Virtual Adult Education Program
Sunday - Thursday July 10 - 14, 2022
2:30 - 4:00 pm
Joint Session with The Thoreau Society Annual Gathering
An Address by
DAME JANE GOODALL, PhD
Ethologist & 2022 Thoreau Prize Recipient
10:00 - 11:00 am
KRISTINA WEST
Author / Academic
“Buying Bronson: Adult Education and Bronson Alcott’s
Theories of Conversation”
11:00 - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
KRISTI MARTIN
Scholar / Historical Interpreter
“At ‘Learning’s Altar’: May Alcott Nieriker,
Transcendental Self-Culture, and Art Education”
10:00 - 11:00 am
JAN TURNQUIST
Orchard House Executive Director /
Louisa May Alcott Living History Portrayer
“’The Sage of Apple Slump’: Bronson Alcott
and The Concord School of Philosophy”
11:00 - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
JASON GIANNETTI
Philosopher / Scholar / Attorney
“Bronson Alcott and the Case for Lay Philosophy”
12:15 - 1:00 pm Lunch & Informal Discussion
1:00 - 2:00 pm
GABRIELLE DONNELLY
Journalist / Freelance Writer
“Wear Your Blue Stockings: The Intellectual Women
of 18th Century England and Ireland”
10:00 - 11:00 am
SUSAN BAILEY
Author / Researcher / Blogger
“Home, School, and Beyond: The Education of the
Alcott Sisters as Lifelong Learners”
11:00 - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
LORRAINE TOSIELLO
Physician / Author
“From Temple to Seminary: The Disparate Education
of Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson”
10:00 - 11:00 am
CATHLIN DAVIS
California State University-Stanislaus
“’Life is My College’: How Alcott’s Female Characters
Educate Themselves”
11:00 - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
A Conversation with
FREDERICK DAHLSTRAND
Historian & Author of
Amos Bronson Alcott: An Intellectual Biography
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