The Dark Symposium

Bodmin Jail

An evening to explore the Gothic and otherness of Cornwall at the home of the region's dark history, Bodmin Jail.

Bodmin Jail Attraction

An evening to explore the Gothic and otherness of Cornwall.From beasts to mermaids, witches to giants, prisons to standing stones, it's time to light up the Cornish darkness and enliven it for a new generation.Guest Speaker: Joan Passey About Joan Passey:Joan Passey is a Senior Lecturer in the English department at the University of Bristol specialising in Victorian coasts and seascapes.She has researched regional literature with a focus on Cornwall. Her first monograph, Cornish Gothic (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2023), considers dark tourism, neomedieval Arthurianism, ghosts, folklore and folkhorror, shipwrecks and seafaring, mining and the subterranean, railway travel, and travel writing.