The Trouble Begins Lectures – Page 3 – Center for Mark Twain Studies

Final Spring Trouble Begins Lecture Explores Caste in FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR

Susan Gillman (UC, Santa Cruz) will present on Wednesday, May 29 at 7:00pm in the Quarry Farm Barn

Tess Chakkalakal (Bowdoin College) will present on Wednesday, May 22 at 7:00pm in the Quarry Farm Barn

Walker compares Twain and Chesnutt, two authors who wrote fiction demonstrating the arbitrariness of race

Rafael Walker (Baruch College) will deliver his lecture on Wednesday, May 13 at 7:00pm in the Quarry Farm Barn

Brigitte Fielder explores the character of Roxy, the mixed-race Black mother, who changes her child’s place with the child of her enslaver

Brigitte Fielder’s (University of Wisconsin-Madison) lecture will take place on Wednesday, May 8 at 7:00pm in the Quarry Farm Barn

Scharnhorst explores Twain’s satirical criticism, especially late in his career

All CMTS lectures are open to the public at no charge

Snedecor and Seybold discuss Livy’s important and revealing corpus of letters