Counting down to 2024: The sixtieth anniversary of The Munsters, the fiftieth anniversary of Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder's Young Frankenstein, the fortieth anniversary of Tim Burton's original Frankenweenie, the thirtieth anniversary of Kenneth Branagh’s film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Universal Studios’ television series Monster Force, the twentieth anniversary of Geof Darrow and Steve Skroce’s comic Doc Frankenstein and Stephen Sommers’s film Van Helsing, and the tenth anniversary of Stuart Beattie’s I, Frankenstein.

Friday, February 2, 2018

Frankenstein@200: 2018 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference (Stanford, CA 4/20-22/2018)

Another Frankenstein conference I never heard about:

Details:  http://med.stanford.edu/medicineandthemuse/events/HHC2018_FrankensteinAt200.html

Frankenstein@200


The 2018 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference will be held at Stanford University from April 20-22, 2018.


A celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through an exploration of medically-based ethical dilemmas and an examination of the relevance of Frankenstein in moral imagination today.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Alexander Nemerov
Professor, Art and Art History at Stanford University

Lester Friedman
Professor, Media and Society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Alvan Ikoku
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and Medicine at Stanford University

Catherine Belling
Associate Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University


Important Dates



  • June 1, 2017: Call for proposals opens
  • Summer 2017: Conference registration opens
  • November 1, 2017: Deadline for proposals
  • December 1, 2017: Decisions communicated
  • April 20-22, 2018: Conference dates
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