A free, online mini-conference mini conference on ghosts is occurring on Tuesday 30th December from 10am UK time. If you would like to attend, please email Charlotte Millar (charlotte.millar@unimelb.edu.au) for the zoom link and more information.

Programme – Tuesday September 30th

Session 1: 10am – 11.00am BST (UK time)

Morgan Daimler, The Dead and the Ever Living: Exploring the Intersection of Fairies and Ghosts in the Role of the Witch’s Familiar

Rowan Steininger, The Fairy Otherworld as the Land of the Dead in Two Orfeo Narratives

Comfort Break

Session 2: 11.30 – 12.30am BST (UK time)

Farah Nada, ‘There is no ghost in this house’: Locating the Spectre in Elizabeth Bowen’s A World of Love

Anne-Marie Creamer, ‘Dear Friend, I can no longer hear your voice’: Lamentation and Conjuring Ghosts as Strategies for Survival’