The Margaret Fuller and Louisa May Alcott Societies are proposing sessions with parallel titles and interests for the Thoreau Gathering, a conference with an overall theme of global authorship and influence. The place and time are Concord, MA, July 6-10, 2022.
Call for Papers:
Where in the World is Margaret Fuller?
The Margaret Fuller Society invites your participation in the Thoreau Gathering (July 6-10, 2022, live in Concord, MA). For this conference whose major theme is Thoreau and Globalism, we will consider his colleague Fuller as part of world cultures through her reading, writing, travel experience, and transnational influence.
Paper topics might focus on a global aspect of her transcendentalist or feminist vision; her New York Tribune dispatches on European events; her first-hand impressions of the revolutions of 1848; her view of immigration, race, gender, or abolition in transnational terms; her dialogue with or impact upon a reader, writer, or political figure anywhere in the world; her presence in the archives; or her work in translation. Application to present-day issues is always welcome.
This will be a peer-reviewed panel. Please send one-page proposals and short C.V.’s by December 13 to Phyllis Cole (pbc2@psu.edu). Decisions will be made by early January. Inquiries are welcome at any point. For more information on the Thoreau Gathering, see https://www.thoreausociety.org/event/annual-gathering-2021
Call for Papers
Where in the World is Louisa May Alcott?
The Louisa May Alcott Society is looking for paper proposals for a session at the 2022 Annual Thoreau Gathering: Global Thoreau (July 6-10, 2022 in Concord, Mass.). We are interested in forming a panel on Alcott and her relationship to world cultures through her reading, travels and life experiences, writing, or influence.
Paper topics might focus on a global aspect of her transcendentalist or feminist thinking; her trips abroad in the 1860s and 1870s as well as the writing they produced; her representation of European, Asian, and Latin American scenes and figures; her ideas about immigration, race, ethnicity, or abolition in trans-national terms; her dialogue with or impact upon readers, writers, or political figures anywhere in the world. We welcome papers that connect their analysis to present-day issues and problems.
This will be a peer-reviewed panel. Please send one-page proposals and short C.V.’s by December 13 to Gregory Eiselein (eiselei@ksu.edu). Decisions will be made by early January. Inquiries are welcome at any point. For more information on the Thoreau Gathering, see https://www.thoreausociety.org/event/annual-gathering-2021.