All 2024 CMTS Lectures Are Now Available

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The lectures from the 2024 Spring & Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series, the 2024 Park Church Summer Lecture Series, and the 2024 Quarry Farm Symposium are now available. CMTS had the opportunity to record 27 talks from established and emerging scholars working in the field of Mark Twain Studies and other related fields. We hope these support and push forward the study of Mark Twain and his texts in all its aspects.

All CMTS lectures are open to the public at no charge. The lectures are video recorded and archived on freely accessible MarkTwainStudies.org and the CMTS YouTube Channel.

Spring Trouble Begins Lecture Series

  • Gary Scharnhorst, “Mark Twain: Social Satirist” (May 1, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Brigitte Fielder, “Genealogies of Mothering and Mammying in Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson (May 8, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Rafael Walker, “The Mixed-Race Fiction of Charles Chesnutt and Mark Twain (May 15, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Tess Chakkalakal, “Mark Twain’s 70th at Delmonico’s: The Dawn of a New Era in American Literature (May 22, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Susan Gillman, “Mark Twain’s Caste Studies in Following the Equator (May 29, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)

Elmira College Alumni Weekend

  • Barbara E. Snedecor, “‘I am women’s rights’: Olivia Langdon Clemens – Class of 1864 and Wife of Mark Twain” (June 21, 2024 – Elmira College Campus)

The Park Church Summer Lecture Series

  • Charline Jao, “Langdon’s Pencil: The Infant Voice in Mark Twain’s Langdon Letters” (July 10, 2024 – The Park Church)
  • Mary Lemak, “‘Making of a woman minister’: Rev. Annis Ford Eastman and Elmira, New York” (July 17, 2024 – The Park Church)
  • Edward Guimont, “The Cosmic Mark Twain” (July 24, 2024 – The Park Church)
  • Barbara Snedecor, “‘the dearest little woman in the world’: Letters of Olivia Clemens to her Sister, Susan Crane” (July 31, 2024 – The Park Church)

Quarry Farm Symposium “Gilded Ages: Humor, Literature, and Society”

  • James E. Caron, “Marietta Holley’s Samantha Allen, Humorous Housewife, Satiric Suffragette” (October 12, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Christopher J. Gilbert, “Dear God, Let Us Praise Mark Twain’s Satanic Sense of Humor” (October 12, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Lawrence Howe, “Skewering Gilded Age Corruption: The Visual Satire of Thomas Nast” (October 12, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Charline Jao, “Mark Twain’s False Alarms” (October 12, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Teresa Prados-Torreira, “The Comic Lecturer in the Gilded Age” (October 12, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Stephen Rachman, “Buying Siberia: Fraud, Speculation, and Revolution from The Gilded Age to The American Claimant” (October 12, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Ann M. Ryan, “Gilding Jim and Nat: Mark Twain and the Specter of the Angry Black Man (October 12, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Matt Seybold, “Colonel Sellers, Doc Rockefeller, & The Technofeudal Enclosure of Everything” (October 12, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Bruce Simon, ““Rereading Jim’s Coat of Arms: The Badge of Servitude and the Device of Race in Mark Twain and Nathaniel Hawthorne” (October 12, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Barbara E. Snedecor, “‘She is the best girl in all the world’: Gilded Age Domestic Humor and Resilience in Olivia Clemens” (October 12, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Kyhl Stephen, “Twain, Humor, and the Fashioning of Gilded Age Consumer Society” (October 12, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Todd Nathan Thompson, “‘Mr. Seward’s Real Estate Transactions’: Comic Imperialism in the Reconstruction Era” (October 12, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Nathan Wolff, “First as Farce: Structures of Feeling in The Gilded Age” 2024 Quarry Farm Symposium Keynote Address (October 11, 2024 – Elmira College Campus)

Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series

  • Benjamin Griffin,  “Authority and Corruption: Editing the California Pudd’nhead Wilson” (October 2, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Kathryn Dolan, “Mining Gilt” (October 9, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Timothy Donahue, “Mark Twain, the Novel, and 1492” (October 16, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)
  • Linda A. Morris, “Before There Was Twain There Was Whitcher” (October 23, 2024 – Quarry Farm Barn)