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The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org

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Coffin Boffin@coffinboffin.bsky.social · 4w ago

📢Delighted to reveal that The Legacy of John Polidori has been shortlisted for a Justin D. Edwards prize for advancing the field of gothic studies. Join us for a Gothic Graveyard Tour in London on 18 July to celebrate & get 30% discount off the paperback @igagoths.bsky.social. Ticket link below!!

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International Gothic Association@igagoths.bsky.social · 4w ago

We are delighted to announce the shortlists for this year’s two IGA Book Prizes: the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for the monograph and the Justin D. Edwards Prize for the edited collection best advancing the field of Gothic studies: www.globalgoth.org/blog/iga-boo...

IGA Book Prizes 2026: Shortlists Announced - Gothic Association

We are delighted to announce the shortlists for this year’s two IGA Book Prizes: the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for the monograph best advancing the field of Gothic studies, and the Justin D. Edwards Pri...

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Joana Jacob Ramalho@jori-saudade.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Blown away that my book, Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film, has been longlisted for the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize by the International Gothic Association (@igagoths.bsky.social). Honoured to be amongst such brilliant colleagues. A big thank you to my wonderful gothic peers! @uclselcs.bsky.social

Xavier Aldana Reyes@xaldanareyes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congrats to those longlisted for the International #Gothic Association Book Prizes 2026 (and to our own @dalegothic96.bsky.social)! @igagoths.bsky.social www.globalgoth.org/blog/longlis...

Xavier Aldana Reyes@xaldanareyes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A final reminder to @igagoths.bsky.social members that the call for nominations for the IGA Book Prizes closes soon! www.globalgoth.org/blog/call-fo... #gothic

Call for nominations for the IGA Book Prizes - Gothic Association

Call for nominations by March 2nd for The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for a Monograph of Gothic Criticism, 2026 and The Justin D. Edwards Memorial Prize for an Edited Collection of Gothic Critici...

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International Gothic Association@igagoths.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The call for nominations for The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for a Monograph of Gothic Criticism 2026 and The Justin D. Edwards Memorial Prize for an Edited Collection of Gothic Criticism 2026 is now open! Submit by March 2nd: www.globalgoth.org/blog/call-fo...

Call for nominations for the IGA Book Prizes - Gothic Association

Call for nominations by March 2nd for The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for a Monograph of Gothic Criticism, 2026 and The Justin D. Edwards Memorial Prize for an Edited Collection of Gothic Critici...

globalgoth.org

International Gothic Association@igagoths.bsky.social · 6mo ago

On request, the deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to 13 February, so you have two more weeks to get yours in! hullgothic.wordpress.com/cfp/

Call for Papers

‘Gothic Selves/Artificial Others’, University of Hull, UK (28-31 July, 2026) Once speculative, artificial intelligence now haunts contemporary society, with public discourse around its application …

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International Gothic Association@igagoths.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The next IGA conference will be at the University of Hull, England on 28-31 July 2026! You can find the CFP and more information at hullgothic.wordpress.com

Kristof Smeyers@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely! *to submit an abstract before 21/3

CALL FOR PAPERS: PERFORMING EVIL: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres, 1700-2000'. 4 & 5 June 2026, Leuven. This conference explores the tangled histories of supernatural, diabolic evil and all kinds of spectral apparitions in the last three centuries – Walter Scott’s ‘malignant and unhappy beings’. Specifically, it is interested in how and why ghosts, spirits and related apparitional phenomena were framed as diabolic, demonic or malign manifestations from the afterlife. Diabolic connotations of ghosts and spirits did meaningful cultural work. They were mobilised to discredit ghost beliefs and spiritual practices, to delegitimise competing beliefs, or to invest doctrinal arguments with occult authority. They could also function as tools of scepticism and ridicule as well as triggers of wonder, fear and religiosity. Put differently, the nexus of ghosts and evil is deeply historical. And it was often articulated through performative means: in gestures and expressions of (dis)belief, in visual and textual representations, in séance rooms, on the stage and on the page. Emerging from this nexus are theatrical spirits of evil, staged, embodied, and made legible through mediation and display. In this sense, every ghost is a theatrical ghost. Through the focus on the construction and staging of diabolic spirits, this conference aims to develop a methodological framework for studying historical forms of occultism and demonology more broadly in terms of performance.Exploring how the relationship of spectrality and evil has shifted in shape over time and across different cultures, the conference invites contributions that can consider a wide range of historical actors – clerics, mediums, ghost-hunters, debunkers, necromancers, stage performers, eyewitnesses. This conference aims to study cultural intersections and interactions to arrive at a more granular understanding of discursive, practical and material connections between spirits and evil. At the same time this lens zooms out, making visible broader dynamics of knowledge construction in specific historical moments. How, for instance, did hauntings and possessions shape communities and audiences? How did religious or folkloric ideas about the devil inform spectral encounters? We hope to bring together historians, art historians, theatre and literary scholars, folklorists and anthropologists from every stage in their career around the above questions. We welcome 20-minute papers on topics that include but are by no means limited to: - making spectral evil visible: performance, arts, media, technologies, popular cultures - making spectral evil invisible: popular and occult knowledge circulation - performing (un)belief: practices and rhetoric, summoning and debunking on the stage (from popular stages to the lecture hall and the laboratory) - materiality of spectres: the function of bodies and objects - diabolic spirits and (intellectual, vernacular, theological, folkloric) ideas about morality, mortality and temporality - occult performance and ‘cultural scripts’ of ghost encounters (from necromancy to poltergeists) - affect and emotions: fear, grief, trauma… and hope Send abstracts (c.250 words) and bios (c.100 words) to kristof.smeyers@kuleuven.be before 21 March 2026. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.