2018 Moby-Dick Marathon Lecture Series Final Day | SF

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2018 Moby-Dick Marathon Lecture Series

2018 Moby-Dick Marathon Lecture Series Launches August 7, 2018
Local Melville Scholars Offer Three Fascinating Evenings of Fresh, Critical Insights
All Free Talks Presented in the Park’s Maritime Research Center

San Francisco, CA – San Francisco Maritime National Park, The San Francisco Maritime National Park Association, the Melville Society and the 2018 Moby-Dick Marathon present a summer Moby-Dick Marathon Lecture Series. All three lectures, scheduled in the San Francisco Maritime Research Center, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, are free and open to the public

2018 Moby-Dick Marathon Lecture Series
August 7 – September 6, 2018 | 7 – 8:30 pm
San Francisco Maritime Research Center, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
FREE

Lecture Series Schedules:

• Tuesday, August 7, 2018 from 7 pm – 8:30 pm
  Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• Tuesday, August 28, 2018 from 7 pm – 8:30 pm
  There’s No Place Like Home: Moby-Dick and Childhood Trauma
• Thursday, September 6, 2018 from 7 pm – 8:30 pm
  “…But Drowned the Infinite”: Reading Moby-Dick in the Wake of Climate Change

Thursday, September 6, 2018
2018 Moby-Dick Marathon Lecture Series

For many contemporary environmental writers and activists, the rising tides and acidifying waters of the world oceans have become productive symbols for generating ethically-engaged conversation in our current moment, referred to as “the Anthropocene,” the proposed term for this geological epoch where human activity is now the primary force rendering irreversible impacts on global climate and conditions for life on earth. Yet, despite the proliferating images of melting ice and tidal takeovers, much of this current fascination with the rapidly-transforming seas has, thus far, been silent with regards to the ocean’s human histories.

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