Pond and site of Thoreau’s cabin.
Evening Concord Public Library will be open until 9:00 PM.
Tuesday/Focus: Concord: Center of Social Action
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/Masonic Hall
8:30-10:00 Dr. Sandra Petrulionis, “Idealism and Social Action: Concord’s Anti-Slave Movement”
Tuesday Readings in Concord Reader: Petrulionus, Sandra. To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006, Chapters 1 & 2.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Dr. Petrulionis, continuation of seminar
11:45-1:30PM Lunch (provided) with Dr. Petrulionis, Q/A session
2:00- 3:15 Guided tour of the Old Manse. Afterward free to explore North Bridge, Minuteman National Park, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, etc.
Evening Concord Public Library will be open until 9:00 PM.
Wednesday/Focus: Transcendental Utopias
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/Concord School of Philosophy
8:30-10:00 Dr. Sterling F. Delano, “Transcendental Utopias: Brook Farm and Fruitlands”
Wednesday Readings in Concord Reader: Sterling Delano, Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Prologue & Chapters 2 & 10.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Dr. Delano, continuation of seminar
11:45-5:00 PM Site visits led by Dr. Delano to Brook Farm and Fruitlands communities. Box lunch provided on bus.
Evening Concord Public Library will be open for participants’ research.
Thursday/Concord’s Transcendental Women
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/ Masonic Hall
8:30AM-10:00 Lecture with Dr. Phyllis Cole, “Transcendental Women and Social Reform.” Thursday’s reading in Concord Reader: Phyllis Cole, “Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism,” Oxford: Oxford U P, 1998, Chapters 4 and 9.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Continuation of seminar.
12:00-1:30PM Box lunch provided. Q/A session w/ Dr. Cole.
2:00-3:00 Tour of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s home
Evening Concord Public Library will be open for participants’ research.
Friday/The Alcotts and Reform
8:00-8:30 AM Coffee and donuts/Concord School of Philosophy
8:30-9:15 Guided tour of the Orchard House.
9:30-11:00 Dr. John Matteson, “The Alcotts and Reform.”
Friday Readings in Concord Reader: John Matteson, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. NY: Norton, 2007, Chapters 3,5,6,7.
11:00 -11:15 Break
11:15 -12:30 PM Dr. Matteson, continuation of seminar. Q/A session.
3:30-6:30 Participant presentations. Colonial Inn/ Room TBA
Saturday/Conclusion & Departure
8:30-10:30 AM Continental Breakfast/Colonial Inn/Thoreau Room
Summary and Closing
10:30-11:00 Last minute details and farewell!
“Concord, Massachusetts: Center of Transcendentalism and Social Action in the 19th Century
Schedule of Daily Activities:
Sunday/Registration and Opening Session
4:00-6:00PM Registration/Colonial Inn Thoreau Room
6:00-8:30 Welcome/Introductions/Workshop Overview
Thoreau Room, Colonial Inn
Dinner (provided)
Dr. Robert Gross, University of Connecticut, “Why Concord?”
Sunday Readings in Concord Reader: Robert Gross. “The Celestial Village” and “'That Terrible Thoreau': Concord and Its Hermit." See also “Commemorating Concord,” common-place, vol. 4, no. 1 (October 2003) http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-01/gross/
Monday/Focus: Concord: Center of Reform and Innovation
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/Concord Museum
8:30-10:00 Dr. Robert Gross, "Transcendentalism and Reform"
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Dr. Gross and David Wood, Director of the Concord Museum, “Using Material Culture in the Classroom: A Special Tour of the Concord Museum”
12:15-1:45PM Lunch at personal discretion
1:30 - 3:00PM Leslie Wilson, Director of Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library, “The Resources of the Concord Free Public Library: Social Action and Transcendentalism.” (Meet in Special Collections, CFPL.)
3:30 – 5:30 Visit Walden Pond and site of Thoreau’s cabin.
Evening Concord Public Library will be open until 9:00 PM.
Tuesday/Focus: Concord: Center of Social Action
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/Masonic Hall
8:30-10:00 Dr. Sandra Petrulionis, “Idealism and Social Action: Concord’s Anti-Slave Movement”
Tuesday Readings in Concord Reader: Petrulionus, Sandra. To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006, Chapters 1 & 2.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Dr. Petrulionis, continuation of seminar
11:45-1:30PM Lunch (provided) with Dr. Petrulionis, Q/A session
2:00- 3:15 Guided tour of the Old Manse. Afterward free to explore North Bridge, Minuteman National Park, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, etc.
Evening Concord Public Library will be open until 9:00 PM.
Wednesday/Focus: Transcendental Utopias
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/Concord School of Philosophy
8:30-10:00 Dr. Sterling F. Delano, “Transcendental Utopias: Brook Farm and Fruitlands”
Wednesday Readings in Concord Reader: Sterling Delano, Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Prologue & Chapters 2 & 10.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Dr. Delano, continuation of seminar
11:45-5:00 PM Site visits led by Dr. Delano to Brook Farm and Fruitlands communities. Box lunch provided on bus.
Evening Concord Public Library will be open for participants’ research.
Thursday/Concord’s Transcendental Women
8:00-8:30AM Donuts and Coffee/ Masonic Hall
8:30AM-10:00 Lecture with Dr. Phyllis Cole, “Transcendental Women and Social Reform.” Thursday’s reading in Concord Reader: Phyllis Cole, “Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism,” Oxford: Oxford U P, 1998, Chapters 4 and 9.
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Continuation of seminar.
12:00-1:30PM Box lunch provided. Q/A session w/ Dr. Cole.
2:00-3:00 Tour of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s home
Evening Concord Public Library will be open for participants’ research.
Friday/The Alcotts and Reform
8:00-8:30 AM Coffee and donuts/Concord School of Philosophy
8:30-9:15 Guided tour of the Orchard House.
9:30-11:00 Dr. John Matteson, “The Alcotts and Reform.”
Friday Readings in Concord Reader: John Matteson, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. NY: Norton, 2007, Chapters 3,5,6,7.
11:00 -11:15 Break
11:15 -12:30 PM Dr. Matteson, continuation of seminar. Q/A session.
3:30-6:30 Participant presentations. Colonial Inn/ Room TBA
Saturday/Conclusion & Departure
8:30-10:30 AM Continental Breakfast/Colonial Inn/Thoreau Room
Summary and Closing
10:30-11:00 Last minute details and farewell!
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