In August and September, join the National Park Service, the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (SFMNHP), the SFMNHP Association, and the Melville Society at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture for a fascinating series of events leading to the 24-hour Moby-Dick Reading Marathon in October. The “Moby-Dick Lecture Series” occurs on Tuesday, August 7 and August 28, 2018 and Thursday, September 6, 2018 in the SFMNHP Resource Center in Building E, on the third floor.

Each evening features a different distinguished scholar and Moby-Dick expert discussing amazing topics related to historical or contemporary trends reflected in Herman Melville’s masterpiece novel, Moby-Dick. For Tuesday, August 7, 2018, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., noted University of the Pacific English professor Jeffrey Hole discusses “Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.”

James Noel of Los Medanos College delivers “There’s No Place Like Home: Moby-Dick and Childhood Trauma” on Tuesday, August 28, 2018, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The final lecture on Thursday, September 6, 2018, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. features Ryan Heryford, Assistant Professor of Environmental Literature at California State University East Bay. Heryford talks about “… ‘but drowned the infinite’: Reading Melville’s Moby-Dick In the Wake of Climate Change.”

Free Admission