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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

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