The Education Gospel, Enshittify.edu, & The Expansion of Lower Ed (A Tale of Today, Episode #8)
The finance of Higher Ed in the New Gilded Age.
Author: Center for Mark Twain Studies
CFP: “Generations and Generational Time in the United States During the Long Nineteenth Century” Lille, France (June 12-13, 2025)
CFP deadline is November 30, 2024
CFP: Society for the Study of the American Gothic at ALA in Boston , MA (May 21-24, 2025)
CFP deadline is December 15, 2024
Mark Twain Circle Zoom Discussion (2024 Quarry Farm Symposium)
Zoom discussion takes place Wednesday, November 20 at 4:00pm EST
Call for Applications: CALS 2025 First Book Institute
Applications are due February 19, 2025
Philanthrocapitalism U (A Tale of Today, Episode #7)
A discussion of financing HBCUs revolving around the example of Morehouse College.
Professor Susan K. Harris Donates Her “Courtship” Notebooks to the Mark Twain Archive
Notebooks focus on Elmira and the Langdon family in the 1850’s-1860’s.
Center for American Literary Studies “Unprecedented” Webinar: “Isolation/Communication”
Webinar takes place on Tuesday, November 12 from Noon to 1pm.
The Black University Concept & The Second Curriculum (A Tale of Today, Episode #6)
The second act of “A Tale of Today” opens with a survey of the history of HBCUs.
CFP: American Humor Studies Association at ALA 2025 in Boston, MA (May 21-24, 2025)
Panel Proposal title “Humor and/in Periodicals in the Long 19th Century.” CFP deadline is November 15.