American Vampires
Virtually Hosted
October 30th 2020 9:00 am- 7:00 p.m.
October 31st
10:00 am- 3:00 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time
Main themes: This conference will focus on the
American Vampire and how they are represented. There is a vast amount of
literature and film representing American vampires such as Salem’s Lot, Anne
Rice and her chronicles, Lost Boys, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Blade, Twilight
and of course Bela Lugosi’s classic Dracula.
The State College of Florida’s Literary Guild, in
conjunction, with The University of South Wales, and IVFAF, call for papers by
scholars interested in presenting their researched essays on vampire
literature, film, folklore, theatre, games, graphic novels, lifestyle, fashion,
music and wider art in the 5th annual Vampire Academic Conference (VAC).
Themes for this year’s Conference include the American
Vampire, with a non-exclusive focus on the enduring legacy of their iconic
vampire films; the Fake News Vampire, examining the consequences when fiction
and folklore are presented factually. The themes of vampires in society are
also included in this call.
However, the VAC is not limited to these themes. The
two overriding criteria for papers delivered at the conference are:
- They must be about Vampires
- They must be interesting!
This major interdisciplinary international conference
aims to examine and expand debates around vampires in all their many aspects.
We therefore invite researchers from a range of academic backgrounds to
re/consider vampires as a phenomenon that reaches across multiple sites of
production and consumption, from literature and film to theatre and games to
music and fashion and beyond. What accounts for this Gothic character's undying
popular appeal, even in today's postmodern, digital, commercialized world? How does vampirism circulate within and
comment upon mass culture?
We invite papers in genre theory & history,
popular fiction, media culture, television theory, adaptation, journalism,
comic studies, the transformative arts and other areas of film, literary and
cultural studies in order to explore and expand the significance of the vampire
as a figure of fascination across popular culture in shifting historic and
social contexts.
We welcome proposals for conference papers of 15
minutes but also for pre-formed panels (of 3x15-minute papers), roundtable
discussions, or formats that allow for the presentation of praxis
(installations, lecture performances, for instance). We also want to support undergraduate
scholarship: any current UG students interested in attending the VAC would be
eligible for special, 10-15 minute presentation panels to facilitate their
participation in an international conference at the undergraduate level.
Please submit a 300-500-word abstract, along with a
short biography and indication of the format of your proposed presentation to
Submittable by September 14th. If submitting a full panel proposal, the
moderator should send a 50-word summary statement outlining the panel's title
and central topic, along with all three proposals. Accepted submitters must
confirm their commitment to present a finished written paper in a talk lasting
approximately 20 minutes live at the conference via video conferencing. It must
be their own original work.
This conference will not be charging since it is
virtual.
The VAC runs in tandem with the Vampire Creative
Congress, which focuses on the creative industries and featuring talks about
filmmaking, writing, games etc. More details.
Potential points of entry but not limited to:
- Transylvania or Pennsylvania? America and vampires
- Women and the Vamp
- Messy Eaters – gore and violence in vampire stories
- vampire fiction as subgenre (comedies, romances, YA literature, graphic novels, games, theatre)
- the vampire’s role in genre evolution
- the vampire as metaphor
- vampires as signs of cultural change
- the popular vampire in the literary mainstream
- the evolution of sex and religion in vampire literature
- the influence of cinema on literary vampires (and vice‐versa)
- vampiric tropes in social networking, internet memes and new media culture
- popular vampire fiction/film in the non‐western world
- pedagogical applications of popular vampire texts
- gender and the vampire and/or the vampire hunter
- vampires and the depiction of alternative sexualities
- other cultural studies applications of the vampire icon
This is an indicative list only and papers on any
vampiric theme from any academic or practice background would be welcomed.
Deadline: September 14, 2020.
Contact email: jelinej@scf.edu
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