UPDATE Recovering the Vampire Conference (new deadline 8/8/2022)

Recovering the Vampire (UPDATED)

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/03/16/recovering-the-vampire


deadline for submissions:
August 8, 2022



full name / name of organization:
Edge Hill University



contact email:
madeline.potter@york.ac.uk





Speakers

Professor Catherine Spooner (Lancaster University)

Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University)

and featuring a Q&A and dramatic reading by Dacre Stoker

How can vampires help us heal?

In the 125th anniversary year of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this interdisciplinary project examines the continuing history of the vampire from the 19th century to the present and explores how the vampire can function as a cultural figure of recovery, community, and regeneration.

The cultural history of the vampire has been conventionally one of degeneration, illness, contagion, and variously embodied metaphors of anxiety. This event moves critical discourse from degeneration to regeneration, asking how the vampire functions as a metaphor for recovery (whether physical, emotional, or economic), community (fandoms, gamers, ‘goth culture’), identification and self-expression (racial identities, spirituality and religion, neurodivergence/-diversity, disability, gender and sexuality).

We welcome proposals for 15-20-minute papers, and panels. We also welcome practical or industry approaches to reinterpreting the vampire through collaborative, creative, or playful research, as well as contributions to a creative industries panel by publishers, authors, artists, heritage professionals and film-makers who work on the figure of the vampire. 

Topics can include but are not limited to: 

• Healing, trauma, recovery
• Gothic tourism / regeneration / international relations / economic growth
• Vampires and the creative economy
• Vampires and community: gaming, goth culture, fashion
• Medical humanities and the vampire
• Addiction recovery, nutrition, attitudes to feeding
• Reclaiming the vampire and neurodivergence/-diversity
• Selfhood, belonging, and ‘the outsider’
• Spiritual growth and religious experience
• Race and inclusivity / representation
• Child vampires / vampires for children
• Pedagogy and the vampire
• Laughter, comedy and Catherine Spooner’s ‘Happy Gothic’
• Adaptation

Thanks to the generosity of BAVS, BARS and Edge Hill University, we are delighted to be able to offer several PGR/ECR fee-waived bursary places for this event. If you would like to be considered, please indicate on your abstract and include a short statement (100 words max) about how the conference relates to your research.

Please send 300-word abstracts or panel proposals to Dr Madeline Potter (madeline.potter@york.ac.uk) and Dr Laura Eastlake (Laura.Eastlake@edgehill.ac.uk)

This conference will be fully accessible, with a primarily online component. Please check our website https://recoveringthevampire.wordpress.com and follow us on Twitter @VampireRecovery for updates on conference format and further info.

Deadline: 8 August 2022

Conference dates: 4-5 November 2022


 
Last updated June 21, 2022

Updated CFP Vampire Academic Conference (3/20/2022; 6/15-17/2022)

I came across a more recent CFP for this event. According to the event website, the conference has since been moved to being a fully online program. 

CFP: THE 6TH VAMPIRE ACADEMIC CONFERENCE “VAMPIRES THROUGH THE AGES”. JUNE 15-17, 2022 @ CARDIFF, WALES (UK). DEADLINE: MARCH 20, 2022

source: https://cstonline.net/cfp-the-6th-vampire-academic-conference-vampires-through-the-ages-june-15-17-2022-cardiff-wales-uk-deadline-march-20-2022/


Mar 17, 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 6th Vampire Academic Conference ‘Vampires Through the Ages’ 15th-17th 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@scf.edu by Sunday March 20th, 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

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.

EXTENDED Literary Monsters (5/31/2022; SAMLA Jacksonville, FL 11/11-13/2022)

Literary Monsters

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/03/15/literary-monsters

deadline for submissions:
May 31, 2022

full name / name of organization:
Speculative Fiction Association

contact email:
tracie.provost@mga.edu



In today's culture, it's almost impossible to avoid "monsters." Straight from mythology and legend, these fantastic creatures traipse across our television screens and the pages of our books. Over centuries and across cultures, the inhuman have represented numerous cultural fears and, in more recent times, desires. They are Other. They are Us. This panel will explore monsters--whether they be mythological, extraterrestrial, or man-made--that populate fiction and film, delving into the cultural, psychological and/or theoretical implications.



Please submit a 250-300 word abstract, a brief bio, and any A/V needs by May 31, 2022 to Tracie Provost, Middle Georgia State University, at tracie.provost@mga.edu.

SAMLA’s 94th annual conference, Change, will be held at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Hotel in Jacksonville, FL this year from November 11-13. Those accepted must be members of SAMLA to present.


categories
fan studies and fandom
film and television
gender studies and sexuality
interdisciplinary
popular culture

Last updated March 30, 2022

CFP Journal of Dracula Studies [DEADLINE EXTENDED to 6/1/21]

Journal of Dracula Studies [DEADLINE EXTENDED to 6/1/21]

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/01/19/journal-of-dracula-studies-deadline-extended-to-6121

deadline for submissions:
June 1, 2021


full name / name of organization:
Anne DeLong/Curt Herr/ Transylvanian Society of Dracula


contact email:
Journalofdraculastudies@kutztown.edu



We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in folklore, fiction, film, popular culture, and related topics.
Submissions should be sent electronically (as an e-mail attachment in .doc or .rtf). Please indicate the title of your submission in the subject line of your e-mail.
Please follow MLA style.
Contributors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions and ensuring observance of copyright.
Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed independently by at least two scholars in the field.
Copyright for published articles remains with the author.
Submissions must be received no later than May 1, 2021, in order to be considered for the Fall 2021 issue.
Send electronic submissions to journalofdraculastudies@kutztown.edu
Contact: Dr. Anne DeLong or Dr. Curt Herr 

Last updated May 2, 2021 

 

NecronomiCon Providence 2021 now 2022

 A brief update on the status of NecronomiCon Providence 2021.

It appears the organizers and conference site have worked out their concerns. Per their website:

NOTE: given the very real dangers posed by the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic, and in agreement with our local partners, we’ve decided to move the event to 2022 in order to minimize the risks involved while still bringing you the best event experience we can. We look forward to welcoming you all to Providence!

The event is now scheduled for summer 2022.

NEPCA Monsters Area Update

NEPCA has extended the deadline for submissions of paper proposals to 15 June.

The call for the Monsters and the Monstrous Area can be accessed at the following address: https://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/2019/04/cfp-call-for-papers-for-inaugural.html.

Update 8/12/2016

Wow! It has been a long time since I posted here.

I have been reading, watching, and thinking about monsters, but life intervenes from blogging.

Tonight I have a series of CFPs from the Fantastic in the Arts site (http://www.fantastic-arts.org/). It is a great resource and not as overwhelming as more general CFP sites. 

Michael A Torregrossa
Fantastic Area Chair

Dracula Session Information

Details regarding the Area's upcoming Dracula-themed panel have been posted to the NEPCA Fantastic site and can be accessed at http://nepcafantastic.blogspot.com/2014/11/dracula-panel-details.html.

Updated CFP Journal of Dracula Studies (6/1/14)

Apologies for having missed this:

[UPDATE] DEADLINE EXTENDED to June 1, 2014
full name / name of organization:
The Journal of Dracula Studies
contact email:
journalofdraculastudies@kutztown.edu

We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in folklore, fiction, film, popular culture, and related topics.
Submissions should be sent electronically (as an e-mail attachment in .doc or .rtf). Please indicate the title of your submission in the subject line of your e-mail.

Please follow the 2009 updated MLA style.

Contributors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions and ensuring observance of copyright.
Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed independently by at least two scholars in the field.

Copyright for published articles remains with the author.

Submissions must be received no later than June 1, 2014, in order to be considered for the 2014 issue.
Send electronic submissions to journalofdraculastudies@kutztown.edu

Contact: Dr. Curt Herr or Dr. Anne DeLong


By web submission at 05/15/2014 - 21:57

More CFPs Coming!

Sorry for the flurry of CFPs tonight. I invariably get behind on things, but, whether I send a proposal or not, there are all worth looking at, as they often suggest new ways of looking at familiar texts.

Blog Update September 2013

I've been remiss of late in updating the blog and have quite a backlog of calls for papers to add. I will begin the process today and hopefully finish by the weekend.

Michael Torregrossa

Starting the Blog

I'm going to start off the blog with a series of video clips (more to follow in the coming weeks) of children's series and other television programs featuring the preternatural. I am basically looking to set a base both for what the prenatural is and how it can used both positively and negatively (and sometimes both) in popular culture.

Michael Torregrossa

Welcome

Welcome to Popular Preternaturaliana: Studying the Monstrous in Popular Culture, a new resource sponsored by the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association and hosted by The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages. I've spent a number of years exploring the monsters of medievalism and have come to the conclusion that, in order to understand the monstrous, one needs to look at the bigger picture and take into account the complete history of preternatural entities, including their origins, evolution over time, and relationship to similar creatures across the globe. As a result, this blog was brought to life in May 2013 in the hopes of providing a place to promote further study and debate of the preternatural where ever and when ever it may appear. 

Michael A. Torregrossa
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair, Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Co-Founder, The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages