BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:67@walden.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211021T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211021T203000 DTSTAMP:20211001T163624Z URL:https://www.walden.org/events/a-virtual-lyceum-the-art-of-perception/ SUMMARY:A Virtual Lyceum: The Art of Perception DESCRIPTION:Brought to you by: The WWP\, The Dial\, and The Concord Festiva l of Authors \n\nAbout the event: Perception connects us with our immedia te environment\, and yet perception is anything but immediate. We learn to perceive\, and what we ordinarily perceive is conditioned by what we have learned to pay attention to. Our powers of perception must be cultivated.   During this Lyceum\, joined by scholars and artists in various mediums\ , we will discuss the connection between perception\, the natural world\, art\, and society. Henry David Thoreau’s writing is filled with sense ob servations and perceptions of the natural world and philosophical percepti ons of society. How can the natural world awaken our powers of observation ? How can our social lives? Art forms? Why is close observation of all imp ortant? \n\nPanelists: \n\nCaroline Randall Williams is a multi-genre wr iter\, educator\, performance artist in Nashville Tennessee\, where she is a Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University. She is co-author of the N AACP Image Award-winning cookbook Soul Food Love. Her debut collection of poetry\, Lucy Negro\, Redux has been turned into a ballet by the Nashvi lle Ballet -- Caroline performed her poetry as an integral member of the c ast\, all set to an original score by multiple time grammy nominee Rhian non Giddens. Named by Southern Living as “One of the 50 People changing the South\,” the Cave Canem fellow has been published and featured in multiple journals\, essay collections and news outlets\, including The Io wa Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, CherryBombe\, Garden and Gun\, Es sence and the New York Times. Most recently\, she was ranked by The Root as one of the 100 most influential African Americans of 2020. \n\n \ ;\n\nJeffrey S. Cramer is The WWP Curator of Collections and resident Thor eau scholar.  Jeff's works include I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau\, The Portable Thoreau\, Solid Seasons\; The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson\,  among others.  He is a winner of a National Outdoor Book Award and a co-winner of the Boston Authors Club's Julia Ward Howe Special Award.  \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nDr. Justin Atwell currently works as an Instruct or in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Colorado-B oulder where he teaches various courses including Writing on Science &\ ; Society and Technical Communication &\; Design. He holds a Master of Arts in Literature from Iowa State University and a Doctorate of Philosoph y in Rhetoric\, Writing\, and Culture from North Dakota State University. Because of these and other work and life experiences\, his research intere sts are varied\, including the rhetoric of science and medicine\; working class rhetorics\; and\, whenever possible\, hip-hop music. This last inte rest\, combined with a longstanding love of Henry David Thoreau’s philos ophy\, led Dr. Atwell\, early on in his academic career\, to write his Mas ter’s Thesis\, “The Transcendentalist Hip-Hop Movement\,” which expl ores various philosophical legacies of the 19th-century Transcendentalists through 20th and 21st-century hip-hop music. \n\n \;\n\n\n\nGarrett Allen (moderator) is a writer and teacher living in Los Angeles. He was a philosophy and Greek instructor at the University of Chicago\, where he ea rned a master’s degree. He writes a weekly newsletter of short essays ca lled Footnotes. He is primarily interested in everyday philosophy\; in thi s vein he draws inspiration from ancient Greek philosophy\, American trans cendentalists and American pragmatists.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nJoin us v ia zoom Thursday\, October 21\, 2021 7:00-8:15pm EST.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n&n bsp\;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\nWe continue to offer our virtual e vents free of charge. These are challenging times for all\, including nonp rofit organizations. If you are able to do so\, your tax-deductible financ ial support would be profoundly appreciated and will help us continue our critical work. \nDonate here. CATEGORIES:Lectures,Special Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR