Gresham SF Symposium
May. 9th, 2008 03:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
major_clangerOther attendees have written far more eruditely than I could (see here and here in particular) about yesterday's SF as Literary Genre symposium at Gresham College. I'll simply add some pictures I took during the event and the subsequent reception.
The event itself, owing to the numbers expected, took place not at Gresham College itself but at the Royal College of Surgeons. It was introduced by Professor Tim O'Connell and featured guest author Neal Stephenson and four academic speakers.
Top: Prof Tim O'Connell (Gresham College), Neal Stephenson, Andy Saywer (Liverpool University / SF Foundation); bottom: John Clute (SF Foundation), Dr Martin Willis (University of Glamorgan), Prof Roger Luckhurst (EDIT: Birkbeck).
The symposium concluded with a discussion panel; the ensuing questions and discussion elicited a range of responses from the panel members...
We then decamped from the RCS around Lincoln's Inn Fields and along Holborn to Barnard's Inn and Gresham College itself, where a reception had been laid on. In view of the numbers and the weather, we went al fresco in the college courtyard.
Barnard's Inn itself featured a remarkably eclectic mix of architecture. Of particular note was a very baroque fire escape; given the keynote speaker, it would have been appropriate if someone had chained a baroque cycle to it. (Sorry!)
The event itself, owing to the numbers expected, took place not at Gresham College itself but at the Royal College of Surgeons. It was introduced by Professor Tim O'Connell and featured guest author Neal Stephenson and four academic speakers.
Top: Prof Tim O'Connell (Gresham College), Neal Stephenson, Andy Saywer (Liverpool University / SF Foundation); bottom: John Clute (SF Foundation), Dr Martin Willis (University of Glamorgan), Prof Roger Luckhurst (EDIT: Birkbeck).
The symposium concluded with a discussion panel; the ensuing questions and discussion elicited a range of responses from the panel members...
We then decamped from the RCS around Lincoln's Inn Fields and along Holborn to Barnard's Inn and Gresham College itself, where a reception had been laid on. In view of the numbers and the weather, we went al fresco in the college courtyard.
Barnard's Inn itself featured a remarkably eclectic mix of architecture. Of particular note was a very baroque fire escape; given the keynote speaker, it would have been appropriate if someone had chained a baroque cycle to it. (Sorry!)
