Clark County Historical Museum Speaker Series – “Race, Gender and Monsters: What Vampires and Werewolves Reveal About Ourselves and Our Culture”

The Clark County Historical Museum Speaker Series features Bernadette Marie Calafell, a professor and chair of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at Gonzaga University specializing in Latinx/o/a Studies, women of color feminism and LGBTQ Studies. Calafell is the author of “Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance and Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture.” This talk at 7 p.m. June 6 explores the shifting meanings vampires and werewolves have taken in popular culture, with a particular focus on the 1980s through the 2000s. These figures will be compared to the early Universal horror film monsters Dracula and The Wolf Man. Admission is free. For more information, contact the museum at 360-993-5679 or outreach@cchmuseum.org.