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The Dial is a journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society.

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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
What better way to celebrate RW Emerson’s 223rd birthday than by joining the @emersonsociety.bsky.social and perusing the latest issue of the Dial? @c19americanists.bsky.social emersonsociety.org thedialjournal.org
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The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is dedicated to fostering scholarship on and appreciation of the life and writings of one of America’s greatest authors. The
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Emerson Society @emersonsociety.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Happy 223rd birthday to Ralph Waldo Emerson 🎉 Taking this opportunity to remind you all that The Dial’s latest issue (vol. 2, no. 2), edited by @chrishanlon.bsky.social, is available online!
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Emerson Society @emersonsociety.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson came out a few weeks ago! 17 brilliant new essays on Emerson and a magnificent introduction by editor Michael Jonik (U of Sussex) @universitypress.cambridge.org
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” @c19americanists.bsky.social @aaup.org
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Please circulate! The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is pleased to announce its 2026 award competitions: the Research Award, Outreach Award, Undergraduate Student Essay Prize, and Graduate Student Essay Award. For more details see: emersonsociety.org/2026-rwes-aw...
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2026 RWES Awards - Call for Applications - Emerson Society
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is pleased to announce the following awards:
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Good morning! And welcome to Day 1 in Cincinnati, C19! @c19americanists.bsky.social
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Airplane reading for C19, courtesy of the Emerson Society—our third issue is live! With content by Christina Zwarg, Rachel Banner, Rachel DeWitt, Max Chapnick, Kristin Lacey, Rachael DeWitt, Susan Dunston, Sonia Di Loreto, & Mollie Barnes. thedialjournal.org @c19americanists.bsky.social
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The Dial has stickers. See you in Cincinnati. @c19americanists.bsky.social
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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...
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Project MUSE - The Friction Has Its Universities
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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 Read/circulate/submit: thedialjournal.org
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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: american-philosophy.org/saap2026/
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Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy53rd Annual MeetingMarch 12–14, 2026University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV Fantasy, Reality, and Ideals SAAP2026 CFPDownload Submit Here!
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Two new very C19-oriented journals, _The Dial_ and _American Gothic Studies_, covering all things between the sunlight and the darkness.
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Another great #mla25 panel including Michael Jonik on Thoreau and Merleau-Ponte; and @weisenburg.bsky.social on Thoreau and trash. Dude littered!
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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.
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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
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celj.bsky.social @celj.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
📣 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. Read more about the grant and subscribe to updates about the project ⬇️
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Many thanks to @americanstudier.bsky.social for listing The Dial in the irreplaceable #ScholarSunday substack! americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
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#ScholarSunday Thread 200 (!)
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This summer’s annual Thoreau gathering focuses on Margaret Fuller and Revolution. Submit! We’ll be there and we hope you will be too. margaretfullersociety.org/call-for-pap...
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CFP: “Margaret Fuller, Women of the Nineteenth Century, and Revolution”   – Margaret Fuller Society
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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. muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
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Project MUSE - Thoreau and the Future We Choose
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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. muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
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Project MUSE - Long Looking, Without Seeing: Thoreau's Cape Cod and Global Capitalism at Sea
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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: muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
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Project MUSE - Thoreau's Contributions to Climate Change Science
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
@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.” muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
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Project MUSE - Transcendental Solarity; or, Life Takes Energy
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
“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: thedialjournal.org
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
“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. thedialjournal.org
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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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. thedialjournal.org
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