I'm going (most likely and hopefully) and it seems I'm also bringing somebody with me already.
I think besleybean is going to, if I remember correctly from the meet up thread. And somebody else also announced that he/she would like to come.
So, yeah, a lunch meet up of the board would be rather nice.

I think I'm coming too! Hoping to find someone to come along with me tho, bit scared to come up alone...

There were a couple of newspaper articles released about the event, which I attended along with a few other forum members. We met up and had an excellent time. It was a great day.

This from the Gloucestershire Echo:
http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Sherlock-TV-series-subject-international/story-20952566-detail/story.html?fb_action_ids=239981752851773&fb_action_types=og.likes

This from The Times:=small‘Loungers and idlers’ meet for 100 lessons on Sherlock Holmes=smallPatrick Kidd=small Published at 12:01AM, April 12 2014=smallOnly nine episodes of the BBC television series Sherlock have been made so far, yet they provided fertile enough ground for a day-long academic symposium yesterday at University College London, in a city that Dr John Watson once called “that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained”.=smallThree hundred of those loungers and idlers, if that is not too cruel a description of students on their Easter vacation, were drawn to hear 20 papers delivered by academics from around the world. A speaker from New Hampshire talked about “a Barthesian approach to adaptation and appropriation in Sherlock”, while one from Jagiellonian University in Krakow discussed Sherlock Holmes’s problem with women.=smallOther lectures looked at the accuracy of Sherlock’s London (or why Holmes took a Jubilee Line train to get between District Line stations in the third series) and tried to draw a parallel between the television series and “medieval quest narrative” (put simply, why Benedict Cumberbatch isn’t a drip like Sir Galahad).=smallTom Ue, a UCL student who is conducting a larger research project into the cultural legacy of Sherlock Holmes since his first appearance in 1887, organised the symposium and says it was a huge hit. “We had more than 100 papers submitted,” he said.=smallThe keynote address, entitled “Fighting paper dragons? The emergence of political ideology in Sherlock Series 3”, was delivered by Benjamin Poore, a lecturer in theatre studies at the University of York.=small“The third series is much more experimental,” Dr Poore said, although it drew an audience of 12 million when broadcast in January, the largest for a BBC drama since 2001.=small“After two series with a classic supervillain in Moriarty, the enemy now is a newspaper magnate.=small“The creators were accused of BBC bias by showing headlines criticising government policy, yet these may be the villain’s papers. The closer you look, the less clear it seems.


 

Good to meet people, sorry we only kind of waved and shouted ' hello', Clare!

That was so funny, we were like: has Clare gone?!

I didn't agree with everything that was said.
But as I remarked to the boss, good to have stuff that makes you think.
Also a testament to this body of work, that it can generate so much passionate discussion.

Last edited by besleybean (April 14, 2014 8:04 pm)

Yes, some stuff was really informative.
Hey girl, I'd have paid your tube fare!