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Category Archives: CFP (Conferences)
CFP Gothic Modernisms, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 29-30 June 2017
This looks a very interesting conference on Gothic Modernisms in Amsterdam.
CFP Supernatural Cities, Gothic Cities
Here’s an exciting CFP from our friends in Limerick and Portsmouth. Dr Tracy Fahey is co-curator of the Limerick leg of our Books of Blood Project in 2017 and Dr Karl Bell has previously been a guest of OGOM and delivered … Continue reading
Saint Death: 2017 The Year of Mexican Gothic
Marcus Sedgwick has been linked to OGOM since its beginnings in 2010. He has appeared at all 3 conferences and has generously offered up essays for both of the OGOM edited collections. His latest essay is intriguingly called ‘Wolves and … Continue reading
CFP: The Vampire in Literature, Culture and Film, San Diego, 12-15 April, 2017
A call for papers for a conference in San Diego on vampires. The co-chairs of the Vampire in Literature, Culture, and Film area—Dr. Philip Simpson of Eastern Florida State College and Mary Findley of Vermont Technical College—are soliciting papers, presentations, … Continue reading
CFP: Damsels in Redress: Women in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Reimaginings, Queen’s University Belfast, 7-8 April 2017
Reworkings of classic fairy tales is one of OGOM’s principal areas of research (and a favourite topic of my own). This conference at QU Belfast, Damsels in Redress: Women in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Reimaginings looks very exciting. I’ve posted about this … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, Contemporary Fairy Tales, Fairy tales, Intertextuality, sexuality, witches, women
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CFP: Damsels in Redress: Women in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Reimaginings, Queen’s University Belfast, 7-8 April 2017
This looks a great conference, with themes very much at the heart of OGOM research (I’m particularly interested in contemporary reworkings of fairy tale, and Sam’s modules explore this too): Call for papers for a conference at Queen’s University Belfast: … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, contemporary fiction, fairy tale, Feminism, Genre, women
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CFP: Representations of Romantic Relationships and the Romance Genre in Contemporary Women’s Writing, Saturday 11th June 2016, Sheffield Hallam University
For any postgraduates interested in the hybrid genre that is Paranormal Romance, this symposium by the Postgraduate Contemporary Women’s Writing Network looks an excellent opportunity to enter the much-contested debate about the Romance element. I’ve mentioned briefly before here how … Continue reading
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Tagged Genre, Paranormal romance, Romance, women's writing
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CFP: ‘Reimagining the Gothic’ and a reminder for ‘Temporal Discombobulations’
Following the ‘Reimagining the Gothic’ symposium on 6th May 2016 (for which registration has opened) there will be a day-long creative showcase on the subject of monsters and the monstrous. The CFP (though that may not be a suitable term) … Continue reading
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Tagged body Gothic, CFP, Conferences, Creative Showcase, creative writing, Gothic, Gothic novels, Monsters, monstrosity, time
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CFP: Death and Culture
The CFP for the conference ‘Death and Culture’ (Thursday 1st September 2016, University of York) has been released. Abstracts and a brief biography should be received by 1st April 2016.
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Tagged CFP, Conferences, death, Mortality, popular culture
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CFP of MLA 2017: Alien Lines
The following CFP for MLA 2017: Alien Lines has been released: ‘The medium of comics—often dominated by genres bound to contemporary concerns or enduring conventions—remains marginal in the study of science fiction. Likewise, the oldest questions driving science fiction scholarship—identity … Continue reading