Dorothy Sayers in the 21st Century
11 October 2024, 9:00 am–6:00 pm
The IAS and the Dorothy L Sayers Society have teamed up to bring together early career researchers, writers, academics and independent scholars to explore, discuss and share ideas on the work and life of Dorothy L Sayers.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Institute of Advanced Studies
Location
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IAS Common GroundG11, ground floor, South WingUCL, Gower St, LondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1957) is best known for her work as a detective novelist. She was also an essayist, poet, translator, lay theologian, advertising copywriter, playwright, reviewer, and a prolific letter writer.
Draft Programme
9.30 Welcome
Professor Mary Rawlinson, Institute of Advanced Studies and Seona Ford, Chair, The Dorothy L Sayers Society
9.45 Introductory remarks
Professor BJ Rahn, President of the Dorothy L Sayers Society
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Panel 1: Sayers and the legacy of war (Chair: Seona Ford)
1. Jessica Meyer: ‘Tin-tummy’ Challoner, Walter Flanagan and ‘a blue-nosed ragged veteran’: Rethinking the Legacy of the First World War through the Lord Peter Wimsey Novels;
2. Margaret Hunt: “I am probably the most ‘interfering’ playwright in London”: combining theatre with theology in Sayers’ festival plays.
12.15 Lunch
1.30 Panel 2: Sayers and women’s public lives (Chair: Geraldine Perriam)
1. Federica Coluzzi: Women, Scholarship and the Search for Authority: Dorothy L Sayers between Life and Fiction;
2. Sarah Martin: Subverting the Surplus Woman: The Psychogeographic Spinster Detective
2.30 Short break
2.40 Panel 3: Sayers and the authorial voice (Chair: tbc)
1. Mary Rawlinson: Miss Sayers’ Moral Philosophy
2. Kelly Thomson: The Subversive Dorothy L Sayers
3.40 Tea
4.00 Panel 4: Sayers and Sexuality (Chair: Mary Rawlinson)
1. Charlotte Beyer: “A Dreadful Wicked Woman”: Dorothy Sayers’ Strong Poison and #MeToo
2. KJ Boldon: Beyond the Binary: How the Courtship of Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Prefigures the Nonbinary Movement of the early 21stCentury
5.00 Closing remarks
Chaired by Professor BJ Rahn, panel of Seona Ford and Mary Rawlinson
5.30 Reception