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THERE ARE SUCH THINGS! Vampire Symposium
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On Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, Texas’s vampire scholars will descend on a small college campus north of Dallas for “There are Such Things! Vampire Studies Symposium 2015.”
The symposium will feature five lectures and small group discussions over lunch. The keynote speaker will be Dr. J. Gordon Melton of Baylor University, author of the essential reference work The Vampire Book: the Encyclopedia of the Undead (1994; 1999; 2011) and The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography (2015), compiled with Alysa Hornick.
Other speakers include Dr. Thomas Garza, professor of Slavic Languages at the University of Texas, and editor of The Vampire in Slavic Cultures (2009); Dr. Michael Bell, folklorist and author of Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England’s Vampires (2001); Dr. Joseph Laycock, philosophy professor at Texas State University and author of Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism (2009); and Dax Stokes, the librarian at North Central Texas College and host of The Vampire Historian podcast.
So when you lie in bed tonight in your darkened room and these thoughts give you nightmares and you dread to look behind the curtains – just pull yourself together and remember that, after all, THERE ARE SUCH THINGS!
KEYNOTE
Author of the bestseller The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead
J. Gordon Melton
Baylor University
SPEAKERS
Dr. Thomas J. Garza
Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor,
University of Texas
Dr. Michael Bell
Folklorist,
Self-employed
Dr. Joseph Laycock
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies,
Texas State University
Dax Stokes
Librarian,
North Central Texas College
SCHEDULE
There Are Such Things! Vampire Studies Symposium 2015October 31, 2015
8:30 a.m.
Registration / coffee
9:30 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction
9:45 a.m.
Dr. J. Gordon Melton (Baylor University) — Keynote: “Don’t Quit Your Day Job: The Reality of Life as a Modern Vampirologist”
11:00 a.m.
Dr. Thomas Garza (University of Texas) — “From Vampire to Empire in Russia, Eastern Europe and the Balkans”
12:00 p.m.
Breakout Lunch Discussions / Book Signing
1:15 p.m.
Dr. Michael Bell (Folklorist) — “There Were Such Things in New England: The Yankee Version of Europe’s Vampire Tradition”
2:15 p.m.
Dr. Joseph Laycock (Texas State University) — “Born Not Turned: What the Real Vampire Community Can Tell Us About Identity and Modernity”
3:15 p.m.
Dax Stokes (North Central Texas College) — “The Future of Vampire Studies: Stop Counting Seeds and Get Out There”
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