EVENT REMINDER!
The Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London
invites you to the launch of:
TECHNO-DEATH
Technology, Death and the
Cultural Imagination
A special issue of the journal Science as Culture
edited by Debra Benita Shaw
The night before Halloween
30th October 2009 6.30pm - 8.30pm
The Mayor’s Parlour, Shoreditch Town Hall
380 Old Street, London EC1V 9LT
With suitably gothic presentations by Megan Stern (London Metropolitan
University), author of several publications on gothic literature, medical
technologies and the uncanny and contributor to the special issue Elaine
Campbell (Newcastle University), a criminologist who writes about the
science and aesthetics of death and death as televisual spectacle. Followed
by René Clair’s controversial short film Entr’acte
‘Techno-Death’, SaC 18(3), Sept. 2009, more details from
www.informaworld.com/SaC
Tube: Old Street (5 mins walk)
Liverpool Street (15 mins walk)
Buses: 26, 35, 47, 48, 55, 67, 78, 135, 149, 242, 243
The Mayor’s Parlour is fully wheelchair accessible
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