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).

Here are our some of featured conferences from previous years.

Manchester Gothic Festival 2013-2019

Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) – Gothic Festival

How the biggest ever Gothic Manchester Festival brought ‘Gothic Times’ to the city and beyond for 2019 (visitmanchester.com)

The 7^th Gothic Manchester Festival brought an array of dark delights, interactive events and creative opportunities to venues across the region – focusing on the theme of ‘Gothic Times’ for 2019 and taking place for a whole month (1 October – 1 November) for the first time ever.

The IGA, 2018

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 is a link to the conference website where you can find the 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.