HauntedFutures

Haunted Futures Conference, University College Cork 29th — 30th September 2026 @ellen_scal & @DrRachelGough

[HauntedFutures @HauntedFutures]

We're baaaaaaack! The fourth annual Haunted Futures Conference will take place on September 29th and 30th @UCC. This year we propose to explore the theme of 'Spaces in Crisis' and will be accepting abstracts until July 24th.

[HauntedFutures @HauntedFutures]

Our creative CFP is open until the 24th of July! We'd love to take a look at your work so please do send it in!

[Hookland @HooklandGuide]

Goodnight from Sadie Clemens, wondering if she’ll have the dream where she’s a crow with a beakful of corpse-flesh again. Goodnight from Joshua Hand, failing to disguise his voice while phoning in a bomb warning on behalf of the Ghost Preservation Society. Goodnight from Hookland

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Keep those abstracts coming! We're so delighted with the response we've received so far and can't wait to put this year's programme together!

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We're baaaaaaack! The fourth annual Haunted Futures Conference will take place on September 29th and 30th @UCC. This year we propose to explore the theme of 'Spaces in Crisis' and will be accepting abstracts until July 24th.

[Brontë Schiltz @BronteSchiltz]

Thank you very much to everyone who came to see me, @TobyHadoke, @aneercs and @MrGeetsRomo discuss Nigel Kneale at @anthonyburgess on a humid Saturday morning for @Headpress’s 35th anniversary celebration yesterday - what a joy! 🚀

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Thank you to everyone who's shared, liked and gotten in touch already about Haunted Futures 2026! Just a quick update, the CFP deadline has been revised to July 24th to allow attending delegates more time to source accommodation and organise travel! #hauntedfutures #hf26

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The 2026 Haunted Futures Creative Call asks creatives across disciplines, to explore haunting, ghosts, and spaces in crisis. Take a look below.

[HauntedFutures @HauntedFutures]

We're baaaaaaack! The fourth annual Haunted Futures Conference will take place on September 29th and 30th in @UCC. This year we propose to explore the theme of 'Spaces in Crisis' and will be accepting abstracts until August 24th.

[HauntedFutures @HauntedFutures]

@thevoidfox @TheVoidFoxy Ah @thevoidfox! Typo! We’re so sorry! We didn’t record panels but we really do insist that you join us next year and thank you again for sharing your work with us!

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We were delighted to share the wonderful work of @TheVoidFoxy as part of this year’s conference. Foxy’s film (also titled Haunted Futures!) prompted some really fascinating discussions about digital space and synchronicities!!

[HauntedFutures @HauntedFutures]

Thank you so much for joining us Jac, your research is so fascinating and your paper was brilliant, we could have talked to you all day!!

[Jac Lewis @JacsaLewis]

It was an absolute delight to present and take questions from @HauntedFutures on the subject of haunting, hegemony and anti-fascism. Thank you so much! 👻

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Our final panel of Haunted Futures 2025 is our first ever fully online panel, very appropriate for our Haunted Technologies theme! We have papers from Ana Clara Alves, Rhys Handley, Aqsa Eram and Bronte Shiltz.

[🩸📼📺 shrieking violet 📺📼🩸 @VioletShrieks]

it was my absolute pleasure to talk about one of my favorite films @HauntedFutures and to use the phrase “Barbie snuffhouse” in my first ever conference presentation 🩸

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@VioletShrieks We were so delighted you could join us Violet, an incredible paper and wonderfully articulated!!

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Our first panel today saw papers from Jac Lewis and Alaz Okudan — followed by a fascinating discussion about AI, solipsism and Mark Fisher memes!

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Finally for today, a beautiful (lycanthropic!) addition to Haunted Futures, from Lissie Carlisle, who brought us all copies of her amazing zine!

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Our next panel looks at cinema and spectrality, very appropriate for Haunted Futures @uccfilmstudies! We have papers from @maxbledstein, Weija Zeng and Karen Smith.

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Our next panel examine AI, gender, video games and the gothic! With papers from John Kavanagh, Federica Palazzi, Paula Garcia-Rodriguez and Violet Burns.

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We’re now delighted to screen our colleague Lenneart Soberon’s film Dragon Teeth which won the prize for best short documentary at Galway Film Fleadh this summer!

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Things took a distinctly liminal turn for our second panel, we had papers from Siobhán Scarlett O’Reilly, Thomas Conner and @uccfilmstudies’s own Kane Geary O’ Keeffe