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| Date (All times in London Time) | Subject | Speaker |
| 5th November | Making ‘Eye Contact’: Visualising the Magnus Archives in FanArt | Maria Juko |
| 29th October 4pm and 9pm | Queerness and Supernatural Otherness in African Writing | Helen Nde |
| 23rd October 10am and 7pm | Imagining Undertakers and the Body in 18th Century England | Dan O’Brien |
| 15th October 10am and 7pm | 21st Century Gothic Musicals: Consumerism, Virality and the Horrors of the ‘I Want’ Song | Hayley Charlesworth |
| 9th October 4pm and 10pm | A History of Evil Dolls | Ingrid Butler |
| 1st October 10am and 7pm | Gothic Television History Dramas | Derek Johnston |
| Online Here | Fallen Angels and Queer Androids: A Queer Reading of Blade Runner | Hal Dietrich |
| Online Here | Trans Rage and Transmisogyny in ‘The Lure’ (2015) | Eric Ania Haley-Halinski |
| Online Here | “She could remember desire, she had forgotten how it worked:” The Apparitional Lesbian as the Enslaved and the Question of Queer Futurity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved | Madison Harmon |
| Online Here | The Absent Spirit: Finding Meaning in the Lack of Queer Ghosts and Hauntings | Bridget Keown |
| Online Here | Wicked Eunuchs: Literary Caricatures | Tucker Lieberman |
| 3rd-4th August | ‘My Wild Heart Bleeds’: 150 Years of Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ | Conference Sign up here! |
| Online Here | Will You Join the Dance?: A Brief History of the Danse Macabre | Cat Irving |
| Online Here | Gothic Tonalities and Tourism: Experiencing Emily Bronte through The Unthanks’ Gothic Folk Music | Ruth-Anne Walbank |
| Online Here | Gloomy Sunday: History and Legend | B Rae Grosz |
| Online Here | Decay in the Poetry of Philip Larkin | Lena Meier |
| 30th July | Fear in a Handful of Stardust: Astrobiology and Horror | M E |
| Online Here | Witch Wives in Television, Film and Literature | Chloe Campbell |
| Online Here | There is No Escape: Processing trauma In Agatha Christie’s Detective Fiction | Huzan Bharucha |
| Online Here | Nightwood as Gothic: Love and Haunting in the work of Djuna Barnes | Madeleine Albanese |
| Online Here | Haunted Chicago | Katrina Kemble |
| 12th June | New York’s Haunted Villages | Leanna Renee Hieber |
| Online Here | Sea and Air – To Create a Haunting | David Norris |
| Online Here | Dangerous Architecture in the Writings of Shirley Jackson | Dara Downey |
| Online Here | Welcome to the Nightmare Rooms: Four decades of haunted houses in video games | Dan Pietersen |
| Online Here | The Golden Age of Illustration and the Gothic | Nadjah O |
| Online Here | The Illustrated Gothic Chapbook | Wendy Fall |
| Online Here | La Bête du Gévaudan in fiction and film | Zoe Wible |
| Online Here | Salacious and Obscene: The Early Gothic and Anti-Clerical Pornography | Sam Hirst |
| Online Here | Reimagining the Paranoid Gothic: Productive Transgressions, Non-Reproductive Desire, and Gender Non-Conformity in the Writing of William Godwin | Simon Clewes |
| Online Here | Mortsafes and Caged Graves: Bodysnatchers in Scotland | Suzie Lennox |
| Online Here | The World of London BodySnatchers | Sarah Wise |
| Online Here | Death in Children’s Literature and Film | Kristy Strange |
| Online Here | Come Home, Lost Soldier: Embalming and the American Civil War | Dillon Payne |
| Online Here | William Faulkner’s Aesthetics of Immortality | Ahmed Honeini |
| Online Here | Death in Irish Folklore | Stiofáin Jack |
| Online Here | Tour of an English Corpse Road | Icy Sedgwick |
| Online Here | Enfant Terribles: The Dread Children of African Folklore | Helen Nde |
| Online Here | The Stories We Live In: An Asian-Pacific Approach to Living Folklore | Kelly Kanayama |
| Online Here | Bone Wars and Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs and the Creative Imagination in the 19th and early 20th Centuries | Jenn Barnes and Lindsay Williams |
| Online Here | Mirror, Mirror on the wall: Paintings, Mirrors, and Monstrous Doubles in Irish Gothic Writing | Madeline Potter |
| Online Here | The High Priestess and the Beast: Dion Fortune, Aleister Crowley and Occulture at the Fin-de-Siecle | Hannah O’Flanagan |
| Online Here | Behind the Black Veil: The Horrid Mysteries Behind Northanger Abbey | Sam Hirst |
| To be rescheduled | ‘There is no escape’: Processing Trauma Through Agatha Christie’s Detective Fiction | Huzan Bharucha |
| Online Here | Sheridan Le Fanu in Context | Sean O’Rourke |
| Online Here | Murder, Madness and Demonic Possession in the work of Thomas Anstey Guthrie | Hayley Smith |
| 20th November Tickets here | My Poor Devil: 100 Years of Georgette Heyer’s ‘The Black Moth’ Conference | Jennifer Kloester Kelly Mann Helen Davidge Queering Heyer Round Table: KJ Charles, Rose Lerner, Cat Sebastian, Olivia Waite Panel 1: Icy Sedgwick, Lucie Bea Dutton, Rachel Hyland Panel 2: Geraldine Perriam, Neil Cocks, Helen Davidge (Chair: Javaria Farooqi) Panel 3: Vanda Wilcox, Alessandra Pino, Angela Toscano (Chair: Maria DeBlassie) |
| Online Here | Arabic Feminist Gothic | Roxanne Douglas |
| Online Here | Gothic Visual Novels | Joseph Crawford |
| Online Here | On Tagore’s Gothic Widows | Nilanjana Ray |
| Online Here | Drink Full and Descend: Twin Peaks as Underworld Exploration | Sarah Coflan |
| Online Here | The EcoGothic Legacy of Twin Peaks in Videogame Ecologies | Morgan Pinder |
| To be rescheduled | Smugglers and Spirits, Ghosts and Coasts: Defining the Cornish Gothic | Joan Passey |
| Online Here | The Gomez Addams Paper: Death and the Unborn | Charlie Guy |
| Dan Pietersen on editing the Robert Murray Gilchrist collection | Half Day of Creation | Various including Pamela Berry, Hayleigh Barclay and Roshni Beeharry |
| Online Here | Eerie Food: Eating and Being Eaten in Victorian’s Children’s Literature | Anna Gasperini |
| Online Here | Childhood Trauma in Henry James ‘Turn of the Screw’ | Max |
| 28th August | Half Day of Creation (assorted workshops) | Various |
| Not recorded | Genetics in Horror | Mitra |
| Online Here | Women Writers in the Long 18th Century | Sam Hirst |
| Online Here | The Legacy of the Occult Detective | Maria De Blassie |
| 31st July | Half Day of Creation | Various |
| Online Here | Peter Would Cry Over You: Modern TV Werewolves and Masculinity | Kai D’Argenta |
| Online Here | Gothic Histories and Historical Gothic: Medieval to Modern Wales and Gothic Fiction | Melissa Julian-Jones |
| Online Here | Nature Initiation and Body Horror in British Folklore | Daru McAleece |
| 29th May | Day of Creation | Various |
| Online Here | ‘Sexy Satan, What Have you Done?’: A Partial History of Demonic Depiction | Sam Hirst |
| Online Here | Illustrating the ‘Gothic Canon’: Between Adaptation and Invention | Susanne Schwertfeger |
| 8th May | ‘Uncanny Uncanny: Disrupting Australian ‘Anxious Proximities’ | Neil Cocks |
| Online Here | Ecofeminism and the Anthropocene in contemporary Female Gothic | Kristy Strange |
| 24th April | Day of Creation | TBC |
| Online Here | ‘And the World was Changed: The Nephilim and the Crises of Civilisation’ | Jonathon O’Donnell |
| Rescheduled | Towards a (partial) history of a working class Gothic | Sam Hirst and Ash Darrow |
| Online Here | ‘We’re all Goblins Here!: a casual jaunt through contemporary gothic art and dark surrealism’ | ‘trie blasingame |
| 27th March | Gothic Day of Creation | Sharon Thompson Justin Somper Wes Johannes Evans Author Showcases: Kel Coleman, M H Ayinde, Leonie Rowland |
| Online Here | Gothic Before the Gothic: Renaissance Revenge Tragedies | Colleen Kennedy and Kendra Preston |
| Online Here | ‘Bitch Witches: The Teenage Witch as Pop Culture Phenomenon | Miranda Corcoran |
| Online Here | ‘Long Live the New Flesh: Body Horror, Politics and the work of David Cronenberg’ | Jon Greenaway |
| 27th February | Day of Creation Sign up here | Linds ‘Unbound’ Anthology writers Icy Sedgwick Caedis Knight Jewelle Gomez Cat Sebastian Darcie Little Badger Rose Lerner Delphine Bautier Tanagra GGNOC Missing Woman Films ‘trie blasingame II tentaclemade studies |
| Online Here | ‘Ghosts in the Living Room: The British Televisual Gothic’ | Bronte Schiltz |
| Online Here | The Philosophy of Horror | Dylan Trigg |
| Online Here | “We’re In Hell: Alan Moore, Jack the Ripper and the Political Theology of Capitalism” | Jon Greenaway (aka @TheLitCritGuy) |
| 30th January | Gothic Day of Creation (Sign up here) | CM Rosens Thomas Brown Shiri Sondheimer Sam Hirst Saint Gibson ‘trie blasingame I tentacle made studios Author showcase: K J Charles, Victoria Audley, Johannes Evans, Angie Wenham, Mason Hawthorne, Premee Mohamed, S C Parris, Arden Powell |
| Online Here | ‘Vampires, Barghests, Red Caps, and More: A Compendium of Northern Folklore’ | Icy Sedgwick |
| Online here | ‘Who’s the Monster Here: Racial Nightmares in American Horror Film’ | Maisha Wester |
| Online here | ‘300 Years of Gothic Romance’ | Lori A. Paige |
| Online Here | 100 Years of Gothic Terror: Christmas Cinema | Ashley Darrow |
| Online Here | 18th Century Ghost Tales | Sam Hirst |
| Online Here | Nordic Noir | Maeva Chagros |
| 28th November | Gothic Day of Creation | Sam Hirst Neil Cocks Shiri Sondheimer Mishka Hoosen Leanna Renee Hieber A J Hao Linds and Tetley Author showcases from: Icy Sedgwick, Frank Lopes, Obby Robinson, Jenni Coutts, Heather Valentine, Shiri Sondeimer, Nita Pan and Stu |
| Online Here | Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me?’: Frankenstein’s Paradise Lost | Sam Hirst |
| Online Here | “Seeing and Not Being Seen”: Women’s Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories | Melissa Edmundson |
| Online Here | Whatever is in any sort terrible’: An Introduction to the British 18th century sublime | Sam Hirst |
| 31st October | Gothic Day of Creation | Sam Hirst Nadjah O Valeria Villegas Lindval Michelle Garza Alberto Chimal Shiri Sondheimer Icy Sedgwick Katalina Watt |
| Online Here | Ann Radcliffe, Vampire Hunter: Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic Fiction and its Afterlives | Sam Hirst |
| Online Here | The Evil Is The House Itself’: Credit, Citizenship, and Shirley Jackson’s Haunting House | Amy Bride |
| Online Here | Be Gay, Do Crimes: Queer Gothic Reimaginings | Sam Hirst |
| Online Here | Hot Topic: Nineties Music Video Gothic | Evan Hayes Gledhill |
| Online Here | South African Gothic | Rebecca Duncan |
| Online Here | Worlding Hell: American Demonologies of Race and Empire | Jonathon O’Donnell |
| 12th September 2020 | Gothic Day of Creation | EK Gonzales EE Ottoman Dan Pietersen Shiri Sondheimer ‘trie blasingame II tentaclemade studios Caroline Duvezin Sam Hirst |
| Online Here | Gothic Chapbooks | Franz Potter |
| Online Here | Immortal Fortune Tellers and Midnight Hags: Race, Romani, and the Gothic | Sydnee Wagner |
| Online Here | ‘New Woman Gothic: Marriage, Feminism and Rape Culture at the Victorian Fin de Siècle’ | Naomi Hetherington |
| 15th August | Gothic Day of Creation | CM Rosens Neveen Badr Holly Elsdon Sam Hirst Shiri Sondheimer Leanna Renee Hieber ‘trie blasingame II tentaclemade studios Tanagra aka Leeah and Delphine Bautier Authors in the Showcase: Elena Barrio, H. Bentham Ricky Brown, Anna Cheung, Renee Cronley, Eric Jurgens, Jude Reid, Katalina Watt |
| Online Here | Gothic from the Dragon’s Tongue: An Introduction to Welsh Gothic Literature | Sophie Jessica |
| Online Here | “Oh my goodness, is that an electrosplit goopslimer port?” Technofantasies and Difference Engines in Steampunk Literature. | Caroline Duvezin |
| Online Here | ‘To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death’: Medical Discourse and the Gothic | Madeline Potter |
| Online Here | ‘Introduction to Early American Gothic: Race, Religion, and Frontier Madness’ | Amy Bride |
| 4th July | Gothic Day of Creation | Icy Sedgwick Mason Hawthorne trie blasingame || tentacle-made studios Sam Hirst Lily Daniels Shiri Sondheimer Wes |
| Online Here | Danse Macabre: Gothic Ballet from Swan Lake to Black Swan | Karen Graham |
| Online here | Russian Roulette: The Russian Gothic Fantastic as a game you just can’t win | Sam Hirst |
| Online here | “¡Bruja! The allure of the gothic witch in Mexican horror film” | Valeria Villegas Lindval |
| Online here | Heroines, Wives and Demons: Women in the Gothic | Sam Hirst |
| Online here | Rethinking the Gothic Romance: Georgette Heyer | Sam Hirst |
| Online here | Una historia de la literatura gótica en inglaterra | Sam Hirst |
| Online here | ‘The Literature of Ghouls and Ghosts: A History of the Gothic’ | Sam Hirst |
| Online here | ‘I never saw a ghost except one in a dream’: A Gothic History of the Dream | Sam Hirst |
| Online here | Art Thou Still Living Wretch: The Early Gothic Vampire | Sam Hirst |
| Online here | I ain’t Scared of No Ghosts: Spectres, Spooks and Frauds | Sam Hirst |
| Online here | Gothic Faith and Monstrous Religion | Sam Hirst |
| Online here | The Devil is Transformed into an Angel of Light: Demonic Representation in the Early Gothic | Sam Hirst |
| Online here | Romancing the Gothic: When Love and Death Embrace | Sam Hirst |
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