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Summer Conversational Series Daily Schedule

The Alcotts and Resilience

Hybrid Adult & Teacher Education

Sunday - Thursday

July 14 - 18, 2024


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Sunday, July 14th

  2:30 - 4:00 pm

Joint Session with The Thoreau Society Annual Gathering


Special Guest Presenter

DANIEL SHEALY

University of North Carolina - Charlotte

“The Alcotts and Resilience”



Monday, July 15th

9:30 - 10:30 am     CATHLIN DAVIS

University of California - Stanislaus

“Achieving Goals:  How Alcott’s Women and Girls Show Their Determination”


10:30 - 10:45 am     Break


10:45 am - 11:45 pm     KRISTI LYNN MARTIN

Scholar / Historical Interpreter

“‘The Willful Moody Girl I Try to Manage’ – Louisa May Alcott’s Self-Reliant Resiliency” (Virtual presentation)


11:45 - 12:30 pm     Break / Lunch & Informal Discussion


12:30 - 1:30 pm     ANNE-LAURE FRANÇOIS 

Université Paris Nanterre - France

“Louisa May Alcott’s Sculpted Fictions:  ‘A Marble Woman’ (1865); or, Resilience and the Subversion of Patriarchal Myths and Legends”


1:30 - 1:45 pm     Break


1:45 - 2:45 pm     TARA LYNN MARTA

Writer

“Surviving Modern-Day Adversity with the Alcotts”



Tuesday, July 16th

10:00 - 11:00 am     AZELINA FLINT

Maynooth University - Ireland

“May Alcott’s Resilience in Love” 


11:00 - 11:15 am     Break


11:15 am - 12:15 pm     JULIA DABBS

  University of Minnesota - Morris 

“The Artistic and Emotional Resilience of May Alcott Nieriker” (Virtual presentation)


12:15 - 1:00 pm     Break / Lunch & Informal Discussion


1:00 - 2:00 pm     ANDREA EUGSTER INGOLD

Scholar / Educator  (Switzerland)

“Louisa’s Little Girl:  A Resilient Life?”



Wednesday, July 17th

10:00 - 11:00 am     GABRIELLE DONNELLY

Journalist / Author

“Studying Art Abroad”


11:00 - 11:15 am     Break


11:15 am - 12:15 pm     CLARE COMM

University of Massachusetts - Lowell 

“The Relationship of Resiliency to Louisa May Alcott’s Challenges of the Times Compared to Other Women”
 

12:15 - 1:00 pm     Break / Lunch & Informal Discussion


1:00 - 2:00 pm     JULIE MORFEE

Instructor - University of California, Berkeley & De Anza College, Cupertino

“School and Sailing:  Models of Resilience and Educational Reform in Louisa May Alcott’s Life and Fiction” (Virtual presentation)


7:00 - 9:00 pm     “Evening Edification”

Special Guest Presenter

LAUREN GUNDERSON

Playwright

“Little Women:  A New Play Reading”



Thursday, July 18th

10:00 - 11:00 am     LAUREN GUNDERSON

Playwright

  “Co-Writing a Classic:  Adapting Little Women for the Modern Stage to Retain Resilience and Romance”


11:00 - 11:15 am     Break


11:15 am - 12:15 pm     PANEL DISCUSSION  

“New England Transcendental Resilience:  Transcend, Include, Transform”

Jason Giannetti - Chair (Attorney / Philosopher /Academic), Joseph Draper (Academic), Lisa Eck (Academic), Michael Frederick (Historian / Non-profit Consultant), William Healey III (Psychotherapist / Academic), Carolyn Maibor (Academic), Mark Hamilton Ostrander (Storyteller / Content Creator / Educator), David E. Storey (Academic)


12:15 - 1:00 pm     Break / Lunch & Informal Discussion


1:00 am - 2:00 pm     PANEL DISCUSSION continues



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