Thirty One Years of
Michigan Conferences
2022
"Hemingway and the Odawa Indians" with Keynote speaker Frank Ettawageshik,
President of the Association on American Indian Affairs
2021 "2021 Conference Cancelled" Rescheduled for 2022
2019 Hemingway and "My Michigan in 1961" with keynote speaker Dr H. R. (Stoney) Stoneback
2018 "Hemingway and WWI" with keynote speaker Dr Verna Kale
2017 "Hemingway: The End of Youth" with keynote speaker Steve Paul2016 "1919: The Beginning of Something" with keynote speaker Dr Don Daiker
2015 "Sense of Place" with keynote speaker Nancy Sindelar
2014
"Hemingway and Supporting Cast" with featured author John Cohassey and
keynote speaker Valerie Hemingway
2013 "Raising A Glass With Hemingway" with keynote speaker Philip Greene
2012
"Hemingway Up In Michigan" 15th international Hemingway Society Conference
Hosted by the Michigan Hemingway Society
Conference Recap,
Conference Program,
Post-Conference UP Tour
2011 Hemingway’s Waters: Exploring the Depths
2010
Hemingway and Food with "Dining at Hemingway's Table"
by Valerie Hemingway
2009 Hemingway and Art
2008 Hemingway and Friends
2007 Up North with the Hemingways
2006 Lovely Walloona: Hemingway and Nature
2005 Hemingway in Film
2004 Hemingway’s Women
2003 Hemingway on the Road
2002 Hemingway and Fishing
2001 Hemingway and the Native Americans
2000 Summer People
1999 (October)
"Best of All He Loved the Fall”, with Kalkasks area stories
("The Light of the World" and "The Battler") by Jack Jobst followed by
a trip to the Kalkaska museum and Rugg Pond, "Remembering Ernest
Hemingway" by James Plath with Irene Gordon as special guest and
"Michigan as Muse" by Ann Marie Oomen.
1999 (July)
Hemingway's Centennial Birthday Celebration "Michigan in
Hemingway: A Sense of Place", with "Why We Celebrate Hemingway"
by Joe Waldmeir, a panel of Michigan writers Tom Carney, Mike Delp,
Jerry Dennis, Judith Guest and Gloria Whelan
1998 Torrents of Spring
1997 Hemingway and Native Americans
1996 Hemingway and Women with Linda Patterson-Miller
1995
Hemingway Weekend; First general membership meeting/vote.
“How I Learned to Write Like Hemingway” by Paul Smith
(delivered by Joe Waldmeir), "Pere et Fils and Papa's Paris"
by Joe Waldmeir and "EH in Cuba" by Fred Svoboda
1994
The Michigan Hemingway Society: A Weekend in Petoskey,
with William Henderson("The Price of Fame")
1993
The Michigan Hemingway Society formally begins to organize
(October 23rd)
1992
Hemingway: Up in Petoskey [Hemingway Weekend sponsored
by the Perry Hotel]
1991
Hemingway: Up in Michigan, organized by Joe Waldmeir, Ken Marek
and Fred Svoboda with a roundtable discussion by Mike Reynolds
and Linda Wagner, moderated by Fred Svoboda.
1983 Up In Michigan sponsored by The Ernest Hemingway Foundation
and Society, Traverse City, Michigan, Oct. 20-22,
Joseph Waldmeir, Conference Chair; Kenneth Marek, Co-Chair.
Organized by: Joe Waldmeir, Fred Svoboda and Robert Martin.
Michigan Series Papers by: E. R. Hagemann, Bickford Sylvester,
Larry Grimes, Lawrence H. Martin, Howard L. Hannum,
Bruce R. Stark, Frederic Svoboda, Scott Donaldson,
Karianne H. Knowlton and James Hinkle.
General Series Papers by:
Robert E. Gajdusek, William E. Cote,
Frank Kersnowski, James Seaton, Kim Moreland,
Robert M. Hogge, Patrick W. Shaw, Susan Beegel,
James Brasch, Douglas E. LaPrade and Joseph Waldmeir.
Session Moderators:William Shaw, John Pahl, Clyde Dornbush,
Allen Josephs, Jack Jobst, Erik Nakjavani, J. F. Kobler,
Robert Lewis, Stephen Schuber and Linda Wagner.
Compiled by Magdalene and Arthur Wagner
and The Michigan Hemingway Society Board of Directors