Conferinþe

9.45- 10.35 Keynote Session1

Hans C. de Roos (Independent Researcher, Bantayan Island, Philippines)
Early Serializations and Translations of Dracula in Light of the Internationalization of the Press 1895-1900

11.00- 11.50 Keynote Session 2

Magdalena Grabias (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland) Vampires, Werewolves, Demons: The Nature of the Polish Horror Film

11.50- 12.40 Keynote Session 3

Cristian Pralea, Georgeta Moarcăș (Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania) The Dracula Connection: Rhizomatic Aspects of a Modern Myth
Workshop Session 1, Chair: Florin Nechita (Transilvania University of Brașov, ROMANIA)
14.30-15.00 Alicja Sulkowska (Bauhaus-Universität, Germany), Bela Lugosi and Brandon Lee, ‘‘Dracula’’ and ‘‘The Crow” – two cases of pop cultural image creation and the evolution of vampiric tropes
15.00-15.30 Penelope J. Goodman (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), In old Greece, in old Rome: Dracula and Classical Antiquity
15.30-16.00 Svetlana Seibel (Saarland University, Germany), “Let Me Not Start at the Beginning of my Life”: On Vampire Life Writing
16.00-16.20 Q&A

10.00-10.50 Keynote Session 4

Victoria Amador (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) The Female Vampire’s Cinematic Evolution
11.15-12.00 Hans de Roos Presentation of the first fully illustrated Dracula version ever
12.00-12.15 Cătălina-Ionela Rezeanu (Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania)The social worlds of virtual objects participating in the arena of (re)producing the myth of Dracula: evidence from a video game –poster presentation

Workshop Session 2, Chair: Victoria Amador

14.00-14.30 Kishio Sakamoto (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan), “Pokemon Go,” a Development through Japanese Tradition of Monsters
14.30-15.00 Soraia Garcês, Margarida Pocinho & Saúl Neves de Jesus (University of Madeira, Portugal), How to fight “real” vampires through Positive Psychology?
15.00-15.30 Nina Anna Trzaska (University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan, Poland) Vrykolakas, the Greek vampire in accounts and other sources
15.30-15.50 Q&A

Workshop Session 3, Chair: Soraia Garcês

16.15-16.45 Yuri Garcia Piedade Kurylo (UFRJ – State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), “I am Dracula” or “We are Dracula”? The many vampires in cinema
16.45-17.15 Soraia Garcês, Margarida Pocinho and Saúl Neves de Jesus (University of Madeira, Portugal), Tourists’ well-being and myth experiences – building a destination brand
17.15-17.45 Florin Nechita, Adina Nicoleta Candrea, Ana Ispas, Elena-Nicoleta Untaru (Transilvania University of Brașov, ROMANIA), Does Dracula invite or chase the audience of a film festival?

17.45-18.05 Q&A

19.00 – Dracula Film Festival activities

10.00-10.50. Keynote Session 5

Marius Crișan (Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania) The Dracula Myth in Transylvania: the Romanian Side of the Story

Workshop Session 4, Chair: Marius Crișan

11.15-11.45 Diego Paleólogo Assunção and Yuri Garcia Piedade Kurylo (UFRJ – State University of Rio de Janeiro), The Vampire as a Political Metaphor in Brazilian Post-Coup: monsters and villains kidnap the future
11.45-12.15 Fotina Moro and Ekaterina Buley (novelist, independent researchers), Posthumous Feud of Two Draculas
12.15-12.30 Q&A

Workshop Session 5

14.15 – 15.30 Adina Nicoleta Candrea, Florin Nechita Research workshop: Out of the coffin! Can Romania’s tourism jumps with Count Dracula leading the brand?
15.30 – 16.00 Dax Stokes (Librarian, Texas, USA) (Skype presentation) The Un-Orthodox Vampire: Heresy, Mysticism, and the Eastern Church’s Creation of the Undead
16.00 – 16.30 Concluding remarks
17.00 Dracula Film Festival activities: A film followed by a Master Class with Sergio Stivaletti, Italian director and special effects producer (Centrul Cultural Reduta)