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gothicauob.bsky.social
GOTHICA 🦇
@gothicauob.bsky.social
A spooky network interested in exploring all aspects of the Gothic at @unibirmingham.
Co-run by @katrinajan.bsky.social, @dremilyvincent.bsky.social & Ross Conway.

Blog: https://uobgothica.wordpress.com/past-sessions/
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It's officially spooky szn! 👻

We're back 😈

🎮 Video Game Gothic
🗣 Dr Efram Sera-Shriar
📆 Thurs 23rd Oct
🕔 5pm (BST)
📍Zoom

Efram is an Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen. He is currently working on representations of occulture in video games from late 70s & and mid-90s.

DM to join 👾
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This. Happening today.
Expect sprites.
It's officially spooky szn! 👻

We're back 😈

🎮 Video Game Gothic
🗣 Dr Efram Sera-Shriar
📆 Thurs 23rd Oct
🕔 5pm (BST)
📍Zoom

Efram is an Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen. He is currently working on representations of occulture in video games from late 70s & and mid-90s.

DM to join 👾
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A big thank you to @dreframss.bsky.social for a very fun session tonight on Video Game Gothic 🎮

If you missed it, be sure to catch the recording on our blog in a few weeks!

As always, thank you to our attendees & we hope to see you at the next one! 🦇
October 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Our Video Game Gothic session is happening tonight @5pm with @dreframss.bsky.social 🎮

DM us to join!
Don't miss Video Game Gothic tomorrow! 🎮

🗣 Dr Efram Sera-Shriar
🕔 5pm (BST)
📍Zoom

Efram is interested in the gothic, horror & occult. His most recent book, Psychic Investigators (2022), examines histories of anthropology & Modern Spiritualism during the late Victorian era.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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I've done a little casual gaming this morning, playing some Ghosts n Goblins ahead of my talk this evening as part of @gothicauob.bsky.social's seminar series. It really is one of the toughest games ever made. Yeesh!
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October 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Don't miss Video Game Gothic tomorrow! 🎮

🗣 Dr Efram Sera-Shriar
🕔 5pm (BST)
📍Zoom

Efram is interested in the gothic, horror & occult. His most recent book, Psychic Investigators (2022), examines histories of anthropology & Modern Spiritualism during the late Victorian era.
a cartoon character with a big mouth and sharp teeth is screaming .
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October 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Tomorrow! I hope you can join the fun.
It's officially spooky szn! 👻

We're back 😈

🎮 Video Game Gothic
🗣 Dr Efram Sera-Shriar
📆 Thurs 23rd Oct
🕔 5pm (BST)
📍Zoom

Efram is an Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen. He is currently working on representations of occulture in video games from late 70s & and mid-90s.

DM to join 👾
October 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Join me online with the Viktor Wynd museum on 26th October, 8pm (GMT) for a talk on "Spectral Embodiments: Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child" 👻🖤

LOADS of other amazing talks available throughout the year too; check out The Last Tuesday Society!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manifestin...
Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child - Dr Jen Baker - Zoom
This talk examines the transformation of the ghost-child figure from oral folklore and legends to their literary incarnations in culture
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Sign up for this week and next week’s online #Halloween #Gothic events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social 🎃⬇️
The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️

👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.

🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
October 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Less than a week to go until our Halloween special with @dreframss.bsky.social 👻

🎮Video Game Gothic
📆Thurs 23rd Oct
🕔5pm (BST)
📍Zoom

📚Reading: uobgothica.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/s...

🕹️Try out an exciting game emulator for Ghosts n Goblins here: www.retrogames.cc/arcade-games...

DM to join!
Session Thirty Seven: Video Game Gothic
We are especially excited to announce that our first Gothica session of the 2025/26 academic year will be Video Game Gothic with our special guest speaker Dr Efram Sera-Shriar on Zoom on Thursday 2…
uobgothica.wordpress.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Less than a week to go! Can't wait for Video Game Gothic🎮with @dreframss.bsky.social 🎉
Check out this really cool game emulator where you can try out Ghosts & Goblins here: www.retrogames.cc/arcade-games...

DM @gothicauob.bsky.social to join 🦇
October 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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A reminder to sign up for our below #Gothic #Halloween events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social - tis the spooky season! 👻 ⬇️
The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️

👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.

🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Exciting news! Join @gothicauob.bsky.social for 👾 Video Game Gothic 👾 with our special guest speaker @dreframss.bsky.social on Zoom on Thursday 23rd October 5.00pm - 6.30pm (UK). As an expert in occulture, Efram's talk will explore issues of video game censorship during the 1980s ‘Satanic Panic’ ⬇️
September 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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I'm super excited about my upcoming talk for @gothicauob.bsky.social. The full title for my talk is: "Battling Satan in Your Underpants: Censoring Capcom’s Ghosts ‘n Goblins Videogame during the Age of American Satanic Panic"
Exciting news! Join @gothicauob.bsky.social for 👾 Video Game Gothic 👾 with our special guest speaker @dreframss.bsky.social on Zoom on Thursday 23rd October 5.00pm - 6.30pm (UK). As an expert in occulture, Efram's talk will explore issues of video game censorship during the 1980s ‘Satanic Panic’ ⬇️
October 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️

👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.

🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
October 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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I'm delighted to be delivering a talk on 23 Oct 2025 btwn 5–6.30pm (BST) for @gothicauob.bsky.social

My talk is titled: ‘Battling Satan in Your Underpants: Censoring Capcom’s Ghosts ‘n Goblins Videogame during the Age of American Satanic Panic’

Details 👇
uobgothica.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/s...
Session Thirty Seven: Video Game Gothic
We are especially excited to announce that our first Gothica session of the 2025/26 academic year will be Video Game Gothic with our special guest speaker Dr Efram Sera-Shriar on Zoom on Thursday 2…
uobgothica.wordpress.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It's officially spooky szn! 👻

We're back 😈

🎮 Video Game Gothic
🗣 Dr Efram Sera-Shriar
📆 Thurs 23rd Oct
🕔 5pm (BST)
📍Zoom

Efram is an Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen. He is currently working on representations of occulture in video games from late 70s & and mid-90s.

DM to join 👾
October 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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The recording of my @gothicauob.bsky.social talk on nature, horror, occultism, beauty, gender and Victorian art has been uploaded to YouTube! youtu.be/cRWhEOjMfMc?... watch along for more on these themes and for my recent work on Annie Swynnerton’s magnum opus “Oreads” (1907)
Occult Art Gothic with Dr Emma Merkling.
YouTube video by Gothica UoB
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August 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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My way to enjoy summer season: finding magnificent cookbooks, cooking spooky recipes, reading, having a lots of coffee and crocheting until the season changes...
Thank you for the inspiration @gothicauob.bsky.social @dremilyvincent.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
TONIGHT our final session before the summer break!

🗣 Dr Emma Merkling
🖼️Occult Art Gothic
🕐 6pm
📍Zoom

Emma is an art historian working on late 19th & 20thC British art & history of science. Her focus is on women artists, ecology, alternative science, spiritualism & occultism

DM to join!
June 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Our last session before we retreat into the Gothic shadows 👀 not to be missed!

🗣 Dr Emma Merkling
🖼️Occult Art Gothic
📅Thurs 19th June
🕐6pm - 7.30pm
📍Zoom

You can find out more about Emma's artwork on our blog ⬇️

uobgothica.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/s...
uobgothica.wordpress.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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🏛️Today - guided tour of @morethanadodo.bsky.social with John Holmes & Birmingham’s 19CC
🦠Weds - Disease and Narrative workshop I’m hosting @unibirmingham.bsky.social with @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & the 19CC
🎨Thurs - Occult Art @gothicauob.bsky.social with @emmamerkling.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Don't miss 'Occult Art Gothic' next Thursday 🖼⬇️ with Dr Emma Merkling 🙌

DM to join 📧
Don't miss our last session before the un-Gothic summer approaches‼️

🗣 Dr Emma Merkling
🖼️Occult Art Gothic 👁️
📅Thurs 19th June
🕐6pm - 7.30pm
📍Zoom

Emma will look at Gothic British art, the ‘artist-as-witch’, (un)gendering & occultural approaches to art history.
Dm to join!
June 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Join us next Thursday 19th at 6pm (BST) with the amazing @emmamerkling.bsky.social for Occult Art Gothica! 🖼️ 🎨 🦇 🔮 ⬇️
Don't miss our last session before the un-Gothic summer approaches‼️

🗣 Dr Emma Merkling
🖼️Occult Art Gothic 👁️
📅Thurs 19th June
🕐6pm - 7.30pm
📍Zoom

Emma will look at Gothic British art, the ‘artist-as-witch’, (un)gendering & occultural approaches to art history.
Dm to join!
June 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Don't miss 'Occult Art Gothic' with @emmamerkling.bsky.social next month!

As an art historian, Emma will be focusing on Gothic British art 🖼️🖤 DM @gothicauob.bsky.social to join 👇
📅Thurs 19th June
🕐6pm - 7.30pm
📍Zoom
Don't miss our last session before the un-Gothic summer approaches‼️

🗣 Dr Emma Merkling
🖼️Occult Art Gothic 👁️
📅Thurs 19th June
🕐6pm - 7.30pm
📍Zoom

Emma will look at Gothic British art, the ‘artist-as-witch’, (un)gendering & occultural approaches to art history.
Dm to join!
May 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Don't miss our last session before the un-Gothic summer approaches‼️

🗣 Dr Emma Merkling
🖼️Occult Art Gothic 👁️
📅Thurs 19th June
🕐6pm - 7.30pm
📍Zoom

Emma will look at Gothic British art, the ‘artist-as-witch’, (un)gendering & occultural approaches to art history.
Dm to join!
May 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM