!!! Going to London !!!
My abstract was accepted to the Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present conference at the University of London!
From the CFP:
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. All of these had existed before but they were solidified, magnified and united by Sherlockians and Holmesians in entirely new ways and on scales never seen before. All popular culture phenomena that followed (from Lord of the Rings to Twilight via Star Trek) shared its viral pattern. 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. Our aims are to celebrate Conan Doyle’s achievement, to explore the reasons behind Holmes’ enduring popularity across different cultures and geographical spaces, and to investigate new directions in Holmes’ afterlife. 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. (emphasis mine)
...so basically I am ridiculously excited, because the conference sounds amazing. And nervous, because now I have to actually write the bloody paper for it.
I'm applying for some travel funding through my job, I've no idea if it'll happen because it's not actually any sort of related to my job but why work for a university if you can't at least try to get them to give you money for conferences?
I'm actually generally still sorting how I'll pay to go, because this is going to be expensive. Probably do more TARDIS journals and finish some of the other projects I've got going (Hobbit pendants and journals, TARDIS and 221b pendants, refillable journal covers) and try to generate some money through etsy sales and such.
But if anyone is going to be in London around the 21-22 of June, or would like to be, let me know! I would love to meet up!
From the CFP:
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. All of these had existed before but they were solidified, magnified and united by Sherlockians and Holmesians in entirely new ways and on scales never seen before. All popular culture phenomena that followed (from Lord of the Rings to Twilight via Star Trek) shared its viral pattern. 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. Our aims are to celebrate Conan Doyle’s achievement, to explore the reasons behind Holmes’ enduring popularity across different cultures and geographical spaces, and to investigate new directions in Holmes’ afterlife. 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. (emphasis mine)
...so basically I am ridiculously excited, because the conference sounds amazing. And nervous, because now I have to actually write the bloody paper for it.
I'm applying for some travel funding through my job, I've no idea if it'll happen because it's not actually any sort of related to my job but why work for a university if you can't at least try to get them to give you money for conferences?
I'm actually generally still sorting how I'll pay to go, because this is going to be expensive. Probably do more TARDIS journals and finish some of the other projects I've got going (Hobbit pendants and journals, TARDIS and 221b pendants, refillable journal covers) and try to generate some money through etsy sales and such.
But if anyone is going to be in London around the 21-22 of June, or would like to be, let me know! I would love to meet up!