Throughout the final days of October, DePaul’s StudioCHI, other entities across the university and Loyola University will join an international cohort of universities, libraries and organizations in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”
All members of the university are invited to participate in a number of events throughout the week:
Hideous Progeny: The Gothic in the 19th Century
Saturday, Oct. 27
8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Loyola Lake Shore, Info Commons 4th floor
Film & Lecture: Gothic and “Mary Shelley’s Ghosts”
Monday, Oct. 29
1 - 2:30 p.m.
Arts & Letters Hall, room 410
The Enigmatic Art of Edward Gorey
Monday, Oct. 29
2 – 3 p.m.
Loyola Lake Shore, Cudahy Library, room 218
Hideous Progeny: A Monster of a Marathon
Monday, Oct. 29
3:15 – 5 p.m.
14 E. Jackson Blvd., room 1128
Horror of the Humanities: Screening of "The Witch"
Monday, Oct. 29
6 – 9 p.m.
Lincoln Park Student Center, room 120
Harvester of Hearts: Motherhood Under the Sign of Frankenstein
Tuesday, Oct. 30
5 – 6 p.m.
Arts and Letters Hall, room 103
Haunted Hearts & Household Ghosts: Dead but Not Departed in Victorian Britain
Tuesday, Oct. 30
6 – 7 p.m.
The Newberry Library
60 W. Walton St.
Live Read-a-thon & Make Your Own Monster
Wednesday, Oct. 31
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
John T. Richardson Library, second floor forum
Audiobook Read-a-thon & Make Your Own Monster
Wednesday, Oct. 31
10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Idea Realization Lab
14 E. Jackson Blvd, room 310
Halloween Open House
Wednesday, Oct. 31
11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
John T. Richardson Library, room 314
Frankenweek is a collaboration with the DePaul University Library, Humanities Center, English Department, Media and Cinema Studies Program, CDM Idea Realization Lab, and the Cosplay Club. The partner events featured are organized by Loyola Victorian Society, Loyola University Archives and Special Collections, and The Newberry Library.