BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2129@redriveruu.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230702T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230702T110000 DTSTAMP:20231002T145023Z URL:https://redriveruu.org/events/adult-forum-emerson-thoreau-and-the-tran scendentalist-movement-2023-07-02/ SUMMARY:Adult Forum - Emerson\, Thoreau\, and the Transcendentalist Movemen t DESCRIPTION:Where did the America we know today—so different in its funda mental views about almost every aspect of life as to be unrecognizable to our countrymen of two centuries ago—really come from?\n\nHow\, for examp le\, did the colonial idea of the classroom as a place devoted to "breakin g the will" and "subduing the spirit" of students\, change to that of a vi brant\, even pleasurable experience—including innovations such as kinder garten and recess—with children encouraged to participate actively in th eir own education?\n\n \;\n\nBy Ashton Nichols\, Ph.D\, Dickinson Coll ege\n\nDr. Ashton Nichols is Professor of English Language and Literature and Walter E. Beach '56 Distinguished Chair in Sustainability Studies at D ickinson College in Carlisle\, Pennsylvania.\n\nHere are the titles for th e first 6 courses of this series:\n\n May 14\, 2023 - Emerson\, Thoreau\, and Transcendentalism\n May 21\, 2023 - The Roots of American Transcende ntalism\n May 28\, 2023 - Emerson and the Idea of America\n June 4\, 202 3 - Emerson and Transcendentalism\n June 11\, 2023 - Emerson’s Influenc e\n June 18\, 2023 Thoreau—An American Original\n June 25\, 2023 - Tho reau at Walden and Beyond\\\n July 2\, 2023 - Thoreau's Politics\n July 9\, 2023 - William Ellery Channing and Unitarianism\n July 16\, 2023 - T heodore Parker—Social Reform in the Pulpit\n July 23\, 2023 - Amos Bron son Alcott\n July 30\, 2023 - Louisa May Alcott\n Aug 6\, 2023 - Margare t Fuller and Rights for Women\n Aug 13\, 2023 - Transcendental Women\n A ug 20\, 2023 - Moncure Conway—Southern Transcendentalist\n Aug 27\, 202 3 - Transcendental Eccentrics\n Sept 3\, 2023 - Transcendental Utopias— Living Experiments\n Sept 10\, 2023 - Transcendentalism and Education\n Sept 17\, 2023 - Thoreau\, Abolition\, and John Brown\n Sept 24\, 2023 - Frederick Douglass\n Oct 1\, 2023 - Transcendentalism's 19th-Century Lega cy\n Oct 8\, 2023 - The Legacy in the 20th Century and Beyond\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Adult Forum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR