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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 8d

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’ ⬇️

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 7d

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"

Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 8d

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’ ⬇️

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 7d

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...

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · 1d

We're so excited for this! 👾🎮

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Session Thirty Seven: Video Game Gothic

We are especially excited to announce that our first Gothica session of the 2025/26 academic year will be Video Game Gothic with our special guest speaker Dr Efram Sera-Shriar on Zoom on Thursday 2…

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · 1d

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 👾

A dark event poster titled "Gothica: Video Game Gothic" with Dr. Efram Sera-Shriar.
Red text and dripping blood adorn the upper part.
Below is pixel art scenery depicting a gothic landscape with a skull and horns.
Event details show a Zoom session on Thursday, 23rd October, from 5:00 to 6:30 pm BST.
Contact @uobgothica@gmail.com

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Dr Emma Merkling @emmamerkling.bsky.social · Aug 12

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)

Occult Art Gothic with Dr Emma Merkling.

YouTube video by Gothica UoB

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · Jul 7

We love this 🖤 keep the spooky season going!

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Tita Yaret @yaret007.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · Jun 19

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!

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · Jun 17

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...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Jun 16

🏛️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

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

DM to join 📧

GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · May 23

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!

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Gothica
Occult Art Gothic
Guest speaker Dr Emma Merkling
Zoom
Thursday 19th June
6.00pm - 7.30pm (BST).
Email or tweet for link
uobgothica@gmail.com
@Gothica_UoB

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Jun 9

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

GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · May 23

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!

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Katrina Jan @katrinajan.bsky.social · May 23

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

GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · May 23

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!

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · May 23

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!

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · Apr 24

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

DM to join!

GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · Apr 23

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 📽️

This poster is for "Gothic: Children's Horror Gothic" with Xanthe Pajarillo, held on Zoom on Thursday, 24th April, 6- 7:30 pm GMT. It features whimsical Gothic elements, such as Coraline, Casper the Ghost, and a wolf in the background, designed for a children's horror theme with playful spooky imagery.

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · Apr 24

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🩸

Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · Apr 24

Xanthe is great! By complete co-incidence (proofs arrived today), this is coming out in the next couple of weeks: on children and their responses to horror film

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · Apr 24

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!

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Apr 24

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

GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · Apr 23

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 📽️

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Katrina Jan @katrinajan.bsky.social · Apr 23

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!

GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · Apr 23

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 📽️

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · Apr 23

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 📽️

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Rich Gale @waistcoatrich.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · Mar 30

If you missed this weekend's talk on

Cabs in Supernatural Fiction

you can catch it here - youtu.be/R3Yijz_ruqo

One of those talks that has you rethinking a whole load of familiar films!

Hell Calling a Cab: Demand-Response Transport in Supernatural Fiction with William Redwood

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · Mar 27

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!

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · Mar 26

This is tomorrow! You'll like it!

GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · Mar 24

Don't miss our session this week!

🗣 Dr Kristof Smeyers
✝️ Catholic Gothic
📅 Thurs 27th March
🕐 6 - 7.30pm GMT
📍Zoom

@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social book 'Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland' came out in 2024 with
@manchesterup.bsky.social

DM us to join!

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