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The Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) at Elmira College announced the schedule for the 2023 Park Church Summer Lecture Series at the historic Park Church, in which Twain and his family were loyal congregants. Located at 208 W. Gray Street, the lectures are free and open to the public. They begin at 7:00 p.m. on July 12, August 2, and August 16.
The July 12 lecture features Alexander Ashland, Assistant Professor of English at Viterbo University. It is titled, “The Ruins, Relics, and Reshapings of Mark Twain’s Mississippi Memory.” Ashland will discuss Twain’s Life on the Mississippi and the relationship between memory and language. Ashland proposes that the text is not a memoir of Samuel Clemens the person but an autobiographical narrative of the Mark Twain persona. Twain’s relationship to race, indigeneity, and social status are further complications that Ashland will unpack.
The August 2 lecture features Bernard Joseph Dobski, Professor of Political Science at Assumption University. In his speech titled “Twain’s Machiavellian Princess: Personal Recollections and Political Philosophy,” Dobski will offer a political study of Mark Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Dobski contends that the novel represents a dramatic portrayal of the origins of modern politics, allowing the reader to reflect in new ways on the tensions between moral freedom and determinism, a deeply-rooted theme in Twain’s works.
The final lecture is on August 16 and will feature Stephen Rachman, Associate Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. Titled, “The Monetary Imagination of Mark Twain: From the Nevada Mines to the £1,000,000 Bank-Note,” the lecture will discuss Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain’s preoccupations with money and the role this plays in his creative life, his inventive use of language, his critiques of culture and politics and race, and the deeper imaginative patterns that shaped his work. This talk will cover the full span of Twain’s works to demonstrate his obsessions with money and speculation, but also to show how he came to use his imaginative powers in monetary terms, the coinage of his brain, circulating like currency throughout his work.
The Park Church Lecture Series is sponsored by CMTS and Park Church. They and The Trouble Begins series are made possible by the support of the Mark Twain Foundation, Katherine Roehlke, and generous gifts from individual donors.
