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)