To celebrate the official launch of The Drood Inquiry (www.droodinquiry.com), this one-day conference will explore the mysterious world of Drood and its solutions. Further details and updates can be found on our blog at http://cloisterhamtales.wordpress.com/category/the-drood-conference/
Venue: Institute of English Studies (IES), School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7H
Date and time: Saturday 20 September 2014, 09:30 – 17:45.
Register via Eventbrite here.
Ticket prices include lunch and refreshments throughout the day – please contact the organisers to notify of any special dietary requirements. In addition to the above, two exhibitions will run during the day showcasing Drood-related treasures from the Senate House Library and original artwork by Alys Jones.
Draft Programme
| 09.30-10.00 | Registration |
| 10.00-10.45 | Introduction: The Heritage of Edwin Drood
(Chair: Dr Pete Orford, University of Buckingham) |
| Keynote: Reflections on past and present Drood scholarship
Professor Don Richard Cox, University of Tennessee |
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| 10.45-11.35 | Panel 1: The Solutions of Edwin Drood
(Chair: Dr Pete Orford, University of Buckingham) |
| Imitating the inimitable: attempts to complete Edwin Drood
Dr Camill Ullelan Hoel and Dr Tor Nordam, Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
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| M R James and the Edwin Drood Syndicate
Jane Piddock, University of Aberystwyth |
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| 11.35-11.45 | Coffee break |
| 11.45-12.30
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Q & A: Finishing Edwin Drood Discussion session with David Madden, author of The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Unthank Books, 2012) andGwyneth Hughes, screenwriter of the BBC adaptation of the Mystery of Edwin Drood , 2012. |
| 12.30-13.30 | LUNCH |
| 13.30-14.45 | Panel 2: The Appropriation of Edwin Drood
(Chair: Professor John Drew, University of Buckingham) |
| Premonition of the End: Fictionality in Dickens’s Edwin Drood and Gissing’s Henry Ryecroft
Tom Ue, University of Birkbeck |
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| ‘Another kind of immortality, more essential and more strange’: Dick-ensian hauntings, in the works of Susan Howe and Jean-Piere Ohl
Clemence Follea, Universite Parie Diderot |
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| Evidence, storytelling, and the resistance of closure in Dan Simmon’s Drood
Dr Anne-Marie Beller, University of Loughborough |
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| 14.45-15.00 | Coffee break |
| 15.00-16.15 | Panel 3: The Characters of Edwin Drood
(Chair: Professor David Paroissien, University of Buckingham) |
| From ‘universal terrorist’ to ‘tragic anti-hero’: John Jasper as a villain of the times
Dr Jonathan Buckmaster, Royal Holloway |
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| The Identification of Sapsea
Sven Karsten, Independent |
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| The Mystery of Heads in Drood
Emma Curry, University of Birkbeck |
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| 16:15-16:25 | Coffee break |
| 16:25-17:15 | Panel 4: The Locations of Edwin Drood
(Chair: Dr Hazel Mackenzie, University of Buckingham) |
| ‘The great black city cast it’s shadow on the waters’: Jasper’s London in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Hadas Elber-Aviram, University College, London |
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| ‘Venerable, Architectural and Inconvenient’: The Rented Spaces of Edwin Drood
Ushashi Dasgupta, University of Oxford |
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| 17:15-18:00 | Round table: The Digitalisation of Edwin Drood
(Chair: Dr Hazel Mackenzie, University of Buckingham) |
| Discussion from the Drood Inquiry team on digitalising Drood
Dr Pete Orford, University of Buckingham, Alys Jones |
