| 4:30 | ice breaker, mixer |
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| 5:30 | buffet dinner |
| 7:00 | Lecture and Open House: Warthin Museum of Geology and Natural History special exhibition: “The Evolution of the Natural Sciences: Selections from the Natural History Museum at Vassar College” Lois Horst (museum curator) introduction and history of the museum. Rick Jones (exhibit curator) – introduction to the exhibit. |
| 8:30 | first seminar meeting of students with instructors |
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| 9:30 | welcome: Jeff Walker (conference organizer) Robert Suter (Associate Dean of Faculty) Ron Patkus (Vassar Libraries Special Collections) |
| 10:00 | academic paper session |
| 11:30 | break for lunch |
| 1:00 | keynote address - Charlotte Zoë Walker “John Burroughs, Sharp Eyes and Reading the Book of Nature Today” |
| 2:15 | break |
| 2:30 | academic paper session or panel discussion |
| 4:00 | free time* |
| 8:30 | academic paper session |
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| 10:00 | coffee break |
| 10:30 | plenary session |
| 12:00 | lunch |
| 1:30 | academic paper session |
| 2:45 | coffee break |
| 3:00 | academic paper session or panel discussion |
| 4:00 | free time* |
| 7:30 | film night (Taylor Hall 204) |
| 7:00 | bird walk with Mary Ann Cunningham (Vassar Geography) |
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| 8:30 | academic paper session |
| 10:00 | coffee break |
| 10:30 | academic paper session |
| 12:00 | lunch |
| 1:30 | academic paper session |
| 2:45 | coffee break |
| 3:00 | academic paper session or panel discussion |
| 4:00 | free time* |
| 7:00 | dance with the Walker Family |
Field trip to Burroughs’s haunts in West Park, NY
| 9:00 | buses leave Vassar College, Ely Hall Riverby property, West Park, New York walk to Slabsides (1.5 miles, optional) lunch at Slabsides explore Slabsides, Nature Preserve, Pond House, etc. |
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| 3:30 | buses leave to return to Vassar |
| 4:00 | free time* |
| 6:30 | closing banquet keynote address by Harry Stoneback "John Burroughs--Regionalist (and Modernist?): A Meditation on Influences and Confluences" |
| all day | last meeting of student seminar optional field trip (not included in meeting registration) to Troutbeck (house of Myron Benton) TENTATIVE |
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*free time will include opportunities for campus tours, for guided tours of the Vassar College Special Collections exhibition "John Burroughs and Walt Whitman: Literary Comrades" in the college library, for visits to Special Collections, and for exploring on your own.
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