Drexel Hosts Zombie Con This Thursday
Courtesy of drexel.edu
Scholars will bring the walking dead to life this Thursday at Zom(bie) Con: Feed Your Brrraaiins.
The daylong symposium will delve into all things zombie, with guest speakers sharing their perspectives and analyzing our fascination with zombie lit, zombie movies, and basically anything with the word zombie attached to it. But, according to press materials, they’ll take a look at the serious side of these lumbering horror figures, too.
“Zombies can help us deal with some difficult topics,” says Kevin Egan, PhD, director for the Center of Interdisciplinary Inquiry in Drexel University’s Pennoni Honors College. “For example, if you look at film director George Romero’s use of zombies in the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead as a proxy for race relations at the time, you can see that not only are zombies really interesting and scary, but they can also represent some critically important problems that society is contending with.”
Zom(bie) Con will be held at Drexel on Thursday, May 14th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Those interested in attending must register here.
