Dr. Andrew Gow, U of Alberta, Key Note Speaker for Witches of the West symposium.
Dr. Andrew Gow, U of Alberta, Key Note Speaker for Witches of the West symposium. His talk will be on "Witch-hunting" and Moral Panics. Why studying the late medieval and early modern witch crazes can help us make sense of moral panics and other 'witch hunts' both in the past and today."
Witches of the West (Which Hunts in our Modernity) "WITCHES OF THE WEST" is the Early Modern and modern pendent to the Annual Medieval Workshop (January 31, Burnt at the Stake): these two days will explore the "modernity" of witch-hunting and mass persecution, pointing at the uncanny modernity of moral panics, which still appear at the very root of the enlightened and liberal Western cultures.
A two-day symposium co-organized by the Program of Medieval Studies, The UVic Libraries, and the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Link to: http://events.uvic.ca/?view=day&cal=448&day=06&month=02&year=2015#event_heading_100671