Spooky Evenings is a multidisciplinary academic e-event that seeks to engage academics, students, and professionals in the field of horror. We strive to create a pop-cultural event around the theme of horror in October to encourage both intellectual pursuit as well as a bit of seasonal fun. Spooky Evenings runs the entire month of October with different programming each night.
2021 schedule
october 1
Richard Chizmar
Author of NYT Bestseller Chasing the Boogeyman
Interview
october 2
Dr. William McBride
Illinois State University
Talk: “The Rigid Embrace of the Narrow House”
october 3
Dr. Kevin Wetmore
Loyola Marymount University
Talk: “Performing the Vampire, or, Everything You Think You Know about Dracula is from the Theatre”
october 4
Rachel Harrison
Author of Cackle
Interview
october 5
Dr. Laurence Rickels
Cal Arts - author of The Vampire Lectures
Interview
october 6
Dr. Joseph Laycock
Texas State University
Talk: “When Harvard Held a Black Mass”
october 7
Dr. Murray Leeder
University of Manitoba
Talk: “Narration and Damnation in Angel Heart”
october 8
Dr. Brandon Grafius
Ecumenical Theological Seminary
Talk: “Constructing the Witch: The Rhetoric of Witch Hunting through the Ages”
october 9
Dr. Scott Bruce
Fordham University
Talk: “Night is the Dead's Domain: The Habitats of Restless Souls in Medieval Thought”
october 10
Anna Biller
Director of The Love Witch
Interview & Screening of The Love Witch
october 11
Clay McLeod Chapman
Author of Extreme Carnage and Scream: Curse of Carnage
Discussion - Horror in Comics
october 12
Dr. Esther Hamori
Union Theological Seminary - Columbia University
Talk: “The Biblical God and His Entourage of Monsters: or, And You Thought the Devil was Bad”
october 13
Dr. Hilaire Kallendorf
Texas A&M
Talk: “What do Werewolves Have to Do with Free Will?”
october 14
Heather Greene
Independent Scholar
Talk: “Magick and Witchery on Television: Exploring the enchanting and fearsom witches and warlocks of the small screen”
october 15
Dr. Adrian Schober
University of Melbourne
Talk: “From the Eternal Sea He Rises: Paranoia, Politics, and The Omen”
October 16
Leslie S. Klinger
Multiple Edgar Award Winner - Independent Scholar
Interview
October 17
Dr. Bernadette Calafell
Gonzaga University
Talk: “American Dreams, American Nightmares: La Llorona, Race, and Politics”
october 18
Dr. Henry Ansgar Kelly
UCLA
Talk: “Satan Not So Bad; or, Sympathy for the Devil”
october 19
Dr. Benjamin Hebblethwaite
University of Florida
Talk: “A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou”
october 20
Dr. Sarah Burns
Ruth N. Halls Professor Emerita Indiana University
Talk: “Casting a Spell: Women, Art, and Witchery in Midcentury America”
october 21
Dr. Karen Renner
Northern Arizona University
Talk: “Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Children of the Corn”
october 22
Dr. Cristina Santos
Brock University
Talk: “Myth, Murder, and Monstrosity: Mother(hood)s in Mexican Cultural Imaginary”
october 23
Dr. Tosha R. Taylor
Manhattanville College
Talk: “Witches and the Rural Landscape in American Horror Film”
october 24
Dr. Dragan Kujundžić
University of Florida
Talk: “The Stakes Are High: Dracula-Vlad-the-Impaler, Vampire”
october 25
Dr. Dale Bailey
Lenoir Rhyne University
Talk: “Secret Histories: The Undying Allure of Haunted Places”
october 26
Dr. Toni Pressley-Sanon
Eastern Michigan University
Talk: “Zombify You, Zombify Me: The Reciprocal Nature of Dehumanization”
october 27
Dr. Kendall Phillips
Syracuse University
Talk: “Haunting Screens: Technology and the Permeable Boundaries of Horror”
october 28
Dr. Ken Gelder
University of Melbourne
Talk: “Transnational Draculas”
october 29
Dr. L. Andrew Cooper
Independent Scholar
Talk: “Cinematic Method and Narrative Madness Behind the Witchery of Dario Argento’s ‘Three Mothers’”
october 30
S.T. Joshi
Bram Stoker Award Winner - Independent Scholar
Interview
october 31
Lisa Morton
Six Time Winner of the Bram Stoker Award - Independent Scholar
Interview
november 1
Dr. Laura Westengard
CUNY New York City College of Technology
Talk: “Gothic Ghosts: Queer Trauma and its Spectral Reverberations”
november 2
Dr. Russell Meeuf
University of Idaho
Talk: “Haunted Homeowners from Obama to Trump”
november 3
Dr. Kelly Hayes
Indiana University
Talk: “Spirits of Shadows: Envisioning Black Magic in Brazil”
november 4
Adam Stovall
Director of A Ghost Waits
Interview & Screening of A Ghost Waits
november 5
Dr. Farshid Kazemi
Simon Fraser University
Talk: “Darkness Visible: Vampires, the Occult Sciences, and the Cinema”
november 6
Dr. Sandra Tomc
The University of British Columbia
Talk: “Vampires Revealed: Dressing the Gothic in Vampire Films”
7 pm cst / 8 pm est
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