We’re delighted to finally welcome the incredible Gudrun Filipska this Halloween season for her lecture that situations the Zombie firmly within feminist discourse…
CLASS DESCRIPTION
This Lecture will discuss Zombie cultures from a feminist perspective and ask what the figure of the Zombie can add to contemporary feminism both as a cultural metaphor and as instigator of preparedness. As illustrated by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and their “Zombie Preparedness” website, the concept can be used to motivate people to prepare for natural disasters and other catastrophes and is more relevant than ever in the face of nuclear threat, mass extinctions and rapid climate change.
We will look at the origins of Zombie Folklore; from the Ancient Greeks pinning down their dead to prevent re-animation to the stories of life after death amongst the enslaved workers on Haiti’s sugar cane plantations. The lecture will look at the pop culture following of the 'Zombie' post 1968 through the films of George Romero; Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, paying particular attention to the representation of the female characters. We will discuss the representation of heath, childbirth and the care of children within Zombie film, literature and performance art as well as representation of non-male zombie fighting heroes.
The lecture will encourage you to consider what can be learnt by thinking alongside the Zombie and how this enduring metaphor can contribute to developing positive thinking around climate change, care and community.
ABOUT OUR LECTURER
Gudrun Filipska is a writer, artist and End-of-the-World Scholar conducting Doctoral research at CEMORE (Centre for Mobilities Research) Lancaster University. She has published her writing widely and exhibited globally on the subjects of feminist ecologies, human-plant affinities, post colonial geographies and disaster tourism. She also runs a network called the Arts Territory Exchange which connects rural and remote territories through a large postal and digital network. She has taught in a range of capacities: as an 'arts educator' in galleries and museums, as a lecturer on fine art MA and BA programmes and online as a tutor and mentor. She regularly presents her research at events, conferences and symposiums.
Instagram: @gudrunfilipska
Website: http://www.gudrunfilipska.com
UPCOMING SESSIONS WITH THE FEMINIST LECTURE PROGRAM
Monday 16th September
Kitty Underhill (she/her)
Where do Flaws Come From?: Bellies, Bodies and the Social Construction of Imperfection
Monday 23rd September
N.A. Kimber (she/her) and K.E. Donoghue-Stanford (she/her)
Death and the Maiden: Femininity in the Gothic
Monday 30th September
Carolina Hades (she/her)
Pole Dancing Against the Algorithm
Monday 7th October
Janine Francois (she/they)
Black {Gendered} Space Time: From the Heavens to Outer Space
Monday 14th October
Parumveer Walia (he/him)
Staged Bodies: Performativity in Feminist Photography
Monday 21st October
Isobel Atacus (she/they)
Eva Hesse: Imagining the Unruly
Monday 28th October
Gudrun Filipska (she/her)
Feminism and Zombie Culture
Monday 4th November
Anna Titov (she/her)
Cyborgs, Transcorporeality and Volatile Bodies: Ecofeminist Theories of Embodiment
Monday 11th November
Jennifer Higgie (she/her)
Stars in Their Eyes: 19th-Century Spiritualism and Female Proto-Surrealism
Monday 18th November
Melissa Baksh (she/her)
Whitewashed? Whiteness and Femininity in Art History
Monday 25th November
Dr. Noam Yadin Evron (she/her)
Hildegard of Bingen: Mystic, Artist, Composer, Pioneer
Monday 2nd December
COMING SOON
Monday 9th December
Baylee Woodley (they/them)
Medieval Femmes: Queer Femininities in Medieval England
Monday 16th December
Summer Lee (she/her)
The Incendiary History of Red Lingerie
RECORDING
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