{"id":3883,"date":"2016-10-26T09:26:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T09:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2016-10-26T09:26:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T09:26:56","slug":"dr-duncan-light-presents-at-the-world-dracula-congress-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2016\/10\/26\/dr-duncan-light-presents-at-the-world-dracula-congress-in-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Duncan Light presents at the World Dracula Congress in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Duncan Light at the World Dracula Congress<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr Duncan Light recently attended the 4<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> World Dracula Congress was held at Trinity College, Dublin in October.\u00a0 This brought together academics and fans interested in Bram Stoker\u2019s <i>Dracula<\/i>, Gothic literature, and the wider role of vampires within popular culture.\u00a0 For more than 10 years Duncan has been researching \u2018Dracula tourism\u2019 in Romania and his book <i>The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania<\/i> was republished by Routledge in 2016. His paper was entitled \u2018Travel and Tourism in Bram Stoker\u2019s <i>Dracula<\/i>\u2019 and explored themes of tourism in the novel itself. He proposed th<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/10\/Dublin-conference2.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3885\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3885 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/10\/Dublin-conference2.png\" alt=\"dublin-conference2\" width=\"458\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/10\/Dublin-conference2.png 317w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2016\/10\/Dublin-conference2-300x147.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a>at tourism offered a unique lens through which to examine many of the themes in <i>Dracula. <\/i>He argued that the novel was written at a time when tourism was an increasingly common practice in Victorian Britain so that many forms of contemporary tourism could be identified in the novel. Moreover, Bram Stoker used tourism as a way of underlining the modernity of late 19<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> century Britain.\u00a0 Duncan was also invited by an Austrian film production company to participate in a forthcoming documentary about Dracula tourism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duncan Light at the World Dracula Congress Dr Duncan Light recently attended the 4th World Dracula Congress was held at Trinity College, Dublin in October.\u00a0 This brought together academics and fans interested in Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula, Gothic literature, and the wider role of vampires within popular culture.\u00a0 For more than 10 years Duncan has been&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2016\/10\/26\/dr-duncan-light-presents-at-the-world-dracula-congress-in-dublin\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Dr Duncan Light presents at the World Dracula Congress in Dublin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}