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Who are the Last Tuesday Society?
The Last Tuesday Society is a ‘pataphysical organisation founded by the American philosopher and psychologist William James at Harvard in the 1870s, now headquartered at The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History in London’s East End. For the last twenty years, the Last Tuesday Society has organised lectures, masterclasses, workshops, seances, balls, and even expeditions to Papua New Guinea and West Africa. Viktor Wynd (Robert Wyndam Bucknell) is a British artist, author, curator and museum director.
🌐 The Viktor Wynd Museum and The Last Tuesday Society Website.
Upcoming: August, 2025
Ancient Greco-Roman Werewolves: Finding the Hum(an)imal.
Date and time: Monday 25 August 2025, 20:00 - 21:30 BST. Online: Zoom.
A talk by Tanika Koosmen.
Mythology of ancient Greek and Roman origin has a certain preoccupation with the physical body and how it changes. Interactions between gods and mortals, mortals and monsters, the preternatural world and the limits of civilisation are marked by metamorphic myths. Transformation tales, like that of the monster we now know as the werewolf, highlight the very distinct lack of space between humanity and the wilderness that live outside our cities.
In returning to the ancient materials on man-to-wolf transformation, this talk will discuss the advent of the posthuman – and prove that it has existed for much longer than it has been recognised.
Tanika Koosmen is a casual academic in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her doctoral research considered the introduction of the werewolf in antiquity, posthumanism in critical and philosophical thought, and the reception of the transformative myth in modern literature, television, and film media. Her research interests include metamorphic mythology in the ancient Greco-Roman canon, literary folklore and fairy tale traditions, and the application of posthuman thought in contemporary media.
