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Joe Petrulionis

January 30, 2007

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CFP Thoreau Society, MLA 2007 Dec. 27-30 Chicago

Inter-Discipline Opportunity to Showcase US Intellectual History

MLA session (Chicago, Dec. 27-30)

Papers wanted for a panel sponsored by the Thoreau Society

Topic for Panel: “Global Thoreau”

Recent studies have focused productively on Emerson, Fuller, and otherAmerican Renaissance writers, but what about a truly global Thoreau?

Please send your 1-page abstracts on TransAtlantic, TransPacific, and Pan-American perspectives on Thoreau to Laura Dassow Walls, [email protected] by March 15.

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