春天 Trouble Begins Lecture Series Continues May 15

2024年春天 “麻烦开始”系列讲座 由 马克·吐温研究中心 (CMTS)继续在晚上7点.m., 结婚nesday, May 15 at Quarry Farm and will continue each 结婚nesday through May. The lectures are free and open to the public and recordings of the lectures will be posted to the CMTS website.

The May 15 lecture will feature Rafael Walker, Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, 纽约城市大学, where he is also an affiliate faculty in both the Department of Black and Latino Studies and in the Program and Women and Gender Studies. He has published on many topics both in American literature and in higher education and he is working on two book-length monographs—one on the American realist novel and the other on biraciality in American culture.

Walker will delve into Mark Twain’s novel Pudd’nhead Wilson by putting it into context with the issues of race in the 1890s. Walker will also compare Twain to one of his contemporaries, Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Both authors wrote fiction demonstrating the arbitrariness of race, at a time when many of their compatriots were insisting on its primacy. 对吐温来说，利害关系不同, who was trying to be a good citizen while Chesnutt (a man fair enough to pass for white but who let himself be identified as black) was fighting for his life and the lives of others like him. Both authors are counted among the first to have moved beyond propaganda in portraying mixed-race characters and yet both of their novels are often unliked. Walker will suggest that the disorderliness of both their works is less the result of carelessness than the product of the disorderliness of their subject matter—race in an era convinced that the concept mattered yet couldn’t be consistently defined.

The Trouble Begins Lectures are open to the public and begin at 7:00 p.m. 在采石场的谷仓里. The Series will continue on 结婚nesdays throughout May with recordings of each posted to the CMTS website.

未来 2024年春季麻烦开始演讲:

• 结婚., May 22: “Mark Twain’s 70th at Delmonico’s: The Dawn of a New Era in American Literature” by Tess Chakkalakal, 鲍登学院.

• 结婚., May 29: “Mark Twain’s Caste Studies in Following the Equator” by Susan Gillman, 加州大学, 圣克鲁斯.

“麻烦开始”系列讲座

In 1984, the 埃尔迈拉大学 马克·吐温研究中心 initiated a lecture series, The Trouble Begins at Eight lecture series. The title came from the handbill advertising Mark Twain's October 2, 1866 lecture presented at Maguire's Academy of Music in San Francisco. The first lectures were presented in 1985. 通过邀请, Mark Twain scholars present lectures in the fall and spring of each year, 在采石场的谷仓里 or at Peterson Chapel in Cowles Hall on 埃尔迈拉大学's campus. All lectures are free and open to the public.