Past Autumn Conferences

“Sharing Our Past — Shaping Our Future” Since 1974

2006 ~ Setting as Character: Vermont Landscape, Stories, and Sense of Place

2005 ~ Creativity and Madness: Romantic Notion and Reality

2004 ~ Movies, Books and the 70s: Hollywood’s Golden Age

2003 ~ Voting Rights and Wrongs: The Starts and Stops Along the Road to Universal Suffrage

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

1974 ~ Convocation of Vermont Humanists

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