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Join us next Thursday 30th April for a @gothicauob.bsky.social session on Cinematic Indigenous Gothic with James Rose! DM Gothica to join 🎬

2 weeks to go! 🎬Cinematic Indigenous Gothic 🗣 James Rose 📅Thurs 30th April ⏰6–7:30PM BST 💻Zoom James discusses Indigenous Gothic, in response & in reaction to colonial literatures, the Gothic, American Literature, the American Gothic & Indian Captivity narratives. DM to join!

Join us tonight for Gothic wintery delight ⛈️ 🗣 Dr Monica Germanà ❄️ 'The Other Winter Wonderland' ⏰ 6–7:30PM GMT 💻 Zoom Monica traces wintery landscapes of the Arctic, exploring monsters spawned through early modern maps, folklore, myth, travel & literary writing.

Just 2 days to go until our Winter Gothic session 🌨️ 🗣 Dr Monica Germanà ❄️'The Other Winter Wonderland: The Gothic ‘Fairy-Tale’ of the Arctic and the Far North' 📅 Thurs 12th March ⏰ 6–7:30PM GMT 💻 Zoom All welcome, DM to join!

Join us this Thursday at 6pm GMT with @monicagermana.bsky.social for a @gothicauob.bsky.social session on ‘The Other Winter Wonderland: The Gothic ‘Fairy-Tale’ of the Arctic and the Far North’ #Gothic #Gothicstudies - all are welcome, DM me or Gothica for the link!

The sun might have come out today, but next week we'll be taking you to Winter Gothic ❄️ with @monicagermana.bsky.social 🗣 DM to join!

We’re back @gothicauob.bsky.social next Thursday with the brilliant @monicagermana.bsky.social for Winter Gothic - all are welcome!

Here in New England, March is most definitely still winter, soooo.... 👇👇

Don't miss Winter Gothic ❄️ next week with @monicagermana.bsky.social 🗣⬇️ excited for this 😊 DM to join!

We've been summoned from the dead 💀 Join us next week for Gothic wintery delights ❄️ 🗣 Dr Monica Germanà 📅 Thurs 12th March ⏰ 6–7:30PM GMT 💻 Zoom Dr Monica Germanà is a Reader in Humanities at the University of Westminster with an expertise in Scottish women's Gothic. DM to join!

Just half an hour to go until our 1980s Popular Gothic session! We're very excited to have Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn back tonight 🙌 We can't wait to hear your thoughts on Season 5 of Stranger Things! 🖤❤️

Join @gothicauob.bsky.social on Thursday 6pm (Zoom) with @sorchanf.bsky.social ⬇️

🦇 Gothica returns! Join Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Reader in Film Studies & expert in Gothic & Horror Cinema) for ⬇️ 🗣1980s Popular Gothic 2 We can't wait to discuss Stranger Things!⚡️ 📅 Thurs 11 Dec ⏰ 6–7:30PM GMT 💻 Zoom DM for link!

Join us next Thursday for an exciting @gothicauob.bsky.social with the amazing @sorchanf.bsky.social ⬇️

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

This. Happening today. Expect sprites.

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! 🦇

Our Video Game Gothic session is happening tonight @5pm with @dreframss.bsky.social 🎮 DM us to join!

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!

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.

Tomorrow! I hope you can join the fun.

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...

Sign up for this week and next week’s online #Halloween #Gothic events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social 🎃⬇️

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!

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 🦇

A reminder to sign up for our below #Gothic #Halloween events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social - tis the spooky season! 👻 ⬇️

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’ ⬇️

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"

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...

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...

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 👾

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)

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

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!

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...

🏛️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

Don't miss 'Occult Art Gothic' next Thursday 🖼⬇️ with Dr Emma Merkling 🙌 DM to join 📧

Join us next Thursday 19th at 6pm (BST) with the amazing @emmamerkling.bsky.social for Occult Art Gothica! 🖼️ 🎨 🦇 🔮 ⬇️

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!

Just a few hours to go until 'Children's Horror Gothic' 🧒😱 6pm BST, Zoom DM to join!

Prof. Neil Martin's book on children & their responses to Horror film will be out in a few weeks 🎉 Don't miss our session tonight on "Children's Horror Gothic" with Xanthe Pajarillo, who will also be discussing the types of horror films children enjoy🩸

Tonight‼️ 🗣 Xanthe Pajarillo 🧒Children's Horror Gothic 🕐6 - 7.30pm GMT, Zoom @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social is a PhD student, director-writer, and podcaster based in Birmingham, UK and Los Angeles, US. Dm to join, all welcome!

Join us tonight with @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social @gothicauob.bsky.social ⬇️🎉

So excited for this tomorrow! "Children's Gothic Horror" will investigate the overlooked topic of children as audiences of the horror genre🩸 DM @gothicauob.bsky.social 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 📽️

Though I can’t always make it live, @romgothsam.bsky.social and @gothicauob.bsky.social keep me sane. Always appreciated, Sam.

Don't miss our session tonight! At a slightly later witching hour of 6pm 🕕 🗣 Dr Kristof Smeyers ✝️ Catholic Gothic 🕐 6 - 7.30pm GMT 📍Zoom DM to join!