Panel Ideas for TeslaCon
Let’s get started. Rev up those brains, start ideation groups, think and be creative… This year is wide open with so many possibilities. But let’s also think about some old ideas in new ways. Let’s find those tid-bits of information rarely known, or perhaps rarely discussed! The following are thoughts and themes for you to consider. They can be seen of as starting point. Hope this gives you some new ways to think about the subject!
Sign-up for Panels starts March 16th, 2022.
# Ideas & suggestions for panels…be creative and have fun!
- Rituals of Sorrow
- Mourning-Dress
- Condolence Letters
- Death Wreaths
- Decorum for a death
- Death photography
- Victorian ghost stories
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Diseases of the Victorian Age
- Penny Dreadfuls & Tabloid Journalism Criminal Anthropology
- Execution Ballads
- Christmas and Ghost Stories
- History of the Christmas Carol
- Ghost Photography
- What are Séances
- Fairies, Fae’ and the Believers / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
- Country Folk Stories and Beliefs
- Female Writers of the Macabre
- Creepy Victorian Christmas Cards-The odd, strange world of saying hello
- Mummy Unwrapping Parties/ “Egyptomania”
- Dodgy Science and the Victorians
- Body Snatching and Science
- Death by Poison! Arsenic and others
- Electrotherapy in Science
- The Deadly color…Green
- Memento Mori
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Charles Dickens and the London ghost Club
- Parlor Magic for the middle class
- Mesmerism
- Spiritualism
- The Fox Sisters
- Spiritualism in Literature
- Freak Shows / The Elephant Man etc.
- Hair Weaving
- Mourning / Grave Dolls / Funerary Dolls
- Burials, Safety Coffins and Protected Cemeteries
- Professional Mourners
- Cemetery Picnics
- Victorian Hygiene
- Strange and Bizarre Victorian Etiquette
- Beheaded Portraits of the Victorians / Hidden
- Victorian Halloween Traditions
- Gothic Horror
- Krampus Cards and Masks
- Victorian Crimes / Serial Killers of the Age
- Gothic Gardens
- Gin and it’s History
- Alice in Wonderland
- Strange fantasy Victorian books
- Superstitions of the times
- Exploring in the Victorian times
- Ancient finds of the later part of 1800’s
This year’s theme is “Hawthorne Manor” a fun Gothic romp with an eccentric family with Ghosts!
** A reminder that we will look at any and all panels ideas, makers classes, etc. It does NOT need to fit the theme. The above are only suggestions for people that wish to do it.