December 1-2, 2023 – Marked the 260th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years’ War and the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

This conference examined the British empire at its moment of great triumph, in 1763, with its enemies defeated and its control spreading from India to the Mississippi; and again at 1773, with its control beginning to slip away in North America as a radical mobilization began against imperial power.

Empire and Its Discontent

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023 – Henry David Thoreau stands as an icon of modern American environmentalism, the father of American nature writing, a forerunner of modern ecology.

Henry David Thoreau scholar Lawrence Buell gives due consideration to all these aspects of Thoreau’s art and thought, framing key issues and complexities in historical and literary context.

Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently

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