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ONLINE TALKS AT THE VIKTOR WYND MUSEUM
 

The online lecture series programmed by SAP's Mark Pilkington continues through the rest of April and May, presenting a wild panopoly of topics from leading authors, researchers and academics. Click on the links below to learn more about each presentation and book tickets, priced under £7.
 

Tuesday 22 April:
Cathi Unsworth - Who Put Bella in the Witch Elm?
The unsolved mysteries surrounding a young woman's skull found embedded in a tree in April 1943

Monday 28 April
Cat Irving: Atlas Holds Up The World - The Anatomy of Myth
How has classical mythology influenced our medical language? And what pathologies may have influenced the formation of mythology?

Tuesday 29 April
Justin P Hopper: The Great Satanic Swindle
A true tale of tabloid England in the 1980s

Tuesday 6 May
John O'Connor: The Secret History of Bigfoot
What does the hunt for Bigfoot tell us about American Cultures of Belief?

Tuesday 13 May
Greg Eghigian: Alien Abduction - Postmortem of a Controversy
Revisiting the phenomenon 25 years later

Monday 19 May
Spencer Sunshine: Satanism, Neo Nazis and The US political underground
How the far right infiltrated American occulture of the 1980s

Tuesday 20 May
Phil HIne: The UK Satanic Panic 1988-1992
How Britain was engulfed by fears of a Satanic Conspiracy

Tuesday 27 May
Robin Douglas: Paganism Persisting
A History of European Paganisms in modern times