Synopsis
The sun is but a morning star. Waldens famous last line points eastward to the sunrise; but Henry David Thoreau also wrote of the west, the sunset, and days end. To mark Thoreaus bicentennial year, this conference poses the question: How can we read Thoreau from the sundown side, the far west of his imagination? Can we see, in the awakening light of the sunset, another anticipation of the dawn? The conference was held at The Huntington April 78, 2017.
Episodes
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An Imperfect Indian Wisdom: Thoreau and Ecocultural Contact
08/04/2017 Duration: 41minJohn Kucich from Bridgewater State University delivers a talk titled “An Imperfect Indian Wisdom: Thoreau and Ecocultural Contact.” This talk was included in the session titled “Thoreau’s Contact Zones.” Part of “West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century,” a conference held at The Huntington April 7–8, 2017.
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Thoreau in China
08/04/2017 Duration: 39minPatrick Thomas Morgan from Duke University delivers a talk titled “Thoreau in China.” Response by Kathleen Donegan from University of California, Berkeley. This talk was included in the session titled “Thoreau’s Contact Zones.” Part of “West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century,” a conference held at The Huntington April 7–8, 2017.
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Thoreau’s Contact Zones
08/04/2017 Duration: 03minModerator: Kristen Case (University of Maine, Farmington)
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The Ecstatic and the Ordinary: Thoreau, Mountaintops, and Moonlight
08/04/2017 Duration: 45minDavid M. Robinson delivers a talk titled “The Ecstatic and the Ordinary: Thoreau, Mountaintops, and Moonlight.” This talk was included in the session titled “Thoreau and the Environmental Imagination.” Part of “West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century,” a conference held at The Huntington April 7–8, 2017.
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Looking West from Katahdin: The Maine Woods and the National Parks
08/04/2017 Duration: 39minJames Finley delivers a talk titled “Looking West from Katahdin: The Maine Woods and the National Parks.” This talk was included in the session titled “Thoreau and the Environmental Imagination.” Part of “West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century,” a conference held at The Huntington April 7–8, 2017.
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Just West of Walden: Placing the Birth of Ecology
08/04/2017 Duration: 04minModerator: Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (Pennsylvania State University, Altoona)
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Between “that fartherest western way” and “the university of the West”: Thoreau’s Dialectic of Reform
07/04/2017 Duration: 47minSandra Harbert Petrulionis from Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, delivers a talk titled “Between ‘that fartherest western way’ and ‘the university of the West’: Thoreau’s Dialectic of Reform.” This talk was included in the session titled “Thoreau’s Widening Social Circles.” Part of “West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century,” a conference held at The Huntington April 7–8, 2017.
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“At last I may make wholes of parts”: Reconstructing Thoreau’s Intellectual Ecosystem by Reconnecting his Manuscript Remains
07/04/2017 Duration: 41minBeth Witherell, Editor-in-Chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, delivers a talk titled “‘At last I may make wholes of parts’: Reconstructing Thoreau’s Intellectual Ecosystem by Reconnecting his Manuscript Remains.” This talk was included in the session titled “Thoreau’s Widening Social Circles.” Part of “West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century,” a conference held at The Huntington April 7–8, 2017.
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Thoreau in his Correspondence
07/04/2017 Duration: 48minRobert N. Hudspeth from Claremont Graduate University delivers a talk titled “Thoreau in his Correspondence.” Response by Kathleen Donegan from University of California, Berkeley. This talk was included in the session titled “Thoreau’s Widening Social Circles.” Part of “West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century,” a conference held at The Huntington April 7–8, 2017.
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Thoreau’s Widening Social Circles
07/04/2017 Duration: 02minModerator: James Finley (Texas A&M University, San Antonio)
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“Some Star’s Surface”: Thoreau on Planet Earth
07/04/2017 Duration: 45minLaura Dassow Walls from University of Notre Dame delivers a talk titled “‘Some Star’s Surface’: Thoreau on Planet Earth.” This talk was included in the session titled “Thoreau the Poet-Naturalist.” Part of “West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century,” a conference held at The Huntington April 7–8, 2017.
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Thoreau's Seasonal Music: Nostalgia and the Kalendar
07/04/2017 Duration: 46minKristen Case from University of Maine, Farmington, delivers a talk titled “Thoreau's Seasonal Music: Nostalgia and the Kalendar.” This talk was included in the session titled “Thoreau the Poet-Naturalist.” Part of “West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century,” a conference held at The Huntington April 7–8, 2017.
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Walden Evolving
07/04/2017 Duration: 52minWilliam Rossi from University of Oregon delivers a talk titled “Walden Evolving.” This talk was included in the session titled “Thoreau the Poet-Naturalist.” Part of “West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century,” a conference held at The Huntington April 7–8, 2017.
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Thoreau the Poet-Naturalist
07/04/2017 Duration: 06minModerator: David M. Robinson (Oregon State University)