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.
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clareiow wrote:
, me especially, rattling on about it while she was sitting right behind us. So much for my powers of observation...