Registration is now open for the one day seminar ‘Sayers in the 21st Century’

Programme:

Sayers in the 21^st Century – One-Day Seminar

Friday, 11^th October, 2024

Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL

 IAS Common Ground G11, Ground Floor, South Wing UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT

A joint programme between IAS and the Dorothy L Sayers Society

Draft Programme:

9.30: Welcome – Professor Mary C 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 – Chaired by 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 – Chaired by 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: Jessica Meyer

1. Mary C 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 C 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 21^stCentury

5.00: Closing remarks, chaired by Professor BJ Rahn, panel of Seona Ford and Professor Mary C Rawlinson

Please register here:    https://payment.sayers.org.uk/ias2024

5.30: Reception