The Dial is a journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. https://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3mlbmzgh2k22f“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” @c19americanists.bsky.social @aaup.org [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 16:26 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbmzgh2k22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3mjfnl4gtrc2fPlease 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: https://emersonsociety.org/2026-rwes-awards-call-for-applications/13 Apr 2026 19:56 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfnl4gtrc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3mguguletec2bGood morning! And welcome to Day 1 in Cincinnati, C19! @c19americanists.bsky.social12 Mar 2026 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mguguletec2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3mgqufu2ng22rAirplane 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 https://thedialjournal.org11 Mar 2026 02:42 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgqufu2ng22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3mg7ge5et322fThe Dial has stickers. See you in Cincinnati. @c19americanists.bsky.social04 Mar 2026 04:16 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg7ge5et322fhttps://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3lynitzd3u222From “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: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/article/96878112 Sep 2025 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lynitzd3u222https://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3ly3uzg5wvk2rIssue 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 https://thedialjournal.org05 Sep 2025 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly3uzg5wvk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3lxddu46xuk2sThe 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/ https://american-philosophy.org/saap2026/26 Aug 2025 20:24 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxddu46xuk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3ltpyrj22tc2mTwo new very C19-oriented journals, _The Dial_ and _American Gothic Studies_, covering all things between the sunlight and the darkness. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jul 2025 23:29 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltpyrj22tc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3lfiybwgj5222Another great #mla25 panel including Michael Jonik on Thoreau and Merleau-Ponte; and @weisenburg.bsky.social on Thoreau and trash. Dude littered!12 Jan 2025 00:39 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfiybwgj5222https://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3lfiq7puppk22Today’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.11 Jan 2025 22:15 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfiq7puppk22https://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3lfgfbm7ioc23Major thanks to the Council of Editors of Learned Journals @celj.bsky.social for inviting editors to an extremely productive workshop at at @mla2025.bsky.social10 Jan 2025 23:54 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfgfbm7ioc23https://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3lde5rctqts2eMany thanks to @americanstudier.bsky.social for listing The Dial in the irreplaceable #ScholarSunday substack! https://americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsunday-thread-20015 Dec 2024 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lde5rctqts2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3ld2zhtbzls2gThis summer’s annual Thoreau gathering focuses on Margaret Fuller and Revolution. Submit! We’ll be there and we hope you will be too. https://margaretfullersociety.org/call-for-papers/cfp-margaret-fuller-women-of-the-nineteenth-century-and-revolution/12 Dec 2024 00:33 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld2zhtbzls2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3lbphqv2ymc2eHappy 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. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/article/94297324 Nov 2024 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbphqv2ymc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3lbkp6om3k222Jamie 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. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/article/94297522 Nov 2024 19:21 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbkp6om3k222https://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3lbkdtsirls22Richard 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: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/article/94297722 Nov 2024 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbkdtsirls22https://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3lbhq65zq5224@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.” https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/article/94297421 Nov 2024 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbhq65zq5224https://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3lbfopqqxxc22“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 https://thedialjournal.org20 Nov 2024 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfopqqxxc22https://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3lbcxlquau22w“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 https://thedialjournal.org19 Nov 2024 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbcxlquau22whttps://bsky.app/profile/thedial2024.bsky.social/post/3lbac37g2is2iIntroducing 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 https://thedialjournal.org18 Nov 2024 16:00 +0000at://did:plc:2pefpfhcz6exuu565jcsefsd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbac37g2is2i