20 April 2012, Trinity College Dublin, Long Room Hub
09:00 First Bites: Opening & Intro
09:15 Clemens Ruthner (Dublin) - How Dracula Became Undead: Stoker’s Vampire & Folklore Studies
10:00 Christian Reiter (Vienna) - The Habsburg Vampyre Files from the 18th Century & Forensic Medicine
10:45 Break
11:15 Brendan Kelly (Dublin) - Fusion, Delusion and a Thirst for Blood: Vampirism & Psychiatry
12:00 Shaun McCann (Dublin) - „The Blood is the life”: Vampirism & Haematology
13:00 Bite Break
14:00 Jürgen Barkhoff (Dublin) - Sucking Energy: Vampirism & Mesmerism
14:45 David J. Skal (Los Angeles) - Science and Pseudoscience: Evolution & the Vampire Mythos
15:30 Break
16:00 Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Dublin) - Postmodern Vampirism, Evolution & George W. Bush”
16:45 Hannah Priest (Manchester) - Plasma, Parasites & Personality Disorders: Vampires & ‘Bad’ Science
17:30 Final Discussion & Closure of the Tomb
Organized by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, TCD
Attendance free of charge – everybody’s welcome!
Info: ruthnerc@tcd.ie
1 comment:
That's a helluva scoop, Niels! And those papers sound incredibly interesting.
They've gotta publish them...they've just got to!
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