Saturday, 10 September 2022, 7pm GMT online via Zoom. Tickets via eventbrite. Free entry. Toil, trouble, and tomes: two witches in conversation about difficult history, custodianship, and magic. Carolee Harrison and Allyson Shaw in conversation discussing what it’s like to be the keeper of difficult books, specifically an original 1490 copy of the infamous witch-hunting manual, Malleus Maleficarum, or the Hammer of Witches, in the Portland State University Library. We’ll talk about the fascinating history of this five hundred year old edition of this book on witch hunting and what it can tell us about the current ‘witch craze’, our responsibilities as custodians of the history of witch hunting, and how this history informs our identities as witches today.
Witches in the Archives: a conversation
Witches in the Archives: a conversation
Witches in the Archives: a conversation
Saturday, 10 September 2022, 7pm GMT online via Zoom. Tickets via eventbrite. Free entry. Toil, trouble, and tomes: two witches in conversation about difficult history, custodianship, and magic. Carolee Harrison and Allyson Shaw in conversation discussing what it’s like to be the keeper of difficult books, specifically an original 1490 copy of the infamous witch-hunting manual, Malleus Maleficarum, or the Hammer of Witches, in the Portland State University Library. We’ll talk about the fascinating history of this five hundred year old edition of this book on witch hunting and what it can tell us about the current ‘witch craze’, our responsibilities as custodians of the history of witch hunting, and how this history informs our identities as witches today.