Aca-Disney-Colleagues

Hugely exciting news of a CFP for a Disney Companion put together by the terrific Prof. Lorna Farnell and myself. So if you are fascinated/horrified by all things Disney see attached:

www.academia.edu/143102016/Di...

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

Aca-Gothic-Games-Colleagues

I need some abstracts for “The Dark Side of Play and Games” project on the following:

— Gothic/horror themes in toys
— Monster/Fantasy boardgames.
— Dolls, dollhouses on film
— scary video games meant for children.

Abstracts to: baconetti@gmail.com

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

It's Gothic spring! ☔ Join us for a slightly later witching hour this March for all things religious

🗣 Dr Kristof Smeyers
✝️ Catholic Gothic
📅 Thurs 27th March
🕐 6 - 7.30pm GMT
📍Zoom

Dr Kristof Smeyers is a research fellow at the University of Louvain, & a historian of religion, science & magic 🔮

CFP: ECREA Audience and Reception Studies 2025

Navigating Algorithmic Society: Audiences’ tactics to understanding the world

Stockholm, October 30-31 2025

www.sh.se/english/sode...

“Doll bodies” ✔️

For those after some light reading the latest issue of @horrorhomeroom.bsky.social on ‘Body Horror’ is now out. Many thanks to Dawn Keetley and team for putting this together!

Very happy to announce the latest special issue of Horror Homeroom, this one on BODY HORROR. We have an enticing late of 17 brilliant essays that take up body horror in film, fiction, games, and comics. All free to read and download! #bodyhorror #horror
www.horrorhomeroom.com/special-issu...

Call for Papers: British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now Conference (BACLS-WHN)

10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling

Proposal Deadline: Friday, 7 February

docs.google.com/forms/d/1MQD...

Gothic folk, there’s an interesting conference on Scottish and Irish Gothic in Edinburgh in April, organised by @penfielding.bsky.social and @madelinepotter.bsky.social : www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/scottish-and...

Our Bloomsbury book series examines those lingering revenants of the past & ghostly "lost futures" so central to the critical concepts of hauntology & spectrality.

Does this sound like your research? Then please, be in touch! 👻

#Hauntology #Hauntings #FolkHorror

Join us to awaken from our academic slumber for 2 exciting online events next week:
- Part 2 of our funding workshop for BAVS ECRs on Monday 20th at 5.30pm (GMT)
- Coastal Gothic with Dr Emily Alder for @gothicauob.bsky.social on Thursday 23rd at 5pm (GMT)

Congratulations to Maisha Wester on the publication of ‘African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter’: open access for the next four weeks from our series Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. @dalegothic96.bsky.social

📆Deadline for proposals 31 January 2025📆 Call for papers: 'Folklore and the Senses'. Our annual conference, in collaboration with the Department of Folklore & Ethnology
@ucc.bsky.social. Fri 20 Jun - Sun 22 Jun 2025, online & at University College Cork. folklore-society.com/blog-post/fo...

Pssssst! 🦇💀👻😈🧟‍♀️🧛‍♂️🎃

The @gothicstudies.bsky.social / International Gothic Association Early-Career Essay Prize 2024-25 is open to submissions!

Deadline is 1st March 2025
More details at 👇👇👇

www.globalgoth.org/blog/the-int...