The Macabre as a Way of Life: Morbid Anatomies and the Grim Side of New England

Date: 

Friday, January 15, 2016, 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

RCC, 26 Trowbridge. Cambridge MA 02138

 RCC is pleased to announce this lecture organized by Cristina Pérez as part of the winter activities organized at Harvard January@GSAS.

Abstract:  This event will have Joanna Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum in New York and J. W. Ocker, author of The New England Grimpendium and Poe-Land and webmaster of O.T.I.S. explaining the experience of having a life dedicated to this lesser-explored, sometimes neglected, side of culture, oddities, and the bizarre—and why it is so appealing to a certain public.

Registration required.

Contact:  rcc@harvard.edu

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