*CALL FOR PAPERS: 2024 Quarry Farm Symposium on “Gilded Age Humor”* *Oct 18 and Oct 19, 2024* *Elmira, NY* The Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College is partnering with *Studies in American Humor *to host the annual Quarry Farm Symposium during the *Fall 2024 semester, from October 18 to October 19*. The theme for the Symposium is “Gilded Age Humor.” It will feature a keynote address by Tracy Wuster, author of *Mark Twain: American Humorist* and long-time executive director of the American Humor Studies Association. The annual symposium gathers scholars from various fields each year around a theme related to Mark Twain studies or the nineteenth century more broadly and is held at the historic Quarry Farm site in Elmira, NY. *Presenters may be invited to submit a version of their presentation for publication in a special of issue of Studies in American Humor, which will be published in Fall 2025.* We invite submissions on a wide range of subjects related to humor in or about the Gilded Age, including: · Literary humor · Mark Twain · Political Cartoons · Social satire · Periodical Humor · Visual Arts · Contemporary Representations of the Gilded Age · Gender, Race, Class and Gilded Age Humor · Nationalism, Transnationalism Please send *200-word paper abstracts* and *either a CV or biographical statement* to David Gillota ([log in to unmask]) by February 1st, 2024.