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Company of Woolves: our Knitted tributes
In my long list of who to thank I forgot to mention that my student Daisy Butcher, who was one of the helpers, presented Bill, Kaja and I with our very own woolves. Yes they are wolves in sheep’s clothing … Continue reading
Gothic Manchester Festival 2015, 23 October 2015, John Rylands Library, Manchester
The third Gothic Manchester Festival looks very exciting–music, art, events, films, Gothic reading, and a one-day conference (where I will be giving a paper). And it takes place in the beautiful neo-Gothic John Rylands Library. Following the success of the … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Events
Tagged art, Film, Goth subculture, Gothic, music, New Weird, steampunk
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Darkness and Light: Exploring the Gothic exhibition, John Rylands Library, Manchester
Being in the centre of Manchester for the first time in months, I thought I’d drop in to the beautiful Victorian neo-Gothic John Rylands Library and see the Darkness and Light: Exploring the Gothic exhibition. It’s very, very good, with … Continue reading
Posted in exhibitions
Tagged anatomy, architecture, art, Eighteenth century, Goth subculture, Gothic, Gothic novel, Victorian Gothic
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CFP: “Expanding the Scope of Horror”
A Call for Articles for a special journal issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities exploring new approaches to the study of horror. The proposed set of essays and book reviews would have as its main objective to offer a new practical model … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged architecture, art, CFP, gender, horror, music, psychology, religion
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Cultural Images of Wolves
I was sent this wonderfully gothic image of wolves recently and would like to use it for the ‘Company of Wolves’ conference. The title is ‘Famine’ and it is painted by John Charles Dollman (1904). Some people read it as … Continue reading
Happy Walpurgisnacht!
Tonight is the night that witches party. There is a wild, fantastic depiction of this in Goethe’s Faust and there are memorable reworkings throughout literature and the arts–in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, Joseph Heller’s … Continue reading
Gothic in Birmingham: New Show
This looks worth visiting if you are in the Midlands: Gothic in Birmingham: Exhibition and Conference Literature, film, architecture, art, Goth culture and more Tuesday 7 April until Saturday 2 May 2015, Highlight, Level 3, Library of Birmingham All Welcome … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Events
Tagged architecture, art, Film, Goth subculture, Gothic, literature
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CFP Books of Blood: Collaborative Project and Funding Bid
*Extended Deadline – submissions by 1st November 2015* All humans ‘are books of blood—wherever you open us, we’re red’ (Clive Barker). If our bodies are books of blood, then they can be read; we invite such readings and contributions where … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences, Critical thoughts, Events, OGOM Research, OGOM: Books of Blood, Publications
Tagged anthropology, art, blood, CFP, disease, Film, gender, music, myth, painting, philosophy, popular culture, race, science, sexuality, theology, TV, video games, Wellcome Trust
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CFP: Reimagining the Gothic: An Interdisciplinary Showcasing Event, University of Sheffield, 9 May 2015
An invitation to present critical papers or creative work on the Gothic. Sheffield Gothic would like to announce an interdisciplinary showcasing event and symposium on the theme of Re-Imagining the Gothic. We aim to explore how the Gothic can be … Continue reading
Neck of the Woods, Manchester International Festival, Fri 10 Jul 2015 – Sat 18 Jul 2015
Not quite werewolves, but obviously of interest to those exploring those boundaries between wolf and human that the werewolf narrative explores. Neck of the Woods–a multimedia performance on the wolf–looks very intriguing: MIF has invited Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon … Continue reading