Mediaeval Ghosts in Edinburgh

I'll be giving a paper on mediaeval ghost stories this Saturday in Edinburgh. Details are:

Traditional Cosmology Society Day Conference

Saturday, 12 April

School of Scottish Studies

27 George Square

Edinburgh EH8 9LD

Day conference on ‘Ghosts’ from 10 am to 5 pm.

Conference fee for TCS members £1; others £2.

Students free.

Opening speaker: Professor Mirjam Mencej, Royal Society of Edinburgh Exchange Fellow from Slovenia. The Annual General Meeting of the Traditional Cosmology Society will take place at 12.30 pm.

9.30 -10.20 Mirjam Mencej "The Rise, Spread and Decline of Ghost Stories Attached to the Building of the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Ljubljana"

10.20-10.50 Mariah Hudec "The Trial of Margaret Lang: Fairies and the Dead in Early Modern Scotland".

11.10-12 Joy Fraser  " 'Locked in a graveyard at night with an active poltergeist': Legend, Performance and Belief on the City of the Dead Ghost Tour, Edinburgh"

12-12.30 Lewis Hurst “Punch Lines in Ghost Stories and Jokes: A Common Mechanism”

12.30 AGM of the Traditional Cosmology Society

2-2.50 Willem  de Blécourt “Enacting  Ghosts, or: How to Make the Invisible Visible”

2.50-3.20 Martha McGill  “The Laird of Coul’s Ghost: An Eighteenth-century Scottish Story”

3.40-4.10 Sean Martin “The Walking Dead: Supernatural Encounters in Mediaeval England”

4.10-5 Lynn Holden “Ghosts in Love”

5-6 Reception

All welcome.