September 16 and 17, 2023
VIP cocktail soirée September 18
Locations: Church of the Ascension, 127 Kent St, Brooklyn, NY 11222 (map here); Barrow’s Intense Tasting Room, 86 34th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232 (map here); The Morbid Anatomy Library, 220 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232 (map here).

• $75 VIP Ticket: Includes symposium, flea market, and after-party admission; cocktail soirée at the Morbid Anatomy Library; exclusive button, archival print, and tote

• $45 General Admission: Includes symposium, flea market, and after-party admission

• Classes and immersive experiences sold separately

The Morbid Anatomy International Congress, Flea Market and Creative Fair is a first-of-its-kind, weekend-long event taking place in the English Gothic Revival-style building of the Church of the Ascension, and multiple locations across Brooklyn, New York.

Tickets include:

• Day-long symposium with exciting Morbid Anatomy scholars and thinkers (September 16)

• Exclusive after-party with special live performances at French bordello-inspired bar (September 16)

• Curated flea market featuring one-of-a-kind antiques, books, ephemera, and art (September 17)

• VIP cocktail soirée at the Morbid Anatomy Library (September 18)

See the full line-up of speakers, schedule of events, and locations here.

SYMPOSIUM LINE UP (Click here for more full description and bios)
Saturday, September 16 · 10 am - 5 pm at The Church Of The Ascension, Brooklyn, NY

• Keynote Address · The Muse is Real: Creativity Imagined as a Reality in the Western Tradition
  Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka, Religious Studies Professor at University of North Carolina
  Author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology

• More Alive than the Living: Statue Making as Willing Spirit into Matter:
  A Sculptor’s Superstition and a Timeless Ritual Practice
  Eleanor Crook, Sculptor

• Eusapia Palladino: Epistemological Troublemaker
  Asti Hustvedt, Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

• Collection Show and Tell
  Evan Michelson, co-star of TV’s Oddities

• Stairways to Heaven & Gates to Hell
  Leila Taylor, Author of Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul

• RetrOccult: The Golden Age of Paranormal Filmmaking
  Ronni Thomas, Filmmaker

• A Paradise Inhabited by Devils
  Elizabeth Harper, Writer

• Afterlife and Labor: Making a Living from the Dead
  Kim Kelly, Author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor

• Yes, It Is Real: Mediumship as Embodiment and the Quest for Knowing
  Tiffany Hopkins, Practicing Medium

• The Burning of Baron de Palm
  Colin Dickey, Author of Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy

• Fifteen-Years Worth of Morbid Anatomy Talks
  Dr. John Troyer, Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath

MORBID ANATOMY AFTER-PARTY
Saturday, September 16 · 7 pm - 12 am at Barrow’s Intense Tasting Room, Brooklyn, NY

Join us for an exclusive party at Brooklyn's glamorous new Asian neo-noir nightclub, The Red Pavilion, to meet other members of the Morbid Anatomy community from around the world.

Enjoy performances including The Memento Mori Sessions by singer Kelley Swindall; video projections of uncanny vintage films by Kino Cult’s Bret Wood; curated tunes by DJ Psychopompos; and specialty drinks.

FLEA MARKET & CREATIVE FAIR
Sunday, September 17 · 2 pm - 8 pm at The Church Of The Ascension, Brooklyn, NY

The Morbid Anatomy Flea market returns on a larger scale than ever before, with some of our most popular vendors including Evan Michelson of TV's Oddities, Josh Powe of Taxidermy Auction, master jeweler Karen Bachmann, and Brooklyn's premier taxidermist Divya Anantharaman, House of Good Fortune antiques, Quimby’s Bookstore, Daisy Tainton, Purevile wearables, Alternate Empire, and more to be announced.

Shop a highly curated selection of antiques and oddities, signed books, vintage ephemera, taxidermy, preserved specimens, one-of-a-kind art, home decor, clothing, and more!

CLASSES AND IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES
(Sold separately. To learn more and register, click here or on the class title below)

Saturday, September 16 at multiple locations across Brooklyn

• Victorian Hairwork Class with Master Jeweler Karen Bachmann
  10:30 am - 1:30 pm at Church of the Ascension

• Mouse Taxidermy Class with Taxidermist Divya Anantharaman
  12 pm - 5 pm at private studio in Brooklyn NY

Sunday, September 17 at multiple locations across Brooklyn

• Guided Death Meditation with End-of-Life Doula Bryan Melillo
  10 am - 11 am at the Morbid Anatomy Library

• Stendhal Syndrome Guided Tour with Art Historian Liz Andres
  11 am and 12 pm at the Brooklyn Museum

• Mediumship for Creativity Circle with Medium Tiffany Hopkins
  12 pm - 2 pm at the Morbid Anatomy Library

• Create your Own Wax Anatomical Venus with Sculptor Eleanor Crook
  1 pm - 5 pm at Church of the Ascension

• Near-Death Experience Virtual Reality Simulation and Memento Mori Rituals with Virgil Wong, Tony Wolf and Bridget Carey
  3 pm - 5 pm at the Morbid Anatomy Library

• Tour at Green-Wood Cemetery: Crime and Catastrophe with LJ Lindhurst
  10 - 11:30 am, Green-Wood Cemetery

• Tour at Green-Wood Cemetery: Secrets in Stone with with LJ Lindhurst
  12 - 1:30 pm, Green-Wood Cemetery

Image: Lombard School, Cats being instructed In the art of mouse-catching by an owl, circa 1700