Necrophilic Empathy in Cervantes’ La Numancia

Grimposium creator and SOMEONE director Vivek Venkatesh will be speaking alongside his Concordia collaborator Brad Nelson on the concept of ‘necrophilic empathy’ which refers to society’s fixation with the arduous consumption of death and dystopia in an accelerated era of social media. For more information of the “Apocalyptic Imagination in Early Modern Spain” event being held on November 14, click here.

(Photo credit: Vivek Venkatesh)