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Summer School “Vampires and Vampirism: Between Anthropology, Folklore and Popular Culture”
OHRID SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2012
Summer School
“Vampires and Vampirism:
Between Anthropology, Folklore and Popular Culture”
(12th-30th August, Ohrid, Macedonia)
organized by
Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities “Euro-Balkan”
- SECOND CALL FOR APPLICATIONS WITH DETAILED PROGRAMME -
SUMMER SCHOOL DESCRIPTION
The summer school “Vampires and Vampirism” will explore the vampire as an anthropological and folkloric being which subsists by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood). Although vampirism as a mythical and folkloric phenomenon has been recorded in many cultures, the term vampire become especially popular in Europe. It was an influx of vampire superstition from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe, where they were known by different names. The most popular vampire, Dracula, carved the modern vampire fiction. The vampire is now globally popular in the horror genre. There is a distinctive vampire genre, with books, comic books, films, video games etc. These and many other themes will be researched during the Summer School.
The main objective of the Summer School is to provide a higher level of knowledge and competence for those who want to upgrade their current academic background and interest in the academic fields of Cultural Anthropology, Theatre and Film Studies, Ethnology and similar. The Summer School is offering the participants a rare opportunity to acquire advanced theoretical knowledge that will complement their further professional and academic carrier related to the mentioned academic research fields.
The Summer School is integral part of Ohrid Summer University (OSU) which is an academic program for young faculty, PhD candidates, postgraduates, researchers and professionals, which offers intensive, problem oriented and research based courses from the domain of social sciences and humanities. OSU was founded in 1998 and has functioned continuously since then, as one of the core programs of the “Euro-Balkan” Institute, involving a significant number of both junior and senior members of academic communities from various countries. To date “Euro-Balkan” Institute, trough OSU program, has organized over 30 summer schools from various areas with over 500 participants, involving more than 100 proffessors. During the 14 years-long period of its existence, OSU has engaged itself in: adequate and effective training of the academic staff, demonstration of successful linkage of state-of-the-art scholarship and effective and innovative teaching, promotion of academic excellence and ability to facilitate creation and sustenance of active networks of academics, as well as collaborative advancement of learning in certain disciplines within the international context.
Located in the city of Ohrid, the centuries-long cultural metropolis of the Balkan region, OSU encompasses a variety of social and cultural events, provides appropriate locations for outdoor classes and includes educative excursions to the famous archaeological sites and cultural monuments, situated on the shores of the Ohrid Lake.
Course Director: Vesna Matijasevic Pokupec Ph.D.
RESOURCE PERSONS
Ana Kechan Ph.D., Faculty of Foreign Languages FON, Macedonia
Rubin Zemon Ph.D., University St. Paul the Apostle, Ohrid, Macedonia
Vesna Matijasevic– Pokupec Ph.D., Institut “Euro- Balkan”, Macedonia
Ivanka Apostolova Ph.D., , Institut “Euro- Balkan”, Macedonia
Deadline for submitting the application: June 15th 2012.
Contact persons:
Dragana Karovska
Academic Coordinator of OSU
Euro-Balkan Institute
Blvd. Partizanski Odredi 63, 1000, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax. ++ 389 2 30 75 570
Email: ohridsummeruniversity@gmail.com
Coordinator: Jordan Shishovski
Email: Jordan.sisovski@gmail.com