West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century

Moderator: Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (Pennsylvania State University, Altoona)

Moderator: Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (Pennsylvania State University, Altoona)

James 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.

David 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.

Moderator: Kristen Case (University of Maine, Farmington)

Patrick 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.

John 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.

Moderator: David M. Robinson (Oregon State University)

William 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.

Kristen 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.

Laura 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.

Moderator: James Finley (Texas A&M University, San Antonio)

Robert 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.

Beth 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.

Sandra 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.