Study Day Programme
Saturday 20th September 2014
Senate House, London
09.30-10.00 Registration
10.00-10.45 Introduction: The Heritage of Edwin Drood (Chair: Dr Pete Orford, University of Buckingham)
Keynote: Reflections on past and present Drood scholarship
Professor Don Richard Cox, University of Tennessee
10.50-11.45 – Panel 1: The Solutions of Edwin Drood (Chair: Dr Pete Orford, University of Buckingham)
Imitating the inimitable: attempts to complete Edwin Drood
Dr Camill Ullelan Hoel and Dr Tor Nordam, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
M R James and the Edwin Drood Syndicate
Jane Piddock, University of Aberystwyth
11.45-12.00 – Coffee break
12.00-13.30 – Panel 2: The Appropriation of Edwin Drood (Chair: Professor John Drew, University of Buckingham)
Premonition of the End: Fictionality in Dickens’s Edwin Drood and Gissing’s Henry Ryecroft
Tom Ue, University of Birkbeck
‘Another kind of immortality, more essential and more strange': Dick-ensian hauntings, in the works of Susan Howe and Jean-Piere Ohl
Clemence Follea, Universite Parie Diderot
Evidence, storytelling, and the resistance of closure in Dan Simmon’s Drood
Dr Anne-Marie Beller, University of Loughborough
13.30-14.30 – Lunch (provided)
14.30-16.00 –Panel 3: The Characters of Edwin Drood (Chair: Professor David Paroissien, University of Buckingham)
From ‘universal terrorist’ to ‘tragic anti-hero': John Jasper as a villain of the times
Dr Jonathan Buckmaster, Royal Holloway
The Identification of Sapsea
Sven Karsten, Independent
The Mystery of Heads in Drood
Emma Curry, University of Birkbeck
16:00-16:15 – Coffee break
16:15-17:00 – Panel 4: The Locations of Edwin Drood (Chair: Dr Hazel Mackenzie, University of Buckingham)
‘The great black city cast it’s shadow on the waters': Jasper’s London in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Hadas Elber-Aviram, University College, London
‘Venerable, Architectural and Inconvenient': The Rented Spaces of Edwin Drood
Ushashi Dasgupta, University of Oxford
17:05-17:45 – Round table: The Digitalisation of Edwin Drood (Chair: Dr Hazel Mackenzie, University of Buckingham)
Discussion from the Drood Inquiry team on digitalising Drood
Dr Pete Orford, University of Buckingham, Alys Jones