Fall Conference
Past Fall Conference Topics
2011 — The Power of the Humanities: Why They Matter
2010 — Comedy and Satire: It’s No Joke From Jonathan Swift to Jon Stewart, Ridiculing Vice and Folly
2009 — Food for Thought
2008 — Delight and Wisdom: The Life and Poetry of Robert Frost (PDF)
2007 — The Northern Civil War Home Front (PDF)
2006 — Setting as Character: Vermont’s Landscape, Stories, and Sense of Place (PDF)
2005 — Creativity and Madness: Romantic Notion and Reality (PDF)
2004 — Movies, Books and the 70s: Hollywood’s Golden Age (PDF)
2003 — Voting Rights and Wrongs: The Starts and Stops Along the Road to Universal Suffrage (PDF)
2002 — Shakespeare: Star-Crossed and Moonstruck Lovers
2001 — The Book of Job
2000 — The Eagle on the Throne: Eleanor of Aquitaine
1999 — Deep Diversity: The Role of the Humanities in Building Community
1998 — Harlem in the Jazz Age
1997 — Lincoln: The Man and the Myth
1996 — The Legends of King Arthur
1995 — Poetry: American Voices
1994 — Wonder, Fact, and the Human Condition
1993 — Justice, Honor, Family and Friends
1992 — Encountering Japan
1991 — Odyssey Tales
1990 — Different Dreams of Freedom: Cultural tensions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
1989 — Reading Nature: A Conference on American Nature Writers
1988 — History, Myth, and the Invincible Armada
1987 — Can Virtue Be Taught?
1986 — The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson
1985 — J.S. Bach and the Culture of His Times
1984 — The Constitution and the American Political Order
1983 — The Visible Idea: Art, Architecture, and Society
1982 — The Governor’s Conference on the Future of Vermont’s Heritage
1982 — Religion and Science
1981 — Education and Freedom
1980 — Interpreting Our Legacies: A Program Development Conference for Museums, Historical Societies, and Historical Organizations
1979 — Understanding the Far East
1978 — In Search of the Promised Land: America in the 1970s
1977 — Excellence and Equality in American Culture
1976 — Evaluation and Program Conference: Some Uses of the Humanities in a Technological Society
1975 — Evaluation Conference: Public Programs in the Humanities through Museums and Historical Societies
1974 — Evaluation Conference: Reflections on the Humanities and the Public Interest