| Do you believe in monsters? Perhaps in our disenchanted age the category seems archaic. We no longer fear vampires, ghouls, or dragons. What about serial killers, predators, war criminals, and those that we often call monstrous? Does it help us to understand our world to keep this category, for some things so especially scary and perhaps evil?
Scholars have long studied monsters and the role they play in our cultures. Some in the humanities call monster studies ‘Teratology’ – an attempt to understand the concept of the ‘monstrous’ and what our fears say about us. Join us and discuss, a few nights before Halloween, to learn about ourselves through what we fear and hate. |
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