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Category Archives: Conferences
Gothic Styles: Gothic Substance – OGOM at Gothic Manchester Festival
OGOM will have a strong presence at the Gothic Manchester Festival this year with Bill and myself both giving talks. This year’s theme is Gothic Style(s). I’m a displaced Mancunian so I always welcome a return to my first city. We … Continue reading
Conference review: Damsels in Redress: Women in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Reimaginings, Queen’s University Belfast, 7-8 April 2017
At last I’ve managed to review the ‘Damsels in Redress: Women in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Reimaginings’ conference at Queen’s University Belfast which I attended recently. My thanks to the organisers, Lisa Kennedy, Amy Finlay, and Christina Collins for such an inspiring … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Reviews
Tagged adaptation, Contemporary Fairy Tales, Fairy tales, Feminism, women
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‘The Gothic North’ Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University, 22 October 2016
Sam and I are both delighted to be presenting papers at this fabulous ‘Gothic North’ symposium at MMU’s Centre for Gothic Studies in October; the schedule is now up here. There is a wide range of papers on all conceivable … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences
Tagged Goth subculture, Gothic, medicine, music, Paranormal romance, posthumanism, psychogeography, Vampires, Werewolves, witches
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Travels in Transylvania: Bram Stoker’s Ambiguous Legacy
Last week I was in Romania at the University of Timisoara for the Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture conference. My keynote was on the representation of Romanian folklore in British and Irish fictions of the undead. Stoker never travelled … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Critical thoughts, OGOM News, Reviews
Tagged Dracula, Folklore, Romania
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Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil
What a fabulous conference Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil at the University of Sheffield was! Brilliant organisation by the wonderful Angela Wright and Madeleine Callaghan. I’m feeling that post-conference melancholy. Met some great new people and caught up with … Continue reading
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Tagged 1816, Byron, Frankenstein, John Polidori, Mary Shelley, Shelley
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Terry Pratchett Symposium, Dublin City University, 28 May 2016
The CFP for this symposium on Terry Pratchett has closed now–I’m not sure whether we saw it and posted it. But it still looks to be a brilliant event and well worth attending.
Reimagining the Gothic 2016: Monsters and Monstrosity
The registration for ‘Reimagining the Gothic 2016: Monsters and Monstrosity’ has opened. The event is run by the University of Sheffield Gothic reading group and will include a symposium (at which I am presenting) and a creative showcase. Taking place … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Events
Tagged adaptation, body Gothic, Gothic, Gothic novels, horror, Monsters, monstrosity, Symposium
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CFP: BBEC Conference, University of Timișoara, Romania, 23th-25th June, 2016
I am pleased to announce that I am one of the Keynote Speakers at the Second International Conference ‘Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture’ (BBEC) at the West University of Timișoara in Romania on 23th-25th June 2016. Professor Clive Bloom will also … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences, Events, OGOM News, OGOM Research
Tagged belief, Dracula, folk Gothic, Folklore, Gothic literature, Romania
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CFPs and Talks
This an admin-esque post just drawing people’s attention to some CFPs and a talk that might be of interest to our followers. Firstly, there is a CFP for the Victorian Popular Fiction Association which will be holding its conference from … Continue reading
CFP Disconnected Forms: Narratives of the Fractured Self @DisConnnectForms
This original and pertinent conference is organised by PhD students Sandie Mills and Gul Dag at the University of Hull. OGOM regular Dr Catherine Spooner is one of the plenaries and her paper ‘Asylum Chic or What to Wear to … Continue reading