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SUMMARY:Profs & Pints Philadelphia: Satanic Panics
DESCRIPTION:Profs and Pints Philadelphia presents: “Satanic Panics\,” a look at waves of fear of demonic activity as an American tradition\, with Luxx Mishou\, cultural historian and former instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy and area community colleges. \nThe 1980s found the United States gripped by fear of Satanic cults targeting children. They were believed to be corrupting young ones in daycare centers and tempting teens through subliminal messages on heavy metal albums or through the quiet inclusion of demonic rituals in role-playing games. Satanic serial killers supposedly stalked the suburbs. Doctors helped patients uncover what were claimed to be repressed memories of ritualistic satanic abuse. \nParents\, police\, and politicians were urged to protect impressionable youths from both moral and physical danger. With Satanic cults deemed to be a real and material threat\, it was a frightening time for everyone\, including those who suddenly came under suspicion for doing evil deeds. \nThen\, suddenly\, it all faded from public consciousness\, just as surely as did eighties fads such mullet haircuts\, leg warmers\, and Cabbage Patch Kids. \nWhy did it all start? Why did it stop? And has this happened before or since? \nHear such questions tackled by Luxx Mishou\, a cultural historian and media specialist who has long researched the devious and villainous in cultural artifacts. She’ll discuss moral panics as a longstanding cultural tradition\, with each new one stemming from fear of cultural shifts and shaped by the time and place where it occurred. Among the panics we’ll look into are the Red Scare of the 1950s and the public response to the gruesome 1969 murders committed by the Manson Family. \nDelving into the 1980s panic\, Mishou will describe how it began with the 1980 publication of psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder’s memoir Michelle Remembers\, detailing the suppressed memories of ritualistic abuse reportedly suffered by a patient. As that book quickly became a best seller\, its ideas saturated American culture. A California daycare center became the focus of a three-year investigation\, followed by three years of trials\, based on allegations that its owner had engaged in secret ritualistic abuse of the children in its care. \nMishou will lead you through the media that convinced the public that devil worshipers were among them\, and she’ll talk about how reactions to imagined threats can have very real social costs. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17\, or $15 with a student ID. Doors open at 3:30 pm. Talk starts at 4:30.) \nImage by Canva.
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LOCATION:Black Squirrel Club\, 1049 Sarah St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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