The Golden Bat Awards

"Children of the Night" GOLDEN BAT AWARDS were established in 2021.

Golden Bat Awards 2023

Golden Bat Awards 2023

1. The Golden Bat Award for the Most Original Research: Fernando Soto (Independent researcher, Canada) for "Excavating the Vampire’s Roots: Stoker’s Use of the Mythology and Folklore of the Mandrake in Dracula".

2. The Golden Bat Award for the Best Research: Peadar O’Dea (Maynooth University, Ireland) and Adam Owsinski (Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Australia) for "Disabilities and the Vampire".

3. The Golden Bat Award for the Best Research: Roberto Cavalcante Rodrigues (Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) for "Eat me! Accounts of the Tupinambá anthropophagic ritual and the vampiric Wendigo in Ravenous (Antonia Bird, 1999)".

Golden Bat Awards 2022

Golden Bat Awards 2022

1. The Golden Bat Award for the Most Original Research: Penny Goodman (UK) for "Doors, Doors, Doors Everywhere’:Thresholds in Stoker’s Dracula and its Adaptations"; and Peadar O'Dea (Ireland) for "Disabling Dracula: A Disability Studies Analysis of Dracula, Carmilla and The Historical Context of The Vampire Myth".

2. The Golden Bat Award for Best Research: Brian Forrest (USA) for "Blacula is Beautiful".

3. The Golden Bat Award for the Best Visual Presentation: Enrique A. Palafox (Mexico), for "Dracula by Bram Stoker, a Transmedial Journal".

4. The Golden Bat Award for Young Blood: Jared L. Schmidt (USA) for "Autoethnography with the Vampire: How Dracula in the Netflix/BBC Miniseries Applies Folkloristic Methodologies to Examine His Undead Rules and Rituals".

5. The Golden Bat Award for Best Showman: David MacDowell Blue (USA) for Re-inventing Dracula".

6. The Golden Bat for Biggest Discussion-Provoking Speaker: Yuri Garcia (Brazil), "The Reconfigurations of the Vampire in Contemporary Cinema".

7. The Golden Bat Award for Best Costume: Nina Trzaska for Nadja Costume.

8. The Golden Bat Award for Most Active Listener: Ilmar Vanderer (USA).

9. The Golden Bat Award for Night-time Attendance – Sean Rourke (USA), Miguel Munoz (Mexico) and Ilmar Vanderer (USA).

10. The Golden Bat Award for the Sexiest Male Presenter Voice: Brian Forrest (USA).

11. The Golden Bat Award for the Sexiest Female Presenter Voice: Magdalena Grabias (Poland).

12. The Golden Bat Award for Vampire Film: Sean Rourke (USA) for "Lucy X Mina", Nagy Marton (Romania) for "How My Girlfriend Ignited on Our Third Date".

13. The Golden Bat Award for Vampire Literature: Alexander Williams (UK) for "Eternal Youth", Chloe Hammond (UK) for "Darkly Dreaming" and "The Caretakers".

Golden Bat Awards 2021

THE AWARDS OF THE 2021 Children of the Night International Dracula Conference have been granted as follows:

GOLDEN BAT AWARDS:

1. The Golden Bat Award for the Most Original Research: Roberto Cavalcante Rodrigues (Brazil), for "Blood & Couture: Dracula by Eiko Ishioka (石岡瑛子)."

2. The Golden Bat Award for the Best Visual Presentation: Enrique A. Palafox (Mexico), for "The Transmedia of Dracula."

3. The Golden Bat Award for the Best Gothic Costume: Magdalena Grabias (Poland), with her Steampunk Costume.

These three winners will be rewarded with a book (edited collection or monography) from the Palgrave Macmillan collection. Please visit the Palgrave Shop to select your book
(not the Gothic Handbooks, alas - they are special premium products...)

Further Golden Bat Awards:

4. The Golden Bat Award for the Best Baby Bat Contribution: Charlize Ayessa Marichu de Roos (Philippines), for "Born to be Bat."

5. The Golden Bat Award for the Best Educational Documentary: Hans Corneel de Roos (Philippines), for "Philippine Vampires and Other Mythical Creatures."

SILVER BAT AWARDS:

1) The Silver Bat Award for the Best Reference to a Vampire Character: Nina Trzaska (Poland)

2) The Silver Bat Award for the Best Classic Gothic Costume: Sharon Spendley (UK)

3) The Silver Bat Award for the Best Vampiric Make-up – Katerina Garcia Walsh (Madrid, Spain)

These three winners will receive a copy of "Powers of Darkness," plus a little surprise award.

FURTHERS AWARDS (Special Mentions):

Alucard Trophy for the Most Successful Debut: Connor Long-Johnson (UK).
Midnight Clock Award for Night Attendance of the COTN – Sean Rourke (California), Miguel Munoz (Mexico) and Ilmar Vanderer (New Jersey).
The Carmilla Award for the Sexiest Female Presenter Voice: Victoria Amador (Minneapolis).
The Varney Award for the Sexiest Male Presenter Voice: Matt Crofts (UK).
The Batman Award for Consistent Upside-Down Appearance: Timothy (Jack) Kline (Texas)
The Mystery Man Award for Anonymous Participation: Antonio Sanna (Italy)
The Blair Witch Project Award for Mobile Participation: Florin Nechita (Romania)

These particpants will receive an additional diploma (digitally).

We hope that everyone will be happy with their prize!

Winners of the Golden and Silver Bat Awards, please email your POSTAL addresses AND your cell phone number to Hans de Roos, via www.vampvault.jimdofree.com.
(Amazon needs your cell phone number for possible questions related to the delivery)

The Organizing Committee

April 19, 2021

About Us

A conference series organised by the foremost scholars in the field of Gothic and Vampire Studies.

"Children of the Night International Dracula Congress" series is a non-profit academic initiative founded by international scholars and supported by worldwide renowned Dracula experts.

Our aim is to present ground-breaking research on Bram Stoker, his novel Dracula, Gothic and Horror Studies and related topics on an annual basis.

Participation is open to everyone who has a truly interesting presentation to make. Moreover, the conferences feature artistic contests and are accompanied by a cultural program.

2024 INETRNATIONAL DRACULA CONGRESS!

This year we will meet ONLINE on Zoom on October 25-26 and IN PERSON in Brașov, Romania on October 31-November 2.

The event is co-organised by:

Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania (Florin Nechita), Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Lublin, Poland (Magdalena Grabias), State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (Yuri Garcia).

In collaboration with The Dracula Fan Club, Mexico (Enrique A. Palafox).

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT

International Dracula Congress

Please contact us through the contact form or send an email to dracongress@gmail.com

“Children Of The Night” – Vampires In Literature, Film and Folklore, (ed.) Magdalena Grabias, Hans C. De Roos, Cristian Pralea, Florin Nechita.

Our virtual conference of April 2021 was followed up with a special issue of the Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov, Series IV, dedicated to Dracula and vampires:

“CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT” – VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE, FILM, AND FOLKLORE

Edited by Magdalena GRABIAS, Hans C. DE ROOS, Cristian PRALEA, Florin NECHITA.

Many scholars who participated in our series of conferences - starting with the Fourth World Dracula Congress in Dublin, October 2016 - contributed to this volume. With 250 pages and many high-quality illustrations in color, it is a milestone in our efforts to build a platform for international, interdisciplinary Dracula Studies, together with Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania, and Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland.

FREE DOWNLOAD: HERE

"Children of the Night" Dracula International Congress Book of Abstracts, ed. Magdalena Grabias, Hans Corneel de Roos, Florin Nechita, Universitatea Babeș Bolyai Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj, Romania, 2021.

Children of the Night" Dracula International Congress (virtual event) April 16-18, 2021, Book of Abstracts, ed. Magdalena Grabias, Hans Corneel de Roos, Florin Nechita, Universitatea Babeș Bolyai Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj, Romania, 2021.

FREE DOWNLOAD HERE

Dracula-an International Perspective, ed. Marius-Mircea Crișan.

Click this link and you can preview a free chapter of Dracula-An International Perspective, edited by Marius Crișan (Palgrave, 2017), and with many interesting contributions (including chapters by our keynote speakers).

This volume analyses the role of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its sequels in the evolution of the Gothic. As well as the transformation of the Gothic location—from castles, cemeteries and churches to the modern urban gothic—this volume explores the evolution of the undead considering a range of media from the 19^th century protagonist to sympathetic contemporary vampires of teen Gothic. Based on an interdisciplinary approach (literature, tourism, and film), the book argues that the development of the Dracula myth is the result of complex international influences and cultural interactions. Offering a multifarious perspective, this volume is a reference work that will be useful to both academic and general readers.