In 1919 Freud published a wide-ranging essay on the “uncanny,” which he names as an aesthetic quality of feeling that is a special species of fear. Female genital organs, prostheses, automatons, doppelgangers, and haunted houses are uncanny. Today, as new media techniques push the boundary of the uncanny into domains such as virtual reality, “fake news,” and data doubles, the uncanny has come to characterize our age of recombination and climate catastrophe. From the camera obscura and spirit photography to X-ray technology and AI, the uncanny is always bound up with uncertainty as to whether something is an original or a copy, animate or inanimate, alive or dead. In this seminar we will study the uncanny as it proliferates across multiple disciplines, from psychoanalysis to socio-cultural analysis, from cinema studies to environmental studies and more. We will take an expansive view of media, considering the human body, the planet, the built environment, and the nation-state as potentially uncanny media objects, and we will speculate upon how the uncanny might function methodologically as we approach such media forms. A central question that undergirds this seminar is why our interactions with humans and non-humans are marked by a sense of the foreignness of the other.