From “The Times” forum on higher ed now in the current issue of The Dial, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social ‘s statement on the criminalization of student activism: muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

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

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The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites participants in a panel on "Emerson and Power" at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy from March 12-14, 2026 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

More info:
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Two new very C19-oriented journals, _The Dial_ and _American Gothic Studies_, covering all things between the sunlight and the darkness.

Another great #mla25 panel including Michael Jonik on Thoreau and Merleau-Ponte; and @weisenburg.bsky.social on Thoreau and trash. Dude littered!

Today’s #mla25 session on editing Margaret Fuller for the new LOA edition included @noelleabaker.bsky.social ‘s account of the “havoc” wreaked by Emerson, James Freeman Clarke, and William Henry Channing on Fuller’s manuscripts, & the extraordinary measures Baker took to reconstruct them.

Major thanks to the Council of Editors of Learned Journals @celj.bsky.social for inviting editors to an extremely productive workshop at
at @mla2025.bsky.social

📣 We're excited to announce CELJ has been awarded a grant of $555,000 from the @mellonfoundation.bsky.social to advance equitable and inclusive practices in peer review and scholarly journal publishing within the humanities.

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Many thanks to @americanstudier.bsky.social for listing The Dial in the irreplaceable #ScholarSunday substack!

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This summer’s annual Thoreau gathering focuses on Margaret Fuller and Revolution. Submit! We’ll be there and we hope you will be too.

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Happy birthday to @jlb.bsky.social whose essay in the current issue of The Dial takes Thoreau’s writings on the railroad as a chance to draw out the meanings of infrastructures of speed and mobility during a time of climate crisis.

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Jamie Jones, in the inaugural issue of The Dial, discusses containerization, Thoreau’s Cape Cod, and her own habits of ship-watching at the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Richard Primack and Abe Miller-Rushing in the current issue of The Dial explaining how Thoreau’s Kalendar has offered a key dataset for their work as climate scientists:

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@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social in the first issue of The Dial writing about energy, life, and Emerson’s solar dreams: “Why should we grope among the dead bones of the past? The sun shines to-day also.”

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“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:

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“Butler, like Thoreau, had little reason for techno-optimism and, in fact, saw more clearly than most that climate crisis would soon become the dystopian norm.”

Russ Castronovo on Octavia Butler & Henry Thoreau’s paratextual convergences in the current issue of The Dial.

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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.

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