Professor Charcot with patient Blanche Wittman

Thursday, December 2, 6:30 pm - Public Lecture at the Frye Art Museum.
Professor Lotta Gavel Adams will speak on “August Strindberg and the Occult Societies of Paris in the 1890s”

The lecture is part of a series presented in conjunction with the exhibition Séance: Albert von Keller and the Occult, the Frye Art Museum, the University of Washington’s Germanic Department, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities. The series explores how artists, writers, and intellectuals in the late nineteenth century were fascinated with the occult and how this fascination opened up new creative paths.

This program is supported in part by a grant from Humanities Washington.

Free entry and free parking.

You may reserve the free tickets in advance to guarantee seating. To reserve, call (206) 432-8289 or e-mail rsvp@fryemuseum.org