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Featured Blogs and Site Overview

Our website features selections from the blog of Professor Robert K. Wallace, as well as the blog of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Professor Wallace's blog features illustrated essays and narratives about the 2019 Twelfth International Melville Society Conference in New York, which celebrated Melville's Bicentennial, the 2017 Eleventh International Melville Society Conference in London, and excursions to London art museums. The New Bedford Whaling Museum blog is also featured.

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NYC 2019 - Worldwide Scholars Celebrate Melville’s 200th Birthday

A guest blog contributed by Robert K. Wallace

Professor Wallace's blog essays about the 2019 NYC Conference celebrating Melville's Bicentenniel cover all 5 days of the Conference. The "Read More" link below will take you to his blog post for Day 1. Click the link for Day 2 at the end of the Day 1 post; similarly, click the links for Days 3, 4, and 5 at the end of his posts for Days 2, 3, and 4.