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Viewing convention Program information from 2009
Session Details
Wednesday, 30 December
722. Teaching, Reading, Being “Civil Disobedience”
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 404, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the Thoreau Society
Presiding: Lawrence Alan Rosenwald, Wellesley Coll. Speakers: Linck C. Johnson, Colgate Univ.; Michael Jonik, Univ. at Albany, State Univ. of New York; Trish Loughran, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana; Linda Richards, Oregon State Univ. Respondent: Lawrence Alan Rosenwald
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Lawrence Alan Rosenwald
Wellesley C
11 Jan 2010, 11:09 am
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Subject: sometimes everything goes right!
And it did, in my judgment, in this session. I was responding and presiding, I should make clear; but I stand by that judgment regardless. The four talks constituted a coherent and almost intimate conversation; they cohered, in a way that in my experience at MLA and other conference panels is quite unusual. One special virtue of that conversation, and a virtue appropriate to Thoreau and his essay, was the fruitful counterpoint between meditations on texts and meditations on actions and lives. Plus no one went over the time limit, there was ample time for questions, and the questions themselves were illuminating and diverse.
Best, Larry Rosenwald
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Rosemary G. Feal
Mod Lang Assn
12 Jan 2010, 2:31 pm
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Subject: Congrats!
Congrats on presiding on a session in which no speaker went over the time limit. That pleases my executive ears!
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