Summer Conversational Series Daily Schedule

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