This two day symposium will be convoked to celebrate
University Press of New England's republication of C.L.R.
James's Mariners. Renegades and Castaways: the Story
of Herman Melville and the World We Live In. The
symposium celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the publication
of Mariners, a book about Melville's Moby
Dick, which C.L.R. James wrote as a political prisoner
awaiting deportation on Ellis Island. UPNE's re-publication
of the book has been hailed by the New York Times (August
4, 2001) as a landmark event.
All symposium events are open to the public, and will
be held at the Hanover Inn.
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Friday, April 5
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4:30-6:00 pm
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Cash Bar reception
Welcoming presentation by Ralph Dumain and Jim
Murray: Constance Webb's Memoirs
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Saturday, April 6
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10:30-12:00 am
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Breakfast Symposium
Chris Gair: Mariners: Beyond the Boundary
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1:45-4:00 pm
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Luncheon Symposium
Aldon Nielsen: Time Throttles Me
Richard King: "What's Totalitarianism
Got to do with it?" - James and Arendt on
Domination, Statelessness and "The Right
to Have Rights"
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7:30- 9:30 pm
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Dinner Symposium
Alan Wald: The Totalitarian temptation:
CLR James, Lionel Trilling and the "Whiteness"
of the Radical Intellectual
Anthony Bogues: Mariners, Renegades &
Castaways, Totalitarianism, Empire and
Intellectuals
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