Fri, Apr 05
|Tufts Alumnae Lounge
Gothic, Now! Dark Atmospherics in a Post-Truth Climate An Interdisciplinary Symposium.
The Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies Presents: a Phelps-Coit Lecture
Time & Location
Apr 05, 2024, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Tufts Alumnae Lounge, 40 Talbot Ave, Medford, MA 02155, USA
About the event
The Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies Phelps-Coit Lecture
Gothic, Now! Dark Atmospherics in a Post-Truth Climate: Where can we look for truth and light in what seems to be an increasingly dark, post-truth world? Ironically, the Gothic and horror genres and their attendant tropes—the eerie, the weird, the supernatural, the strange and the grotesque—may be some of the best modes to help us navigate our current fraught reality. Though the Gothic tradition is centuries old, this symposium seeks to offer approaches that both fruitfully engage with the legacy of the past at the same time as they participate in the discourses of our urgent present and complex future.
Keynote Address @3:30 pm with Award-Winning Novelist ELIZABETH HAND “A Haunting on the Hill: Conjuring Shirley Jackson”
Speakers: Alessandro Carleton, Dingru Huang, Charles Inouye, Sarah Mass, Susan Napier, Tasha Oren, Alexandra Shraytekh, Malcolm Turvey, and Jennifer Yoo
Sponsored by: Charles Smith Endowment Fund, CHAT Coit-Phelps Lecture, Arabic Program, Film and Media Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
RSVP: registration extended to Monday, April 1st.