Monstrosity

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.

Speakers
Fred Botting, Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing, Kingston University
Steven Shakespeare, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Liverpool Hope University
Sarah Wood, Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature, University of Kent