Over the last ten years, The Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies has hosted numerous conferences, both locally and internationally, with guest speakers that include Professor Fred Botting (Kingston, London), Professor Angela Wright (Sheffield), Dr Maisha Wester (Sheffield), Dr Bernice Murphy (Trinity College, Dublin), Professor Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of West England), Dr Simon Marsden (Liverpool). These include seven Manchester Gothic Festivals (2013-2019, see our impact and public engagement page), ‘Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches’, the International Gothic Association bicentennial celebration of Mary Shelley (July 2018), The ‘Death and the Sacred’ Symposium in collaboration with Encountering Corpses (2019), and ‘Absent Presences: Shifting the Core and Peripheries of the Gothic Mode’, a conference that highlighted marginalised voices and figures in the field (27^th and 28^th June, 2019).

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MCGS International Gothic Conference

Gothic Crossroads

A conference exploring and celebrating the multi and interdisciplinary crossings of Gothic and Horror Studies.

Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies,
Manchester Metropolitan University, 25th-27th June, 2025

Plenary Speakers: Prof Rosario Arias (University of Malaga, Spain)

Dr Maisha Wester (Global Professor, University of Sheffield, UK)

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Conferences

The International Gothic Association, ‘Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches‘ 2018

A Bicentenary Celebration of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Typically occurring every two years, The International Association Gothic conference is one of the biggest events in the Gothic scholar’s calendar. In 2018, they broke the two-year rule for Mary Shelley’s bicentenary of Frankenstein and Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies were proud to host a special addition of the conference: ‘Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches’.

Here are links to the conference website and programme, fringe events and Meet Manchester’s article.

Death and the Sacred 2019

Furthering research and multidisciplinary exploration of death and death studies, Eleanor Beal organised a one-day symposium, ‘Death and the Sacred’, in collaboration with Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies.

Here are two articles about the day in Visit Manchester.