Apr 8, 2017
Just West of Walden: Placing the Birth of Ecology
4 minutes
Podcast · Inglés
West of Walden: Thoreau in the 21st Century
The Huntington
“The sun is but a morning star.” Walden’s famous last line points eastward to the sunrise; but Henry David Thoreau also wrote of the west, the sunset, and day’s end. To mark Thoreau’s bicentennial year, this conference poses the question: How can we read Thoreau from the sundown side, the far west of his imagination? Can we see, in the awakening light of the sunset, another anticipation of the dawn? The conference was held at The Huntington April 7–8, 2017.
Episodes
Ordered by publication date.
Apr 8, 2017
Looking West from Katahdin: The Maine Woods and the National Parks
39 minutes
Apr 8, 2017
The Ecstatic and the Ordinary: Thoreau, Mountaintops, and Moonlight
45 minutes
Apr 8, 2017
Thoreau’s Contact Zones
3 minutes
Apr 8, 2017
Thoreau in China
39 minutes
Apr 8, 2017
An Imperfect Indian Wisdom: Thoreau and Ecocultural Contact
41 minutes
Apr 7, 2017
Between “that fartherest western way” and “the university of the West”: Thoreau’s Dialectic of Reform
47 minutes
Apr 7, 2017
“At last I may make wholes of parts”: Reconstructing Thoreau’s Intellectual Ecosystem by Reconnecting his Manuscript Remains
41 minutes
Apr 7, 2017
Thoreau the Poet-Naturalist
6 minutes
Apr 7, 2017
Walden Evolving
52 minutes
Apr 7, 2017
Thoreau's Seasonal Music: Nostalgia and the Kalendar
46 minutes
Apr 7, 2017
“Some Star’s Surface”: Thoreau on Planet Earth
45 minutes
Apr 7, 2017
Thoreau’s Widening Social Circles
2 minutes
Apr 7, 2017
Thoreau in his Correspondence
48 minutes
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