“Children of the Night” International Dracula Congress
Friday, November 18th 2022
Bram Stoker Time (British time/GMT)
8.45-9.00 Congress Organisers’ opening remarks.
Keynote Speaker (chair: Magdalena Grabias)
09.00-10.00 Hans Corneel de Roos, The True Location of the Scholomance, and How to Get There: A Travel Report.
Keynote Speaker (chair: Enrique Palafox)
10.00-11.00 Simon Bacon, The Decade that Changed the Vampire Genre: New Directions and Complications in the 1970s.
Session One (chair: Florin Nechita and Magdalena Grabias)
11.00-11.30 Magdalena Grabias, Juliusz Machulski’s Comedy Horror “The Lullaby” as an Exemplar of Post-Millennial Patchwork Gothic.
Vampire Literature: 11.30-12.00 Alexander Williams, Poverty, Parasites and Psychic Vampires. Gold Stake-winning author on his bestselling novel “Eternal Youth”.
Keynote Speaker (chair: Florin Nechita)
12.00-13.00 Marius-Mircea Crișan, Around Millerian paradigm: Dracula and the Critics in Transylvania.
Session Two (chair: Florin Nechita)
13.00-13.30 Alessandra Vallim, Julia Farias, Yuri Garcia, Nosferatu: Expressionist imagery and its artistic influences.
13.30-14.00 Nancy Rosenberg England, ‘I Don’t Live to Drain, I Drain to Live’: Examining What We Do in the Shadows’ Energy Vampire, Colin Robinson.
14.00-14.30 Patricia Hradec, Giulia Moon and Her ‘Dama-Morcega’: Intertextuality among Brasilian Vampires.
Coffee Break 14.30-15.00
Keynote Speaker (chair: Magdalena Grabias)
15.00-16.00 Enrique A. Palafox, Dracula by Bram Stoker, a Transmedial Journal.
Session Three (chair: Enrique Palafox)
16.00-16.30 Dax Stokes, It's Just a Demon: Vampire Activity as Documented by the Church in the Historical Record.
16.30-17.00 Jared L. Schmidt, Autoethnography with the Vampire: How Dracula in the Netflix/BBC Miniseries Applies Folkloristic Methodologies to Examine His Undead Rules and Rituals.
17.00-17.50 Brian Forrest, Blacula is Beautiful.
Coffee Break 17.50-18.00
Session Four (chair: Yuri Garcia)
18.00-18.30 Vitor Souza, The Vampire in Colors: Hammer Films' Dracula and the Dynamics of Gender and Sexuality.
18.30-19.00 David MacDowell Blue, Re-inventing Dracula.
19.00-19.30 Gustavo Garcia, Undead undead undead. Interpretations of Dracula and Vampires in Modern/Contemporary “Fine Art”.
19.30-20.00 An Interview with Dracula’s Grandson: Marius-Mircea Crișan interviews Virgil Borcan.
Virtual VampParty with DJ Florin! 20.00 till the last undead standing! 😉
Saturday, November 19th 2022
Bram Stoker Time (British time/GMT)
Session One (chair: Georgeta Moarcăs)
9.00-9.30 Adam Owsinski, Blood Is life: The Bio-Cultural Ontology of Vampiric Identities.
9.30-10.00 Mike Shepherd, Bram Stoker, Cruden Bay, and Dracula.
10.00-10.30 Ioan Big, One Decade of Dracula Film Festival.
10.30-11.00 Cathleen Allyn Conway, ‘I’ve crossed oceans of versions to find you’: Remediating Mina from novel to screen in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Coffee Break 11.00-11.45
Session Two (chair: Magdalena Grabias)
11.45-12.15 Cristian Pralea, Masquarading vampires.
12.15-12.45 Ildikó Limpár, Burying Fears and Fantasies: Vampire Parenthood in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and The Graveyard Book.
Vampire Film 12.45-13.30 Marton Nagy, “How My Girlfriend Ignited on Our Third Date”.
Coffee Break 13.30-14.15
Session Three (chair: Yuri Garcia)
14.15-14.45 Camila Targino-Dutra, The Double in Claudia: the Vampire Child-Woman.
14.45-15.15 Roberto Cavalcante Rodrigues, I Feel So Much Yummier! - Catwoman's Vampiric Journey in Batman Returns (1992).
15.15-15.45 James McCrea, On Dark Wings: The Development of Bat Iconography in Relation to the Vampire Myth.
15.45-16.15 Peter Gölz, Flying High: Blood Red Sky and the New Wave of German Vampire Films.
Coffee Break and Costume Contest 16.15-16.45 (chair: Roberto Cavalcante Rodrigues)
Vampire Literature (chair: Magdalena Grabias)
16.45-17.15 Chloe Greene, “The Caretakers”.
Keynote Speaker (chair: Enrique Palafox)
17.15-18.15 Dacre Stoker, Recent Discovery in the London Library Shed Light on Bram Stokers Research for Dracula.
Keynote Speaker (chair: Enrique Palafox)
18.15-19.15 Yuri Garcia, The Reconfigurations of the Vampire in Contemporary Cinema.
Vampire Film (chair: Magdalena Grabias)
19.15-20.00 Sean Rourke, “Lucy X Mina”.
Virtual VampParty with DJ Florin! 20.00 till the last undead standing! 😉
Sunday, November 20th 2022
Bram Stoker Time (British time/GMT)
Session One (chair: Nina Trzaska)
8.30-9.00 Kyria Van Gasse, 'Without me, you’re only you’: playing female characters in Vampire: The Masquerade LARP.
9.00-9.30 Bogdan-Alin Imbri, Marius-Mircea Crișan, Dark Knights and Caped Crusaders.
9.30-10.00 Nina Trzaska, Reflecting on the reflectionless: the appearance of the vrykolakas.
10.00-10.30 Gabriela-Marinela Hlușcu, Marius-Mircea Crișan, Lugosi from Lugos: Dracula’s voice and music in Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931).
Coffee Break 10.30-10.45
Vampire Literature (chair: Magdalena Grabias)
10.45-11.15 Chloe Greene, “Darkly Dreaming”.
Session Two (chair: Cristian Pralea)
11.15-11.45 Penny Goodman, Doors, doors, doors everywhere’: thresholds in Stoker’s Dracula and its adaptations.
11.45-12.15 Ruxandra Ivăncescu, Bram Stoker’s Mythology: From Dracula to The Jewel of Seven Stars.
12.15-12.45 Peadar O'Dea, Disabling Dracula: A Disability Studies Analysis of Dracula, Carmilla and The Historical Context of The Vampire Myth.
12.45-13.15 Georgeta Moarcăs, Mircea Eliade's Miss Christina, a contextual and intertextual reading.
Coffee Break 13.15-13.30
Keynote Speaker (chair: Yuri Garcia)
13.30-14.30 Laura Canepa Brazilian Vampires, Military Dictatorship and Pop Culture .
Session Three: (chair: Roberto Cavalcante Rodrigues)
Panel: “Eric Stenbock: Sexuality and Gothic Monsters”.
14.30-15.00 Ian Clark, The lust that dare not speak its name: cruising, code, and queer vampirism in Eric Stenbock’s “The True Story of a Vampire” (1894).
15.00-15.30 Brooke Cameron, The Queer Animal Gothic in Stenbock’s “The Other Side: A Breton Legend”.
15.30-16.00 Zsolt Bojti, From the Erlkönig to the “real vampire”: On the Origins of “The True Story of a Vampire” by Stenbock.
Coffee Break 16.00- 16.30
Keynote Speaker (chair: Enrique Palafox)
16.30-17.30 John Browning, Dracula Was Legend: Reflections on Critical Reception and the Making of the Modern Vampire.
Keynote Speaker (chair: Enrique Palafox)
17.30-18.30 Leslie Klinger, The Changing Image of the Vampire.
Session Four (chair: Florin Nechita)
18.30-19.00 Florin Nechita, Adina Nicoleta Candrea, Overpromising Dracula from Vlad to Elon.
19.00-19.45 Yong Liu, Bruneian Vampire and Ghost Shorts made by UBD Students.
19.45-20.00 Organisers’ closing remarks.
Virtual VampParty with DJ Florin! 20.00 till the last undead standing! 😉