Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present

Room I: Holmes' Imperial Legacy

Samantha Naidu, 'Holmes in Africa: South African Crime Fiction and the Failure of Reason'

Vithal Rajan, 'Holmes and the Raj'

Hadas Fischer-Rosenberg, 'Sherlock Holmes in Palestine: Empire, Gender and the Image of the Detective'

Room II: Sherlockiana

Benoit Guilielmo, 'The Birth of a Textual Community: Early Sherlockiana (1927-1934)'

Atesede Makkonen, 'Holmes/Watson: Homosexuality and Fandom'

Nathan Murray, 'Untitled'

Room III: Holmes, Philosophy and History

Jean-Pierre Naugrette, 'Back to the Reichenbach Falls: Sherlock Holmes with G. W. F. Hegel and J. M. W. Turner'

Marino Alvarez, 'Reading the Signs and Understanding the Codes 2 + 2 ≠ 4'

Alexander von Lunen, 'Holmes and History: An Ever-Popular Analogy'

Room IV: Modern Reading, Modern Readers

Michelle Yost, 'Sherlock Holmes: Modern Literary Vigil'

Robert Ryan, ‘Dead Man’s Land’

Richard Monson-Haefel, 'Untitled'

Room I: Adaptation as Criticism

Francesca De Bono, 'Obsessive Contemporising Disorder: Sherlock Holmes from Marylebone to Manhattan'

Jessica Sellin, 'SHER-locked: Unlocking Sherlock's Post-Modern Narrative Through Technology'

Somi Ahn, 'The Subversion of the Detective-Gaze Dynamics in the BBC's Sherlock'

Room II: Holmes in the 19th Century

Philip Harries, '"The Contemplation of a Single Bone": Sherlock Holmes and the Compulsion to Explain'

Mary O’Connell, 'Why Holmes Returns as a Bookseller: Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson, and Fame'

Jonathan Elukin, 'Do Jews and Judaism Matter in the Holmes Canon?'

Room III: Adaptations and Modernity

Elizabeth Nielsen, 'Empty Attics and Mind Palaces: Visualization of Sherlock Holmes’ Thought Processes in Contemporary Adaptations'

Chung-Jen Chen, 'Biopolitical Sherlock: Information Technology and Liquid Modernity at Risk'

Rima Bertašavičiūtė, 'Being Sherlock Holmes: How Guy Ritchie Lets Us In'

Room IV: Literature, Magazines and the Marketplace

Tyler Shores, 'Sherlock Holmes and the Copyright Mystery'

Richard Burnip, 'Holmes and His Contemporaries'

Peggy Lee, 'The Using and Making of News in the Stories of Sherlock Holmes'

Room I: Holmes in the 20th Century

Wu Pin-Ta, 'The Remythification of Tibet Through Detection in The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes by Jamyang Norbu'

Antonija Primorac, ‘Erase and Refashion: Sherlock Holmes’s visual afterlife in Sherlock (2010-)’

Aaron Householder, 'Holmes, Bond, and The Dark Knight: The Enduring Appeal of Those Who Patrol the Shadows'

Room II: Medicine, Vampires and the Occult

Hsiu-Ling Lin, 'Sherlock Holmes as the Dying Detective: Arthur Conan Doyle, Formosa Fever, Colonial Imagination and Tropical Medicine'

Lillian Chen, 'Femme Fatale and Occultism in Arthur Conan Doyle's Vampire Stories'

Merve Sari, 'Yet Another Sherlock Holmes Story?:  Dracula and the Science of Deduction'

Room III: Holmes and Psychoanalysis

Robert Jones, 'Uncanny Detectives: Holmes, Freud and the Active Reader'

Jon Cranfield, 'Sherlock Holmes Amongst the Lunatics'

Michael Mayo, '"Every Possible Combination of Events May Be Expected": The Epistemology of Sherlock Holmes'

Room IV: Holmes, Space and Place

Evita Badina, 'The Spatial Code in Sherlock Holmes Stories'

Emily Garside, 'A Study in Bute Street or Baker Street? Television tourism and Sherlock'

Marty Zeller-Jacques, 'Untitled'

Room I: Holmes and the Moving Image

Nicolas Pillai, 'Eille Norwood as Author: Intertextuality and Transmedia'

Brinda Bhattacharya, 'Holmes and Detective Fiction'

James Brown, 'Sherlock Holmes Between Past and Present'

Room II: Twentieth Century Afterlives

Connie Balides, 'The Phantasmatic Holmes and the Living Archive, circa 1951: The Festival of Britain'

Martin Wagner, 'They Might be Detectives: Anthony Harvey, A Case of Identity and the Fictionality of Holmesian Observation'

Julia Gordon-Bramer, '“The Detective”: Sylvia Plath’s tribute to Sherlock Holmes and the “Whodunit”'

Room III: Writing Holmes Today: Character, Mash-up and Legacy

‘Holmes and Moriarty: A Steampunk Perspective on Reconnecting Character to Canon'

Creative panel discussion featuring authors and publishers: Adrian Middleton, Mike Chinn, Theresa Derwin, David McIntee and Luke Kuhn.

Room IV: Irene Adler, Then and Now

Sarah Christie, 'The Woman at Large: The Criminalization of Irene Adler in Contemporary Holmes Adaptations'

Delores Amorelli, 'A Study in Scarlet Women: Sex, Gender, and Power in Sherlock and Sherlock Holmes'

Diana Webber, 'Irene Adler, Past and Present: Gender, Disguise and Female Urban Participation'

Tea Break

Room I: Pastiche, Fanfiction, Roleplay

Becky Simpson/Lynn Briggs, '"Mrs Hudson Took My Skull": Holmes and His Boswell in Cosplay and Roleplay'

Philip K. Jones, 'Doyle and the Illusion of Holmes'

Lauren Rosales, 'NSFW: A Study in BBC Sherlock Fanfiction'

Room II: Performing Holmes

Kayley Thomas, 'Performing Sherlock Holmes: The Detective as Dramatist'

James Bober, 'Becoming Sherlock / Owning Sherlock'

Benjamin Poore, '“...sat in the cabaret waiting for my appearance...”: Holmes as Master of Disguise'

Room III: Holmes Abroad

Salinee Antarasena, '“Thai-ing”: Siamese Holmes, The Classic (2453 – 2495 B.E.)'

Lillian Li-hsing Ho, 'A Case of Identity: Sherlock Holmes and the Modernisation of Taiwanese Language'

Annie En-Yu Shao, 'Japanese Sherlock Holmes: Detective Mitarai Kiyoshi's Casebook'

Room I: Holmes, Illustration and Visual Culture

Shannon Smith, '‘An Inch or Two From his Eyes': Sidney Paget and the Visual Register of Contemporary Adaptations of The Hound of the Baskervilles'

Ron Tiner, 'Illustrated Holmes'

Jeanine Rose/Stuart Barnett, 'The Moriarty Meme'

Room II: Holmes in Context, 1880-1920

Luke Seaber, '"Many Acquaintances, and Those in the Most Different Classes of Society": Sherlock Holmes as Social Explorer'

Charlotte Charteris, '"British Prejudice in all its Queer Manifestations": Sherlock Holmes, Crime Fiction and the Appeal of the Queer'

Tom Ue, 'Holmes and His Boswell'

Room III: Contemporary Holmes

Sharon Marshall, 'Watching the Detectives: Downey Jr., Cumberbatch and Brett'

Anne Kustritz, 'Welcome to New York, Mr. Holmes: Geopolitics, Genre, and Gender in Elementary'

Sarah Weaver, 'How Smart Is Watson? or, The Role of the Sidekick'