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Fred Botting\/ Steven Shakespeare\/ Sarah Wood<\/h3>\n

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Listen to the podcast<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

6.30 – 8pm, Tuesday 6 December 2016
\nWolfson Theatre, LSE<\/p>\n

Speakers<\/strong>
\nFred Botting<\/a><\/span>, Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing, Kingston University
\nSteven Shakespeare<\/a><\/span>, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Liverpool Hope University
\nSarah Wood<\/a><\/span>, Reader\u00a0in English Literature and Literary Theory, University of Kent<\/p>\n

Chair<\/strong>
\nDanielle Sands<\/a><\/span>, Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture (Royal Holloway) and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n

Why is art preoccupied with monsters? What can we learn about a society from the kinds of monsters it imagines? Today, when traditional ideas of the human cannot account for advances in biology and technology, can monstrous figures help us to better understand our changing sense of ourselves? In this panel, three thinkers examine our ongoing fascination with monsters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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