Summer School on Vampires and Vampirism: Between Anthropology, Folklore and Popular Culture

Venues: Ohrid (Macedonia)
Period: Aug. 12-30, 2012
Application deadline: Jun. 15, 2012

The summer school “Vampires and Vampirism” is organized by the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities "Euro-Balkan" will focus on the vampire as an anthropological and folkloric being which subsists by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood). Despite the presence of vampirism as a mythical and folkloric phenomenon in many culture, vampires and vampirism have become particularly popular in Europe. Vampire legends were frequenly found especially in Eastern Europe and the Balkan, even though vampires went under different, regional names. The most popular vampire, Dracula, carved the modern vampire fiction, but many others have appeared in horror movies and books giving birth to a specific vampire genre, with books, comics, films, video games etc. The Summer School will thus address the anthropology and folklore of vampires and vampirism.

The Summer School on vampires and vampirism aims at providing a higher level of knowledge to those who want to broaden their interests in the 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 "Vampires and Vampirism" forms part ot the Ohrid Summer University (OSU) which is an academic program for young faculty, PhD candidates, postgraduates, researchers and professionals. The program offers intensive, problem oriented and research based courses on themes related to the social sciences and humanities.

Thanks to its membership in the Erasmus Charter, the Summer School awards 12 ECTS.

The fee for participation is 600 € and it includes tuition and study material during the school, use of library and computer room at the Campus with free internet, tour of the monuments in the UNESCO protected city of Ohrid located at the shore of the beautiful Ohrid Lake. Accommodation, transportation and other expenses should be arranged by applicants on themselves. Fee discounts are available for early payments.

Applicants from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic,Hungary, Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Kosovo are eligible to apply for CEEPUS Freemover Mobility Grants. More information on how to apply for these grants can be found at the following link.

For more information on how to apply, please read the call for applications on PECOB.

Dragana Karovska
Academic Coordinator of OSU, Euro-Balkan Institute
address: Blvd. Partizanski Odredi 63
1000, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
tel./fax: 00389.2.30.75.570
e-mail: ohridsummeruniversity@gmail.com; Jordan.sisovski@gmail.com