The OGOM Project has resulted in a number of very successful conferences, symposia, and other events, and we will continue to organise further events on these lines. Each event has resulted in an astonishing amount of world-wide media coverage, great interest from the wider public, and publications containing ground-breaking research.
The Open Graves, Open Minds Project began by unearthing depictions of the vampire and the undead in literature, art, and other media, then embraced werewolves (and representations of wolves and wild children), fairies, and other supernatural beings and their worlds. The Project extends to all narratives of the fantastic, the folkloric, and the magical, emphasising that sense of Gothic as enchantment rather than simply horror. Through this, OGOM is articulating an ethical Gothic, cultivating moral agency and creating empathy for the marginalised, monstrous or othered, including the disenchanted natural world.
