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We are so very excited to be hosting Eva Aridjis --director of Santa Muerte --for a screening of her new documentary film Chuy, The Wolf Man . This film traces the lives of Jesus 'Chuy' Aceves and his family, all of whom suffer from congenital hypertrichosis, or excessive hair on the face and body. It examines, in the words of the director, "their day-to-day lives and their struggle to find love, acceptance and employment." The film will screen at the Morbid Anatomy Museum this Monday, November 30; you can find out more in this recent article in the BBC , and more about the event here . You can watch the trailer above. Hope very much to see you there!

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We have just been alerted to a new, multi-disciplinary conference devoted to "the dead body as a starting point for opening up wider debates on embodied knowledge, materiality and meaning-making." Proposals (250-words max) can be sent to cccConference2016 [at] gmail.com by January 15th, 2016. Full details below; You can find out more here . CFP: Corpses, Cadavers and Catalogues: The Mobilities of Dead Bodies and Body Parts, Past and Present May 17th-18th May 2016 Venue: Barts Pathology Museum and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, London Organisers: Kristin Hussey (QMUL) and Sarah Morton (Keble College, Oxford) Advisory Panel: Dr. Tim Brown (QMUL) and Dr. Beth Greenhough (Keble College, Oxford) Deadline for Abstracts: January 15th, 2016 An interest in the dead body, and particularly its shifting meanings, mobility and agency can be seen in recent works of museology, geography and history of medicine (Hallam, 2007; Maddrell and Sidaway, 2010; Alberti, 20...

Morbid Anatomy Artist and Anatomist in residence Emily Evans has just published a gorgeous and eminently covetable new anatomical atlas entitled Anatomy in Black . With over 250 illustrations custom created by Evans and rendered entirely in black and gold, this book will, in the words of its maker, lead "you stylishly through the human body from head to toe. This book is a perfect companion for those interested in anatomy, regardless of their previous knowledge of the subject matter." The Morbid Anatomy Museum will be hosting a talk by Evans, and party to celebrate the release of the book this Wednesday, November 11th; you can find out more, and get tickets, by clicking here ; you can also preorder a copy of the book by clicking here . Morbid Anatomy asked Evans--who in addition to her illustration acts as Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy at Cambridge University, where she teaches dissection and anatomy--to share a bit about the book, and her motivation in making it; below ...

Part of the Morbid Anatomy team has just returned from our trip to Puebla, Mexico, where we attended the fabulous and revelatory Morbidofest . Special congratulations to filmmaker in residence Ronni Thomas , whose short film on Victorian anthropomorphic taxidermist Walter Potter, The Man who Married Kittens , won an award there! Photos above, of some of what we saw, including churches, souls in purgatory, paintings of dead nuns, reliquary effigies, Santa Muerte shrines and sanctuaries, and day of the dead celebrations. You can see many more photos--all by our creative director Joanna Ebenstein-- here , here , here , here and here .

Hope you can join us for the first iteration of our new venture-- The Dilettanti Grand Tour--in the astounding private collection of Tim Mullen ! The event will take place November 14 at 8:00pm; tickets are extremely limited and are available here . Loosely inspired by the Dilettanti Society, a society of 18th century aristocrats and scholars eager to share their love of art and knowledge around a good drink, we’re now embarking on a Grand Tour of the most unique private collections for a series of one-night only celebrations of all things arcane and spectacular. We’ll have drinks compliments of our kind sponsor Hendrick's Gin, we’ll have snacks, and we’ll see amazing things usually hidden behind closed doors. Tonight's iteration will bring you in to the home of Tim Mullen, a New York based engineer with a mind-blowing collection of strange and beautiful examples of Victorian Electronica, most of which actually work! The collection ranges from antique x-ray devices to a Pre WWI...

Below, please find a guest post by scholar in residence Elizabeth Harper of All t he S aints You Should Know . in which she reports on her trip to Rome for The Days of the Dea. All image s are by the author . Please click on images to see larger, more detailed version! The Days of the Dead: A Dispatch from Rome Halloween in Rome is a quiet night even when it falls on an unusually warm Saturday like it did this year. A handful of kids trick-or-treated at the shops around the Campo de’ Fiori dressed as some pastiche of a corpse, a vampire or a witch and the study abroad students drank in the same bars they always do, but this time with light-up devil horns or a cape. I took a midnight stroll to the Ponte Sant’Angelo to see if the ghosts of any criminals that were executed there from the 12th to 19th century felt like celebrating, but it seemed they had no use for an imported American holiday. I wasn’t really disappointed though because on November 1st, as Americans woke to stare Christma...