Race, Gender, and Monsters: What Vampires and Werewolves Reveal About Ourselves and Our Culture
Saturday, October 5, 2024
- Time
- 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
- Venue
- Westport Timberland Library, Westport, WA, 98595
- Price
- 0.00
Humanities Washington Speaker Event:
Race, Gender, and Monsters: What Vampires and Werewolves Reveal About Ourselves and Our Culture
Speaker: Bernadette Calaf
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Humanities Washington Speaker Event:
Race, Gender, and Monsters: What Vampires and Werewolves Reaveal About Ourselves and Our Culture
Speaker: Bernadette Calafell
This is an online virtual program. You will receive a reminder email along with the link to view from home. You may come to the library to watch this Online Event.
Why do some monsters seem to resonate through time?
What do they say about our social and cultural anxieties around difference—in particular race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and ability?
This talk explores the shifting meanings vampires and werewolves have taken in popular culture, with a particular focus on the 1980s through the 2000s. In addition, these figures will be compared to the early Universal horror film monsters Dracula and The Wolf Man. Discover how the monsters we love tell us a great deal about ourselves and our changing cultural ideas about difference.
Race, Gender, and Monsters: What Vampires and Werewolves Reaveal About Ourselves and Our Culture
Speaker: Bernadette Calafell
This is an online virtual program. You will receive a reminder email along with the link to view from home. You may come to the library to watch this Online Event.
Why do some monsters seem to resonate through time?
What do they say about our social and cultural anxieties around difference—in particular race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and ability?
This talk explores the shifting meanings vampires and werewolves have taken in popular culture, with a particular focus on the 1980s through the 2000s. In addition, these figures will be compared to the early Universal horror film monsters Dracula and The Wolf Man. Discover how the monsters we love tell us a great deal about ourselves and our changing cultural ideas about difference.
Venue
Westport Timberland Library
101 E Harms Drive
Westport, WA
98595
Dates
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