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“The Dawn of the Beautiful”
Dear Friends,
While a full report and a “Proceedings of the Conference” lie yet ahead, here are recordings of the two lectures that began our eight-day 2024 North American Section Conference. I was fortunate to have pushed all the buttons correctly, and I was able to get good recordings. I was less successful after that. Due to the complications of managing multiple tasks simultaneously while keeping up conversations and tracking other details, I was not able to make useable recordings of the talks in the afternoon sessions in San Francisco. No recordings were made in Toronto.
The complete printed texts of Christiane Haid’s 2024 Keynote Lecture and Bruce Donehower’s 2024 Keynote Lecture are available in this book that was prepared especially for our conferences.
Or, if you don’t want to read the lectures, you can watch the videos of the Day One Keynote Lectures, which you will find when you scroll down . . .
Conference Opening Lecture
“The North American Scholar”
by Bruce Donehower
Second Opening Lecture
“Beauty, Truth, and Goodness: Their Meaning for the Literary Arts and Humanities”
by Christiane Haid
(Translated and Edited by Bruce Donehower)
Our Conference in 2024 included a literary field trip to explore the bioregional poetics and literary history of Alta California at Big Sur.
Section Leader Christiane Haid standing with Poet Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts (Director of Tor House Foundation) at the Robinson Jeffers Tor House. Click picture for information.
The bed where modernist poet Robinson Jeffers died. The bed is found in the Tor House at Carmel that we visited with a small group of coyote-poets after the event in San Francisco.
9.16.24