|
Figures of Friendship in Emerson & Thoreau |
| 8:30
am - 5 pm, Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| 8:30 am - 4 pm, Saturday, May 20, 2006 |
| All
sessions will be held at the Knight Law Center, Room 142 |
| Emerson's "Friendship" from Essays: First Series (1841) |
| For Thoreau reading, the main work is his essay on Friendship in the "Wednesday" chapter of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, which comprises roughly the second half of this 60 page chapter. |
Friday, May 19
8:30: Coffee outside rm. 142
8:45: Welcome by Joe Stone, Dean, CAS
9-10:45: “Transcendental Friendship: A Contradiction in Terms?”
Lawrence Buell. Reply: Maurice Lee
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:45: “Performing Transcendental Friendship in A Week: Narrative, Loss, and Elegy,” William
Rossi. Reply: Henry Wonham
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:15-4:00: “ ’In the Golden Hour of Friendship:’ Transcendentalism
and Utopian Desire,” David Robinson. Reply: James Albrecht.
4:00-4:15: Break
4:15-6:00 “Emerson and Skepticism: A Reading of ‘Friendship’,”
Russell Goodman. Reply: Tom Davis
Saturday, May 20
8:45: Coffee
9:00-10:45:
“Forgiving the Giver: Emerson, Carlyle, Thoreau,” Barbara Packer. Reply: James
Crosswhite
10:45-11:00:
Break
11:00-12:45:
“Leaving and Bequeathing: Friendship, Moral Perfectionism, and the Gleam of
Light,” Naoko Saito. Reply: Branka Arsic
1:00-2:00:
Lunch
2:15-4:00:
“Commended Strangers, Beautiful Enemies,” John Lysaker. Reply: Scott Pratt
This conference is
only possible given the generosity of the Philosophy
Department, the English
Department, the Program in Comparative
Literature, the Dean's Office of the
College of Arts and Sciences, the Oregon
Humanities Center, the Graduate
School, and the Office of International
Programs.