A one-day Symposium for Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers at the University of Stirling, Scotland Saturday 24th November 2012 Plenary Speakers: David Punter and Linnie Blake Since the eighteenth century, the Gothic aesthetic has been intimately tied to the experience and representation of trauma, be it personal, historical, cultural or otherwise.  Early writers of the Gothic continuously rehearsed their preoccupations with familial violence and rupture, while the chaotic historical events of the French Revolution inscribed their traces in some of the mode’s most enduring c

St Mary's University College, situated next door to Walpole's Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, London, will host a two-day Conference  on the theme of 'Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture'  from Friday 8th to Saturday 9th March 2013  For more details, click here.

For anyone working on The Walking Dead, here's a CFP for a new upcoming collection. The deadline for abstracts is mid-August, paper required by mid-September. Dead Inside: The Walking Dead and the Problem of Meaning in the New Millennium In the early twenty-first century, zombies are everywhere—in film (Land of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Dead Snow, Rammbock, The Horde), fiction (Stephen King’s Cell, Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, Max Brooks’ World War Z, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Handling the Undead), social movements (zombie walks and the Zombie Research Society ), classrooms (Zombi

CALL FOR PAPERS - Devils and Dolls: Dichotomous Depictions of ‘The Child’ Wednesday 27 March 2013 University of Bristol, Graduate School of Arts and Humanities

Zombies, those ubiquitous monsters of post-millennial culture, are often thought to be symptoms of the deathly drive towards consumerism within late capitalist society.  But with the opening of a Zombie-themed restaurant in Toyko, Japan, on 13 July 2012, zombie consumerism will take a disturbingly literal turn.  Based on the zombie apocalypse figured in the Resident Evil computer game, the cafe, called Biohazard Cafe and Grill S.T.A.R.S restaurant, is bound to rake in ghoulish patrons from across the world.  For an interesting article on the cafe, as well as a link to a video preview, click

Angela Wright, of the University of Sheffield, is convening a panel on eighteenth-century women's Gothic writing at a conference on Women's Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century to be held at Chawton House, Hampshire, UK, in July 2013.  For further details about the conference, click here.

This week saw the release of the much-anticipated filmic adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's 2010 novel, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. Graham-Smith, author of the notorious mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, has written the screenplay for Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, and the film has been directed and co-produced by Timur Bekmambetov the the master of dark cinema, Tim Burton.  For a trailer and a review of the film by the British film critic Mark Kermode, click here.

10th NEICN CONFERENCE North East Irish Culture Network in Association with the Scottish Irish Network (SIN) and the University of Sunderland. Call for Papers: Following the success of the previous nine international Irish Studies conferences, this year the University of Sunderland, in association with NEICN, invites papers for an interdisciplinary conference, which will run from 9th to 11th November 2012. The conference organisers hope to represent a wide range of approaches to Irish and Scottish culture from academics and non­-academics alike. Performances, roundtables, collaborati

Are you interested in our MLitt in The Gothic Imagination?  DO you hold, or intend to hold, a first class honours degree?  The University of Stirling is offering any UK or European Union student with a First Class Honours degree a £2,000 scholarship to study full-time on any taught postgraduate course or £1,000 for part-time study.  This scholarship will be awarded in two instalments at the end of each of Semester. To find out more on how to apply, please contact: graduate.admissions@stir.ac.uk Please note that award of this scholarship cannot be combined with any other scholars

The website for GANZA, as well as a call for papers for its inaugural conference on 'Gothic Antipodes' in January 2013 in Auckland, NZ, can be found here.