The MHS 2027 Conference
Conference details and registration information will be posted in early 2027. We can't wait to meet you in Michigan!
MHS Conferences
Hemingway and the Odawa Indians
Keynote speaker Frank Ettawageshik, President of the Association on American Indian Affairs.
Hemingway and "My Michigan in 1961"
Keynote speaker Dr H. R. (Stoney) Stoneback.
Hemingway and Supporting Cast
Featured author John Cohassey and keynote speaker Valerie Hemingway.
Hemingway Up In Michigan
15th international Hemingway Society Conference hosted by the Michigan Hemingway Society.
Conference Recap | Conference Program | Post-Conference UP Tour
Lovely Walloona: Hemingway and Nature
Hemingway in Film
Hemingway’s Women
Hemingway on the Road
Hemingway and Fishing
Hemingway and the Native Americans
Summer People
Best of All He Loved the Fall
Featuring 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.
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.
Torrents of Spring
Hemingway and Native Americans
Hemingway and Women
Keynote speaker Linda Patterson-Miller.
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.
A Weekend in Petoskey
Keynote speaker William Henderson ("The Price of Fame").
The Michigan Hemingway Society formally begins to organize.
October 23, 1993
Hemingway: Up in Petoskey
Hemingway Weekend sponsored by the Perry Hotel.
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.
Up In Michigan
Sponsored by: The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, Traverse City, Michigan, 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.