III Symposium on Books, Travels and Travelers


Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

June 24-28, 2019


Count Vlad Tepes Dracula and the Discourse of Blood

Dr. Lilianet Brintrup, Humboldt State University

Dr. Gladys Ilarregui, University of Delaware

M.S. Katia Karadjova, Humboldt State University

Dr. Ana María Huerta Jaramillo, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Dr. Luz Elena Gutiérrez de Velasco, el Colegio de México

Dr. Andrei Terian-Dan, Dean of Faculty of Letters and Arts

Dr. Eva-Nicoleta Burdusel, Vice Dean of Faculty of Letters and Arts

Monday, June 24
10:00-11:30 am: Registration and Coffee
12:00 -2:00 pm: Opening Ceremony: Avram Iancu Auditorium (Faculty of Letters and Arts, first floor, 5-7 Victoriei Blvd.)

Lunch at University Cafeteria

**All sessions will take place in The Faculty of Letters and Arts, first
floor- Rooms 41 and 45.
**Presentations will be conducted in Spanish and English

4:00-5:45 pm Room 41: Vampires in German and Scandinavian Literature
The Romantic Vampire in German Literature
Ingrid García-Wistadt
Universidad de Valencia
Spain

Women Vampires in Two examples of Contemporary Literature,
Written in the German Language
Adriana Haro- Luviano de Rall
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Blood and Literature. Vital Therapies in the Modern Vampire in the Novel Das Licht und der Schulssel by Adolf Musche,
Isabel Hernández
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spain

The Welfare Crime: Violence and fiction from Scandinavia
Ovio Olaru
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Romania


6:30-7:30 pm Room 41: Artists and Blood
The Banality of Blood. Anesthesia and Innervation in Art
Julio Broca
Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades,
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Mexico

Musings on the Connotations and Poetics of Bleeding: A series of Collages
Natalie Craig
Painter
USA

The transmutation of blood as a dramatic detonator
Estela Leñero y Gregoria Navarro
Casa de Teatro, Mexico y Pamplona, España.


 

Tuesday, June 25

10:00- 11:45 am Room 41: History of Blood and Cultures

Blood in Ritual and Heretical Sacrifice. Ancient Mexico and Europe
Ana María Huerta Jaramillo
Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Alfonso Vélez Pliego
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Mexico

 

Vlad Tepes and His “Blood” Travels Through Bulgaria
Katia G. Karadjova, Vanya P. Avramova y Krassimira Alexandrova
Humboldt State University, CA, USA and National Library of Bulgaria St. St. Cyril and Methodius
Bulgaria

Taste and Smell of Blood in the Cultural Communication in Paul Treutler and Gustave Verniory’s Travels in the Chilean Araucanian Region. XIX Century
Lilianet Brintrup
Humboldt State University
USA


12:00-2:00 pm Lunch at University Cafeteria


4:00-5:45 pm Room 41: The Memory of Blood in Mexico
Blood and Literature in Mexico 68
Luz Elena Gutiérrez de Velasco Romo
El Colegio de México
Mexico

A Spanish Puebla in America and the process of gradual coloring of blood
Agustín Grajales Porras
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
México

José Revueltas and the Movement of 68 in Mexico: Blood Hardly Mentioned
Edith Negrín
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mexico


4:00-5:45 pm Room 45 Blood in History
Humans in Prehispanic Mexico. Displeasure and Horror
Begoña Arteta
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa
Mexico

Blood that is Never (ever) Red in Blood Hypostases
Mihaela Zaharia
University of Bucharest
Rumania

Blood as Branding: Strategic Discourse Linked to a Real in the Constitution of Fundamental Political and Demographic History, in Argentine Literature of the XX Century
Lucía Rossi
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Argentina

 

6:00-7:45 pm Room 41: Redeeming Blood. Sacrifice, Exclusion and
Resistance in the Discourse of Building and “Regenerating” Nations

 

The Redemption of Blood: Power and Resistance
Carmen de la Guardia Herrero
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Spain

Letters from Prison: Olga Benario Prestes, a Jewish-German Woman in Tropical Lands
Gabriela de Lima Grecco
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Spain

Purifying Patriotic Blood: The Discourse of Ideological and Racial Cleansing in the First Francoism by María Rosa Urraca Pastor and Vallejo Nájera (1936-1945)
Jaime Caro Morente y Alejandro Camino Rodríguez
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Spain


6:00-7:45 pm Room 45: Vampires and Blood in Romanian Literature

Dracula’s Resurrection in Contemporary Romanian fiction
Andrei Terian
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Romania

 

Books as an Embodiment of Cultural Interpretations of the World: Connecting Language, Race, Culture, and Memory by Means of Storytelling.
Eva-Nicoleta Burdusel
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Romania

The Language is the Life: Suggestive Language in Bram Stoker’s
“Dracula” and Its Romanian Translation
Anca-Simina Martin
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Romania


 

Wednesday, June 26

10:00- 11:45 am Room 41: Blood and Literary Discourses

A Cultural and Historic Visit with Count Vlad Tepes Dracula. Sharing His Castle with Federico García Lorca
Maria Rosa Toppino
Independent Scholar
Italy

Dracula South: “Hemorrhages” and Other poems written during the last LA dictatorships.
Gladys Ilarregui
University of Delaware
USA

The Journey of Blood: a writer’s reading
Esther Andradi, Writer
Alemania-Argentina


10: 00-11:45 pm Room 45 Bloody Romantics and perspectives on Blood

The Bloody Romantics: John Keats and Eroticism
Alex Ciorogar
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Romania

Blood Sugar Sex Magik: An Ancient Perspective on that
Mysterious Red Fluid
Kathryn Chew
California State University Long Beach
USA

Blood: Symbol of Life or Death?
Miguel de Loyola
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Chile


12:00- 1:45 pm Lunch at University Cafeteria


2:00-3:45 pm Room 41 Myths of Transylvania and Novels of Blood

The Omnipresence of Blood in Mexican Costumbrismo by Manuel Payno
Lilián Illades
Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Mexico

 

Dreams of Reason, its Monsters and the Literate Citizenry in
Three Novels from the Mexican Diasphora
José Martín Flores
San Diego State University. USA

 

The Theme of Blood in Three Chilean Works: Those Assassinated at the Workers’ Insurance by Carlos Droguett, Blood and Hope by Nicomedes Guzmán and Flesh and Hyacinths by de Antonio Gil
Cristian Montes Capó
Universidad de Chile
Chile

Technology, Geography, History, Anthropology and Narrative: An Aid in Reading Novels of Jules Verne and Bram Stoker, About the Myths of Transylvania
Dieter Rall
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mexico


2:00-3:45 pm Room 45 Contemporary Politics and Texts of Blood

The fictionalization of the terrorist act in Oussama my love by Youssouf Amine Elalamy
Moufida El Bejaqui
Faculté des Sciences de l’ Education de la Université Mohamed V. Rabat
Morocco

Blood as a Political Theme in Contemporary Argentina
Nora Strejilevich
San Diego State University
USA

Non-Visible Blood. The Novel “Tenebroso” by Juvenal Acosta
Juvenal Acosta, California College of the Arts
USA


4:00- 6:00 pm Room 41 The Voyage of Blood, countries and ethnicities

The Travelers. Jews Expelled from their Communities in Central
and Eastern Europe
Marjorie Agosín
Wellesley Collage
USA

Blood and Eucharistic in/of the Wilderness in Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian on the Evening Redness in the West”
Ovidiu Matiu
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Romania

Persecution, Exclusion and the Purity of Blood: German Social Nationalism and its Persecution of the Jewish, Sinti and Romani People
Lizette Jacinto
Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Alfonso Vélez Pliego
Benémerita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Mexico


4:00- 6:00 pm Room 45 Blood in childhood and pop culture
The Intuited Body: Seduction in “Niña de piel infinita” by Maritza M. Buendía
Laura Cáceres Hernández
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa
Mexico
The Seductive Bride of Corinth

 

Luz Elena Zamudio Rodríguez
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa
Mexico
First Blood: Contemporary Coming-of-Age in Young Adult Literature

Nikola Hobbel
Humboldt State University
USA

Modern Dracula, American Pop Culture’s Anti-Hero
Kelly Marie Patterson Fernandes
Northern Humboldt Union High School District
USA


6:15-7:15 pm: Closing Ceremony
Avram Iancu Auditorium
Farewell dinner: Hermania Restaurant, in Strada Filarmonicii 2, Sibiu 55165. Romania.