On behalf of Co-Chairs Kerry Driscoll and Ann Ryan, the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies is pleased to announce the following Weekend Symposium: "Complicating Twain: Biography, Autobiography, and the Personal Scholar: Remembering Michael J. Kiskis" October 19th and 20th, 2012 at Elmira College "Complicating Twain" will address topics relating to the biographical and autobiographical narratives that Twain both inspired and produced, on domesticity and Twain, including Twain's representations of the child and of women, on the subject of the sometimes fraught relationship between Twain and his biographers, editors, and his reading public; and on the ways in which scholarly writing is often at odds with the call to authenticity that underlies so much of Twain's work. In other words, we invite submissions that reflect not only upon the scholarly legacy of Michael Kiskis, but that consider the wonderfully skeptical, ironic, playful, and original voice of Michael Kiskis as well. Please send abstracts to Dr. Kerry Driscoll at [log in to unmask] and to Dr. Ann M. Ryan at [log in to unmask] Papers will be considered for inclusion in an edition of The Mark Twain Annual dedicated to Michael Kiskis. The Call for Papers is available at http://www.elmira.edu/resources/shared/pdf/academics/distinctive_program s/twain_center/ComplicatingTwain.pdf