EDIS Schedule 2015

Submitted by RFranz on June 3, 2015 - 5:20pm

Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting
August 7 - 9, 2015 -- Amherst Massachusetts

9:30 AM-3:00 PM - Board Meeting, Woodbury Room, Jones Library
1:00-6:00 PM - Registration, Alumni House, 75 Churchill St
5:00-8:00 PM - Art Walk & Poetry Reading Emily Dickinson Museum, 280 Main St
6:45 PM - Poetry Reading (as part of the Amherst Art Walk), Jan Freeman, Executive Director of Paris Press reading from her poetry; Ellen Louise Hart, Co-Editor, reading from Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

6:00 PM - Board and Friends Dinner

9:30-10:45 AM - Registration, Alumni House, 75 Churchill St
10:45-11:00 AM - Welcome and Meeting Overview, Alumni House Main Room
11:00 AM-12:15 PM - Plenary Session: " The Weather (of) Documents," Marta Werner, D'Youville College, Alumni House Main Room
12:15-1:30 PM - Boxed Lunch, Pick up at Alumni House
1:30-4:30 PM - EDIS Critical Institute (six concurrent sessions), Frost Library
4:45-5:15 PM - Critical Institute Wrap-up, Alumni House Main Room
1:30-3:00 PM - EARTH Poetry Workshop, Alumni House Main Room
WATER Activity: Edward Hitchcock, Lake Hitchcock and geologic change. Visit to the Beneski Natural History Museum
3:30-5:00 PM - FIRE Poetry Workshop, Alumni House Library
EARTH Activity: Emily Dickinson's garden and Archaeology on the Dickinson Grounds, Emily Dickinson Museum
5:30-7:30 PM - Reception and Banquet, Lewis-Sebring Dining Room, Valentine Hall, Amherst College
8:00 PM - Entertainment following Banquet: Red Skies Music Ensemble: Emily Dickinson's Music, Friedmann Room, Campus Center, Amherst College

8:00 AM - Nature Hike on Amherst's Literary Trails (Air & Earth -- Birds & Trails), Departs from Goff Park
9:30-10:30 AM - Annual Members' Meeting, Alumni House Main Room
10:45 AM-12:00 PM - Plenary: "Dickinson in the Winds of War," Cody Marrs, University of Georgia, Alumni House Main Room
12:15-1:15 PM - Lunch on your own
1:30-3:00 PM - Emily Dickinson in New Fiction Reading and Discussion, Alumni House Main Room
Nuala O'Connor, Miss Emily
Susan Snively, The Heart Has Many Doors: A Novel of Emily Dickinson, Alumni House
AIR Poetry Workshop, Alumni House Library
1:30-3:00 PM - AIR Poetry Workshop, Amherst, Alumni House Library
3:30-5:00 PM - WATER Poetry Discussion, Alumni House Main Room
3:30-5:00 PM - AIR Activity: “She sights a Bird – she chuckles”: Birds in 19th-century Amherst, Beneski Museum of Natural History
5:00 PM - Tomoko Ozawa, jazz pianist, playing her compositions inspired by Dickinson poems. The Evergreens
6:00 PM - Happy Hours with Board members, Begin at Lord Jeffery Inn
7:00 PM - Dinner on own at Amherst restaurants
9:30 PM
1) Wilder Observatory Field Trip
2) Tarot Card readings from "Emily Dickinson Tarot Card deck" by poet Dara Weir, The Homestead

8:00 AM - Nature Hike on Amherst's Literary Trails (Fire & Water), Departs from Goff Park
9:00 AM-10:00 AM - Research Circle, Alumni House Main Room
10:15 AM-11:30 AM - Plenary: "Prompter than a Star: Dickinson's Clockwork," Michelle Kohler, Tulane University, Alumni House Main Room
11:30 AM-12:00 PM - Reflections on Meeting, Wrap-Up and Looking ahead to 2016, Alumni House Main Room
12:00 PM OPTIONAL EDM - "Dickinsons in Love" telling of selected Dickinson family relationships courtship, marriage, extra-marital -- in their own words. (Capacity 30), Emily Dickinson Museum