Category Archives: CFP (Conferences)

Review of Gothic Manchester’s ‘What Lies Beneath’

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Lucy Northenra

There was a deep irony to my journey north for ‘‘What Lies Beneath’, the symposium to mark the Gothic Manchester Festival because what lay beneath the venue was a very big part of my youth – The Cornerhouse. Cornerhouse was … Continue reading →

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CFP: Promises of Monsters

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Kaja Franck

Temptation comes in the form of this CFP for the conference, ‘Promises of Monsters’ taking place in Stavanger, Norway on the 28th-29th April 2016. Abstracts are due by 15th December 2015.

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CFP – Reflected Shadows: Folklore and the Gothic

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Kaja Franck

Kingston University are holding a joint conference with The Folklore Society on the 15th – 17th April 2016. They have released a CFP and require the abstracts in by the 31st December 2015. The subject matter is incredibly fruitful and … Continue reading →

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Various CFPs: October 2015

Posted on October 16, 2015 by William the Bloody

There are a few CFPs for conferences and publications nearing their deadline, so I’m bundling them together on this page: Domestic Entanglements in the Works of Joss Whedon (Edited Collection) (Deadline: 1 Nov 2015) Call for Papers Haunted Europe: Continental … Continue reading →

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CFP: ‘Temporal Discombobulations: Time and the Experience of the Gothic’

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Kaja Franck

I’m excited to post the following CFP for ‘Temporal Discombobulations’ a conference dedicated to the Gothic and time. This looks to be an exciting and innovative conference. At the start of the academic year, it looks like it is time … Continue reading →

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CFP: Patrick McGrath Symposium, Stirling, January 2016

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Kaja Franck

This looks like a brilliant conference at the University of Stirling on the author Patrick McGrath, one of the leading contemporary writers on psychological terror and horror. The conference will also be looking for 20 minute papers on asylums, madness, … Continue reading →

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CFP: ‘Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil’, University of Sheffield, 24-27 June, 2016

Posted on June 17, 2015 by William the Bloody

I’m very much looking forward to this conference, ‘Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil’, celebrating that moment of the Shelley-Byron circle when both Frankenstein and the literary vampire were born ‘The year without a summer’, as 1816 was known, was … Continue reading →

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CFP: Slayage Conference on Joss Whedon, Kingston University, 7-10 July 2016

Posted on June 17, 2015 by William the Bloody

This looks a fantastic conference on all things Whedonesque: Here are dates for the diary – Slayage – the Biennial Conference on the Whedonverse is coming to the UK in 2016. Here is the CFP. I hope to see loads … Continue reading →

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CFP Global Fantastika: An Interdisciplinary Conference, 4-5 July 2016, Lancaster University

Posted on May 29, 2015 by William the Bloody

Sadly, I was unable to attend this year’s Locating Fantastika Conference at Lancaster University in July (though Kaja is presenting there and I’m sure she’ll report back!). However, the CFP is out for the follow-up Global Fantastika conference in 2016: … Continue reading →

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CFP Books of Blood: Collaborative Project and Funding Bid

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Lucy Northenra

*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 →

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