American Conference 2016

[ChrisGeorge]

Mikita Brottman will discuss "The Yorkshire Ripper" on Friday afternoon, April 8. Her originally proposed topic "Why We Love True Crime" is now going to be part of a panel on "Fictional Crime versus True Crime" on Saturday afternoon. Dr. Brottman is a psychoanalyst and professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is the author of Meat is Murder! (1998), a study of cannibalism in myth, crime, and film; and the true crime collection Thirteen Girls (2013). Her next book, The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men’s Prison, will be published in June 2016 by HarperCollins (for more information, see http://www.mikitabrottman.com).

Our website gives the complete rundown of speakers and times:

http://rippercon.com/rippercon-speakers/

http://rippercon.com/rippercon-schedule/

Registration cost and bus tour price are given on the main page --

http://rippercon.com/

As noted, our base hotel for RipperCon is the Mount Vernon Baltimore Hotel, a block east of the Maryland Historical Society where the talks will take place 1 pm to 6 pm on Friday, April 8 and 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday, April 9, with the bus tour taking place on the morning of Sunday, April 10 as the last event of the weekend.

Rooms can be booked at the Mount Vernon Baltimore Hotel for the special price of $119 a night by going to Rippercon. If you have trouble booking, let me know -- email editorctrip@yahoo.com or telephone 410-243-5635. The hotel say they will open up more rooms to accommodate us as necessary. You can also directly contact the hotel sales manager, Gretchen Shaffer, telephone 410-727-7101 ext 3104. Fax 410-789-3312. Email gshaffer@jdvhotels.com.

Note revised deadline of March 31 to sign up for RipperCon. if you are interested in attending our event, sign up now! Thanks!

Best regards

Chris

[ChrisGeorge]

Dr. Charles Tumosa's topic at RipperCon will be "The Forensic Time Machine: Looking Backward." The talk will be about using current forensic techniques to examine Victorian cases.

Dr. Tumosa received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, in 1972. He worked at the Philadelphia Police Laboratory from 1971 to 1989 examining evidence in crimes of violence. He retired there as head of the Criminalistics Lab in 1989 and went to work at the Smithsonian Institution. At the Smithsonian's Silver Hill facility he set up an analytical laboratory and gradually morphed into a research position examining cultural materials and determining ways to preserve them. He retired from the Smithsonian in 2006 and in 2007 started working at the University of Baltimore (UB) in various teaching capacities and is presently the Director of the Forensic Studies Program. At UB he also instituted a Certificate Program in Document Examination.

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Our website gives the complete rundown of speakers and times:

http://rippercon.com/rippercon-speakers/

http://rippercon.com/rippercon-schedule/

Registration cost and bus tour price are given on the main page --

http://rippercon.com/

As noted, our base hotel for RipperCon is the Mount Vernon Baltimore Hotel, a block east of the Maryland Historical Society where the talks will take place 1 pm to 6 pm on Friday, April 8 and 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday, April 9, with the bus tour taking place on the morning of Sunday, April 10 as the last event of the weekend.

Rooms can be booked at the Mount Vernon Baltimore Hotel for the special price of $119 a night by going to Rippercon. If you have trouble booking, let me know -- email editorctrip@yahoo.com or telephone 410-243-5635. The hotel say they will open up more rooms to accommodate us as necessary. You can also directly contact the hotel sales manager, Gretchen Shaffer, telephone 410-727-7101 ext 3104. Fax 410-789-3312. Email gshaffer@jdvhotels.com.

Note revised deadline of March 31 to sign up for RipperCon. if you are interested in attending our event, sign up now! Thanks!

Best regards

Chris

[GUT]

Just listened to the PodCast , great stuff. Been flat out for the last week and a bit so took a while.

Chris sounds like he belongs in the Beatles

Not sure why you let the Brian bloke on though

[GUT]

Chris,

If it does become a biannual event, is it planned to be the same time each year?

Still trying to work out how I can get
to one.

[Steadmund Brand]

I think they put Brian on to attract the female listeners.....what a voice on that guy!!!

Steadmund Brand

[ChrisGeorge]

Chris,

If it does become a biannual event, is it planned to be the same time each year?

Still trying to work out how I can get
to one.

Hi GUT

The British conferences are usually held in the second six months in the year so it was conceived when we held the first U.S. conference in Park Ridge, New Jersey, in 2000 that we would hold it in April. So yes, at present, the concept is to hold the American conferences in the Spring.

Best regards

Chris

[ChrisGeorge]

Just listened to the PodCast , great stuff. Been flat out for the last week and a bit so took a while.

Chris sounds like he belongs in the Beatles

Not sure why you let the Brian bloke on though

My friend Robert always says I sound like Ringo. Over in Liverpool they are not so sure.

As for Brian's voice, he could be selling a quality liquor or a fine cigar.

Cheers

Chris

P.S. Here's another podcast. Not Ripper this time but War of 1812. My Northern Irish co-author John McCavitt and I talking about our newly published book, The Man Who Captured Washington: Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812. Go to http://historyauthor.com/2016/03/man...ed-washington/

[GUT]

I think they put Brian on to attract the female listeners.....what a voice on that guy!!!

Steadmund Brand

But what about when they actually see him

[GUT]

Hi GUT

The British conferences are usually held in the second six months in the year so it was conceived when we held the first U.S. conference in Park Ridge, New Jersey, in 2000 that we would hold it in April. So yes, at present, the concept is to hold the American conferences in the Spring.

Best regards

Chris

Thanks Chris, maybe I can sort something out then for 2018 I will start plotting.

[GUT]

My friend Robert always says I sound like Ringo. Over in Liverpool they are not so sure.

As for Brian's voice, he could be selling a quality liquor or a fine cigar.

Cheers

Chris

P.S. Here's another podcast. Not Ripper this time but War of 1812. My Northern Irish co-author John McCavitt and I talking about our newly published book, The Man Who Captured Washington: Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812. Go to http://historyauthor.com/2016/03/man...ed-washington/

Thanks, I'll have a listen to that.

Yep Ringo's the one.

And Yep Brian could be selling fine cigars.

[Steadmund Brand]

[QUOTE=ChrisGeorge;374320]My friend Robert always says I sound like Ringo. Over in Liverpool they are not so sure.

As for Brian's voice, he could be selling a quality liquor or a fine cigar.

Cheers

Chris

Or possibly snake oil?

Oh and GUT..when they see me...watch out... the ladies stampede!!! haha...I'm the first to admit perfect face for radio (not to mention the rest of me)

Steadmund Brand

[Steadmund Brand]

Less than 2 weeks till I get on a plane!!!! looking forward to a great time....

Steadmund Brand

[ChrisGeorge]

What influence did Richard Mansfield's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," which was being performed at the Lyceum Theatre in the West End during the "Autumn of Terror" of 1888, have on the Whitechapel murderer, if any? People at the time thought that the play may have provoked the murders. Did it?

We will discuss this topic and other theories about Jack the Ripper at RipperCon in two weeks' time in Baltimore. The event stars veteran Ripperologist Martin Fido (The Complete Jack the Ripper A to Z) . Sign up for RipperCon now! Deadline March 31. For information, go to http://RipperCon.com.

[ChrisGeorge]

Get your head around the mystery that Shakespeare's skull may be missing here, and, more importantly, don't forget that we will be discussing the "Great Victorian Mystery," as former Ripper Notes editor Christopher-Michael DiGrazia famously called the Whitechapel Murders, at RipperCon in Baltimore in less than two weeks' time! The event stars veteran Ripperologist Martin Fido (The Complete Jack the Ripper A to Z). Sign up for RipperCon now! Deadline March 31. For complete updated information, go to http://RipperCon.com.

Epitaph on William Shakespeare's grave in the parish church at Stratford-upon-Avon. Photograph by Dean Conger.



Errrm. . . . Laurence Olivier really should have known better!!!! Give it back, Larry.

[barnflatwyngarde]

Get your head around the mystery that Shakespeare's skull may be missing here, and, more importantly, don't forget that we will be discussing the "Great Victorian Mystery," as former Ripper Notes editor Christopher-Michael DiGrazia famously called the Whitechapel Murders, at RipperCon in Baltimore in less than two weeks' time! The event stars veteran Ripperologist Martin Fido (The Complete Jack the Ripper A to Z). Sign up for RipperCon now! Deadline March 31. For complete updated information, go to http://RipperCon.com.

Epitaph on William Shakespeare's grave in the parish church at Stratford-upon-Avon. Photograph by Dean Conger.



Errrm. . . . Laurence Olivier really should have known better!!!! Give it back, Larry.

The photo of Larry with the skull is an obvious fake.

If it was genuine there would be a side of ham in there somewhere.