RWE Institute

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Institute is incorporated not-for-profit in the State of New York.

It's mission is to promote to a global audience a greater understanding of and appreciation for the life and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson . The primary means of reaching this goal  is through this web site (www.RWE.org) and through the online and offline activities of the Institute.  The Institute's affiliations with The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association help to further this mission.

The Institute welcomes membership and seeks to encourage interested persons to support the work of maintaining the web site and to take an active part in exploring the life and work of America's Founding  Thinker.

Another key mission of the Institute is to encourage members to write. To that end, essays can be submitted and will be posted on RWE.org.  Also we will be making  web pages will be provided for memebrs so that they can reflect further in writing about their experience with Emerson's work and with their own application of Emerson's vision.

Waldo Emerson said, "Do your work and I shall know you."
He may have suggested,
"Write, and I shall know you."

Membership in the Ralph Waldo Emerson Instiitute, at various levels, supports the work of the Institute, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, and, most important, the presence of rwe.org on the Internet as a global outreach. The mission of the Institute is to make available to anyone with access to its web site the Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, plus all relevant information to promote greater understanding of America's Founding Thinker.

Membership levels

Basic: $40.00 per year
         Provides access to all Emerson materials, plus Search capabilities, Queries to the Site Advisor, Notes, Journals, the Emerson Concordance.  A gift item of an inscribed pen. LAter features will include free email and a web page.
Student:  $20.00 per year with proof of school status, to include all the above.
Senior:  $30.00 per year, with proof of age (65 and over), to include all the above

Founding:  $120.00 and Basic Membership after Year One.
         Provides automatic membership in the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and the above features.

The Emerson Circle:  $360  
         Provides the above plus choice of inscribed gift books.
                  A Year With Emerson, edited by Richard Grossman
                  God In Concord, by Richard Geldard

Membership and Donations are tax deductible. Payments can be made by credit card or checks made out to the  Ralph Waldo Emerson Institute,  and sent to 680 Lexington Ave, Third Floor, New York, NY 10022.

The following events and conferences for 2005 are listed below. Additions and Corrections will be made as required.

May 26-29 Annual meeting of the American Literature Association in Boston
Sessions on Emerson include "Reconsidering The Conduct of Life" and Emersonian Delemmas: Individual and Community"
For further information see www.emersonsociety.org

July 7-10 Annual meeting of the Thoreau Society in Concord, MA. Also see www.emersonsociety.org

Looking ahead to 2006

July 13-16 at St. Catherine College, Oxford University, England
Transatlanticism in American Literature: Emerson, Hawthorne and Poe
(Papers due Sept. 15, 2005)

Those having an Emerson Event or Conference to place in this space should send all relevant information to RWE Advisor