March 2007
The Annual
SYMPOSIUM
of the
Transylvanian Society of Dracula
(May 18 – 20, 2007; Sighisoara, Hotel “Sighisoara” – Romania)
Welcome to a symposium which will debate the thorny issue of the border between the supernatural and the
historic Dracula, of artistic liberty, of Sense and Nonsense in documentaries, of cultural responsibility versus cultural clichés:
“Dracula – Blurring the Boundaries between Truth and Fiction”
Among the many Romanian and foreign scholars, writers debating the issue, playwright Paul Everac (Romania) offers a short play themed “Dracula” - to be acted in premiere (by the amateur actors of Sighisoara) during the symposium.
Here is a first list of Speakers at the TSD Symposium:
Canada:
Prof. ELIZABETH MILLER
“ Blurring the Boundaries: Vlad the Impaler, Dracula, and The Historian”
Prof. JOONNA S. TRAPP
“Challenging Stoker’s Presentation of Women: An Operatic Version in Progress”
Prof. JASON NOLAN
“ Fictions that Changed the World: Anne of Green Gables and Dracula”
Prof. CAROL SENF
Title-pending
U.S.A. :
Writer LESLIE S. KLINGER
"The Face and The Mask: Truth and Fiction in Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'"
Italy:
Prof. Dr. MASSIMO INTROVIGNE
"Dracula in Trouble: The Campaign Against Vampire Comics,
1949-1964"
Germany:
Dr. MARK BENECKE
"Real life vampyre motifs: vampire exhumations, impaling, and subcultures"
CHRISTIANE-LUISE RÖDER
“Archaeological function of coins as a source and the messages a coin transports”
The United Kingdom:
MICHAEL-BAYLEY HUGHES
“The Marotinu versus the Hardman case”
Romania:
Acad. Prof. Dr. SABINA ISPAS
“Between Fantastic and Miraculous”
Acad. Prof. Dr. CONSTANTIN BALACEANU-STOLNICI
Title-pending
Acad. Prof. Dr. SORIN COMOROSAN
Acad. Prof. Dr. RAZVAN THEODORESCU
Title-pending
Play-Wright PAUL EVERAC
Literary critic MIHAI UNGHEANU
“Truthfulness and consumerism – as artistic options”
Drd. MARIUS CRISAN
“The Dual Image of Transylvania in its British Literary Reflections”
The April issue of this Letter will publish the full program – on days, speakers and events – of the symposium.
Participants are welcome to attend the debates, and/or to book the post-symposium tour (“Dracula, the Prince and the Vampire”, May 21 – 27).
Information and bookings with the logistics:
Excerpt:
The Company of Mysterious Journeys will penalize the tourists who renounce their bookings as follows (subtracting bank-transfer charges):
1) for cancellation of 30 and more days before the tour start: full refunding (minus banking charges)
2) for 29-21 days cancellation: 30% penalty
3) for 20-14 days cancellation: 50% penalty
4) for 13-7 days or less cancellation: 100% penalty in favour of the CMJ.
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Phone: (+40)723/584.430;
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