{"id":209688,"date":"2022-04-28T15:52:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T19:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=209688"},"modified":"2022-04-28T15:52:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T19:52:17","slug":"facing-familiar-fears-race-gender-and-technology-in-frankenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2022\/04\/28\/facing-familiar-fears-race-gender-and-technology-in-frankenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Familiar Fears: Race, Gender, and Technology in Frankenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are humans only born, or can they be made? Must your origins determine your future? Are you fated to be who you are, or can you choose? What lessons does Mary Shelley\u2019s\u00a0<em>Frankenstein<\/em>\u00a0have to teach us about Black Lives Matter and the role of science and technology in shaping our concept of who counts as human? What can we learn through Shelley\u2019s novel about extending human rights\u2013including the right to reproduce\u2013to synthetic, artificial life forms?<\/p>\n<p>Though it was first published more than two centuries ago, Shelley\u2019s groundbreaking narrative is as relevant and provocative today as it was in 1818. Its blend of science fiction, horror, and gothic drama provide a phantasmagorical laboratory in which progressive generations of scholars, writers, and artists continue to test what it means to be human. This talk will explore Frankenstein\u2019s implications for modern autonomy and identity issues by analyzing the original text with an eye toward science\u2019s impact on racial, sexual, and gender-based discrimination. Topics will range from incest to artificial life, and slavery to the singularity.<\/p>\n<p>This illustrated lecture for the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies will show clips from classic\u00a0<em>Frankenstein<\/em>\u00a0films and some NC-17\/unrated versions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date and time<\/strong><br \/>\nTue, May 17, 2022<br \/>\n7:00 PM \u2013 9:30 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong><br \/>\nFilm Noir Cinema<br \/>\n122 Meserole Avenue<br \/>\nBrooklyn, NY 11222<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/facing-familiar-fears-race-gender-and-technology-in-frankenstein-tickets-324042007367\">Register here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are humans only born, or can they be made? Must your origins determine your future? Are you fated to be who you are, or can you choose? What lessons does Mary Shelley\u2019s\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0have to teach us about Black Lives Matter and the role of science and technology in shaping our concept of who counts as human? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":209689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-57_english-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209690,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209688\/revisions\/209690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}