This is a reminder that the first Zoom event in our upcoming series will be held this Wednesday (11/20/2024) at 4PM EST! Here is the Zoom link.<https://elmira-edu.zoom.us/j/81564358330?pwd=JHIaWTI2cHjuN6t4zwZvJnSKgaJhqO.1> You can find video presentations for group discussion at the top of the full schedule re-posted below. We'll be looking forward to seeing you there!
Best,
James Leonard
To: MT Circle Membership
From: Judith Yaross Lee, President; James Caron, Vice-President
SUBJECT: Mark Twain Circle Zoom Events: 11/20/24, 1/24/25, and beyond
Please join us and your Circle colleagues for one or more of four interactive Zoom gatherings designed by our Programming Committee for 2024-25.[1]<https://outlook.office.com/mail/inbox/id/AAQkADk1ZDcwYWM2LWQ2OWYtNDViZC04MzY0LTdlMTM5NmY2YzY0ZgAQAIwpof5SieZIvocG3BgUgVg%3D#x__ftn1> The first event is coming up fast: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 4 p.m. EST. Here are the details:
1. “Mark Twain and Gilded Age Humor”: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, at 4 p.m. EST.
Discussion of three presentations recorded at 2024 Quarry Farm Symposium hosted by our friends at the Center for Mark Twain Studies (Joe Lemak, director; Elmira C). The format is group discussion (no presentations), so please view the videos in advance:
Charline Jao (Cornell U), “Mark Twain’s False Alarms” <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM4Dv1ttV3E>
Christopher J. Gilbert (Assumption U) “Dear God, Let Us Praise Mark Twain’s Satanic Sense of Humor” <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhDqTz0Ev6w&t=4s>
Ann M. Ryan (Le Moyne College), “Gilding Jim and Nat: Mark Twain and the specter of the Angry Black Man” <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYx2TzsVWTQ>
Moderator: Larry Howe (Roosevelt U)
Zoom link: <https://elmira-edu.zoom.us/j/81564358330?pwd=JHIaWTI2cHjuN6t4zwZvJnSKgaJhqO.1>
2. “Mark Twain’s Jim and Percival Everett’s James”: Friday, January 24, 2025 at 4 pm EST.
Discussion of paper by Darryl Dickson-Carr (Southern Methodist U), “James and Jim: Percival Everett on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” for the Mark Twain Circle panel at the 2025 MLA Convention in New Orleans. The format is group discussion (no presentation), so please download the paper after January 15th from the Member Content section of the Mark Twain Circle website <https://www.marktwaincircle.org/account/member-content> (login required).
Moderator: Matt Seybold (Elmira C)
Zoom link: TBA.
3. Works in Progress, late February 2025 (participants, date, and time TBD)
Discussion of draft articles by 2-3 scholars, both early-career and senior. The format is group discussion (no presentations), so papers will be available about 10 days before the event at the Member Content section of the Mark Twain Circle website <https://www.marktwaincircle.org/account/member-content> (login required).
Authors and moderator: TBA
4. Featured New Book(s) on Mark Twain, early April 2025 (participants, date, and time TBD).
We look forward to being with you in Zoom-space! But for those of you interested in gathering in person in 2025, and unable to attend our MLA panel in New Orleans (#79, “Invisible Mark Twain: Meanings between the Lines,” Thursday, January 9, 2025, 3:30-4:45; Hilton Riverside - Royal [3rd Floor]), please see the CFP for the two Circle-sponsored panels at the upcoming ALA in Boston, May 21-24, 2025 at <https://www.marktwaincircle.org/ala-2025-cfps>.
Judith and Jim
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[1]Many thanks to the Programming Committee chaired by VP Jim Caron: Jay Christensen, Sarah Fredericks, Harold Hellwig, Larry Howe, Chander Shekhar, Bruce Michelson, Jeanne Reesman, Seema Sharma, Laura Trombley, and Harry Wonham.
Judith Yaross Lee, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor Emerita
School of Communication Studies • Ohio University • Schoonover Center 400 • Athens, OH 45701
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My newest book: Seeing Mad: Essays on Mad Magazine’s Humor and Legacy (University of Missouri Press, October 2020) <https://upress.missouri.edu/9780826222398/seeing-mad/>
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