Saturday, 7 July at 2.00pm
Bram Stoker Centenary Conference 2012
Free, all welcome. No booking required: please arrive early to secure a space.
Elizabeth Miller and Dacre Stoker present “Bram Stoker’s Dublin Journal”. The property of Stoker’s great-grandson, Noel Dobbs, the journal comprises over 300 individual handwritten entries. Most were written between 1870 and 1878, while Stoker was still living in Dublin and long before he began writing Dracula. The journal, recently published with annotations and commentary, provides significant insights into Stoker’s life in Dublin, his earliest attempts at writing, and his magnificent Irish sense of humour.
About Elizabeth Miller
Elizabeth Miller, Professor Emeritus (Memorial University of Newfoundland) is recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts on Bram Stoker and his novel Dracula (1897). She has published several books (including Dracula: Sense & Nonsense and Bram Stoker’s Notes for Dracula) and lectures widely at venues on both sides of the Atlantic. She has been interviewed for television documentaries, for National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, PBS, History Television, BBC, and ABC’s “20/20”. Her expertise has been sought for articles that have appeared in leading newspapers such as the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, the Chicago Tribune and the Wall Street Journal. Elizabeth now resides in Toronto. For more information about Elizabeth and her work, visit [www.blooferland.com].
About Dacre Stoker
A native of Montreal, Canada, Dacre Stoker is the great-grandson of Bram Stoker’s youngest brother, Dr. George Stoker. Dacre taught physical education and sciences in both Canada and the U.S., qualified for Canada’s Modern Pentathlon team for the boycotted 1980 Olympics, and coached the team at the 1988 Olympics. Working with the Bram Stoker Estate, Dacre and his wife Jenne have consolidated Stoker family intellectual property rights into the Bram Stoker LLC. Dacre travels the globe, presenting his lecture “Stoker on Stoker”, which is based on their ongoing research. Co-author of the sequel to Dracula entitled Dracula the Un-Dead (2009) and member of the Horror Writers Association, Dacre lives in South Carolina.
Bram StokerFor more information visit www.bramstokerestate.com
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