Dear all, Apologies for cross posting. Please can you disseminate to interested colleagues as appropriate. The University of Edinburgh have organised the following free event open to all which you are cordially invited to attend. Take a walk on the macabre side of Edinburgh this Autumn! * 13 November: Edinburgh Gothic event for Robert Louis Stevenson Day<https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/edinburgh-gothic-for-robert-louis-stevenson-day-2018/> The morning session comprises three scintillating talks from Edinburgh Gothicists and guests from Sheffield University’s Centre for the History of the Gothic aimed at reconceptualising current understandings of Gothic fiction: * Lauren Nixon and Mary Going – the History of doubling in the Gothic. * Robyn Pritzker – The wild gothic tales of Fanny Stevenson. * Vicki Madden – Shirley Jackson and American Gothic fiction. * Full training will be given for our afternoon Gothic Wikipedia editathon<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburg… (and data hack) on Gothic art, architecture, literature and Lost Literary Women.<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/E… Book here<https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/edinburgh-gothic-for-robert-louis-stevenson-day-2018/> or via the Facebook event page<https://www.facebook.com/events/319000195360037/>7/>. Come along to learn about how Wikipedia works and contribute a greater understanding & appreciation of Gothic. Take a walk on the macabre side this Autumn. Very best, Ewan Ewan McAndrew Wikimedian in Residence Tel: 07719 330076 Email: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk<mailto:ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk> Subscribe to the mailing list: wikimedia@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk<mailto:wikimedia@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk> My working hours are 10.30am to 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Wikipedia Project Page for the residency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR. www.ed.ac.uk<http://www.ed.ac.uk> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.