For some reason I'm unable to post the link to the Institute of English Studies  IES Sherlock Holmes Past and Present conference webpage which now has the link to registration, programme, events and information.

Oooh sounds amazables Need to wait til payday next week though ...

Posted by Ross K Foad of http://www.nplh.co.uk/index.html

On June 21st-June 22nd the ultimate Sherlock Holmes summit "Sherlock Holmesast and Present" will be held at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London UCL .

"This conference offers a serious opportunity to bring together academics, enthusiasts, creative practitioners and popular writers in a shared discussion about the cultural legacy of Sherlock Holmes. The Strand Magazine and the Sherlock Holmes stories contribute one of the most enduring paradigms for the production and consumption of popular culture in the twentieth- and the twenty-first centuries. The stories precipitated a burgeoning fan culture including various kinds of participation, wiki and crowd-sourcing, fan-fiction, virtual realities and role-play gaming. This conference aims to unpick the historical intricacies of Holmesian fandom as well as offering a wide variety of perspectives upon its newest manifestations. This conference invites adaptors of and scholars on Holmes, late-Victorian writing, and popular culture internationally to contribute to this scholarly conversation..This conference will precede Holmes’ 160th birthday in 2014 and launch a new volume of essays on Holmes co-edited by Dr. Jonathan Cranfield and Tom Ue, and form part of the larger celebrations in London and internationally."

A booking of a ticket is required to attend for spectators (Registration will be open soon).
I am very happy to say I have been asked to be part of the events and will be presenting an introduction to NPLH , its history and the airing of one Episode and a Q+A . 

For those that can not attend "No Place Like Holmes" has been asked if I will also provide Video coverage for as many of the events/presentations as possible which I have agreed to so if you cant make it down you will not miss out entirely as will be able to catch up via the NPLH site.

Holmesians from all over the world are attending this including the great Doyle historian Alistair Duncan  (holder of the most Napoleons to date) , Steve Emecz (MX Publishing Director and Organizer of the The Great Sherlock Holmes Debates)and Professor Marino Alvarez (A Professor Reflects On Sherlock Holmes Author).

Hope to see you there , do come say Hi if you do!

Flipping heck! 

biscuitbear wrote:

I think I need to go and get a PhD or something before I attend the conference. Here's the summary of one of the papers :

"Using the notion of negative hermeneutics, this paper examines how Michiel Heyns’s post-apartheid, anti-detective novel, Lost Ground (2011) draws on the heritage of the Sherlock Holmes short stories. The central argument is that Heyns’s representation of contemporary South Africa necessitates a shift from the epistemological quests of modernist detective fiction to the ontological concerns of post-modernist anti-detective fiction."

Heeeelp!

Do you have a link to the abstracts please?

I declare our talk will be a jargon free area so nobody need worry.

Reviews of the conference are now up on my blog:

http://www.napoleonofholmes.com

And this very detailed review by a friend of mine, Kim.

http://oddsandendsbykizzia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/review-sherlock-holmes-past-and-present.html

(My "review" is more like an account of all the fun I had rather than an attempt at anything serious).

Thank you for your detailed report - I very much enjoyed reading it!!

Morton wrote:

I'm pleased to report that the paper given by The Boss and myself appears to have been accepted for the final round of reviewing for publishing as a chapter in the book of the conference proceedings. A publisher has been found for it. Should our paper fail to be selected, however, a full copy and the slideshow will be posted for sharing.

Wow, this is great news for you both, hope you get published! The book sounds like a must-have anyway.
Otherwise I'm looking forward to reading your paper online.