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Category Archives: Events
CFPs and Conferences: MAPACA & IGA Gothic, Haunted Landscapes, crime, poison, magic
Some forthcoming CFPs, conferences and other events: 1. CFP: MAPACA 2023: The Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association conference * Deadline close, so hurry!! Sonesta Hotel Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 9-11 November 2023.Deadline: 30 June 2023. The Gothic Studies area invites … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences), Conferences
Tagged American literature, crime, Film, Gothic, haunting, landscape, law, magic, popular culture, TV
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CFPs and Events: Gothic world literature, C. S. Lewis, Gothic summer school, magic, monsters, folklore, Hallowe’en
1. CFP: Progression, Regression, and Transgression in Gothic World Literature & Film: New Approaches to the Ethics of Difference Conference Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 29 September-2 October 2023 [on line]. Deadline: 15 May 2023. this conference will underline the … Continue reading
Breaking Through to Faery
Thank you to everyone who attended our Breaking Through to Faery: Re-enchantment and the Gothic Folklore of Fungi event on 19th November. We had 177 bookings and the event sold out after just a few days of the tickets being released! … Continue reading
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Tagged botany, crafts, enchantment, fairies, Folklore, fungi, Gothic
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OGOM Hallowe’en 2022
OGOM are involved in some very exciting and spooky events this Hallowe’en. We will be distributing our stylish new OGOM postcards as informative souvenirs of the events and our Project. Blood and Celluloid Vampire Film Festival First, on 15 October, … Continue reading
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Tagged Faery, fairies, Film, Folklore, fungi, Gothic, horror, The Company of Wolves, Vampires, Werewolves, women
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Blood & Celluloid: Vampire Film Festival – October 15th 2022
Fangtastic news – OGOM will be taking part in Blood and Celluloid: an all day Vampire Film Festival at The Ultimate Picture Palace, Cowley Road, Oxford. This is part of the BFI In Dreams are Monsters Season – a major … Continue reading
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Tagged Film, horror, Monsters, Neil Jordan, vampire lovers, Vampires
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Werewolves and the Gothic: In Search of the Spectre Wolf (22nd October 2022 – London Month of the Dead)
London Month of the Dead is an annual festival of death and the arts supporting London’s magnificent seven cemeteries: Kensal Green (1832); West Norwood (1837); Highgate (1839); Abney Park (1840); Nunhead (1840); Brompton (1840); Tower Hamlets (1841). The programme this … Continue reading
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Tagged Brompton cemetery, London Month of the Dead, Sam George, Werewolves, Wolves
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The Folkloric Vampire and its English Progeny
I am delighted to announce that I will be speaking at the Centre for Folklore, Myth and Magic in Todmorden, Yorkshire on 6th August. My new research is specifically focussed on the intersection between folklore and the gothic, and this … Continue reading
In Our Time – Polidori’s ‘The Vampyre’
It’s the Year of the Vampire! A good time to share vampiric projects. In April 2022 I was excited to be a guest on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time alongside Martin Rady (University College London) and Prof. Nick Groom … Continue reading