Why Are We Still Spooked?

Why, in an apparently rational age, do we remain so superstitious? Modernity seems only to have added to the host of spirits that haunt us. Speakers: Marina Warner, historian and author of Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors and Media; Andrew Hussey, cultural historian and author of The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord; Kim Newman, novelist and critic. Chair: Steven Connor, Professor of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College and author of Fly.