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The International Journal of Arts & Sciences’ (IJAS) international academic conference will be held at the Sirius Conference Center, Brunhamstrasse 21, Munich 81249, Germany, from 21 to 24 June 2016. Click here and notice that the Neuaubing train station on the S8 Line is only a 4-minute walk away from our conference center. The Neuaubing station is 7 stops away from Munich’s main train station (Munich Hbf). The same line also goes to the Munich Airport station, albeit in the opposite direction. The Sirius Conference Center is part of a larger building housing various organizations and could be a bit difficult to view from the road until you walk to it. For hotels in the vicinity of the conference center, click here.

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Kristian Pérez Zurutuza

EHU-UPV, UNED, SPAIN
Postdoctoral researcher
Gasteiz, Madrid
I hold a Ph.D. in Philology and has first degrees in both English and Spanish Philologies from the Universidad de Deusto/University of Deusto and Universidad del País Vasco/University of the Basque Country, respectively. He has published a number of articles in academic and cultural journals on English and American Gothic literature and vampire personality construct, as well as on multilingual education, minority languages -Basque-, linguistic integration of migrants and language preservation; and he has also participated in various international conferences regarding both fields of research. His main area of literary study relates to Anglo-American Gothic literature, comparative literature, cultural anthropology of myth, and masculinity and racial studies. He has a secondary field of study related to multilingual education in traditional and online environments, minority languages —Basque—, and migrant’s linguistic integration. Along with his academic work, he has created and developed a historical memory project around the national and international —currently retired— migrant population in Beasain, Guipúzcoa; and in the creation of a literature and writer’s workshop in the same town, in which literary work and writer’s task are debated and taught to adolescents and adults. In his academic publications, he has explored the works of authors such as Horace Walpole, Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, or Bram Stoker, among others; analyzing the Gothic imagery, vampire characters, and gender and racial personality constructs. Regarding comparative literature, he has explored the literary and film renderings of Gothic and racial masculinity. He has also published literary criticism, poetry, novel, or essay, among others. He has created with Dr. Itziar Mujika Chao the Feminism and Gender Studies Workshop, in which they teach undergraduates and carry out research.