Hybrid Adult & Teacher Education
Sunday - Thursday
July 13 - 17, 2025
2:30 - 4:00 pm
Joint Session with The Thoreau Society Annual Gathering
Special Guest Presenter
KRISTINA WEST
Scholar / Author / Academic
“‘Our Fatal Shadows’ - The Transcendental Child in the Works of Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau”
10:00 - 11:00 am MICHAEL FREDERICK
Historian - Non-profit Consultant
“The Quiet Revolution - Emerson, Thoreau, and the Ethics of Nonconformity”
11:00 - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm CLARE L. COMM
UMASS - Lowell
“The Application of DEI to Achieve Change in Turbulent Times”
12:15 - 1:00 pm Break / Lunch & Informal Discussion
1:00 - 2:00 pm MARK HAMILTON OSTRANDER
Storyteller / Content Creator / Educator
“‘An Obscure Instinct’ - The Alcotts and the Battle at Boston Court House”
10:00 - 11:00 am MATHIEU BEAU
International School of Boston / UMASS - Boston
“The Quantum Revolutions and their Impacts on Modern Philosophy”
11:00 - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm KRISTI LYNN MARTIN
Scholar / Historic Interpreter
“‘My Life is One of Daily Protest’ - Revolutionary Ideas and Everyday Choices”
12:15 - 1:00 pm Break / Lunch & Informal Discussion
1:00 - 2:00 pm CATHLIN DAVIS
California State University - Stanislaus
“Unlikely Heroes - Alcott’s Revolutionary Women”
10:00 - 11:00 am GABRIELLE DONNELLY
Journalist / Author
“From Drunken Paddy to Upright Citizen - Prejudice and Inclusivity in the Alcotts’ Day and In Our Own”
11:00 - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 12:15 pm ROBERTA PARDI-OLÁH
Writer / Poet / Screenwriter
“From Little Women to Good Wives? Educating Girls in the Transcendentalist Alcott Family”
12:15 - 1:00 pm Break / Lunch & Informal Discussion
1:00 - 2:00 pm JULIE MORFEE
University of California, Berkeley & De Anza College, Cupertino
“Declarations of Independence - Celebrating Louisa May Alcott’s Contributions to Feminist Revolutions in Thought” (Virtual presentation)
10:00 am - 11:00 am PANEL DISCUSSION, Part First
“Revolutions in Consciousness”
JASON GIANETTTI (Philosopher /Academic)
WILLIAM J. HEALEY III (Psychotherapist / Academic)
DAVID E. STOREY (Academic)
11:00 - 11:15 am Break
11:15 am - 12:00 pm PANEL DISCUSSION, Part Second
12:00 - 1:15 pm Lunch & Informal Discussion
1:15 pm ORCHARD HOUSE TOUR
with Prof. CATHLIN DAVIS
5:00 - 8:00 pm “Evening Edifications”
Guided Tours from 5:00 to 8:00 pm
plus
Colonial Music Concert by
THE CONCORD MINUTE MEN
FIFE & DRUM CORPS
at 6:00 pm
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