Hi Mark Twain Forum: We're putting the finishing touches on our little symposium celebrating the parallel legacies of Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy THIS WEEKEND in Boston, Massachusetts. I am so grateful for those members on this list presenting, and the general encouragement of the Forum. Should any of you find yourselves near Boston this weekend and be interested in attending let me know and I'll do my best to make the room available. Our keynote will be awesome with a discussion on Heritage Management between our own Patti Phillippon (from the Mark Twain House) and Galina Alekseeva (the Head of Research at Tolstoy's Yasnaya Polyana). Below you will find a plain text account of the panel titles and presenters. All this for the low low registration fee of $80!! Let me know what you think. "The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice." A symposium observing the legacies of Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy on the centennial of their passing Friday-Sunday, 20-22 August 2010 The Editorial Institute, 143 Bay State Road, Boston University FRIDAY, 20 August 2010 9:00am-10:00am: Registration 10:00am-10:30am: Welcome: William Dean Howells and the "Atlantic Monthly." 10:30am-11:45am: Session 1: Between the Lines: Libraries and Marginalia. Mallory Howard, The Mark Twain House & Museum Galina Alekseeva, State Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana 1:00pm-2:15pm: Session 2: Tolstoy and Twain on the Ethnic, Religious, and Cultural Other. Leon Kogan and Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College Michael Daher, Henry Ford Community College 2:30pm-3:45pm: Session 3: The Convention of Marriage: A Discussion and Reading. Christopher Ricks, Boston University Katherine O'Connor, Boston University Tim Peltason, Wellesley College Priscilla Meyer, Wesleyan University "The Diaries of Adam and Eve," by Mark Twain 4:00pm-4:45pm: Session 4: Mark Twain in Russia. Brent Colley and Heather Morgan, The Mark Twain Library 6:00pm: Late Night Nickelodeon: Cinematic Adaptation. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" (in Russian--Soviet Union: 1981) SATURDAY, 21 August 2010 8:30am-9:00am: Registration. 9:00am-10:15am: Session 5: Actions. Irina Ikonsky, Harvard University Julia Pistell, The Mark Twain House & Museum 10:30am-11:45am: Session 6: Reactions. Col. Rick McPeak, West Point Jennifer Formicelli, Boston University 1:00pm-2:15pm: Session 7: Tolstoy, Twain, Character and Trains. John Davis, Chowan University Ethan Rubin, Independent Scholar 2:30pm-3:45pm: Session 8: Publishing and the Public Domain. Sidney Berger, The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum Albert LaFarge, Boston University 3:45pm-5:00pm: Session 9: Textual Reception. Robert Croskey, Muhlenberg College Michael Shelden, Indiana State University 7:00pm-8:30pm: Keynote: Two Histories of Heritage Management. Patti Phillippon, The Mark Twain House & Museum Galina Alekseeva, State Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana 8:30pm: Centennial Reflection and Critical Readings. SUNDAY, 22 August 2010 8:30am-11:00am: Breakfast.