Vampires:
Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil

Thursday 22nd May - Saturday 24th May 2003
Budapest, Hungary

Conference Programme and Abstracts

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Thursday 22nd May
Lead Paper
Elizabeth Miller
Getting to Know the Un-dead: Bram Stoker, Vampires and Dracula

Session 1: Vampires in Film
Tomasz Warchol
How Coppola killed Dracula

James Tobias
The Vampire and the Cyborg Embrace: Affect Beyond Fantasy in Virtual Materialism

Sue Rinker
Vampire as metaphor for New Media?

Session 2: Dracula
Kim Hoelzli
Exorcising the Beast: Darwinian Influences on the Narrative of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Paul Marchbank
Dracula: Degeneration, Sexuality and the Jew

Friday 23rd May
Session 3: Folkloric Vampires
Jennifer Harrington
Vampires and Demons: The Duality of Supreme Evil

Adeline Kueh
She-Devils: Pontianak and her Sisters in Southeast Asian Popular Culture

Philip Bagust
Vampire Dogs and Marsupial Hyenas: Fear, Myth and the Tasmanian Tiger’s Extinction

Session 4: The Psychoanalytic Vampire
Sally Miller
‘Nursery Fears made Flesh and Sinew’: Vampires, the Body and Eating Disorders

Fiona Peters
Looking in the mirror: Vampires, the Symbolic and the Thing

Hyun-Jung Lee
‘One for ever’: The Threat of the Abject in Le Fanu’s Carmilla

Concurrent Sessions 5
Session 5a: Vampire Myths
Peter Mario Kreuter
The Name of the Vampire. Some reflections on Actual Linguistic Theories on the Etymology of the Word “Vampire“

Nursel Icoz
The Un-Dead: To be Feared or/and to be Pitied?

Elizabeth McCarthy
Death to Vampires! The Vampire Body and the Meaning of Mutilation

Session 5b: Vampire Themes in Literature and Art
Benson Saler
Dracula and Carmilla: Mythmaking and the Mind

David Cole
Anatomy of a Literary Vampirism

Lois Drawmer
Sex, Death and Ecstasy: The Art of Transgression

Session 6: Medieval Vampires
Darren Oldridge
The Roaming Dead

Christa Tuczay
Ancient and Medieval Myths Surrounding the Dead and Undead

Kate Greenspan
Dead on Their Feet: the Folklore and Theology of the Living Dead in Handlyng Synne

Session 7: Vampires, War, Depression and the Law
Terry Phillips
Between death and life: the influence of the vampire on representations of the first world war

Peter Remington
‘You’re whining again, Louis’: Anne Rice’s vampires as indices of the depressive self

Sharon Sutherland
Piercing the Corporate Veil - with a Stake? Vampire Imagery in the Law

Saturday 24th May
Session 8: Buffy
Milly Williamson
Vampire Transformations: From Gothic Demon to Domestication?

M K Berry-Kluender
Take it like a man: Buffy drives a stake into the heart of Lacan

Carla T. Kungl
Fears and Femininity at the fin de siecle: Of Vampires and Vampire Slayers

Session 9: Buffy returns!
Dee Amy-Chinn
Good vampires don’t suck: inscribing sexual celibacy on the body of angel

Marina Levina
How the vampire got neutered: boundary surveillance and technoscientific discourse on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Suzanne Scott
All Bark and No Bite: Siring the Neutered Vampire on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Session 10: Vampire Subcultures
Meg Barker
Vampire Subcultures

Sarah Bowman
‘By becoming a monster, one learns what it is to be human’ – subtitle to Vampire: the Masquerade

Stacey Abbot
Urban Vampires in American Films of the 80s and 90s

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