[Commlist] Call For Papers: Vampires through the Ages’ Conference (USW and IVFAF)

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*Submission deadline: Sunday, March 20^th , 2022*.

*Please note there is the option to present in person or virtually. *

The International Vampire Film and Arts Festival and University of South 
Wales present The 6^th  Vampire Academic Conference ‘Vampires Through 
the Ages’ 15^th -17^th  June 2022, Insole Court Mansion, Cardiff, Wales.

The University of South Wales, in association with the IVFAF, calls 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 sixth annual Vampire 
Academic Conference (VAC) that runs alongside the festival in Cardiff. 
This Year’s main themes:

/*Nosferatu*/* 100 years later;*

*Vampires in Media;*

*Symphony of Horror: Vampires, Setting, and Folklore*

Possible topics may include:

·*Ghetto or gentrified gore: the vampire and urban space*

·*(Dis)ability and the monstrous*

·*Fans’ fangs: Vampire fandom, subcultures, and participatory practices*

·*Liminal beings: the vampire and teen/young adult media*

·*Beyond Transylvania: Global and transnational vampires*

·*Casting shadows: Vampire, acting, and stardom*

·*Draculaughs: The vampire as comedy monster*

·*From the coffin to the digital tomb: twenty-first century adaptation 
of the vampire story*

·*Race and Vampires*

·*Season’s greetings: the vampire and cultural festivals*

·*In the past: Folklore and Vampires*

·*In the Now: The History of the Modern Vampire*

·*Feminism and Vampires*

·*Queer Theory in Vampires*

·*Don’t go Into the Woods: Eco-Criticism and Vampires*

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 to explore and expand the significance of the vampire as a 
figure of fascination across popular culture in shifting historic and 
social contexts.

*We are delighted to announce that our keynote speakers for the event 
are Professor Stacey Abbott (University of Roehampton) and Kim Newman.*

We welcome proposals for conference papers of 20 minutes but also for 
pre-formed panels (of 3×20-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 send a 300-500-word abstract, along with a short biography and 
indication of the format of your proposed presentation to: 
(jelinej /at/ scf.edu) <mailto:(jelinej /at/ scf.edu)> by Sunday March 20^th , 2022. 
If you are looking for a virtual choice, please state this in your 
proposal*. 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 attend and present a finished written paper in a 
talk lasting approximately 20 minutes at the conference in Cardiff. It 
must be their own original work.

*Presenters must register by purchasing a Delegate ticket. For more 
information on conference registration and location, visit 
**www.ivfaf.com* <http://www.ivfaf.com/>

The *VAC* runs in tandem with the *Vampire Creative Congress*, which 
focuses on the creative industries and featuring talks about filmmaking, 
writing, games etc. The wider festival includes literature and film 
strands and includes guest talks. There’s also a programme of theatre 
performances and parties, including the spectacular Vampire Ball. For 
more details, go to www.ivfaf.com <http://www.ivfaf.com/>


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