#new The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is calling for papers for a panel titled “‘Give Me Health and a Day’: Emerson and Health, Illness, and Unity” at the 2026 Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (Concord, July 8-12). Abstracts due by 31 January 2026.

💥 Two NEW calls for papers: the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites proposals ▶️ for one panel at the upcoming ALA conference in Chicago (May 20-23, 2026) and ▶️ for its Graduate Student Works in Progress Online Symposium, to be held on April 3, 2026 (open to graduate students at all levels)

Applications for the Emerson Society Fellowship at the Houghton Library are open! The deadline is 16 January 2026 and further information about how to apply is available here: library.harvard.edu/grants-fello...

📣 Dear RWES members, it’s MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL time! We hope that you will renew your membership for the year 2026 and thank you for your ongoing support! If you are new, please visit our website ▶️ emersonsociety.org/membership/ Regular membership costs 40$, while student memberships cost 10$

The LATEST issue of Emerson Society Papers is out! Edited by Mark Gallagher and Kathleen Crosby, the Spring 2025 issue is available on our website: emersonsociety.org/emerson-soci...

Thank you to the Thoreau Society for including Emerson's Daughters in its 2025 Gift Guide. Thoreau was close with all the Emerson children, so I am sure they would appreciate this shout out. mailchi.mp/thoreausocie... @umasspress.bsky.social

Issue 2.1 is out! Essays by @alicedegalzain.bsky.social & Peter Balaam; don’t miss our forum on higher ed now featuring Stephanie Foote, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social, @cnewf.bsky.social, & @samcohen.bsky.social Read/circulate/submit: thedialjournal.org

Emerson, Memory, and Oblivion is open to proposals until June 30 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Nov 20-23 San Francisco Full CFP @ pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19766 Presenters may proposals using PAMLA’s online submission form (pamla.ballastacademic.com ).

Emerson, Memory, and Oblivion is open to proposals until June 30 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Nov 20-23 San Francisco Full CFP @ pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19766 Presenters may proposals using PAMLA’s online submission form (pamla.ballastacademic.com ).

RWES Online Symposium 4/13 @ 10 AM – Noon (central time) We welcome all to attend an online symposium of graduate student works in progress on the subjects of Emerson and transcendentalism. If you are interested in attending contact Nicholas Guardiano at [email protected] for log-in information.

Call for Abstracts: RWES Symposium on Graduate Students Works in Progress The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society welcomes graduate students at all levels and in all fields of study to present their works in progress emersonsociety.org/call-for-abs...

We’ve been receiving some questions about how to engage more with the society. So, we’d like to hear from you all about what your interests are regarding society programming. To that end, we would like to encourage you all to fill out a Membership Survey. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Emerson Society will be sponsoring a panel at the upcoming American Literature Association conference on “Emerson’s Like-Minded Transcendentalists.” There's still time to submit a proposal emersonsociety.org/cfp-american...

CFP for “Emerson’s Like-Minded Transcendentalists.” at ALA emersonsociety.org/cfp-american...

The Emerson Society will be sponsoring a panel at the upcoming Thoreau Annual Gathering on "Emersonian Revolutions Today” There's still time to submit a proposal emersonsociety.org/cfp-for-the-...

It time to consider membership renewal: Support the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society by becoming a member! emersonsociety.org/membership/ Membership helps support awards, scholarship, and publications. Consider renewing or becoming a member today! emersonsociety.org/membership/

CFP for “Emerson’s Like-Minded Transcendentalists.” at ALA emersonsociety.org/cfp-american...

One of the Houghton's many opportunities is The Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellowship Applications are now being accepted for the 2025-2026 season library.harvard.edu/grants-fello...

ICYMI on Monday, @chrishanlon.bsky.social has relaunched @thedial2024.bsky.social & kindly asked me to contribute to the inaugural issue. So I wrote about solar dreams, Emerson, Enbridge , infrastructural mediations, the Ford battery plant in Marshall, and energic hospitality.

“What exactly is this kind of remembering made of? […] And are these fit foundations for new attempts to remember figures like Dugan and the project of freedom in which he was engaged as a free African American?” Kristen Treen on public memory & Black Civil War vets in The Dial: thedialjournal.org

Introducing The Dial. Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, @jamieljones.bsky.social, @jlb.bsky.social, Kristen Treen, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing. thedialjournal.org

Introducing The Dial, a new open access journal. thedialjournal.org Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, Jamie L. Jones, Kristen Treen, John Levi Barnard, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing.

Hi everyone. Were new here and hoping to find other people interested in Emerson and the Transcendentalists emersonsociety.org/membership/

"Any holiday communicates to us its color. We wear its cockade and favors in our humor. Remember what boys think in the morning of Election day, of the Fourth of July, of Thanksgiving or Christmas. The very stars in their courses wink to them of nuts and cakes, bonbons, presents and fire-works."

Emerson Society Papers is published twice a year. ESP welcomes notes and short articles of up to 3,500 words on Emerson-related topics. You can read back issues and learn more on our website. emersonsociety.org/emerson-soci...

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is now on BlueSky. Learn more about us on our website. More posts to follow: emersonsociety.org