UPDATE: WATCH THE RECORDING AT https://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/animal-transformations-selkies-werewolves-and-witch-hares-dr-larrington/

Subject: Selkies, Werewolves and Witch-Hares - 20 Oct 2021
From: Felipa - PM
Date: 12 Aug 21 - 10:50 AM

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/animal-transformations-selkies-werewolves-and-witch-hares-dr-larrington-tickets-155925137283
tickets £5.82 – £11.04
Wed, October 20, 2021   8:00 PM – 9:30 PM BST
Animal Transformations: Selkies, Werewolves and Witch-Hares – Dr Larrington
presented by The Viktor Wynd Museum & The Last Tuesday Society

"Join Professor Carolyne Larrington on an exploration of the strange folkloric world of animal transformations. From selkies – seal creatures caught between the pull of the human and maritime worlds – to the shape-shifting werewolves of the Middle Ages. Or the rather less threatening witch-hares, a common transformation beloved of witches – often undertaken, it is said, merely in order to steal milk from a neighbour’s cow... These complex stories speak to us of issues of power and control, and of how we look at the female body and issues of gender, enabling us to think about and question contemporary ideas. ....

"Carolyne also writes on medievalism and folklore, in 2015 publishing The Land of the Green Man. A BBC Radio 4 series based on this was broadcast in 2015 and can be heard here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06b8vxv. With Dr Fay Hield of the University of Sheffield, she was Co-Investigator on an AHRC-funded research project 'Modern Fairies and Loathly Ladies'. This involves working with creative artists – musicians, poets, painters, photographers – to produce new mediations of tales from British folk traditions about fairies. Also in 2015, Carolyne wrote Winter is Coming: the Medieval World of Game of Thrones, exploring the historical inspiration behind the fantasy phenomenon. You can hear a short talk she gave at the Ashmolean Museum on the book at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjlxMT3Pt1o Her most recent book on Game of Thrones, All Men Must Die: Power and Passion in Game of Thrones was published in January this year."