In lieu of the usual #TarotTuesday Irreverent Tarot I give you a slapped-together live recording of my talk at PCA this past weekend, ‘Open Your Heart of Wild Honey’: Occult Medievalism in Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet. I very lightly edited the audio so it’s still full of ahhs and umms and stumbles of various…
Tag: New Orleans
Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult: PCA New Orleans
I am so excited to be launching the new topic area DIVINATION, WITCHCRAFT & THE OCCULT at PCA this year which is back in the wonderful Crescent City, New Orleans. It’s such a fun conference — and not just because it usually means hanging out with Miss Wendy! — and there is probably no better…
CFP: Divination, Witchcraft, and the Occult
Call for Presentations Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC* Popular Culture Association Conference 16-19 April 2025 New Orleans, Louisiana, US The broad interest in divination, witchcraft, and the occult has been part of popular culture for centuries. Scholars’ discomfort with the topic is often palpable: they tend to focus on intersections that feel more…
New Orleans & PCA
It’s true that PCA seems to end up in New Orleans a lot. It’s also true that it comes at a kind of awkward point in the semester — just before Easter. We always have our break much earlier, though there is the extra Monday off because we’re no longer a Catholic institution even though…
PCA: Noir and Hard-Boiled Panel
Noir and Hard-boiled Thursday, April 2, 2015 – 6:30pm – 8:00pm Balcony N Presentations Title Body Presenter Affiliation Presentation type No Reason for Pessimism: Exploring Aki Kaurismäki’s Finnish ‘Noir’ It’s no surprise that the director who declared that, “Hollywood is the reason I make the films… K. A. Laity The College of Saint Rose Paper…