Category Archives: Conferences

CFP: Wonderlands: Reading/Writing/Telling Fairy Tales and Fantasy, 23 May 2015, University of Chichester

Posted on 16th January 2015 by William the Bloody

Apologies for the late posting of this CFP for the postgraduate symposium at the University of Chichester–the deadline is 31 January 2015, so anyone interested (and I can’t see why they wouldn’t be!) will have to hurry. Timed to coincide … Continue reading →

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CFP: Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2015, 8 June 2015, University of Liverpool

Posted on 16th January 2015 by William the Bloody

An exciting conference for postgraduates to present their research at the University of Liverpool, well-known as a pioneering centre for research into science fiction: Returning for its fifth consecutive year, CRSF is a one day postgraduate conference designed to promote … Continue reading →

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CFP: Victorian Authenticity & Artifice, 13-15 July 2015, Senate House, London

Posted on 16th January 2015 by William the Bloody

A conference by the Victorian Popular Literature Association. There is certainly room for work on fiction of the undead and other allied and suitably Gothic themes in popular literature. The organisers invite a broad, imaginative and interdisciplinary interpretation of the … Continue reading →

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CFP: Utopias, Realities, Heritages. Ethnographies for the 21st century, SIEF2015 12th Congress Zagreb, Croatia 21-25 June 2015

Posted on 15th December 2014 by William the Bloody

This looks like a fabulous conference, hosted by the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore. There are opportunities to share research on the fairy tale, particularly their utopian content (and including, I would think, contemporary adaptations).

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CFP: Daughter of Fangdom:A Conference on Women and the Television Vampire

Posted on 10th December 2014 by Sam George

Deadline for this is pending…..looking forward to seeing people in April

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Monstrous Hounds and the Phantasmagoria: OGOM’s Lycanthropic Lantern-of-fear!!!

Posted on 21st November 2014 by Sam George

Wolves and werewolves were a very important part of magic lantern iconography for over 200 years and featured as part of Robertson’s famous Phantasmagoria in Paris. At OGOM’s ‘Company of Wolves’ David Annwyn Jones will offer a film on monstrous hounds … Continue reading →

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OGOM Company of Wolves CFP – Beyond excited to announce this!

Posted on 19th November 2014 by Sam George

Conference, University of Hertfordshire, Sept 3rd-5th 2015: Call for Papers and Panels OGOM: ‘The Company of Wolves’: Sociality, Animality, and Subjectivity in Literary and Cultural Narratives—Werewolves, Shapeshifters, and Feral Humans Wolves have long been the archetypal enemy of human company, … Continue reading →

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CFP: Brave New Worlds: The Dystopia in Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Newcastle University, 29 April 2015

Posted on 13th November 2014 by William the Bloody

Not strictly Gothic, but there’s space to contribute something to this conference, I think: Brave New Worlds: The Dystopia in Modern and Contemporary Fiction The modes of the Gothic and the dystopian often interact, especially in recent YA fiction, where, … Continue reading →

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Review of Locating the Gothic conference

Posted on 27th October 2014 by firekrank

I write this whilst sitting in my hotel in Limerick, enjoying the free WiFi and a lovely cup of tea, having just come to the end of the ‘Locating the Gothic’ conference. I am feeling invigorated, re-energized, and raring to … Continue reading →

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CFP: Workshop on Dracula, Conference Education and Culture, Romania, June 2015

Posted on 22nd October 2014 by William the Bloody

CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS: Workshop WHERE’S THE PLACE OF DRACULA: (DE)CONSTRUCTING STEREOTYPES IN THE STUDY OF THE MYTHICAL SPACE IN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS part of the International Conference Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture, West University of Timișoara, … Continue reading →

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