Scholars Confront the Zombie Invasion:  A Public Discussion

Since 9/11, the number of zombie narratives consumed worldwide has veritably exploded. They seem to be everywhere—in novels, games, comic books, film, and television. For example, after Hollywood’s White Zombie, released in 1932 and starring Bela Lugosi, and up until 2001 zombie movies were churned out at a rate of about one per year. After 9/11 that number leapt to 22 per year. Why? What is it that compels us to devour this brand of horror with the relish of a zombie slowly pursuing fresh brains?  How can humanities scholarship help us to make sense of this cultural invasion?  Scholars teaching or researching the zombie phenomenon or related topics (the undead, monsters) are invited to submit proposals for brief workshop presentations (20 minutes) explaining what we can learn by applying the methodologies of particular disciplines to the study of zombies.   Presentations by Graduate Students are particularly welcome.  The discussion is tentatively planned for 31 March, 2017:  exact time and place to be determined.

Please send proposals to humanities.research@uregina.ca

Deadline for submission of proposals:  28 February, 2017.