Amidst the Demons
Fallen angels, devils, demons – the greatest trick Satan ever pulled was convincing us that he and his compatriots didn’t exist. Well, regardless of whether or not demons are “real” or not, from Asmodeus to Ziminiar they’ve had an effect on human imagination (and nightmares). In this presentation Ed Simon talks about the influence that “demonological poetics” has had on culture and the ways in which the Devil has often been a measure of all that we can know (or don’t know).
Speaker Bio:
Ed Simon is Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University, the editor of The Pittsburgh Review of Books, and a staff writer for Literary Hub. A widely published writer, he is the author of over a dozen books, including Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology and Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain.
Hosted & Curated By:
Lena Schattenherz Heide-Brennand is a Norwegian lecturer with a master degree in language, culture and literature from the University of Oslo and Linnaeus University. She has been lecturing and teaching various subjects since 1998. Her field of interest and main focus has always been topics that others have considered strange, eccentric and eerie, and she has specialised in a variety of dark subjects linked to folklore, mythology and Victorian traditions and medicine. Her students often point out her thorough knowledge about the subjects she is teaching, in addition to her charismatic appearance. She refers to herself as a performance lecturer and always gives her audience an outstanding experience
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