Wednesday 22 June
08.30 – 09.00 Conference registration and welcome
09.00 – 10.30 Panel 1: Crime Fiction and Social Change [in-person, may be streamed]
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee
10.45 – 12.30 Panel 2: New Angles on the Golden Age [hybrid, streamed]
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Keynote: Alistair Rolls – Time Out in and from Murder is Easy [virtual, streamed]
14.30 – 16.00 Panel 3: The Enduring Agatha Christie [in-person, partially streamed]
16.00 – 16.10 Coffee
16.10 – 17.30 Panel 4: Golden Age Metanarratives [virtual, streamed]
19.00 Conference meal at the Cosy Club
Thursday 23 June
09.00 – 10.30 Panel 5: The Elusive Agatha Christie [hybrid, cannot be streamed]
10.30 – 10.40 Coffee
10.40 – 12.10 Panel 6: New Sides to Dorothy L. Sayers [hybrid, streamed]
12.10 – 13.30 Lunch and workshop
13.30 – 15.00 Panel 7: Beyond Traditional Boundaries [in-person, streamed]
15.00 – 15.10 Coffee
15.10 – 16.30 Panel 8: Queens of Crime and Their Legacies [hybrid, may be streamed]
16.30 – 17.30 Keynote: Caroline Crampton – Shedunnit [virtual, streamed]
17.30 Drinks reception and conference close
Panel 1: Crime Fiction and Social Change
Carol Westron – All in the Family: Psychological Crime Fiction and Domestic Abuse in the Golden Age of Detection
Ayo Onatade – What to Do With An Ageing Detective: The Long Life of Albert Campion
Sophie Smith – Constructions of the Feeble-Minded Criminal in Golden Age Fiction
Panel 2: New Angles on the Golden Age
Benedict Morrison – A Golden Age Bestiary: The Place of the Animal in Classic Detective Fiction
Tom Ue – Sherlock’s Lenses (Virtual)
Huzan Bharucha – Detecting the Second-Generation New Woman in the Works of Agatha Christie
Sam Hirst – Gothic Intertextuality in Georgette Heyer’s Footsteps in the Dark (1932)
Panel 3: The Enduring Agatha Christie
Chrissie Poulter – Christie as Kintsugi: War Wounds Mended by a Heart of Gold
Rich Obrien – Christie and Horror
Gray Robert Brown – Curtain Call: Agatha Christie’s “Famous Last Words” - Curtain and Sleeping Murder
Panel 4: Golden Age Metanarratives
Fiona Wade – True Crime Narratives and Detective Fiction
Anna Kirsch – English Crime Fiction in the Golden Age and Beyond: Reading Ecology Queerly
Renata Zsamba – Myth: Memory and the Female Gentleman in the Detective Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham
Panel 5: The Elusive Agatha Christie
Mark Aldridge – Agatha Christie: From Stage to Small Screen (Not Streamed)
Tina Hodgkinson – From Re-Unions, Misdirection to Murder: Tube and Train Travel in Agatha Christie’s London (Virtual, Not Streamed)
Charlotte Beyer – “No Picturesque Village is Safe”: Agatha Christie’s Cornish Crime Scene (Not Streamed)
Panel 6: New Sides to Dorothy L. Sayers
Mary C. Rawlinson – Miss Sayers’s Moral Philosophy
Jason Whittle – Unexpected Conclusion: The Anticapitalistic Undertones of Murder Must Advertise
Jordan Welsh – The Murderous Coast: Shorelines, Coasts, and the Queens of Crime (Virtual)
Panel 7: Beyond Traditional Boundaries
Brittain Bright – The Notion of American Golden Age in Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin Novels
Marie Vozdova – The Floating Admiral: Navigating the Narrative Experiment
Sarah Raven – Detecting Golden Age Influence in Contemporary Historical Crime Fiction
Panel 8: Queens of Crime and their Legacies
Mario Valori – The Flapper in the Library (Virtual)
Sarah Martin – “By All That Was Impossible and Unbelievable- Tuppence!”: Women Detecting and Protecting the Homefront (Not Streamed)
Šárka Dvořáková – “Tir nan Og Is Just One Jump West:” Therapeutic Islandness in Josephine Tey’s The Singing Sands