University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

7 & 8 November 2008

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ANDREW LYCETT

Author of Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes

CONFERENCE COORDINATOR: NILS CLAUSSON

(Department of English, University of Regina)

Click here for the Symposium Poster

DRAFT SCHEDULE

FRIDAY 7 NOVEMBER

MORNING SESSION

9:00 – 10:00 am  Registration (Language Institute, LI 215)

10:00 – 12:30 (Language Institute, LI 215)

“More Than a Washed-Up Has-Been: Textual Aspects of the Holmes Icon”

Timothy J. Johnson (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus)

“Re-Examining A Duet with Occasional Chorus”

Richard Sveum, MD

“Doyle’s Spiritualism, Then and Now: Emerging Evidence from Contemporary Afterlife Science”

Robert J. Stek (University of Arizona)

12:30 – 1:45 pm  Lunch (University of Regina University Club, College West, CW 215)

2:00 – 3:00 pm (Language Institute, LI 215)

“Karl Marx in Baker Street: Detecting Class and Criminality in ‘The Noble Bachelor,’ ‘The “Gloria Scott,”‘ and ‘The Man with the Twisted Lip.'”

Nils Clausson (University of Regina)

3:00 – 3:30 pm  Refreshment Break

3:30 – 4:30 pm  (Language Institute, LI 215)

Seminar hosted by the Department of English

“‘Whatever Remains Must Be the Truth’: A Practitioner’s Guide to Biography,” by Andrew Lycett

4:30 – 5:30 pm  Reception (Foyer outside LI 215)

8:00 pm (Language Institute, LI 215)

An Evening with Sherlock Holmes: Early Film Adaptations of the Holmes Stories

Presented by the Department of Media Production and Studies (Faculty of Fine Arts)

SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER

MORNING SESSION

10:30 – 12:00 noon (Archer Library, 107.4)

Researching Arthur Conan Doyle: A Panel Discussion

Hosted by the Archer Library, University of Regina.

Panellists: Peggy Perdue (Toronto Public Library); Andrew Lycett; Tim Johnson (University of Minnesota).

12:00 – 1:00 pm  Lunch

AFTERNOON PANEL (Language Institute, LI 215)

1:00 – 2:30 pm

“‘No Ghosts Need Apply’ Reconsidered

Robert J. Stek and Gary E. Schwartz

“The ‘Musical’ in the Sherlock Holmes Stories”

Hernando G. Feliciano (Sherlock Holmes Society of Western New York)

“Atavism, Criminality, and Social Change: Variation in the Representation of the Criminal in Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles and Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde“

Janet Moleski (MA Student, University of Regina)

3:00 pm

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Andrew Lycett (author of Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes)

“Arthur Conan Doyle: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know”

Andrew Lycett was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford (where he read modern history). As a foreign reporter he specialized in Africa and the Middle East. A full-time author since the early 1990s, he has written a number of highly acclaimed biographies and lives in north London.

Andrew Lycett’s talk is free and open to the general public

6:00 to 8:00 pm  Conference Dinner (Ramada Hotel)

8:30 pm  (ShuBox Theatre, Riddell Centre, U of R)

The Adventure of the Clouded Crystal, by Tim Kelly

Presented by Regina Little Theatre; hosted by Theatre Department, University of Regina

For further information, please contact:

Dr. Nils Clausson

Department of English

University of Regina

3737 Wascana Parkway

Regina, Saskatchewan

Canada, S4S 0A2

E-mail Nils.Clausson@uregina.ca