Village University

Tuesday, July 8

8:30 - 9 am            Morning "Sing"                                                                                            all, OH

9 - 10:00 am            From a Qualitative Science to a Fully-Realized Spiritual Science,                   SW, OH

10:30 - 12:30             Panel: The Source of Emerson’s Genius            Panelists:                                 --, ML           

·       Gertrude Reif Hughes, Professor Emeritus of English, Author, Emerson’s Demanding Optimism, Wesleyan College.

·       Sarah Wider, Prof. of English and Women Studies, Colgate University, The Critical Reception of Emerson: Unsettling All Things

·       Nancy Haverington, United Church of Christ Minister, Playwright, Founder of “The New Eden Collaborative”, writing script for first feature film on Emerson

·       Daniel McKanan, Emerson Senior Lecturer, Harvard Divinity School, Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition

·       Stuart-Sinclair Weeks, Founder, The Center for American Studies at Concord

1:30 - 3 pm            Agriculture and the Sacred: An Introduction to Biodynamics?             LG,RKa, TS

4 - 7 pm            Panel: The Concord Authors & Their Meaning In and For Our Time (includes pot                                     luck dinner) and the Founding of the Amos Bronson Alcott Society-Circle            --, OH           

·       Jan Turnquist, Dir. Orchard House, Home of the Alcotts

·       Michael Frederick, Dir. The Thoreau Society

·       Tom Beardsley, Dir. The Old Manse, Home of the Hawthornes

·       Susan Dunston, Pres. the Emerson Society

·       Phyllis Cole, President Elect, Margaret Fuller Society

7:30 - 9:30 pm            The Alchemy of Agriculture: From The Transcendentalists to Today                      DM, OH

9:30 pm            Heavenly Regard                                                                                                fac, ML