Spring 2006
University of
Oregon
Figures of Friendship in Emerson & Thoreau
Friday & Saturday,
May 19th & 20th June
Knight Law Center
All sessions will be held at the Knight Law Center, Room 142
Participants
James Albrecht, English, Pacific Lutheran University, Branka Arsic, English, SUNY Albany, Lawrence Buell, English, Harvard University, James Crosswhite, English, University of Oregon, Tom Davis, Philosophy, Whitman College, Russell Goodman, Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Maurice Lee, English, Boston University, John Lysaker, Philosophy, University of Oregon, Barbara Packer, English, UCLA, Scott Pratt, Philosophy, University of Oregon, David Robinson, English, Oregon State University, William Rossi, English, University of Oregon, Naoko Saito, Education, Kyoto University, Henry Wonham, English, University of Oregon.
SCHEDULE
Friday
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
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
Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, the Office of International Programs, the Oregon Humanities Center, the Departments of English and Philosophy, and the Program in Comparative Literature