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The spring 2025 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series presented by the Center for Mark Twain Studies (CMTS) concludes at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 28, at Quarry Farm with the final lecture of the Spring Series. The lecture series is free and open to the public.
The final lecture will feature Bernard J. Dobski, a politics and literature, political philosophy, and international relations professor at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts. His speech, titled “Mark Twain’s Political Critique of Divine Providence: Joan of Arc and Personal Recollections,” will assert that Twain settles various questions he grappled with about the direct involvement of God in human lives, also known as a providential God. Dobski believes that in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Twain rules out the possibility of a just and caring God by focusing on what it means to be human. While the book’s narrator wants to believe in a God who makes certain justice and goodness win, his hope doesn’t match how the world really works.
Dobski has published widely on ancient Greek political thought, the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare, and the political wisdom of Mark Twain. Most recently, he is the author of Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity. He was a Quarry Farm Fellow in 2023 and is currently at work on a new book on Mark Twain’s engagement with the promise and perils of modernity, with a special focus on the character of its doctrine of individual rights.
This and all of the Trouble Begins Lecture Series talks are recorded. The Center's website is currently being rebuilt, but once the new site is launched, the recordings will be posted there. The web address will remain the same.
About The Trouble Begins Lecture Series
In 1984, the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies initiated a lecture series, The Trouble Begins at Eight lecture series. The title came from the handbill advertising Mark Twain's October 2, 1866 lecture presented at Maguire's Academy of Music in San Francisco. The first lectures were presented in 1985. By invitation, Mark Twain scholars present lectures in the fall and
