Workshop Abstracts

Jay Dittburner Carleton University With comments by Hane Maung (University of Manchester) This is the beginning of a larger project of mine where I look at the role that hauntings, specters and ghosts have played in the social history of North America, and North American obsession with ghosts. Th

A.G. Holdier University of Arkansas With comments by Jasmine Gunkel, University of Southern California. Abstract-in-a-Tweet: Many people hold that eating meat is not unethical, yet also hold that passive cannibalism is wrong. Building on Diamond's & Korsgaard's notion of "fellow creatures," I ana

Jennifer L. Whyte University of Pittsburgh, Department of History and Philosophy of Science With comments by Lindsay Hachey (University of Western Ontario) Abstract-in-a-Tweet: In the Early Modern period, #bothsides of the fierce debate over the possibility of the alchemical transmutation of meta

Eylül Yücel Bilkent University With comments by Boomer Trujillo (University of Louisville) Abstract-in-a-Tweet: There is nothing paradoxical and nothing wrong about enjoying the horror genre as it has an impact on the development of sympathy. I will use the gothic novel Frankenstein or the Modern