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Hybrid Adult & Teacher Education
Sunday - Thursday
July 16 - 20, 2023
2:30 - 4:00 pm
Joint Session with The Thoreau Society Annual Gathering
Panel Discussion
JOHN MATTESON & SANDRA PETRULIONIS
“‘The Speed of the Changes of
That Glittering Dream’ - The Humanities
in an Era of Crisis and Challenge”
10:00 - 11:00 am
LAUREN HEHMEYER
Author / Academic
“Angels of Encouragement and Demons of Doubt”
11:00 - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
LISA ELWOOD-FARBER
Associate Professor - Herkimer County (NY) Community College / PhD Candidate - Indiana University of Pennsylvania
“From Fairy Tales to Vocational Tales: The Journey of Combatting
Evil and Choosing Good to Achieve Self-Mastery”
12:15 - 1:00 pm Break / Lunch & Informal Discussion
1:00 - 2:00 pm
KRISTI LYNN MARTIN
Scholar / Historical Interpreter
“Beth March, Psyche, and Mephistopheles: Redemption in
Louisa May Alcott’s Fiction” (virtual presentation)
10:00 - 11:00 am
KRISTINA WEST
Author / Academic
“‘A Kettleful of Simmering Toads’ - Witches and Women
in the Works of Louisa May Alcott”
11:00 - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
MARK HAMILTON OSTRANDER
Storyteller / Content Creator / Educator
“‘First Cast the Demons from Your Own Bosom’ - Symbols of Evil,
Good and Transcendence in the Work of A. Bronson Alcott”
12:15 - 1:00 pm Break / Lunch & Informal Discussion
1:00 - 2:00 pm
CLARE COMM
Professor Emerita - University of Massachusetts, Lowell
“The Relationship of Good and Evil in the Bronte Sisters’ Writings
to Those of Louisa May Alcott”
10:00 - 11:00 am
ANNE-LAURE FRANÇOIS
Assistant Professor - Université Paris Nanterre (France)
“Angels and Demons in the House: ‘Taming a Tartar’ -
Louisa May Alcott’s Rewriting of The Taming of the Shrew?”
11:00 - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
CATHLIN DAVIS
Professor - California State University, Stanislaus
“Armor Against Temptation: How Adults in Alcott’s Fiction
Lead Children to Goodness”
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, CA)
“Celebrations of Wildness, not Wickedness, in Louisa May Alcott’s
Writing and Life” (virtual presentation)
10:00 - 11:00 am
GABRIELLE DONNELLY
Journalist / Author
“A Journey to Hell and a Trip to Europe:
From Hospital Sketches to Shawl~Straps”
11:00 - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
A Conversation with
JOHN MATTESON
Academic, Scholar, and Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, as well as The Lives of Margaret Fuller, The Annotated Little Women (ed.), and A Worse Place Than Hell - How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
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