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Introduction and welcome
Professor Douglas Kerr
Keynote 1
Professor Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway, University of London -- “Narratives of Empire”
Panel 1, Journeys
Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir, “the snowdrops of Scotland still fresh in our glasses”, Arthur Conan Doyle and the Arctic
Anne Chapman, “There is nothing so artistic as a haze”, the periodical context, evasive genres and unstable authority of ‘The Glamour of the Arctic’
Mike Wilkinson An “Awe-ful” Journey – Spiritualism, Science, and Narrative Energy in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Wanderings of a Spiritualist
Chair, Jonathan Cranfield
Panel 2, Genres
Nils Clausson The Narratologist vs. the Detective, The Structure of the Holmes Stories Re-examined
Mark Alberstat Conan Doyle and Sport Writing
Douglas Kerr ‘Genre Games, Conan Doyle and Imperial Gothic’
Chair, Christine Ferguson
Performance
‘The Adventure of the Dying Detective’ by Arthur Conan Doyle, performed by Robert Lloyd Parry (https,//www.nunkie.co.uk/)
Round table discussion — Editing Conan Doyle for the new Edinburgh edition
Jonathan Cranfield, editor, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Douglas Kerr, editor, Memories and Adventures
Christine Ferguson, editor, The Land of Mist
Roger Luckhurst, editor, Round the Red Lamp
James Machin, editor, The Stark Munro Letters
Panel 3, Empire
Mark Jones Parables of Empire, Conan Doyle’s imperial crisis in Tales of Long Ago
Maria João Brito The Fog from the East, Representations of the Orient in the Sherlockian Canon
Niyati Sharma Stimulating Clues and Imperial Boredom in Sherlock Holmes
Chair, Robert Hampson
Panel 4, Holmeses
Sheldon Goldfarb, “Thematic Richness in the Sherlock Holmes Stories”
Antonija Primorac “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”, The Case of Sherlock Holmes and his early 20th century Doppelgängers
Saverio Tomaiuolo Detecting the Disease, The Sherlock Holmes Paradigm
Chair, Douglas Kerr
Panel 5, Evidence
Christine D. Myers Smudges, Splashes, and Traces of Blood, Telling Stories via Forensic Evidence
Elizabeth J. Deis and Lowell T. Frye “Disentangling the Most Inextricable Mysteries”, Transformational Clues in the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Josephine Sharoni The Lost World and the Critique of Modernity
Chair, James Machin
Keynote 2
Professor Christine Ferguson, University of Stirling -- “A Post-War Pilgrim’s Progress, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist, and Conversion Time”
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