TV GUIDE
EDITOR’S PICKS OF THE WEEK
CHANNEL ZED PRODUCTION TEAM
Athena Aktipis
Producer, Host of Undead Live!
and Late Nite Brains
David Lundberg-Kenrick
Co-producer, Co-host of Undead
Live! and Late Nite Brains
Ilana Rein
Director, Co-producer,
Co-host of Brain Dead Theater
Erica O’Neil
Production Manager,
Co-producer, Co-host of Eat
Prey Run
Welcome ZedHeads, survivalists and fans of brain-based
entertainment to one HELL of a week of TV here on CHANNEL ZED.
Dearest ZedHeads, You’ve watched them trek across
the country in a Winnebago,
You’re staying in, right? RIGHT?!
dancing in their hazmat suits
Good. That’s one way to avoid
to spite the apocalypse.
the zombie virus. But that’s
Now see them live! Join
no reason to let your brain go
Black Label Movement
soft in quarantine.
dance company on our
We’ve worked hard to unreal reality show,
harvest the freshest brains UNREAL WORLD.
for ZAMM2020, exclusively (Fr: 8.30pm PDT)
on CHANNEL ZED, where
Looking for even more
we’re braving the apocalypse
nightmare fuel than
so you don’t have to.
our current apocalyptish
As the intrepid leader of this conditions? Feast on
ragtag bunch of academics zombie movie faves with
broadcasting through the BRAIN DEAD THEATER
apocalypse, here are my televisual where we combine insightful brains
picks to get you through the pandemic: and the undead, a dangerous combination.
Attention early birds! There’s worms to catch. (Th/Fr/St: 8pm PDT)
Tune into EAT PREY RUN and you might find
That sofa might be comfortable now, but you
out how to turn them into a hearty meal. know they’re coming for you. And when they
(Th/Fr/St: 10:30am PDT; Su: 11am PDT) do you’ll need to get the fuck out pronto. Who
Neil Smith Cristina Baciu For the daytime TV zombies out there, we’ve better to tell you what to take than Emily Zarka
Illustrator, Co-producer Production Coordinator got plenty of good stuff to fry your brain. So on GO BAG CHALLENGE.
Joe Alcock Nicole Hudson get another cup of coffee, rip open your ration (Th/Fr/St: 3pm PDT)
Host of The Dr. Zed Show Production Coordinator pack of chocolate, and tune in to UNDEAD Good luck out there. Stay safe. And don’t go
Rob Dunn Pamela Winfrey LIVE! morning, afternoon, and night! dying on me. Most important, keep your eyes
Host of Eat Prey Run Arts Consultant (Th/Fr/St: 8am, 1pm, 4:30pm PDT; glued and your brains charged with everything
Carl Flink Lemi Su: 9am, 11:30am PDT) CHANNEL ZED has to offer!
Host of Unreal World Composer
Damn I miss ER! The good old days when
Liz Grumbach Baba Brinkman
Host of Brain Dead Theater Musical Guest
hospitals weren’t overrun by the undead. ATHENA AKTIPIS
We’ve got the next best thing though, our own
Emily Zarka personal wilderness medicine pro Joe Alcock,
Channel Zed Producer and
Host of Go Bag Challenge M.D., on THE DR. ZED SHOW. Purveyor of Delicious Brains
(Th/Fr/St: 2:30pm PDT)
Armageddon nightmares keeping you up? I
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brave that hangover, and delve into the murky
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(Th/Fr/St: 7pm PDT)
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APOCALYPSE IMPROV
with Co-Producer Dave Lundberg-Kenrick
ZTV sat down with Dave Lundberg-Kenrick, co-producer of
CHANNEL ZED, and co-host of its flagship shows: UNDEAD LIVE!
and LATE NITE BRAINS. Dave talked to us about his background
as a host of the ZOMBIFIED Podcast and the “Apocalypse Improv”
he infuses into every recording session.
ZTV: Hey Dave, sorry we’re so out
of breath. Had to circle around the
convenience store twice to shake a
shambler before entering the studio
today. Persistent little guy. Makes us
wonder if the zeds are actually learning.
Lundberg-Kenrick: No problem.
If they’re learning, maybe
there’s hope for them! Also,
before we begin, I would
like to give a quick shout-
out to the merchants
still working. Before
the apocalypse, I
would play zombie
video games and the
merchant standing
there willing to sell
you weapons and
items always
seemed
like an
oblivious weirdo. But these days, I realize
it’s really a brave choice to show up and
keep going to work.
ZTV: So tell us a bit about your
background with the Zombie Apocalypse
Medicine Alliance and how you ended up a
co-host on Channel Zed shows?
Lundberg-Kenrick: In the
before times, my job was Media
Outreach Program Manager for
the Department of Psychology
at ASU, which involved making
videos and web content about
how people can use psychology
in their day-to-day life. I was
helping Athena with the
Zombified Podcast in more
of a technical capacity,
but at the end of the
interview I chimed
in with a bunch of
questions. She
liked them
and
asked
me
to co-host. Even though I think I really
only ask two questions again and again:
“How can I use this to improve my life?”
and “Wait, what are you guys talking
about?” Then when she launched Channel
Zed the original host for Undead Live!
and Late Night Brains came down with
an unfortunate case of zombie-itis, so she
needed someone to step in with a broader
vocab than, “Aaaaargh!” and “Braaaaains.”
So now I get to combine my work in
social psych with my background in film
production, with a dash of apocalypse
improv for good measure.
ZTV: Apocalypse Improv sounds like it
would come in handy at the end of the
world, can you talk a bit more on that?
Lundberg-Kenrick: When I was a senior
in college—back when we could gather in
groups without fear of zombie attacks—the
Upright Citizens Brigade was a relatively
new improv troupe that put on free
Wednesday night shows that just blew
my friends and me away. So we all ended
up taking classes with them. It turns out
they relied on a few simple rules that
really help with everything from comedy
to science-writing to survival: 1. Pay
attention to what the people around you Legend apocalypse, where we’re convinced
are doing. We often hop into a situation the groups against us are these mindless
with an idea for how we want things to hordes. That’s not really the case, they
play out, and basically try to steam-roll tend to be people like us, who have been
our way to our own goal. Like today, you infected by some sort of idea or whatever.
were planning to come straight here, but Or maybe they’re against us because we’ve
then you paid attention to the zombies near been infected by things they don’t like.
the store, and so you changed your route. So I hang on to this idea that if we pay
That’s an important skill. 2. Pay attention attention to what “they” want, maybe we
to anything out of the ordinary, and can find ways of working together. I don’t
remember that everyone has goals. Like know. Maybe that’s naive. And also, that
you mentioned, the zombies seemed to be only pertains to human-based zombies.
getting smarter. That indicates maybe they When we start talking about microscopic
aren’t so mindless after all. parasites or giant corporate entities, we’re
dealing with a whole new set of rules. And
ZTV: Do you have any tips for how you in some of those cases, we might be facing
bring that energy and perspective to every a situation where we’re just inevitably
recording session? going to be eaten.
Lundberg-Kenrick: I think this idea of Man, we’re all doomed.
thinking about goals is a big part of it.
We’re living in this sort of Omega Man/I Am But I hope people tune into ChannelZed!

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FEATURED BRAINS EMILY WITT

“How to De-Zombify Your Love Life”
UNDEAD LIVE! Fr 8am PDT
We source only the freshest brains for Channel Zed. Check out what our LATE NITE BRAINS Fr 7pm PDT
talking heads will be discussing this week on UNDEAD LIVE!, LATE NITE Author of Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love
BRAINS, and BRAIN DEAD THEATER.

STEVEN SCHLOZMAN, MD MZILIKAZI KONÉ, PHD

“Zombie Cinema is Our Guide: Lessons for
What Not to Do in Our Current Pandemic”
UNDEAD LIVE! Th 8am PDT
LATE NITE BRAINS Th 7pm PDT
BRAIN DEAD THEATER Th 8pm PDT
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical
School and Author of The Zombie Autopsies
“Zombies Everywhere! Race,
Slavery and Labor in the Americas”
UNDEAD LIVE! Fr 1pm PDT
LATE NITE BRAINS Fr 7pm PDT
BRAIN DEAD THEATER Fr 8pm PDT
Associate Professor of Political Science and Global
Studies at College of the Desert

DAVID QUAMMEN B.N. HOROWITZ, MD

“SARS-CoV-2: A Success Story”
UNDEAD LIVE! Th 4:30pm PDT
LATE NITE BRAINS Th 7pm PDT
Author of Spillover and The Tangled Tree
“The Peril of Privilege in Nature”
UNDEAD LIVE! Fr 4:30pm PDT
LATE NITE BRAINS Fr 7pm PDT
UNDEAD LIVE! Su 9am PDT
Professor of Medicine in the UCLA Division
of Cardiology, Lecturer at Harvard University
Author of Wildhood and Zoobiquity

SARAH HILL, PHD DONNA ZUCKERBERG, PHD

“Zombified By the Birth Control Pill” “Who Zombified Homer?”
UNDEAD LIVE! Th 1pm PDT UNDEAD LIVE! Sa 8am PDT
LATE NITE BRAINS Th 7pm PDT LATE NITE BRAINS Sa 7pm PDT
Professor of Psychology at Texas Christian University Author of Not All Dead White Men
Author of This Is Your Brain On Birth Control

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OCT 15
SREE SREENIVASAN DAILY TV LISTINGS
“The Future of Social Media”
UNDEAD LIVE! Sa 1pm PDT
LATE NITE BRAINS Sa 7pm PDT THURSDAY
Visiting Professor at Stony Brook University

MORNING
7:30 Zombie coffee talk
ERICA O’NEIL Get under the influence. Chat with Erica about
your favorite forms of zombification, caffeinated or otherwise.
ROBIN NELSON, PHD
8:00 Undead Live!
“Black Zombies and the White Imagination” ATHENA & DAVE Updates from the front lines of the ZA. Steven Schlozman explains
how zombie cinema will guide us through the pandemic. Broadcast Thought on free will,
UNDEAD LIVE! Sa 4:30pm PDT
ill will and real-life monsters. Anne Jackson on the zombification of disability.
LATE NITE BRAINS Sa 7pm PDT
Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University 10:30 Eat Prey Run
ROB DUNN & ERICA O’NEIL Peter Todd and Ann Barwich talk about zombie food preferences.

11:00 Thursday workshops

Join an interactive workshop on a topic of your choice:
Illustrating Science, Fermentation, Wilderness Medicine,
Apocalyptic Art.
RACHEL FELTMAN
12:00 Mid-day Break
“A Rousing History of Sex” Take a break from your screen or watch bite-size videos to satisfy
UNDEAD LIVE! Su 9am PDT your cravings for brains.
Articles editor at Popular Science Magazine and host
of podcast The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week
AFTERNOON
1:00 Undead Live!
ATHENA & DAVE Sarah Hill on how we’re all zombified by The Pill. Summer Lynn
Mengelkoch explains how her sexual preferences have changed since becoming a zombie.
Christopher Dana Lynn asks whether tattoos make you sexier. Esther Borges Florsheim
describes the immunological ZA.

2:30 Dr. Zed

JOE ALCOCK Dr. Zed talks with Amanda Gallagher about survival strategies for the zombie
apocalypse.

3:00 Go Bag Challenge

EMILY ZARKA Danièle Cybulskie gets medieval on packing a ZA go bag.

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THURSDAY
3:30 Continuation of Thursday workshops
Join an interactive workshop on a terrifying topic of your choice.
4:30 Undead Live!
ATHENA & DAVE David Quammen explains the evolutionary
success story behind SARS-CoV-2. Esma Gel on the state of the
ZA in AZ. Jessica Brinkworth shows how SARS-CoV-2 zombifies
our cells. Roger White explains the economic consequences of
the ZA. Carlo Maley on the prospects of containing the ZA.
6:00 Evening Break
Take a break from your screen or watch bite-size videos
to satisfy your cravings for brains.
EVENING
OCT 16
FRIDAY
MORNING
7:30 ZOMBIE COFFEE TALK
ERICA O’NEIL Get under the influence. Chat with Erica about your
favorite forms of zombification, caffeinated or otherwise.
8:00 Undead Live!
SEX & TECH FEATURE On location dispatches from dystopia. Emily Witt on whether
marriage is dead or undead. Special feature on the vexing tech of sex moderated by
ethics expert, Jason Robert. Diana S. Fleischman reveals the counterfeit fitness behind
sex robots. Ewen Lavoie describes the new reality of virtual reality sex platforms.
Francesca Minerva explores ideals of zombie beauty. Jonny Anomaly investigates genetic
enhancement for zombies. Brian Earp on drug-assisted psychotherapy for couples.
10:30 Eat Prey Run
ROB & ERICA Master bakers Michael Kalanty and Peter Reinhart discuss how breadmaking
can restore our humanity in the ZA.

7:00 Late Nite Brains 11:00 Friday workshops

ATHENA & DAVE Steven Schlozman, Sarah Hill and David Quammen share their brains, Join an interactive workshop on a terrifying topic of your
joined by musical guest Baba Brinkman. choice: Illustrating Science, Morality and Cooperation,
Misinformation Apocalypse, How to Touch.
8:00 Brain Dead Theater
LIZ GRUMBACH & ILANA REIN Steven Schlozman guides us through zombie movie clips to 12:00 Mid-day Break
save our souls. Take a break from your screen or watch bite-size videos to satisfy
your cravings for brains.
8:30 Zombiefest Evening Activities
Ethically drink your way through the ZA with cocktail and mocktail recipes from Jason
Robert and Stephanie Birdsall. AFTERNOON
1:00 Undead Live!
ATHENA & DAVE Mzilikazi Koné reveals how zombies pervade labor, slavery, and race
in the Americas. Cathryn Townsend on the cannibalistic Wendigo and human famine
behavior. Ed Hagen explains how depression can protect you from being zombified.
Daniel Nettle shows how the pandemic has increased support for Universal Basic Income.

2:30 Dr. Zed

JOE ALCOCK Dr. Darryl Macias on plague and pandemic medicine tips for surviving the ZA.
Dr. Andrew Harrell talking about zombie ballistics.

3:00 Go Bag Challenge

EMILY ZARKA Cameron Carlson on comms and intelligence for handling disasters,
ZA or otherwise.

3:30 Continuation of Friday workshops

Join an interactive workshop on a terrifying topic of your choice.

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FRIDAY SATURDAY
MORNING
7:30 ZOMBIE COFFEE TALK
ERICA O’NEIL Get under the influence. Chat with Erica about
your favorite forms of zombification, caffeinated or otherwise.

4:30 Undead Live! 8:00 Undead Live!

ATHENA & DAVE B.N. Horowitz, MD, explains the perils of privilege in nature. ATHENA & DAVE Zombie and apocalypse expert correspondents report from the field.
Amy Boddy explores why mammals are vulnerable to becoming mombies. Michael Metzger Donna Zuckerberg explains how misogynists are reanimating the corpses of classic
reveals the undead cancers that lurk under the sea. Steven J.Kirsh describes childhood authors to advance their own agendas. Heather McKnight presents an iZombie-inspired
games of the ZA. Jessica Phillips-Silver explains why zombies can dance to a beat despite utopia of human-zombie coexistence. Linda Flores Ohlson explains how zombie pronouns
impaired walking ability. shape dehumanization. Podcasters from Shabam! (Josh Kurz and Wendy Roderweiss) and
The Sausage of Science (Theresa Gildner and Caroline Owens) explain how to communicate
6:00 Evening Break science in the midst of the ZA.
Take a break from your screen or watch bite-size videos to satisfy your cravings for brains.
10:30 Eat Prey Run
ROB & ERICA Diego Guevara Beltran explains why zombies and humans
EVENING sometimes don’t like to share food. Gwyneth Williams Gordon gives voice
to zombies’ eating experience, history, and geography.
7:00 Late Nite Brains
ATHENA & DAVE Emily Witt, Mzilikazi Koné and B.N. Horowitz, MD, share their brains, 11:00 Saturday workshops
joined by musical guest Baba Brinkman. Join an interactive workshop on a terrifying topic of your choice:
Drawing Monsters, Fermentation, Movement, Medieval Medicine.
8:00 Brain Dead Theater
LIZ GRUMBACH & ILANA REIN Mzilikazi Koné shares her favorite clips from Get Out and 12:00 Mid-day Break
Night of the Living Dead. Take a break from your screen or watch bite-size videos to satisfy your
cravings for brains.
8:30 Zombiefest Evening Activities
Watch Black Label Movement dance company perform in the ZA and join in for a Zombie
Movie Night.
AFTERNOON
1:00 Undead Live!
ATHENA & DAVE Sree Sreenivasan on the good, the bad, and the fugly of social media’s
future. Jeanette Vigliotti shows how we are both the consumer and the consumed on social
media. Vaughn Becker reveals our biases in detecting invisible contagion.

2:30 Dr. Zed

JOE ALCOCK Dr. Zed talks to Clint Kalan about how to deal with zombie-related medical
emergencies.

3:00 Go Bag Challenge

EMILY ZARKA Chelsey Weber-Smith shares lessons for ZA go bag packing from hitchhiking
and growing up with a 2012 doomsday prepper parent.

3:30 Continuation of Saturday workshops

Join an interactive workshop on a terrifying topic of your choice.

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OCT 17 OCT 18
SATURDAY SUNDAY
MORNING
8:30 ZOMBIE COFFEE TALK
ERICA O’NEIL Get under the influence. Chat with Erica about your
favorite forms of zombification, caffeinated or otherwise.

4:30 Undead Live! 9:00 Undead Live!

ATHENA & DAVE Robin Nelson explains how black zombies animate the white imagination.
Chelsey Weber-Smith investigates the truth behind American conspiracy theories.
Sam Kestenbaum chats about conspiracies and religious movements.
6:00 Evening Break
Take a break from your screen or watch bite-size videos to satisfy your cravings for brains.
EVENING
ATHENA & DAVE Rachel Feltman on the weirdest things you didn’t know about sex.
Courtney Crosby reveals the universality of sexual disgust towards dead bodies.
Lee Cronk advises on zombification as a legal defense strategy. B.N. Horowitz, MD,
shows just how wild consent can be. K. Jakob Patten reveals the acoustic secrets of
zombie moans of pleasure and pain.
11:00 Eat Prey Run
ROB & ERICA Greg E. Popovich and Corrie Whisner on the nutritional considerations
of eating brains.

7:00 Late Nite Brains 11:30 Undead Live!

ATHENA & DAVE Donna Zuckerberg, Sree Sreenivasan and Robin Nelson share their brains, ATHENA & DAVE Monster experts Jim Perry, Coltan Scrivner, Chelsey Weber-Smith,
joined by musical guest Baba Brinkman. and Emily Zarka on why we believe in the undead. Reports from the front lines of the ZA.

8:00 Brain Dead Theater

LIZ GRUMBACH & ILANA REIN George Hagman shows how The Walking Dead inspires
resilience in the face of trauma.

8:30 Zombiefest Evening Activities

No Brainer quiz night with Trivial Dispute.

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BRAIN FOOD: INTERACTIVE, DR. ZED, WILDERNESS MEDICINE MAN

DAILY WORKSHOPS
Your ZAMM2020 registration includes a series of live, interactive
workshops in addition to the shows offered on CHANNEL ZED.
Our Z-Team associates have been hard at work sketching, sieving,
suturing, and shimmying to put together this line-up of workshop options
for conference participants. Each workshop has two parts: an 11am PDT
morning session, followed by a 3:30pm PDT follow-up. You can only
attend one workshop a day, so reserve your space to beat the hordes!
All workshops at 11am PDT and 3.30pm PDT
Joe Alcock
When fleeing from zombies, bumps and bruises are inevitable. But what happens when
you’re on the fly and need a bit more medical know-how than “walk it off”? Enter Dr. Zed
and his team of wilderness medicine experts. From splints to sutures and everything in
between, the pros will show you how to improvise medical solutions to common problems
while on the run. If you want to practice alongside Dr. Zed and team, have a safety pin and
some duct tape on hand for this workshop.
MAKING ART IN THE APOCALYPSE
Sister Sylvester
Sister Sylvester aka Kathryn Karaoglu Hamilton is a theater director, video artist, and
sometime microbiologist. In this workshop she’ll lead you on an exploration through
the microbiome to make art in the apocalypse. You’ll create collaborative art with your
microbiome, and the microbiomes of the spaces in which you inhabit, leaving with a broader
understanding of the organisms that share your world and your own place within it.

THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER
ILLUSTRATING YOUR SCIENCE IN THE APOCALYPSE
Neil Smith
Freelance science illustrator Neil Smith produces graphics for Nature and Channel Zed
among many others. In this workshop, you’ll learn essential graphic design theory and
useful practical skills from Neil as he offers pro tips for creating punchy and engaging
science graphics. Everyone will need a pencil and paper initially, and then either some
colouring pencils OR access to whatever graphics software you are most comfortable
with. Neil is an Adobe Illustrator user and will be doing a live demo, but Adobe Illustrator
is NOT essential for this workshop.

RECLAIMING DECOMP:
FERMENTATION IN THE APOCALYPSE
Erica O’Neil
Reclaiming decomposition from the shambling zombie hordes and introducing it to the
pantry goes far beyond increasing the shelf-life of food. Humanity is biologically and
culturally a product of fermentation, from our symbiotic coevolution with microbial life
to the comfort foods we crave (beer, wine, bread, and beyond). Learn to reclaim decomp
from the undead in this workshop, which describes the biological, cultural, and culinary
benefits of fermentation. We’ll make sauerkraut in the morning session and simple mead
in the afternoon on Thursday. (Ingredient list to be circulated prior to the meeting so you
can take part!)

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FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER HOW TO TOUCH IN THE APOCALYPSE

ILLUSTRATING YOUR SCIENCE IN THE APOCALYPSE
Neil Smith
Freelance science illustrator Neil Smith produces graphics for Nature and Channel Zed
among many others. In this workshop, you’ll learn essential graphic design theory and
useful practical skills from Neil as he offers pro tips for creating punchy and engaging
science graphics. Everyone will need a pencil and paper initially, and then either some
colouring pencils OR access to whatever graphics software you are most comfortable
with. Neil is an Adobe Illustrator user and will be doing a live demo, but Adobe Illustrator
is NOT essential for this workshop.
Ita O’Brien
When’s the last time you could gather in a group, let alone initiate touch? The ZA is a
bit touch starved. Thankfully, Ita O’Brien is here to lend her expertise as an Intimacy
Coordinator and Movement Director for film, television, and theatre. In this workshop
she will share the Intimacy On Set Guidelines, and chart the way through implementing
open communication and transparency, putting in place agreement and consent of touch,
of simulated sexual content and nudity. Ita will then discuss the techniques used to
choreograph an intimate scene clearly and professionally allowing the actor the freedom
to bring all of their acting skills to the intimate content, sharing the ways that these
techniques can help us all communicate more clearly about touch and intimacy.

MORALITY AND COOPERATION IN THE APOCALYPSE SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER

Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics members DRAWING MONSTERS FOR KIDS AND KIDS AT HEART
Stephanie Birdsall, Sean Kenney, Erica O’Neil Neil Smith
Looking to not only survive but thrive in the apocalypse? It’s gonna take a group effort.
Join Channel Zed illustrator Neil Smith for a ghoulish halloween cartoon drawing
Explore the link between morality and cooperation and learn to cultivate a moral
workshop. Draw along with Neil as he doodles up some apocalyptic classics from zombies
community in the Apocalypse—or reconstruct group morality in the post-Apocalyptic
to Frankenstein’s Monster. All you’ll need is a nice black pen and some plain paper.
wasteland. Take a quiz to see what your own cooperative style is, get sorted into Z-teams,
Neil strongly advises access to a cookie jar for the duration of this workshop.
and see how you react when zombies come knocking down your door. May the best
cooperators survive?

RECLAIMING DECOMP:
BUILDING YOUR ARMOR TO SURVIVE THE FERMENTATION IN THE APOCALYPSE
MISINFORMATION APOCALYPSE Erica O’Neil
ASU News Co/Lab team members, Kristy Roschke, Reclaiming decomposition from the shambling
Celeste Sepessy, Quinlyn Shaughnessy zombie hordes and introducing it to the pantry
goes far beyond increasing the shelf-life of
We’re all zombified by infotainment, yet believe we’ve got it under control. We know food. Humanity is biologically and culturally a
when a Facebook post isn’t real, or when someone on TV is lying—or do we? Can we product of fermentation, from our symbiotic
explain it to a 5-year-old? Can we explain it to grandma? Better yet, can we explain how coevolution with microbial life to the comfort
to fight it? Not unless we’re outfitted with the right weapons. This workshop presents foods we crave (beer, wine, bread, and beyond).
proven, mind-altering practices to help zombies of all ages build a solid foundation for the Learn to reclaim decomp from the undead in
random knowledge floating around in their brains. Properly girded, they are protected this workshop, which describes the biological,
from the brunt of misinformation, and can help others build their own armor before the cultural, and culinary benefits of fermentation.
infopocalypse takes over. We’ll make simple pickled veggies in the
morning with ginger beer in the afternoon on
Saturday. (Ingredient list to be circulated prior
to the meeting so you can take part!)

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MOVEMENT IN THE ZA
Crystal Edwards and Black Label Movement
COVID has taken touch and contact away from us except for those sheltering with us. That
loss of touch makes us less human. Join Black Label Movement’s Crystal Edwards and movers
from the company for a workshop exploring how we can move together during the pandemic.
Discover ways to share energy and connection while socially distanced. Then later that day,
apply what you learn in the morning session and step away from the computer to move your
body any way you see fit: yoga, a walk, or running from the zombie hordes!
HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN A POST-APOCALYPTIC
WORLD: LESSONS FROM MEDIEVAL AND MODERN
TIMES
Danièle Cybulskie & Joe Alcock
Staring down plague and calamity? Time to get medieval. In this workshop we’ll see what our
historical counterparts teach us about coping with quarantines and a world without electricity.
Medieval historian Danièle Cybulskie lends her expertise on surviving and thriving in the
new Dark Ages. Dr. Zed (Joe Alcock) will bring a modern medical perspective to Medieval
solutions—new is not always better! The first segment will focus on how medieval culture,
medicine, knowledge, and technology can help us cope in the apocalypse. The second segment
imagines how people might cooperate to rebuild society after a post-industrial collapse.
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SOCIAL
IT’S A DEAD MAN’S PARTY
ZAMM2020 conference registration grants you exclusive access
to the hippest undead happenings, every evening at 8:30pm PDT.
Drink, dance, and show off your big brains at our evening socials.
THURSDAY 8:30 PM PDT
Ethically Drink Your Way through the ZA
Join the Conscience of the Apocalypse and consummate boulevardier, Jason Robert,
for a convivial evening of cocktails, mocktails, and ethical reflection. He’s joined by whiskey
enthusiast Stephanie Birdsall, from the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, as they whip
up a series of drinks like the Corpse Reviver, the 6-Feet, and of course, The Zombie.
(Ingredient list to be circulated prior to the meeting so you can take part!)
FRIDAY 8:30 PM PDT
Dance Night and Dawn of the Dead
Dance ‘til Dawn with two fabulous entertainment options this evening. First, we’ve got the
hottest hazmat dancers around: Carl Flink and the Black Label Movement company shimmying
their way through the zombie apocalypse in a Winnebago. Then snag some popcorn and punch
your ticket for the Zedheads movie night, the original 1978 Dawn of the Dead, live streaming
on Kast TV. Log in details to follow!
SATURDAY 8:30 PM PDT
No Brainer Quiz Night
Bring a frosty beverage and your big brain to No Brainer, our zombie-packed trivia night.
Join Adam, Trivial Dispute’s Minister of Information, for as many zombies as we could cram
into 90 minutes. We’ve got oodles of undead factoids from horror icons to literary creeps,
biological zombies to cultural craziness. Sign-up sheet due by the end of the evening break to
ensure that the Minister of Information has time to sort teams.
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CHANNEL ZED Elizabeth Langland

Humanities Correspondent. Professor Emerita and Director of the ASU Lincoln Center for Applied

CORRESPONDENTS
Ethics and scholar of Victorian literature, feminist and gender theory, and cultural studies.
Mo Lotman
The Technoskeptic. Author, public speaker, and the founder and editor of Technoskeptic magazine.
Carlo Maley
Zombie Evolution Correspondent. Director of the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center, Associate
Bob Beard Professor in the School of Life Sciences at ASU, and D&D gamemaster.
Imaginary Correspondent. Marine Corps Veteran and Public Engagement Strategist for ASU’s
Center for Science and the Imagination. Expert on Frankenstein and the use of speculative fiction Jessica Phillips-Silver
to inspire curiosity and create better futures. Zombie Dance and Music Correspondent. Consultant and Researcher who conducts research on
entrainment in music and movement.
Gaymon Bennett
Zombie Biotech Correspondent. Associate Professor of Religion, Science, and Technology at Jason Robert
ASU researching enchanted technology and modernity’s other monsters. The Conscience of the Zombie Apocalypse. Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences at
ASU researching bioethics and philosophy of biology.
Jessica Brinkworth
Zombie Immunology and Epidemiology Correspondent. Assistant Professor at University of Kristy Roschke
Illinois researching severe infections, sepsis, plague, Toxoplasma, host-pathogen interactions, Misinformation Correspondent. Managing Director of the News Co/Lab at the Walter Cronkite
immunogenomics, evolutionary medicine. School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU.
David Buss Peter Schlosser
Mating Correspondent. Author of The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating on the Global Futures Correspondent. Vice President and Vice Provost of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global
dark side of human nature: conflict between the sexes, jealousy, stalking, intimate partner violence, Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University researching earth science and our global future.
and murder.
Steven Schlozman
Cameron Carlson Zombie Medicine Correspondent. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and
Zombie Survival Correspondent. Zombie Research Society leader and epidemiologist with expertise author of The Zombie Autopsies.
in disaster relief and outdoor survival.
Jason Davids Scott
Mathias Clasen
Film Correspondent. Interim Director of The New American Film School at ASU; studying sexuality
Dystopian Horror Correspondent. Director of the Recreational Fear Lab and Associate Professor at
and violence in film and television using feminist, queer, and nonbinary theory.
Aarhus University, horror scholar.
Coltan Scrivner
Gary Dirks
Morbid Curiosity Correspondent. University of Chicago PhD candidate researching morbid curiosity
Global Futures Correspondent. Senior Director of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
and the evolution of human social interactions.
and Senior Director of LightWorks at ASU.
Larry Fessenden Cathryn Townsend
ZA Front Lines Correspondent. Horror movie actor, producer, writer, director, film editor, and Zombie-Human Relations Correspondent. Baylor University anthropologist working in Central
cinematographer; founder of Glass Eye Pix. Africa and the Caribbean on food sharing and human generosity.

Jeff Gassen Chelsey Weber-Smith

Zombie Health Correspondent. Researcher at Baylor University studying immunology, evolutionary
psychology and anthropology.
Sam Kestenbaum
Religion Correspondent. Independent reporter writing in The New York Times and contributing
editor at The Forward.
Mzilikazi Koné
Zombie Rights Correspondent. Associate Professor at College of the Desert researching zombies,
labor, sex workers and the politics and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Conspiracy Theory Correspondent. Queer, nonbinary poet-turned-podcaster, American history and
pop-culture expert, creator of the American Hysteria podcast.
Roger White
Apocalypse Economics Correspondent. Assistant Professor in the W.P. Carey School of Business at
ASU studying fraud, incentives, regulation, and corruption.
Emily Zarka
Monsters Correspondent. Host of Monstrum on PBS and adjunct faculty in the English Department
at ASU who researches the literary undead.

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 INTERVIEW
BRAINSTORMING
with Channel Zed Director Ilana Rein
ZTV sat down with CHANNEL ZED director, Ilana Rein, to pick her
brain about this week’s programming. She spilled all the juicy
details about the programs you can’t miss, the forces zombifying
her, and who she would want on her Z-Team
ZTV: We know you’re busy running from
the zombie hordes and running Channel
Zed programming, but which show do
you wish you could be an audience member
for, to just kick back and absorb the
brain waves?
Rein: I’m not really able to “kick back” since
I have a mystery wound on my arm, and
I can’t remember how I got it. So my anxiety
is dialed up to 11 right now. Also, I’m down
to an expired box of crackers and a can of
condensed milk. So I guess I’m torn between
the Dr. Zed Show and Eat Prey Run. Maybe
those experts can help me figure out how to
suture this wound while transforming my
pantry into something palatable.
ZTV: As the director of Channel Zed, are
you immune to being zombified? Do you
have any special advice for our audience
about how to protect themselves from
zombies and zombification?
Rein: No one is immune! I struggle with
being zombified every day. Sometimes it
seems like the path of least resistance, and
that there is actually joy and relief on
that side. But then I think of how
that camp actively denies that
there’s even an outbreak and
are living within an illusion that
strips them of their humanity.
Ultimately, they are hurting
themselves and others by being
zombified. Sure it’s a lot of
work to resist and survive but
it’s worth it to be on the
side of humanity.
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ZTV: You seem really comfortable with
the apocalyptic situation we’re in with the
zombies and all. How do you manage to
stay so cool?
Rein: It was a challenge last week when the
sky here in California was orange and even
level-headed people were screaming about
a double apocalypse. But right now, at this
moment, we can breathe the air again. And
I don’t see any zombies on my front lawn.
So I’m living in the moment and focusing
on the good to help refresh my reserves for
when times get worse.
ZTV: We’ve all made it this far into the
apocalypse because we’ve got guts,
gumption, and grit. But who among our
ZTV associates do you most want to ride
out the apocalypse with and why?
Rein: I run my set with a calm firmness
that doesn’t tolerate any diva-like behavior.
(Even from you, Dave L-K!) It’s a truly great
team and we are always there for each other
when the shit goes down in our respective
bunkers. That said, I’d have to choose
Athena for her leadership and stash
of supplies, and Dr. Zed and
Emily Zarka for their very, very
useful survival skills.
ZTV: Let’s get real. Who
on ZTV you think is the next
up to get zombified?
Rein: Well, I think I’ve got
to get this wound looked at
pretty soon before I start
craving braaains…
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