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Frankenstein - still relevant after 200 years

15th May 2018

Northumbria University is hosting a multidisciplinary conference to celebrate the bicentenary of the first publication of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

Frankenstein: A Multidisciplinary Conference 2018, is being organised by Northumbria Law School and the Department of Arts, Design and Social Sciences,in  collaboration with the Crime Studies Network – a group devoted to the interdisciplinary study and representations of crime.      

Celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein the multidisciplinary conference crosses academic boundaries to demonstrate the ever increasing relevance of Shelley's extraordinary vision.  Themes include the "monstering and "un-monstering" of an accused; criminal justice and Lombrosian myths;  historical perceptions of disability;  contemporary Gothic aesthetics and international security; circumstantial evidence; the golem re-imagined; science, law and the environment;  Shakespeare, jurisprudence and savagery and the recreation of Frankenstein into new arts forms.   

The conference will be of interest to all those who enjoy the novel as a work as literature that reflects on the nature of human existence and to those interested in the novel's wider influence on the history of ideas. 

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