Emerson Society
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The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, Inc. is dedicated to fostering scholarship on and appreciation of the life and writings of one of America’s greatest authors. Learn more at https://emersonsociety.org/
A new issue of The Dial is here!
The Dial@thedial2024.bsky.social · 2w agoIssue 3.1 has dropped: Tom Nurmi! Martha Schoolman! Stefan Schöberlein! Kate Culkin! AI! mineral extraction! Civil disobedience on campus! A trip to Vermont! Walt Whitman’s pro-annexation thought and writing! We hope all enjoy and please circulate. thedialjournal.org
Middlebury College, wonders of Vermont, aging parents, families finding joy on their darkest days. Technically about the Emersons, but maybe really about my summer? Thanks for the opportunity @emersonsociety.bsky.social and @thedial2024.bsky.social Link in comments.
Today I attended a group reading of Emerson’s Divinity School Address in the very room where it was delivered. Very special!
Happening next week📢 “Timeless Emerson: An Evening with Michael Jonik” (30 September, 6.00-7.30 PM) at the Ralph Waldo Emerson House Event link below ⬇️ rwema.org/events/timel... Registration is free but compulsory.
Timeless Emerson: An Evening with Michael Jonik — Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association
Join author and editor Michael Jonik for an evening talk at the Emerson House as he introduces The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson , a recently published collection of essays highlight...
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Happening soon 📣 Join author Bruce Nichols for a lively conversation with local historian and Thoreau expert Richard Smith about Nichols’s acclaimed new book,The Emerson Circle (on Thursday 24 September, 7.00-8.30 pm, First Parish in Concord)
On September 9, 1836, Emerson published Nature, his first book and the founding manifesto of American Transcendentalism, anonymously and in a modest run of 500 copies. Fittingly, the day before publication Emerson and his peers planned the gatherings that became the Transcendental Club.
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essay
Explore the profound insights of Ralph Waldo Emerson in 'Nature.' Delve into the beauty of his philosophical musings on the connection between humanity and the natural world.
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On September 9, 1832, Emerson delivered "The Lord's Supper" as his farewell sermon to Boston's Second Church, and it doubled as his resignation address. emersoncentral.com/texts/uncoll...
The Lord’s Supper by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Lord's Supper. Emerson explains the theological basis for his refusal to celebrate communion, refusal that cost him his pastorate in the Unitarian church.
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On August 31, 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered “The American Scholar” to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard — an address Oliver Wendell Holmes later called America’s “intellectual Declaration of Independence.” www.gutenberg.org/files/16643/...
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There’s still time to see this amazing exhibition, “Celebrating the Art of Edward Waldo Emerson,” at the Concord Free Public Library until Thursday 10 September: rwema.org/events/celeb...
Celebrating the Art of Edward Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association
Join our celebration of Edward Waldo Emerson’s second career as an artist with this first-of-its-kind special exhibition of a selection of his works, most of which have been held in private collection...
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Happy birthday Mary Moody Emerson🎉 Waldo's famous and brilliant aunt was born on 23 August 1774. Her influence on her nephew and American Transcendentalism more generally was immense.
ALA 2027 CFP from The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society now posted! See details at americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferen...
Societies’ Call for Papers – The American Literature Association
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📚 So many fantastic books have come out recently, but let me bring to your attention Aren Lerner Craig’s fantastic intellectual and cultural history of the Civil War era: Every Revolution Was First a Thought: The Civil War and Transcendentalism in Transatlantic Context (UMass, 2025)
The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) is thrilled to announce the Ellen Craft Essay Prize is now open for submissions. The Prize promotes & encourages the study of marginalised voices in American Studies at the PGR & ECR levels. Deadline: 7th December baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Ellen Craft Essay Prize 2026 - British Association for American Studies
The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) is thrilled to announce that this year’s Ellen Craft Essay Prize is now open for submissions. The Ellen Craft Essay Prize is intended to help…
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CFP: The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites proposals for a panel on “Emerson and Poetry” at the American Literature Association’s 38th Annual Conference, to be held May 26–29, 2027, in Boston at the Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116.
I didn't realize my panel at the Thoreau Annual Gathering was recorded. Up now on YouTube. @emersonsociety.bsky.social youtu.be/ULCGGVj1v20?...
Critical Health Comes to Concord.
YouTube video by The Thoreau Society
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In the summer of 1858, Emerson joined a group of prominent intellectuals and scientists (including Louis Agassiz and James Russell Lowell) on an Adirondack wilderness expedition known as the “Philosophers’ Camp.” Their journey began on August 2, 1858. www.discoverconcordma.com/articles/111...
Waldo in the Woods: Emerson and the Philosophers’ Camp
“Is it true that Emerson is going to take a gun?” asked Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. “Then I shall not go, somebody will be shot.”Ralph Waldo Emerson was no marksman, but in July 1858, he bought a “rif...
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On this day in history: July 24, 1872 Early that morning, a fire broke out in the attic of Emerson’s Concord home, “Bush,” on the Cambridge Turnpike. Neighbors and townspeople rushed in and saved most of his books and manuscripts, though the roof and much of the second floor were destroyed.
Emersonians might be interested in sharing work at the following conference: 🔈“Music and the American Literary Imagination,” January 28 - 30, 2027, Nashville ▶️ Single submissions, a panel, or a roundtable endorsed by the Emerson Society are all welcome. ✉️ Contact: John Min john.min@csn.edu.
Check out Cornell West’s brief commentary on Emerson’s “The Divinity School Address”: youtu.be/qVy-f-e9kk4?...
Cornel West and The Prophetic Legacy of Harvard Divinity School
YouTube video by The Divine Names
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On Sunday evening, July 15, 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered “The Divinity School Address” before the graduating class in the chapel of Divinity Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The 2026 Thoreau Society Annual Gathering has started! Join us on Sunday 12 July for a RWES panel on “Emerson and Health, Illness, and Unity” (10.00-11.00 am). And we are beyond excited for @klculkin.bsky.social’s tour of the Emerson House taking place tomorrow morning 👏
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. declared that Emerson’s 1837 Phi Beta Kappa address, “The American Scholar,” would be “the declaration of independence of American intellectual life.” The speech can be read via Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/files/16643/...
The 85th Annual Gathering of the Thoreau Society The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society panel: “‘Give me Health and a Day’: Emerson and Health, Illness, and Unity” Panel: Ross Martin, Harvard University; Alice de Galzain, Sorbonne Université; and moderator Austin Bailey, Hunter College (CUNY)
A Call for Articles on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Works
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📣 The RWES is delighted to announce the recipients of its Research, Outreach, and Undergraduate Student Essay Awards. Congratulations to Jacob B. Castleberry, Peter Rousmaniere, and Attri Dey 👏 More information about their respective projects below🔽
