{"id":1598,"date":"2016-04-14T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2016-04-14T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T17:00:21","slug":"gothic-feminism-conference-registration-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2016\/04\/14\/gothic-feminism-conference-registration-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Gothic Feminism Conference: Registration now Open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><strong>Registration Open: <\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Gothic Feminism: The Representation of\u00a0the Gothic Heroine in Cinema<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>University of Kent <\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>(Registration deadline: 18<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup> May 2016)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><u>Keynote Speaker: Dr Catherine Spooner (Lancaster University) <\/u><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">We are delighted to announce that registration has now open for Gothic Feminism: a conference on cinema&#8217;s Gothic heroines taking place within the School of Arts.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">This conference seeks to re-engage with theories of the Gothic and reflect specifically upon the depiction of the Gothic heroine in film. This conference shall engage with questions of representation, interpretation and feminist enquiry in relation to the Gothic heroine throughout film history including present day incarnations. This event shall illuminate the concerns, contradictions and challenges posed by the Gothic heroine on-screen through reference to specific case studies which re-engage with older examples of the Gothic and\/or explore contemporary films, reflecting upon the renewed academic and commercial interest in the genre of recent years.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">To register, please go to: <a id=\"ecxLPlnk464580\" title=\"Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link\" href=\"http:\/\/store.kent.ac.uk\/browse\/extra_info.asp?compid=1&amp;modid=1&amp;deptid=26&amp;catid=158&amp;prodvarid=207&amp;searchresults=1\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0072c6\"> http:\/\/store.kent.ac.uk\/browse\/extra_info.asp?compid=1&amp;modid=1&amp;deptid=26&amp;catid=158&amp;prodvarid=207&amp;searchresults=1<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0072c6\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The conference fee is \u00a320 (waged) and \u00a310 (student\/unwaged).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The conference fee includes lunch and tea and coffee breaks on both days.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Further updates can be found here:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gothicfeminism.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0072c6\">https:\/\/gothicfeminism.wordpress.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GothicFeminism\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0072c6\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/GothicFeminism<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0072c6\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">For any queries please contact: gothicfeminism2016@gmail.com<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Conference organisers: Frances Kamm and Tamar Jeffers McDonald, University of Kent<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Melodrama Research Group<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Centre for Film and Media Research<\/div>\n<div>School of Arts<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registration Open: Gothic Feminism: The Representation of\u00a0the Gothic Heroine in Cinema University of Kent \u00a0 (Registration deadline: 18th May 2016) \u00a0 Keynote Speaker: Dr Catherine Spooner (Lancaster University) We are delighted to announce that registration has now open for Gothic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/2016\/04\/14\/gothic-feminism-conference-registration-now-open\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[5083,100153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/melodramaresearchgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}