University Talk by Sarah Ann Wider
University Talk by Sarah Ann Wider
Nov 4, 2025
5:00 - 6:00pm
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Dialogue’s Poetic Heart:
Daisaku Ikeda’s Ethos of Encouragement
Sarah Ann Wider taught an Emersonian miscellany of courses at Colgate University for nearly 40 years. Emerita Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, she continues her always ongoing study of the Transcendentalists in all their challenging and vexing complexities. She is the author of Anna Tilden, Unitarian Culture and the Problem of Self-Representation (1997) and of The Critical Reception of Emerson: Unsettling all Things (2001), as well as essays on women involved in or responding to the Transcendentalist Movement.
The Art of True Relations, Wider’s dialogue of the heart with SUA founder, Daisaku Ikeda, was published in 2014. She has contributed chapters on Ikeda’s poetry for Encountering the Poems of Daisaku Ikeda (2015) and Daisaku Ikeda, Transnationalism, and American Literature: Dialogues of the Heart (forthcoming). She treasures the many ways in which she has been able to be part of ongoing and generative dialogues with those at the Ikeda Center for Peace Learning and Dialogue, with the Women’s Peace Committee, and with students and faculty at Copyright 2024 ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ of Japan, Soka Women’s College, and Copyright 2024 ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ of America.
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Dialogue’s Poetic Heart:
Daisaku Ikeda’s Ethos of Encouragement
Sarah Ann Wider taught an Emersonian miscellany of courses at Colgate University for nearly 40 years. Emerita Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, she continues her always ongoing study of the Transcendentalists in all their challenging and vexing complexities. She is the author of Anna Tilden, Unitarian Culture and the Problem of Self-Representation (1997) and of The Critical Reception of Emerson: Unsettling all Things (2001), as well as essays on women involved in or responding to the Transcendentalist Movement.
The Art of True Relations, Wider’s dialogue of the heart with SUA founder, Daisaku Ikeda, was published in 2014. She has contributed chapters on Ikeda’s poetry for Encountering the Poems of Daisaku Ikeda (2015) and Daisaku Ikeda, Transnationalism, and American Literature: Dialogues of the Heart (forthcoming). She treasures the many ways in which she has been able to be part of ongoing and generative dialogues with those at the Ikeda Center for Peace Learning and Dialogue, with the Women’s Peace Committee, and with students and faculty at Copyright 2024 ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ of Japan, Soka Women’s College, and Copyright 2024 ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ of America.
Register .