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Category Archives: Events
Gothic Hybridity: Ambiguous Creatures and Ambivalent Morals
The IGA conference 2018 gets underway in Manchester, UK, in just 3 days time. It’s a really important and exciting date in the goth calendar. The conference runs from July 31st to 3rd August. You can view the full programme here. … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Events, OGOM Research
Tagged Bill Hughes, Daisy Butcher, IGA Manchester, Kaja Franck, OGOM, Sam George
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Night of the Literary Living Dead 26th August
It’s time to break the news of a very exciting battle of the books event that I (Dr Sam George) am doing on 26th August at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in the Spiegeltent with gothtastic writer Marcus Sedgwick. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr Sam George, Dracula, Edinburgh Book Festival, Frankenstein, Marcus Sedgwick, Spiegeltent, The Skinny
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The Corpse Flower: One of Nature’s Monsters
This magnificent Corpse Flower is in bloom at New York Botanical Gardens. AMORPHOPHALLUS TITANUM smells of rotting flesh and resembles an enormous phallus. Proof that truth really is stranger than fiction. I see it as a symbol of my research appearing as … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM Research
Tagged Corpse flower, Dr Sam George, monstrous plants, New York Botanical Gardens, poetic botany
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Animals and Us
John Berger’s groundbreaking essay ‘Why Look at Animals’ (1980; Penguin, Great Ideas, 2009) has inspired a new exhibition ‘Animals and Us’ at the Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate. Berger argued that the ancient relationship between man and nature had been severed … Continue reading
YA Gothic Fiction: CFP (edited collection) and NYALitFest (event)
Research into Young Adult Gothic fiction forms a core part of the OGOM Project, and feeds into the associated teaching that Dr Sam George has been conducting for some years now at the University of Hertfordshire (see here). So these … Continue reading
‘Do fictional monsters reflect our reality?’, The Royal Institution, 5 June 2018
This event at The Royal Institute, London may be of interest: Do fictional monsters reflect our reality? Tuesday 5 June, 7.00pm – 8.30pm Frankenstein’s creature is a classic example of a monster in popular culture. But what can fictional beings … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, classical literature, Frankenstein, Gothic, Monsters, neurology
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Press Release: OGOM and Supernatural Cities to Host ‘The Urban Weird’, 6th-7th April
University of Hertfordshire to host ‘The Urban Weird’, a two-day programme of events on the theme of supernatural cities ‘The Urban Weird’ will take place at the University of Hertfordshire on the 6 and 7 April. The event will explore … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM News, OGOM: The Urban Weird, Press Coverage
Tagged demons, dragon, Ghosts, Open Graves Open Minds, St Albans, Supernatural Cities, The Urban Weird, wicca, witches
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Full Programme for OGOM and Supernatural Cities Present: The Urban Weird, 6th-7th April
Our design for ‘The Urban Weird’ 6th-7th April has now been released in all its glory. You can view all the wonderful panels and events over two days and see the graphics for our complete programme here. If you are … Continue reading