Magic, Witchcraft, & The Occult

Stratton: Interrogating the Magic-Gender Connection

Lecture 2: Understanding Magic as a Discourse of Alterity and Gendering Magic

Stratton: Barbarians, Magic, and Construction of the Other in Athens

OR

Stratton: Mascula Libido: Women, Sex, and Magic in Roman Rhetoric and Ideology

Lecture 3: Origins of the Witch Stereotype in Ancient Greece and Rome

Gager: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World

Lecture 4: Engaging Material Evidence: Defixiones

Stratton: My Miracle, Your Magic: Heresy, Authority, and Early Christianity

OR

Stratton: Caution in the Kosher Kitchen

Lecture 5: Ancient Judaism and Christianity - Amulets and Heretics

Durrant: Witchcraft, Gender, and Society in Early Modern Europe

Lecture 6: Early Modern Witch Hunts

Reis: Gender and the Meanings of Confession in Early New England

Lecture 7: Salem Witchtrials

Hoermann: Figures of Terror: The “Zombie” and the Haitian Revolution

Lecture 9: Haitian Revolution and Voodoo

Bankoff: Devils, Familiars, and Spaniards: Spheres of Power and the Supernatural in the World of Serbina Candelaria and her Village in Early 19th Century Philippines

Lecture 10: Demonizing Philippine Folk Tradition

Miller: How Modern Witches Enchant Tiktok: Intersections of Digital, Consumer, and Material Culture(s) on #Witchtok

Lecture 11: Modern Witchcraft and Wicca

O’Reilly: We’re More Than Just Pins and Dolls and Seeing the Future in Chicken Parts

Lecture 12: Witches in Pop Culture

Magilocco: Witchcraft as Political Resistance

Lecture 13: Witches and Politics