Category Archives: Events
CFP and Events: Lady Caroline Lamb, Byron, and rebellion
A few related items here, centering on Byron and rebellion and including the Byronic vampire. 1. Rebellion, treachery, and glamour: Lady Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon and the Byronic vampire, The Byron Society, Art Workers Guild, London, April 2022 [full date tba], … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Gothic novel, Gothic romance, John Polidori, Lady Caroline Lamb, Paranormal romance, politics, rebellion, Romanticism, Vampires
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CFPs and Events: Crones, vampires, Alice, Blake, Shelley, Burns Night
An assortment of conference CFPs and calls for articles, plus online events. 1. CFP: Crones, Crime, and the Gothic, In-person Conference, Falmouth University UK, 10-11 June 2022. Deadline: 1 April 2022. Older women have traditionally been portrayed negatively in folklore, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, fairy tale, Film, Gothic, Lewis Carroll, Percy Shelley, Robert Burns, Romanticism, TV, Vampires, William Blake, witches
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Events and CFP: Radcliffe, mermaids, Byron, Gothic Excursions, Haiti and Vodou
Some interesting online events coming up along with some prerecorded ones, plus another Byron CFP. Be warned: the first two events are very soon–Monday and Tuesday! 1. Radcliffe Beyond Udolpho, The Gothic Women Project, 29 November 2021. For the November … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Byron, Film, Folklore, Gothic, Gothic novel, Haiti, mermaids, myth, race, Vodou
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Coffin Boffin’s #31DaysofHalloween
Halloween is finally here! @DrSamGeorge1, The ‘Coffin Boffin’, would like to thank all those who have accompanied her on this Gothtober Halloween journey. If you are still to view the gothic wonders she has uncover, click to enjoy her spooky … Continue reading
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Tagged Gothic, Halloween, Spooky
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Events for Hallowe’en and elsewhen: Gothic bodies, Gothic nature, Lud-in-the-Mist, Irish women, YA and COVID, Melmoth
Some spookily exciting events coming up soon for Hallowe’en (and afterwards too): 1. North West Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar series, hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University (on line), 3 November 2021, 16:30 – 19:00 GMT. OGOM’s Dr Sam George will be talking … Continue reading
A British Werewolf Scholar on YouTube
As part of OGOM’s foray into the real world during Spooky Season, Dr Kaja Franck will be part of two-part Monstrum special on werewolves for PBS’ YouTube channel Storied. The first episode will be released on 21st October – following … Continue reading
Gothic Bodies: North West Long Nineteenth Century Seminar 3 November, 2021
Join us in November for the North West Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar series, hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University This Halloween seminar will focus on Gothic bodies from the Romantic period to the early twentieth century. Three speakers will consider the resonances … Continue reading
Online Talk: Dr Sam George, Dark Folklore: A Journey into the Botanical Gothic, 19 October 2021
Inspired by the eighteenth-century botanist Tournefort, who voyaged in search of plants and found instead a plague of vampires on the island of Mykonos (1702), Sam George’s botanical studies have taken a gothic turn. Following the publication of Botany, Sexuality and … Continue reading
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Tagged #BotanicalGothic, botany, Chawton House, Folklore, plants
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Cats’ Protection: Transylvania Trek
TEAMWORK MAKES THE SCREAM WORK ON THE TRANSYLVANIAN TREK! Cats Protection is looking for intrepid fundraisers to challenge themselves and raise money for cats on a thrilling new fundraising event next September. The Transylvanian Trek is a once-in-a-lifetime, six-day walk … Continue reading
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Tagged Castle Bran, cats, Dracula, ecology, fund raising, Transylvania, Wolves
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Events: Crawling Horrors, Gothic Revolutions
Two exciting events coming up soon. 1. The first is from OGOM’s own Daisy Butcher, in collaboration with Janette Leaf. They are promoting their new book, Crawling Horrors, and this is one of several events–more news to come. The book … Continue reading
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Tagged French Revolution, Gothic, Haitian Revolution, insects, Ireland, revolution, Romantic period, women
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