Mark your calendar for The Seventh International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies to be held at Elmira College on August 1-3, 2013. Join with us as we commemorate the Sesquicentennial of the Pen name - "Yours, dreamily, MARK TWAIN." Developed abstracts (700 words) will be due Monday, February 4th, 2013. Final papers must be suitable for a 20-minute presentation. Please send your attached abstract, via electronic submission, to [log in to unmask] Provide your name, mailing address, and email address. Developed abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by selected panel chairs. Call for Papers We invite papers related to any aspect of Mark Twain’s legacy. We have a special interest in papers on the following topics: Mark Twain and Crime Mark Twain and Ecocriticism Mark Twain and Family Mark Twain and Folktale and/or Folklore Mark Twain and Humor Mark Twain and Law Mark Twain and Manners Mark Twain and Masculinity Mark Twain and Music Mark Twain and Native Americans Mark Twain and Peace, War, and/or Anti-Imperialism Mark Twain and Performance Mark Twain and Plagiarism Mark Twain and Poverty Mark Twain and Race Mark Twain and Reform Mark Twain and Religion Mark Twain and Science Mark Twain and Science Fiction and/or the Occult Mark Twain and Whiteness Mark Twain and Women Mark Twain and the Chinese Mark Twain and the Politics of Scholarship Mark Twain and the World of Periodicals Mark Twain and Other 19th- and 20th-Century Writers Mark Twain and the Sandwich Islands Mark Twain in the American West The Bohemian Mark Twain The Mark Twain Persona The New South Edition of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn The Transgressive Mark Twain The Transnational Mark Twain Mark Twain’s Brand of Realism Mark Twain’s Encounters with the Metaphysical Mark Twain’s Style: A Paragraph, a Sentence, a Word (inviting close reading) Mark Twain’s Uses and Abuses of History Mark Twain: Deep Cuts (exploring lesser-known and underappreciated works) Marketing Mark Twain Translating Mark Twain Mark Twain as Journalist Mark Twain as Satirist Signed “Mark Twain”: The Autobiography of Sam Clemens