Necromancy: Speaking with the Dead, Speaking for the Past Necromancy is usually imagined as a forbidden curiosity: a grotesque art of raised corpses, sinister rituals, and whispered names best left unspoken. Yet across history, cultures, and religions, necromancy has rarely been about spectacle or horror. Instead, it has functioned as one of humanity’s most enduring strategies for negotiating memory, authority, grief, and truth. This lecture offers a historically grounded and intellectually prov