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Author Archives: Sam George
Gothic Fairies Conference 8-11 April – Booking is Open
We are excited to announce that booking has opened for our Gothic Fairies Online Conference ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic encounters with enchantment and the Faerie realm in literature and culture, 8‒11 April 2021 Full Conference Programme Keynotes and Activities Booking Link Fees: … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Events, OGOM: Ill met by moonlight
Tagged fairies, fairy tale, Folklore, Gothic, Open Graves Open Minds
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The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (22nd Feb 17.00 Free online event )
A quick post to draw your attention to the following free online event at the university. Hope to see some of you there. The School of Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire’s Creative Conversations continues with a special guest, historian and … Continue reading
CoronaGothic: Cultures of the Pandemic
‘CoronaGothic’, Critical Quarterly 62.4 (2020), ed. by Prof William Hughes and Prof Nick Groom from the University of Macau, arrived in this morning’s post. Thank you to all who contributed to this ground-breaking discussion from a symposium organised by @UMGothic … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM News, OGOM Research, Publications
Tagged @UMGothic, Amabie, Coronagothic, Dr Sam George, monster theory, Yokai
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Sam George, ‘Black Roses: The representation of Sophie Lancaster’
It is over ten years since Sophie Lancaster and Robert Maltby were attacked in Stubbylee Park, in Lancashire, reputedly for being ‘goths’. Rob, who was punched unconscious and put in a coma by his assailants, eventually recovered (though he suffered … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged difference, Goth subculture, hate crime, otherness, Simon Armitage, Sophie Lancaster
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The Coffin Boffin’s Choice of Vintage Vampire Shorts
Here, in all their beauty and glory are my pick of the greatest vintage vampire shorts; seductive and predatory, terrifying and comic, vital and metaphoric, doomed and daring! View Post
Posted in MA Reading the Vampire module news, OGOM Research
Tagged Halloween, vampire books, vampire literature, Vampires
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The Black Vampyre: Gothic Visions of New Worlds #BeingHuman2020
We’re excited to invite you to our forthcoming event to explore Gothic dreams of new worlds and the creatures that inhabit them, notably Mary Shelley’s plague world, John Polidori’s vampyre, the Black Vampyre, and the ghosts of World War 1. … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged black vampire, Ghosts, plague, Polidori, Shelley, Vampires, vampyre, Wollstonecraft, Word War 1
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Gothic Hybridity: the Nature of Demons
Hybridity is something that I have always found interesting to explore in relation to the gothic. I’ve blogged about fairy tale hybridity in relation to Beauty and the Beast and commented on the Wellcome’s ‘Making Nature’ exhibition on faux taxonomy and hybrid creatures as well as … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research, Resources
Tagged #demonoftheday, #GothicHybridity, demons, Dictionaire Infernal, Hybridity
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The Folklore Society Announces a New President
Congratulations to Prof. Owen Davies who has just become the new President of The Folklore Society. The Folklore Society is a learned society devoted to the study of traditional culture in all its forms. It was founded in London in … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, OGOM News
Tagged fairies, Folklore Society, grimoires, History, magic, Professor Owen Davies, University of Hertfordshire
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Coronagothic 30th June 2020
Those who are wondering how the Gothic might respond to the current crisis will be interested in this new event. It is called Coronagothic and it is an online flash conference hosted by @UMGothic (Gothic Research Network at the University … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, OGOM News
Tagged @UMGothic, Amabie, Coronagothic, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Japanese, mermaids, Yokai
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Twins for Kaja – Big Congratulations from OGOM
Some wonderful news to stave off all the gloom, OGOM’s Kaja has given birth to twins named Frederick Ewen Franck-Howells and Casper Wolf Franck-Howells. Big names for little people!! On behalf of OGOM I’d like to send huge congratulations to … Continue reading