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The idea that the dead can return to haunt the living is deeply rooted in our imaginations, and for centuries ghosts have appeared in plays and poems, novels and stories, ballad-sheets and caricatures, paintings and photographs.

Susan Owens, author of The Ghost: A Cultural History, will describe the ways in which Britain’s artists and writers have presented ghosts, looking at how their appearance and behavior has changed over time. What do their shifting roles reveal about them—and us?

Susan Owens is an art historian and curator who has worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal Collection Trust, and has worked with Tate, the Ashmolean Museum, and the Courtauld Institute of Art. She is the author of The Ghost: A Cultural History and The Art of Drawing: British Masters and Methods since 1600, and co-author of Christina Rossetti and Amazing Rare Things.

Viktor Wynd is an artist, author, lecturer, and impresario. He operates The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History as part of The Last Tuesday Society, which hosts London’s longest-running independent literary salon and has hosted over 500 lectures since 2005, from household names to unpublished obsessives.