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Leviathan
Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies appears three times a year in March, June, and October. We welcome articles, notes, reviews, and creative writing on the life, works, and influence of novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891). Click here for more information.
Melville Electronic Library
The Melville Electronic Library is an online resource for Melville texts. Housed on a Hofstra University server, MEL is being developed and maintained by a group of Melville scholars and digital specialists.
Johns Hopkins University Press
To join the Melvillle Society and subscribe to Leviathan, visit Leviathan's Johns Hopkins University Press journal site by clicking here.
Melville Society Cultural Project
The New Bedford Whaling Museum in collaboration with The Melville Society is the established home of the Melville Society Cultural Project and Melville Society Archive. The Melville Society Archive is housed at the New Bedford Whaling Museum's Research Library, where significant works from this collection are also on display. The Melville Society Cultural Project also sponsors a book donation program and presents exciting annual events including the Moby-Dick Marathon and a Birthday Lecture.
Melville in a Global Context
The Tenth International Melville Conference
Tokyo: 25-29 June 2015
PRESENTED BY
The Melville Society in collaboration with The Melville Society of Japan
and
Keio University's G-SEC American Studies Project
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The Tenth International Melville Conference will take place at Keio University (Mita Campus, Tokyo) from June 25 (Thursday) to June 29 (Monday), 2015. The five-day conference (including a day-trip to cities by the sea in Kanagawa Prefecture, reminiscent of the days of Commodore Perry's Black Ship) will invite participants to consider Melville’s deep interest in globalism, the many contexts in which his work has been and continues to be read, and the range of uses to which his writings have been put.
Registration and Logistical Information
Conference attendees should check to see if their home countries require visas to visit Japan.
(U.S. citizens do not need a visa to visit Japan)
A guide to Japanese Visas (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan) is here.
For full registration, travel, lodging, and event information,
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Calendar
Upcoming Events
| 21 Aug 2017; 12:00AM A Moby-Dick Experience: Hershall Seals |
| 12 Sep 2017; 12:00AM Play - The Grand Escroc: Masquerades by Herman Melville |
| 23 Sep 2017; 01:00PM - 04:00PM Lecture: "Fayaway: Melville, Fantasy, and Fame." |
| 26 Sep 2017; 06:30PM - The Herman Plays - Regional Readings of Plays about Herman Melville |
| 28 Sep 2017; 12:00AM Melville's passing |
| 03 Oct 2017; 06:30PM - The Herman Plays - Regional Readings of Plays about Herman Melville |
| 10 Oct 2017; 08:00AM - 05:00PM Iowa City Book Festival |
| 13 Oct 2017; 12:00AM Play [or the whale] by Juli Crockett Feldman |
| 21 Oct 2017; 02:00PM - 04:00PM Course: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville |
| 31 Oct 2017; 12:00AM NUP - Publication of the Final Volume of the Fifteen-Volume Writings of Herman Melville Series |
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Blue Room Lecture Series - The Schooner Fayaway and Herman Melvi
Blue Room Lecture Series - The Schooner Fayaway and Herman Melvi
Blue Room Lecture Series - The Schooner Fayaway and Herman Melville’s Persistent Connections with San Francisco Bay
The National Park Service and California State University Maritime Academy are partnering to present a series of free lectures for the public in 2017.
The Blue Room Lectures will be presented by professors from Cal Maritime and will take place in the Maritime Museum at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (900 Beach Street, San Francisco, in the Blue Room.) A Q & A period will follow each talk.
Saturday, September 23, 2017, 1:00 PM: “The Schooner Fayaway and Herman Melville’s Persistent Connections with San Francisco Bay,” by Colin Dewey, Assistant Professor of English at Cal Maritime.
The National Park Service and California State University Maritime Academy are partnering to present a series of free lectures for the public in 2017.
The Blue Room Lectures will be presented by professors from Cal Maritime and will take place in the Maritime Museum at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (900 Beach Street, San Francisco, in the Blue Room.) A Q & A period will follow each talk.
Saturday, September 23, 2017, 1:00 PM: “The Schooner Fayaway and Herman Melville’s Persistent Connections with San Francisco Bay,” by Colin Dewey, Assistant Professor of English at Cal Maritime.
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A Melville Marginalia Mystery
nypl.org
A researcher's reading of erased marginalia provides insight to Melville's thoughts on religion.
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On the trail of the author of ‘Moby-Dick’ in three New England towns
washingtonpost.com
In the ‘Melville Triangle,’ visitors learn about the author’s life and work — and, of course, whales.
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Fellowships and Scholarships
Melville Society Archive
Walter E. Bezanson Fellowship
The Melville Society, under the auspices of the Melville Society Cultural Project in New Bedford, offers an annual fellowship to help a scholar undertake research on Herman Melville at the Society’s Archive in the Research Library of the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Click here for more information and application details.
New York Public Library
Short-term Research Fellowships
Graduate students or other affiliated academics whose work would benefit from visiting the Manuscripts and Archives Division to view collections such as the Gansevoort-Lansing collection, and Duyckinck family papers are encouraged to apply.
Click here for more information and application details.
Links
Woodlawn Cemetary
Woodlawn Cemetary - final resting place of Herman, his wife, Elizabeth, and other family members. Click here to view photos of the gravesites.
125th Anniversary Celebration
A celebration of Melville's life at Woodlawn Cemetary on the 125th anniversary of his passing.
Lansingburgh Historical Society
Melville lived for nine years in this Lansingburgh house. It was here that he wrote Typee and Omoo.
Berkshire Historical Society
Melville's Arrowhead home and farm in Pittsfield, MA where he wrote Moby-Dick and lived for most of the 1850s.