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2023 Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance Graduate Student Fellowship
Sponsored by The Thoreau Society The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the fifth annual Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance (TCCA)…
2023 Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship
Sponsored by The Thoreau Society The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the eighth annual Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship, generously…
AG 2023 Call for Papers
MLA 2023 (San Francisco) Call for Papers
The Thoreau Society at the Modern Language Association, 2023 (San Francisco) Title of Session: “Transcendentalism, Spirituality, and Social Justice” In…
2022 Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance Graduate Student Fellowship
Call for Papers: ALA Conference in Chicago
In conjunction with the Robert Frost Society, the Thoreau Society is pleased to sponsor these two sessions at the upcoming…
Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Activism and Community Engagement in the Age of Thoreau
The Thoreau Society NEH 2022 Summer Institute: Spend two weeks in Concord, Massachusetts immersed in this topic with seminars and…
Thoreau Society Panel at Modern Language Association (MLA), Sunday, January 9, 2022
“A life within a life”: Thoreau, Ecopoetics and a Dictionary of the Indian Languages Michael Jonik, University of Sussex At…
Barbara L. Packer Fellowship
The Barbara L. Packer Fellowship is named for Barbara Lee Packer (1947-2010), who taught with great distinction for thirty years…
Robin Wall Kimmerer to Receive 2021 Thoreau Prize
CONCORD, MA (July 1, 2021) – The Thoreau Society announced today that the botanist and best-selling author Robin Wall Kimmerer…
Forest History Society’s virtual lecture series: Laura Dassow Walls
Auction Thank You
Dear Friends, The Thoreau Society and Thoreau Farm would like to thank you for your support of our online "fun"-raising…
2021 Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance Graduate Student Fellowship
2021 Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship
There is More Day to Dawn
Register for "More Day to Dawn." “'There Is More Day to Dawn': A Global Conversation Celebrating Teaching and Diversity" October…
The Great Tide of Humanity: Race and Gender Reform in 19th Century Concord, Massachusetts
Henry David Thoreau and his fellow Transcendentalists sparked a literary revolution, 60 years after the American Revolution in the tiny…
Remembering Bob Galvin, former Thoreau Society Vice President
We announce with sadness the passing of longtime Thoreau Society member Bob Galvin, who served several terms on the TS…
Bicentennial Event: Lecture by Robert Gross
"Henry David Thoreau: Son of Concord," a talk by Robert Gross, June 13, 7:00 PM, Shrewsbury Public Library, 609 Main…
2020 TCCA Graduate Student Fellowship
The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce its second annual Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance (TCCA) graduate student fellowship. The 2020…
2020 Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship
The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the fifth annual Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship, generously funded by the Harding family.…
2020 Emerson Society Awards
Announcing the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Awards 2020 *Graduate Student Paper Award* Provides up to $750 of travel support to…
Thoreau Society Panels, ALA 2020
Nature: A Walking Play
The Trustees and TigerLion Arts present Nature, a walking play about Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau’s mutual love…
Richard Higgins, “Trees in Thoreau’s Concord and Today”
"Trees in Thoreau's Concord and Today," photographs by Richard Higgins, author of Thoreau and the Language of Trees, will be…
Shelburne Museum Features “the Thoreau of the Adirondacks”
From the Shelburne Museum: (Shelburne, Vermont) Harold Weston: Freedom in the Wilds will be on view at Shelburne Museum through…
An Evening with Robert Richardson at the Concord Museum
7/31/19, 7-8 pm: Renowned scholar Robert D. Richardson will reflect on Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism. Responses by Bay Emerson…
Engineering Thoreau: Nature, Technology, and the Connected Life
Today, people don't ordinarily associate Thoreau with engineering, but many of his contemporaries made this connection. In his eulogy of…
Auction Fun-Raiser
Starting on March 4 through March 29, 2019, The Thoreau Society and The Thoreau Farm Trust will be auctioning off…
Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul
Documentary film by Huey December 6, 2018, 10 PM, Broadcast Maine Public Television January 3, 2019, 10PM, Broadcast Maine Public…