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/
Co-run by @katrinajan.bsky.social, @dremilyvincent.bsky.social & Ross Conway.
Blog: https://uobgothica.wordpress.com/past-sessions/
Happy Stranger Things week ❤️⚡️
We have summoned Sorcha Ní Fhlainn for an exciting electrifying return of 1980s Popular Gothic 🎉
📅 Thurs 11 Dec
⏰ 6–7:30PM GMT
💻 Zoom
Travel back to the 1980s for synths, shadows & all the wonderful Stranger Things ✨️
🔗 DM/ email for the link
We have summoned Sorcha Ní Fhlainn for an exciting electrifying return of 1980s Popular Gothic 🎉
📅 Thurs 11 Dec
⏰ 6–7:30PM GMT
💻 Zoom
Travel back to the 1980s for synths, shadows & all the wonderful Stranger Things ✨️
🔗 DM/ email for the link
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Happy Stranger Things week ❤️⚡️
We have summoned Sorcha Ní Fhlainn for an exciting electrifying return of 1980s Popular Gothic 🎉
📅 Thurs 11 Dec
⏰ 6–7:30PM GMT
💻 Zoom
Travel back to the 1980s for synths, shadows & all the wonderful Stranger Things ✨️
🔗 DM/ email for the link
We have summoned Sorcha Ní Fhlainn for an exciting electrifying return of 1980s Popular Gothic 🎉
📅 Thurs 11 Dec
⏰ 6–7:30PM GMT
💻 Zoom
Travel back to the 1980s for synths, shadows & all the wonderful Stranger Things ✨️
🔗 DM/ email for the link
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 👾
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
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 👾
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 👾
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!
🗣 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
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!
🗣 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!
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!
🗣 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
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!
🗣 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!
A spooky Easter treat dropping tomorrow⬇️
🗣 Xanthe Pajarillo
🧒Children's Horror Gothic
📅24th April
🕐6 - 7.30pm GMT, Zoom
@xanthepajarillo.bsky.social investigates children as audiences of horror. She co-hosts the Kindergeist Podcast & is a member of @baftss.bsky.social 📽️
🗣 Xanthe Pajarillo
🧒Children's Horror Gothic
📅24th April
🕐6 - 7.30pm GMT, Zoom
@xanthepajarillo.bsky.social investigates children as audiences of horror. She co-hosts the Kindergeist Podcast & is a member of @baftss.bsky.social 📽️
April 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A spooky Easter treat dropping tomorrow⬇️
🗣 Xanthe Pajarillo
🧒Children's Horror Gothic
📅24th April
🕐6 - 7.30pm GMT, Zoom
@xanthepajarillo.bsky.social investigates children as audiences of horror. She co-hosts the Kindergeist Podcast & is a member of @baftss.bsky.social 📽️
🗣 Xanthe Pajarillo
🧒Children's Horror Gothic
📅24th April
🕐6 - 7.30pm GMT, Zoom
@xanthepajarillo.bsky.social investigates children as audiences of horror. She co-hosts the Kindergeist Podcast & is a member of @baftss.bsky.social 📽️
Attention Goths 📢 upcoming talks below ⬇️
Tonight: "Serial Murder in North America"🔪 @cerealkillernet.bsky.social, guest speaker @murphgothic.bsky.social, 7pm GMT, Zoom
Next week: "Catholic Gothic" ✝️ with @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social 6pm GMT, Zoom
Reading 📚
uobgothica.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/s...
Tonight: "Serial Murder in North America"🔪 @cerealkillernet.bsky.social, guest speaker @murphgothic.bsky.social, 7pm GMT, Zoom
Next week: "Catholic Gothic" ✝️ with @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social 6pm GMT, Zoom
Reading 📚
uobgothica.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/s...
March 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Attention Goths 📢 upcoming talks below ⬇️
Tonight: "Serial Murder in North America"🔪 @cerealkillernet.bsky.social, guest speaker @murphgothic.bsky.social, 7pm GMT, Zoom
Next week: "Catholic Gothic" ✝️ with @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social 6pm GMT, Zoom
Reading 📚
uobgothica.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/s...
Tonight: "Serial Murder in North America"🔪 @cerealkillernet.bsky.social, guest speaker @murphgothic.bsky.social, 7pm GMT, Zoom
Next week: "Catholic Gothic" ✝️ with @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social 6pm GMT, Zoom
Reading 📚
uobgothica.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/s...
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 🔮
🗣 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 🔮
March 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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 🔮
🗣 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 🔮
1 week to go until our Valentine's Special! 💘🖤
🗣 Dr Jimmy Packham
🥀 Gothic & Love
📅 13th Feb
🕐 5 - 6.30pm GMT
📍Zoom
Dr Jimmy Packham is a senior lecturer at @unibirmingham, with research specialisms in gothic literature & the blue humanities 🌊
🗣 Dr Jimmy Packham
🥀 Gothic & Love
📅 13th Feb
🕐 5 - 6.30pm GMT
📍Zoom
Dr Jimmy Packham is a senior lecturer at @unibirmingham, with research specialisms in gothic literature & the blue humanities 🌊
February 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
1 week to go until our Valentine's Special! 💘🖤
🗣 Dr Jimmy Packham
🥀 Gothic & Love
📅 13th Feb
🕐 5 - 6.30pm GMT
📍Zoom
Dr Jimmy Packham is a senior lecturer at @unibirmingham, with research specialisms in gothic literature & the blue humanities 🌊
🗣 Dr Jimmy Packham
🥀 Gothic & Love
📅 13th Feb
🕐 5 - 6.30pm GMT
📍Zoom
Dr Jimmy Packham is a senior lecturer at @unibirmingham, with research specialisms in gothic literature & the blue humanities 🌊
Happy Gothic New Year 🦇
We're back for festive frights. Please *save the date* for our first session of 2025.
🌊 Coastal Gothic
🗣 Dr Emily Alder
📆 Thurs 23rd January
🕐 5pm GMT
📍Zoom
Dr Emily Alder will be taking us across some very spooky shores.
DM to join!
We're back for festive frights. Please *save the date* for our first session of 2025.
🌊 Coastal Gothic
🗣 Dr Emily Alder
📆 Thurs 23rd January
🕐 5pm GMT
📍Zoom
Dr Emily Alder will be taking us across some very spooky shores.
DM to join!
January 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Happy Gothic New Year 🦇
We're back for festive frights. Please *save the date* for our first session of 2025.
🌊 Coastal Gothic
🗣 Dr Emily Alder
📆 Thurs 23rd January
🕐 5pm GMT
📍Zoom
Dr Emily Alder will be taking us across some very spooky shores.
DM to join!
We're back for festive frights. Please *save the date* for our first session of 2025.
🌊 Coastal Gothic
🗣 Dr Emily Alder
📆 Thurs 23rd January
🕐 5pm GMT
📍Zoom
Dr Emily Alder will be taking us across some very spooky shores.
DM to join!
🗣Dr Alessandra Pino
'The Dark Side of Food: A Gothic Cookbook' 🍲
- Explores food themes & motifs in classic & contemporary Gothic novels from the 19th century to the present day.
Dr. Alessandra Pino is an expert in the intersections of the Gothic, food, & cultural memory.
'The Dark Side of Food: A Gothic Cookbook' 🍲
- Explores food themes & motifs in classic & contemporary Gothic novels from the 19th century to the present day.
Dr. Alessandra Pino is an expert in the intersections of the Gothic, food, & cultural memory.
December 9, 2024 at 2:23 PM
🗣Dr Alessandra Pino
'The Dark Side of Food: A Gothic Cookbook' 🍲
- Explores food themes & motifs in classic & contemporary Gothic novels from the 19th century to the present day.
Dr. Alessandra Pino is an expert in the intersections of the Gothic, food, & cultural memory.
'The Dark Side of Food: A Gothic Cookbook' 🍲
- Explores food themes & motifs in classic & contemporary Gothic novels from the 19th century to the present day.
Dr. Alessandra Pino is an expert in the intersections of the Gothic, food, & cultural memory.
🗣Dr Derek Johnston 'Dark Dickens: Historical Drama in the Gothic Mode'
- Stephen Knight adaptations of A Christmas Carol & Great Expectations
Derek Johnston lectures in media at Queen’s University, Belfast
- Stephen Knight adaptations of A Christmas Carol & Great Expectations
Derek Johnston lectures in media at Queen’s University, Belfast
December 9, 2024 at 2:23 PM
🗣Dr Derek Johnston 'Dark Dickens: Historical Drama in the Gothic Mode'
- Stephen Knight adaptations of A Christmas Carol & Great Expectations
Derek Johnston lectures in media at Queen’s University, Belfast
- Stephen Knight adaptations of A Christmas Carol & Great Expectations
Derek Johnston lectures in media at Queen’s University, Belfast
Don't miss 'Festive Gothic'🎄
📅Mon 9th Dec
🕔5pm–6.30pm GMT
📍Zoom
Our spooky panel of three:
🗣️Dr Jen Baker – Ghostly Children in c19th Xmas Periodicals
🗣️Dr Alessandra Pino – The Dark Side of Food: A Gothic Cookbook
🗣️Dr Derek Johnston – Dark Dickens: Historical Drama in the Gothic Mode
DM to join!
📅Mon 9th Dec
🕔5pm–6.30pm GMT
📍Zoom
Our spooky panel of three:
🗣️Dr Jen Baker – Ghostly Children in c19th Xmas Periodicals
🗣️Dr Alessandra Pino – The Dark Side of Food: A Gothic Cookbook
🗣️Dr Derek Johnston – Dark Dickens: Historical Drama in the Gothic Mode
DM to join!
November 29, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Don't miss 'Festive Gothic'🎄
📅Mon 9th Dec
🕔5pm–6.30pm GMT
📍Zoom
Our spooky panel of three:
🗣️Dr Jen Baker – Ghostly Children in c19th Xmas Periodicals
🗣️Dr Alessandra Pino – The Dark Side of Food: A Gothic Cookbook
🗣️Dr Derek Johnston – Dark Dickens: Historical Drama in the Gothic Mode
DM to join!
📅Mon 9th Dec
🕔5pm–6.30pm GMT
📍Zoom
Our spooky panel of three:
🗣️Dr Jen Baker – Ghostly Children in c19th Xmas Periodicals
🗣️Dr Alessandra Pino – The Dark Side of Food: A Gothic Cookbook
🗣️Dr Derek Johnston – Dark Dickens: Historical Drama in the Gothic Mode
DM to join!