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?️ Wednesday, Oct. 29? 5:30 - 9:00 PM
? Abe & Jake's Landing
See more information at https://hallcenter.ku.edu/haunting-humanities
Join us for a haunting take on history, literature, and more with the return of the Hall Center’s all-ages humanities festival with a Halloween twist.
Visitors will receive a map of the venue and can guide themselves through a series of innovative presentations, activities, games and enactments at their own pace. Each exhibit will have a rating — G, PG, PG-13 or R — listed in the event’s program to indicate whether it is appropriate for younger audiences or adults. Food will be available for purchase from Trav’s BBQ, and the Abe & Jake’s bar will feature a unique menu of spooky boutique cocktails.
Exhibits include:
Seance It Ain’t So!: Nineteenth-Century Women Who Communed with the Dead & Men Who Called it a Hoax (PG)
In the 19th century, séances were popular with many American Victorian women. Find out what it was like to attend a séance and discover the proto-feminist roots of the 19th-century spiritualist movement.
Prospero’s Pernicious Proposal Escape Room (PG-13)
Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” this interactive escape room explores the colorful halls of Prince Prospero, a man who seals himself away from the world’s suffering and mocks Death. When the final bell tolls, the Red Death awaits.
Haunted Lawrence: A Digital Tour (G)
Journey with Paul Thomas, author of “Haunted Lawrence,” into the past to learn about the stories of the ghosts roaming the streets of Lawrence. Participants can share ghost stories to be featured on the interactive digital map.
“Upon That Night When Fairies Light”: Victorian Halloween Parlour Games (PG)
Discover the enchanted Victorian parlour and participate in divination games, word games and other such diversions with which the Victorians entertained their guests.
The Monstrous Cute of Japanese Mascots (G)
Explore the world of Japan’s monsters and mascots from the cute to the creepy, often sharing features with yokai, the traditional monsters of Japanese folklore. Participants can learn about these mascots before designing their own.
Museum Detective (G)
The Watkins Museum of History will display a variety of artifacts — some genuine, some reproductions. Spot the differences and win the chance to play for prizes.
Arachne’s Web: Weaving Together Spider Myths, Textiles, and Science (PG)
Hear the tale of Arachne — a young maiden so skilled at weaving, she won a challenge against the goddess Athena and was turned into a spider — while weaving friendship bracelets and playing spider-themed games.
Haunting Humanities is a KU original. It began as the brainchild of the Public Humanities Roundtable, a loosely knit group convened by the Hall Center of faculty, staff, and community partners who were interested in developing new ways for humanities researchers to engage the public interactively with their work. When the idea arose for an event like a science fair that could also leverage the public’s interest in Halloween, Haunting Humanities was born!
Haunting Humanities has a host of sponsors and community partners, including the Friends of the Hall Center, Kansas Public Radio, the City of Lawrence, eXplore Lawrence, Coneflower Consulting, and numerous academic departments.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Abe & Jake's Landing, 8 E 6th St, Lawrence, KS 66044-2268, United States
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.