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Noel Dobbs and/or Robin MacCaw, Bram Stoker's great-grandsons
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Prof. em. Elizabeth
Miller, Toronto - President of the Canadian/US Chapter of the TSD,
Baroness of the House of Dracula, Queen of Dracula Studies
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Prof
Sabina Ispas, Ethnographical Institute, Bucharest, Senior member of
the TSD.
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Ekaterina
Buley, Russia - President of the Russian Chapter of the TSD and
publisher of Russsian vampire fiction.
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Bogdan Popa, PhD,
Historian at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Bucharest, Director of the Company of Mysterious Journeys, announcing a paper related to Dracula in Romania
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Douglas Appleyard, Dublin, a
member of the Stoker clan with extensive knowledge about his family's
history
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Prof. Bill
Hughes, Bath Spa University, immediate Past President of the
International Gothic Association, Editor of the Gothic Journal -- announcing some new, groundbreaking piece of research on Stoker/Dracula
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David
Skal, New York, author of Hollywood Gothic (2004), who in October 2016 will be able to present his new biography of Bram Stoker
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Prof. em.
Clive Bloom, Middlesex University, Gothic specialist and keynote speaker at the Stoker Centennial Conference in Hull, 2012
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Prof. Carol
Senf, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Tech - a highly renowned expert on Dracula and other Stoker works.
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Ass. Prof. Marius
Crisan, organisator of the BBEC Conference in Timisoara, June 2015
and author of several acclaimed books on Dracula.
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Prof. em. Donatella
Badin, University of Turin, who offered to speak on female vampires in Carmilla
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Dr Duncan
Light, Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Bournemouth University, Poole -
specialist for Dracula tourism and the image of Romania abroad
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Dr Sam
George, Senior Lecturer in Literature and MA Programme Tutor in Humanities, University of Hertfordshire - organised the 2012 Stoker conference in Keats House; Open Graves Open Minds; Company of Wolves
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Kaja
Franck, University of Hertfordshire - International Gothic Association, Company of Wolves - subject to submitting her thesis in time
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Leslie
Klinger, Los Angeles, author of The New Annotated Dracula (2008) and 40 other books; specialist for Sherlock Holmes and the Victorian Age
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John
Edgar Browning, Marion L. Britain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology
and author/editor of many Dracula-related books, such as Vampires in
Visual Media and The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker
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Dr hab. Dorota
Babilas, Dept. of English Studies, University of Warsaw (spoke on "Vampires & Family Values" in Timisoara)
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Nancy
Schumann, MA, London, independent scholar/author, London Vampyre Group, "Emotion and Identity in Vampire Literature"
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Andy
Struthers, private researcher, UK, specialist for Stoker's stay in Whitby and the first proper theatre performance of
Dracula
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Damian
Byrne, artist, Dublin, painter & movie maker; stylist and prop-maker for
Penny Dreadful and other Gothic movies
Mathew Burr, USA, who
photographed all historical places related to Vlad III Dracula and
published a photo book about it
Victoria Amador, Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Arts and Science, American University of Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates
To be added: the members of the organising committee:
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Daniela
Diaconescu, Bucharest, Co-founder and Vice-President of the
Transylvanian Society of Dracula
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Hans de Roos, MA, Munich - Author of The Ultimate
Dracula (2012), Dracula Travel
Guide, Powers of
Darkness/Makt Myrkranna (upcoming)
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Dr Magdalena
Grabias, Ass. Prof. at the Department of Cultural Studies at Maria
Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland; specialises in Film Studies and
Vampires in Visual Media, stage performer, fan of alternative Rock Music
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Kristin
Bone, MA, USA, author of Gothic Fiction, studied English Literature at
the University of Hertfordshire and at Trinity College, Dublin
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